Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Developer: Terminal Reality Publishers: Atari, SA (US/EU/AU 360/Windows), SCEE (EU PS3), SCE Australia (AU PS3) Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Released in US: June 16, 2009 Released in EU: June 19, 2009 (PS3), November 6, 2009 (360/Windows) Released in AU: June 25, 2009 (PS3), November 19, 2009 (360/Windows) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused text.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game reunites the main cast for a new story written in part by the writers of the two movies. Set in 1991 (about two years after Ghostbusters II), you play a rookie who is hired by the Ghostbusters mainly to be a guinea pig for new tech they've created, facing off against foes old and new.

The game is widely considered to be "Ghostbusters III", though the later film Ghostbusters: Afterlife kinda muddies things a bit.

A remastered port was released on PC and all current consoles in 2019.

To do: System differences. Possible anti-piracy. Alterations made in Saber Interactive's remastered version. Document differences between the release build's cutscenes and the unreleased cutscenes which were found in prototype builds (in it's dedicated prototype page), detailed here on the "Ghostbusters News" website.

Sub-Pages

Unused Cutscenes

Unused Dialogue

Unused Text

language.pod contains a large amount of unused text left over from engine and level tests.

Test Level

0hallwaytest.txt contains leftovers from a former test level.

MissionDescription,test level

M00_01_maid_a_call_01,Housekeeping!
M00_01_maid_a_call_02,Hello? Housekeeping! Hello?
M00_01_iceman_a_answermaid_01,Not now! Later!
M00_01_maid_a_response_01,Okay, mister! I come back later! Tch. Been in there three days already.Don't think I WANNA to come back later. Maybe I come back in ocho dias after jou dead and they cleans jou out of there. That sound good to jou, pinche malo?
M00_01_iceman_a_answermaid_02,Not now! Later!
M00_01_iceman_a_answermaid_03,Come back later! I’m doing something!
M00_01_maid_a_response_02,Okay, Mister! I come back later! Madre dio.Jou been in there three day already.What happens later? Tomb-stone gonna roll away and jou gonna fly up to heaven? Jou gonna let me kiss your han', when jou go, Senor Jesus? Maybe I cut off jou cojones instead, huh?
M00_01_maid_a_call2_01,Housekeeping!
M00_01_maid_a_response2_01,Okay then, I coming in.To clean the room. An' you better not be in here naked. I don' like THAT. No. Jou in here in the desnudo, I'm kicking you hard an' shoving some nice new jabones up jou nalgas, cabron. Jou think I am kidding? 
M00_01_maid_a_greet_01,Good EVE-ening, sir. You are needing something?
M00_01_maid_a_greet_02,Jou wanna soap or some towels or somethings? How about a nice, uh, moisturizing conditioner?
M00_01_maid_a_sing_01,For jour eyes only...
M00_01_maid_a_sing_02,Let’s get physical, physical...
M00_01_maid_a_guard_01,Madre!Cazafantasma!
M00_01_maid_a_shot_01,La megra lieon!
M00_01_maid_a_shot_02,Aiieee!!
M00_01_maid_a_shot_03,Ay! Papi!

m00_00_egon_01.wav,Egon: I hope everyone turns off their Blackberries for this demonstration.  Subatomic pulses from our equipment tend to make them explode.
m00_00_egon_02.wav,Egon: Shh.  What if Bruce is listening?  Comments like that could lose our gig.  We're only young again in a video game, you know.
m00_00_egon_03.wav,Egon: Doubt Della Penna likes it and no WAY Marcus likes our numbers.
m00_00_egon_04.wav,Egon: It's defemation, not defecation, Ray.
m00_00_egon_05.wav,Egon: No.  Stop.  Let's start this, the load is over.
m00_00_egon_06.wav,Egon: Hmmm. Back at the Sedgwick. This is a nice hotel. I'm glad to see they got everything put back together. It's pretty nostalgic, really.
m00_00_egon_07.wav,Egon: I can’t believe you let it out again. This is the 3rd time this year.
m00_00_egon_08.wav,Egon: Shutting down the containment unit for any reason is bad, Ray.
m00_00_egon_09.wav,Egon: It’s definitely here, but the reading is coming across larger than expected.
m00_00_egon_10.wav,Egon: We should spread out, cover more ground.
m00_00_egon_11.wav,Egon: Old superstition... unsubstantiated, really.

