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The Debug Menu

article by Ben Lincoln

Like Soul Reaver before it, Soul Reaver 2's game code contains a debugging menu used by its developers while it was in production. Although no way was provided to access it, I was able to create one through the use of Playstation 2 cheat device codes. Later, the Soul Reaver 2 Trainer and Andrew Fradley's Soul Reaver 2 PC Debug Menu Enabler allowed the same effect for PC gamers.

The main set of menus controls features like which abilities Raziel can use, which Reavers he has acquired (including the three Deleted Elemental Reavers), which of the excised The Pillar Glyphs he has obtained, and allows for warping to most of the areas in the game. There are nine additional menus which control lower-level functionality such as camera settings and the colour of the fog.

A small piece of deleted material in the Camera menu is the ability to toggle on a behaviour called "New Combat Camera". It is closer to the combat-mode camera in Blood Omen 2 than the one used in Soul Reaver 2. As it was never implemented in the final game, it exhibits a few bugs such as not zooming out when Raziel is fighting a large enemy.

The Air Forge Demo also includes a debug menu. Some differences between the demo and final versions of the game can be discerned using its functionality:

• All of the Reaver upgrades (including the Deleted Elemental Reavers) are present in the Air Forge demo. However, all of them besides Light and Dark are temporary placeholders that look like primitive 3D spikes.
• The Fire and Earth Reavers appear to use the same colouring as The Amplified Reaver deleted from Soul Reaver.
• The Water Reaver is a wavey Dark Reaver.
• The Ring Menu has an additional space which is toggled with the Dimension Glyph flag. However, the game freezes up if any attempt is made to use it.
• The area-select section of the menu includes quite a few development/test areas. None of them can be loaded, as they are not actually present in the data file.
• The demo includes game rendering options such as wireframe and textureless modes. Although not present in the final version of Soul Reaver 2, these were reintroduced in Defiance.

These codes would not have been possible without the assistance of Warpsavant, Andrew Fradley, Hellion00, Hanimar, and Kajapon no Oheya.

Controls

Once the game has been started with the corresponding code enabled, the following controls are available:

The video at the end of this article includes footage of the Debug Menu.

You must use the Master Code for your version of the game from Codes (Playstation 2 Cheat Device) in order for these codes to work.

As with any cheat device codes, please be aware that using these can result in problems with gameplay. Do not save your game unless you're willing to accept the potential consequence of having to start over from the beginning.

Soul Reaver 2 Air Forge Demo (PS2 - NTSC)	Author: Ben Lincoln
Effect	Code(s)
Access Debug Menu	DC958025 1435B20D
	1C888090 0473E79B
	1C8880D0 1456E7A5
	DC95801F 1435B20D
	1C888090 0876E79B
	1C8880D0 0874E7D2
Debug Fast Movement	DC955D23 1435B20D
	1C888090 1456E7A5
	1C8880B4 1456E7A5
	DC956D23 1435B20D
	1C888090 0876E79B
	1C8880B4 C874E761
Primary Menus Accessible	0CB87E20 1456CA0C
	1CB73B1C 14368805
	0CB87E20 14569A0C
	1CB73B1C 14367C65
	0CB87E20 14567A0C
	1CB73B1C 14364DE5
	0CB87E20 14563A0C
	1CB73B1C 14364C25
Secondary Menus Accessible	0CB87E20 1456360C
	1CB73B1C 14364DAD
	0CB87E20 1456760C
	1CB73B1C 14368385
	0CB87E20 1456C60C
	1CB73B1C 14364EBD
	0CB87E20 1456960C
	1CB73B1C 14364E4D
	0CB87E20 1456350C
	1CB73B1C 143653F5
	0CB87E20 1456C50C
	1CB73B1C 1436517D

