Free Roaming New York (Mod) - Godzilla: Save The Earth (PS2)
88After many struggles, I am back with another free roam mod. This time, I am destroying New York City! Simon Strange once said that "GTA: Godzilla" free roaming was boring due to nothing posing any threat to you besides the enemy monsters, but as you'll see in the video, the city itself can be quite a threat if you don't play carefully.
On the technical side, this challenge is currently replacing the Bowling challenge. My intent is to replace as many challenges as I can with the various cities in the game for free roaming. Getting this to work was surprisingly challenging. The Bowling and Basketball stages don't have any night variations, but the ChallengeDemolition script that I'm using to create the free roam mode requires that they exist or the game will crash (this is because it randomly selects between day/night stages). Now, if this was the Xbox version of the game, I could simply make a copy of the night version of New York, rename it to "ChallengeBowling.zip", and I'd be done. But the PS2 version doesn't work like that. All of the game data is contained in one large archive called "GODZILLA.VOL". To add new files to this archive, I had to write a program capable of generating a new .VOL archive that could be read by the game. It was a bit difficult, but I managed to cobble something together that seems to work.
Going back to the actual gameplay, I was a bit surprised to find out that you literally can't die. Instead of dying, the challenge is simply counted as being completed (and you always fail because the point goal isn't functioning for some reason...). I was quite disappointed to see that the Statue of Liberty is not present in the PS2 version of the New York stage (similar to how Tokyo Tower is present in the Xbox version of the big Tokyo stage, but not in the PS2 version). The base which it stands upon is there, but not the actual statue. In general, free roaming the Xbox versions of these stages would be a lot more fun/interesting. The PS2 stages were clearly stripped of many objects that aren't within the boundaries due to either limitations or to boost performance. Unfortunately, I don't own a capture card, and none of the Xbox emulators are as good as PCSX2 yet, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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