m00_00_ray_01.wav,Ray: Yeah, and not unlike the Chinese abacus curse of 1265, overuse of those things can really cause permanent damage to your thumbs.
m00_00_ray_02.wav,Ray: Video game?
m00_00_ray_03.wav,Ray: Stop it, Spengler.  Terri can sue us for defecation of character and you're scaring the rookie.
m00_00_ray_04.wav,Ray: Isn't that what I said?
m00_00_ray_05.wav,Ray: And if the mechanics with our equipment still feel good, we could really be back in business here.
m00_00_ray_06.wav,Ray: He looked like he needed some fresh air, felt sorry for the little booger.
m00_00_ray_07.wav,Ray: Yeah, but it gives the rookie here a chance to get his feet wet with the live capture of a class-five full-roaming vapor! Pretty exciting!
m00_00_ray_08.wav,Ray: Yeah, I can smell him.
m00_00_ray_09.wav,Ray: All right. Egon, take the 13th floor... wait, of course there is no 13th floor.
m00_00_ray_10.wav,Ray: Right. Egon, you take the 14th floor then and I'll go down to the 11th.
m00_00_ray_11.wav,Ray: Why don’t you take this floor?
m00_00_ray_12.wav,Ray: You aren’t freezing up already are you? Get out there!

combattest

This one contains references to two enemies, cupids and knights, which never appear in-game.

scaredOfDark, Player is scared of the dark!
scaredOfSlimer, Player is scared of Slimer!
scaredOfOldMen, Player is scared of old men!
scaredOfCupids, Player sees way too many cupids!
mojo, Player got his mojo back!
foundLight, Player has found light!
scannedSlimer, Player has scanned Slimer!
capturedSlimer, Player has captured Slimer!

checkPointHallways, Room with hallways
checkPointSideRooms, Room with..side rooms
checkPointRamps, Room with ramps
checkPointFinalRoom, Room with columns

spawnSlimer, Slimer added to
spawnKnights, Knights added to
spawnCupids, Cupids added to
spawnMinions, Minions added to
spawnScuttlers, Scuttler's added to

healthmeterdemo

Another remnant from a test level related to the health meter.

MissionDescription,Health Meter Demo Level

conLoss1,Scared you!
conBoost1,Found Clue!

pketest

Another testing remnant, this time containing facts about ham.

HamScanned1aMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ A delicious floating ham, on the bone. But who took a bite out of it? Floating hams can often be found in test environments. I wouldn't eat it if I were you. You've got 2 more to find. They're around here somewhere...
HamScanned1bMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ A prime example of flam, or floating ham. Its very different from normal ham because it floats. But there are also similarities. For instance, it is also somewhat flavorsome. You've got 2 more to find.
HamScanned1cMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Always cook your pork to an internal temperature of at least 140 F. Trichinosis is a nasty parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis. There are 2 more of these to find.

HamScanned2aMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of boar or pig, much like this example. Although it can be cooked and served fresh, most ham is cured in some fashion. You've got only one more ham to find!
HamScanned2bMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Proscuitto is the Italian word for ham. In American English usage, the term is used more narrowly for a dry-cured ham from central and northern Italy, the two most common kinds being Prosciutto di Parma and Prosciutto di San Daniele. You've got only one more ham to find!
HamScanned2cMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ The thigh of a pig, ready for consumption. Pigs are omnivores, and have been known to eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, tree bark, rotting carcasses, excrement, garbage, and other pigs. You've got only one more ham to find!

HamScanned3aMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Did you know? "Jambon de Bayonne" is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France (Le Pays Basque or the Basque country).
HamScanned3bMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Did you know? Black Forest ham, also known as Schwarzwalder Schinken, is from the Black Forest region of Germany. It is seasoned, dry cured, then smoked over sawdust and fir brush.
HamScanned3cMsg,Class I Porcine Sustenance.@@doubleNewLine@@ Did you know? Ham is not permitted for consumption by the Jain, Jewish, Muslim and Rastafarian faiths. The Jewish, Muslim and Rastafarian dietary laws prohibiting pork are known as Kashrut, Halal and Ital, respectively.

0test

This one appears to be from a dialogue test.

MissionDescription,Chit-chat context test

m00_02_egon_03,Egon: It's on a sugar high, let's work together to capture him.  Remember, don't cross the streams...
m00_02_egon_01,Egon: He's definitely inside, but again, the readings are unusually strong.
m00_02_egon_05,Egon: The PKE is still extrodinarily high.  Ray... guys... something's not right... in fact, it's very bad.
m00_02_egon_06,Egon: More like the Gozerian Event of 1984.  Let's try to blast this wall.
m00_02_egon_07,Egon: I don't think this elevator goes to the pool.
SlimeNode,Press @@FireWeaponButtonName@@ to collect slime
m00_s04_egon055, Egon: I think there is a Class One Fright right here. If you get too close, it could attack. The best course of action is to get it before it gets you. Scan it with your PKE Meter to flush it out. Then blast it with your proton beam before it has a chance to attack.

tutorial_Wrangle1,Wrangle ghosts in your capture beam by pulling hard in the opposite direction from their movement.
tutorial_Wrangle2,Every time you hurt them with wrangling, you build up slam potential. Use it with @@ItemMode2ButtonName@@ to crash the ghost into things and inflict even more damage.
tutorial_Trap1,Keep the ghost balanced over the trap, and it will pull them down for you. Don't let the ghost escape out of the cone of light!