Soul Reaver 2 Air Forge Demo (PS2 - PAL)	Author: Ben Lincoln
Effect	Code(s)
Access Debug Menu	DC958025 14394C55
	1C8593A0 0473E79B
	1C8593E0 1456E7A5
	DC95801F 14394C55
	1C8593A0 0876E79B
	1C8593E0 0874E7D2
Debug Fast Movement	DC955D23 1435B20D
	1C85E790 1456E7A5
	1C8593C4 1456E7A5
	DC956D23 1435B20D
	1C85E790 0876E79B
	1C8593C4 C874E7C9
Primary Menus Accessible	0CB41CD8 1456CA0C
	1CB5770C 14348FE5
	0CB41CD8 14569A0C
	1CB5770C 143493C5
	0CB41CD8 14567A0C
	1CB5770C 1434A2DD
	0CB41CD8 14563A0C
	1CB5770C 1434A11D
Secondary Menus Accessible	0CB41CD8 1456360C
	1CB5770C 1434A2C5
	0CB41CD8 1456760C
	1CB5770C 14349265
	0CB41CD8 1456C60C
	1CB5770C 1434A3D5
	0CB41CD8 1456960C
	1CB5770C 1434A3E5
	0CB41CD8 1456350C
	1CB5770C 1434A0ED

Soul Reaver 2 (PS2 - NTSC)	Author: Ben Lincoln
Effect	Code(s)
Access Debug Menu	1C85F52C 1456E7A5
	DC958025 14389DE5
	4CB63CCA 1456E7A1
	1CB922C0 14D6E7A5
	DC95801F 14389DE5
	4CB63CCA 1456E7A5
	1CB922C0 0C56D79D
Debug Fast Movement	0CB14DE8 1456740C
	3CB63C0F 1456E7A6
	0CB14DE8 1456940C
	3CB63C0F 1456E7A5
Primary Menus Accessible	0CB14DE8 1456CA0C
	1CB39F2C 143AE765
	0CB14DE8 14569A0C
	1CB39F2C 143AE445
	0CB14DE8 14567A0C
	1CB39F2C 1433BBF5
	0CB14DE8 14563A0C
	1CB39F2C 1433BA35
Secondary Menus Accessible	0CB14DE8 1456C60C
	1CB39F2C 1433BBBD
	0CB14DE8 1456960C
	1CB39F2C 143AEAC5
	0CB14DE8 1456760C
	1CB39F2C 1433B4CD
	0CB14DE8 1456360C
	1CB39F2C 1433B4DD
	0CB14DE8 1456350C
	1CB39F2C 1433B90D

Soul Reaver 2 (PS2 - PAL)	Author: Ben Lincoln
Effect	Code(s)
Access Debug Menu	1C85F8DC 1456E7A5
	DC958025 1438C2E5
	4CB661CA 1456E7A1
	1CB94640 14D6E7A5
	DC95801F 1438C2E5
	4CB661CA 1456E7A5
	1CB94640 0C56D79D
Debug Fast Movement	DC955D23 1438C2E5
	1C85ED40 1456E7A5
	1C85ED64 1456E7A5
	DC956D23 1438C2E5
	1C85ED40 0876E79B
	1C85ED64 C874E7C9
Primary Menus Accessible	0CB16EE8 1456CA0C
	1CB3C02C 143A0465
	0CB16EE8 14569A0C
	1CB3C02C 143A0945
	0CB16EE8 14567A0C
	1CB3C02C 143AD8F5
	0CB16EE8 14563A0C
	1CB3C02C 143ACF35
Secondary Menus Accessible	0CB16EE8 1456360C
	1CB3C02C 143AD8BD
	0CB16EE8 1456760C
	1CB3C02C 143AFFC5
	0CB16EE8 1456C60C
	1CB3C02C 143AD9CD
	0CB16EE8 1456960C
	1CB3C02C 143AD9DD
	0CB16EE8 1456350C
	1CB3C02C 143ACE0D

Unknown
File	Size	Author
Soul Reaver 2 - Miscellaneous Deleted/Debug Elements	25 MiB	Ben Lincoln
A video of the possession and invisibility abilities, the full ring menu, and the textureless and wireframe rendering modes.

Related Articles:
Soul Reaver 2 Trainer (Software)
Soul Reaver 2 PC Debug Menu Enabler (Software)
Developers' Level Select (Blood Omen)
The Debug Menu (Soul Reaver)
The Debug Menu (Defiance)

Last updated: 30 April 2012

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