0squadtest

Appears to have been used for KVE tests.

examineSlimeMsg,Egon: Interesting. This slime is very greenish.
SlimeCommandText,Examine Slime

Unused Crowd Code

This snapshot from the Behind the Scenes video show the crowd in the bottom of the screen.

The game was planned to have crowds that would have been used in the Times Square and Parade levels, and possibly in the Museum Party sequence. In GamerGuy's Reviews' video, "The Complete History of Ghostbusters: The Video Game," it was mentioned that the developers watched many movies from the 1990s to design the people in the crowd. According to the linked tech demo, each NPC is in a herding algorithm to create realistic crowds when a threat is in the area.

When modded into the Times Square level, the AI does not factor in collisions, so characters walk straight through any objects with collisions.

Unused Ghost Viewer

The game was planned to have a menu that would allow you to view the models of each ghost, either after taking a PKE scan of the ghost or completing its respective level. In the linked video, it appear to be unfinished, as it says the Beauty Queen Ghost is Pappy Sargassi. This feature was likely cut early on, because the linked textures show many beta designs, or entirely unused ghosts.

Unused textures for the ghost viewer.

Unused Music

music_times_01

This song was likely intended for Times Square, as the name implies. It is unknown why the song is unused. The song has the same melody as the Azetlor boss fight theme.

music_stay_puft_loop

This is an extended version of the Stay Puft boss fight theme. It is a mashup of the two songs from the Ghostbusters score, "We're Going to Save the World" and "Cross Rip."

music_13thfloora_loop

This song was most likely intended for the Return to Sedgewick Hotel level. For unknown reasons, the audio is in mono. The song is a mashup of multiple songs from the Ghostbusters score.

credits

This song is not unused, but it's cut off when the dialogue during the credits starts. The song is a mashup of various songs from the score of the first Ghostbusters movie.

Unused Accompanying Music

Accomp. music is short snippets of longer songs intended to accompany a short event in game. 20 out of the 34 of them in the game files are unused.

Filename	Audio
music_gen_accomp_01
music_gen_accomp_04
music_gen_accomp_07
music_gen_accomp_09
music_gen_accomp_10
music_gen_accomp_11
music_gen_accomp_12
music_gen_accomp_13
music_gen_accomp_14
music_gen_accomp_16
music_gen_accomp_17
music_gen_accomp_18
music_gen_accomp_19
music_gen_accomp_20
music_gen_accomp_23
music_gen_accomp_24
music_gen_accomp_25
music_gen_accomp_29

Unused Stingers

stinger_04

stinger_08

stinger_10

stinger_14

stinger_16

stinger_17

stinger_18

stinger_19

stinger_20

stinger_21

stinger_22

stinger_23

stinger_25

stinger_31

stinger_35

stinger_36

stinger_37

stinger_39

stinger_42

stinger_45

stinger_47

stinger_48

stinger_49

stinger_50

stinger_51

stinger_52

stinger_53

stinger_56

music_fight_hit1_07

music_fight_hit2_07

Unused Textures

Test

Debug Font

Locked

ESRB/PEGI

Controller Layouts

Temporary Loading Screen?

vidicon

Screenshots from ECTO-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car, the film Ghostbusters (most likely the Blu-Ray release), and the film Year One. The screenshots were reused for the remastered port with their respective videos (minus Year One).

Unused Thanksgiving Day Parade Level

A whole level based on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was cut, but there's a lot of leftovers. While the level was cut, it's still referenced twice in the final game: the dialogue for a cutscene intended for the level was reused for the Museum level (in which the Mayor asks why his "his library, museum, and parade are all going down the toilet"), and once again in the cutscene before the Cemetery level, where the team watches an NYC news report which features footage of Blinkers in a deleted cutscene that is still unreleased.

The level would start after the Black Slime Chairman CGI cutscene, with the Ghostbusters exploring a tunnel network under the Museum. Parts of this segment are used in the final game, and new dialogue was recorded for the Chairman boss fight to take place in the tunnels. Instead of ending up in the boss arena, the ghostbusters were supposed to find a hatch, open it, and end up in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. At first, the parade would proceed as normal, but black slime would flow into Blinkers' balloon, allowing the Chairman to possess it. The Beauty Queen Ghosts, Marching Band Ghosts, Shriners, and Clowns were supposed to appear in this level, but in the final game, they only appear in multiplayer, with the exception of the Beauty Queen Ghosts. In the final game, instead of the Possessor Ghosts appearing in the Museum Party sequence, they were replaced by the Beauty Queen ghosts. The only time a Possessor Ghost appears in the final game is during the loading dock sequence.

The Ghostbusters would eventually end up in Ray's Occult Bookstore because the road ahead was blocked off. The Ghostbusters would head to the roof, where the Meson Collider was initially supposed to be introduced. Eventually, the Ghostbusters get off of the rooftops with a fire exit on a nearby apartment building, and CS PAR 06 would play. Then, the boss battle with Blinkers would begin. After the fight with Blinkers, CS PAR 07 would play. The numbers, 06 & 07, imply that there were more cutscenes planned, but these are the only leftovers in the files.

In the fourth Firehouse sequence, Ilyssa's line was supposed to be, "I saw on TV what you guys did at the parade. You're real heroes." So Peter Venkman was referring to the Parade when he said, "Kinda routine, as usual I led the charge."

This the the full line from Ilyssa in the first part of the fourth Firehouse scene.

Concept Art

Present in w32art02.pod, these would have been unlocked as you progress through the game.

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  A balloon.

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  Blinkers and friends.

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  "Nature's Bounty broccoli".

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  A castle float.

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  A Shriner ghost.

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  Another Shriner ghost.

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  A Statue of Liberty float.

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  A lighthouse float.

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  A Marching Band ghost.

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  Another Marching Band ghost.

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  A third Marching Band ghost.

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  A mushroom float.

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  A "NASO" float.

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  A Parade Queen ghost.

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  Another Parade Queen ghost.

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  Interior of Ray's Occult Books, believed to be part of the level in some way.

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  A Sargassi float.

Mission Objectives

These objectives start in Ray's Occult Books. Some dialogue from other levels is here mostly due to missing lines for Peter Venkman:

// Dialog is now in a separate text file

// This should only be changed by David K.

// If you need lines of dialog from other

// levels you will need to copy them directly

// rather than use an include.

include "parade3_diag.txt"

MissionDescription,Blinkers: The Comeback

checkpoint_Level_Start,Ray's Occult Bookstore

checkpoint_Roof_Top1,To the Rooftops

checkpoint_Roof_Top2,Clowns!

checkpoint_Roof_Top3,Trombones of Evil

checkpoint_Blinkers,Blinkers Rampage

objlong_followGB,The other Ghostbusters seem to know what they're doing. Follow them!

objshrt_followGB,Follow the Ghostbusters to the roof.

objlong_findBlinkers,Explore the rooftops and find Blinkers. It's a giant balloon mascot. How hard can it be to find?

objshrt_findBlinkers,Find Blinkers!

objlong_fireEscape,There's got to be a way to pull these fire escape stairs down. A sticky slime tether might be just the thing.

objshrt_fireEscape,Pull down the fire escape stairs.

objlong_billboardPzzle,You need to get across to the next building. If only that billboard could somehow be used as a bridge.

objshrt_billboardPzzle,Find a way to get across to the next building.

objlong_deafeatBlinkers,Ray's fondest childhood memories continue to take a beating. Or, at least they will do, as soon as you utterly destroy Blinkers the Science Pup.

objshrt_deafeatBlinkers,Blinkers the Science Pup.

PKE_CivilianRescue_Rollover,Scared Civilian PKE_CivilianRescue_Scan,This civilian is glad to see you.

//Ghostbusters dialog

// NPC dialog

Diag_Rescue_GEN_E_009, Thanks! I got ghost-jacked!

//stairwell

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_161, Did somebody call a break?

Diag_Ray_GEN_E_696, No!

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_018, Pshew....okay.

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_098, My apartment used to look like this.

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_123, What can I say?

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_138, Uh huh.

Diag_Peter_SPLIT_107, What?

Diag_Peter_GEN_C_092_a, Spare parts?

Diag_Peter_GEN_C_084_b, 'kay, keep your shirt on.

Diag_Egon_PAR_S_107, I didn't realize you meant that literally.

Diag_Egon_CEM_S_081_B, Alright. I'm going to unlock the pulse inhibitor on your Nutrona Wand. Now, using its alternative release mode, you should be able to throw an overloaded pulse. It won't move too fast, but it will cause a lot of damage when it gets where it's going.

Sound Effects

blinkers_ambient_loop

blinkers_4_attack

blinkers_explode

blinkers_hurt_1

blinkers_hurt_1

blinkers_point_2_to_3

blinkers_point_3_to_2

blinkers_point_3_to_4

blinkers_point_4_to_3

blinkers_vomit

blinkers_vomit_effect_loop_1

blinkers_impact_ground_loop

amb_parade_outside

amb_parade_inside

parade1_elevator_stress_head

parade1_elevator_stress_loop

parade1_elevator_close

parade3_billboard_fall