Shadow Warrior Beta Findings

[Ninjakitty]

I've been digging through the Beta for Shadow warrior and I'm finding a lot of stuff. I'll post anything new that I find. 

[Ninjakitty]

One interesting thing that I have found so far is that picnum 3035 is an item called firebursts and it can still be picked up in newer versions of the game.



However, it is completely invisible and the build editor won't let me spawn it in.

*Edit:
In the build editor in 2d mode it is labeled as guardian head ammo and it will give you 50 ammo for the guardian head. I looked through the ART files for the beta and I think I found the item. Sort of...

[Ninjakitty]

Picnum 1880 is labeled as spell in the Build editor in 2d mode but it can not be picked up and doesn't seem to do anything at all. It is also invisible and I can't spawn it in the Build editor. It seems like it would have made a cool addition to the game though.

*Edit:
After looking through the Art files for the Beta, I found the spell.

[Ninjakitty]

Picnum 1820 is labeled as heart large ammo in 2d mode in the Build editor and when picked up it is called Death Coils. It will give you 5 ammo for the ripper heart.







Like the other unused items though, it is also invisible and I havn't been able to spawn it in through the build editor.

*Edit:
I looked through the ART files for the Beta and I found the item. Sort of...

[Ninjakitty]

Picnum 1801 is labeled as crate in the Build editor in 2d mode. It doesn't seem to do anything, it's invisible, and I can't spawn it in using the Build editor. I think that maybe the game used to have supply crates.

[Ninjakitty]

I found a pretty cool-looking beta coolie ghost in the ART files of the Beta.

[Ninjakitty]

The design of this looks a little off... The letters spelling Shadow Warrior are not even red or orange.

[Ninjakitty]

I wonder if this was used to store ammo for multiple weapons. 

[Ninjakitty]

The missile packs used to look different. I like their other design better.

[Ninjakitty]

I found the Beta guardian head:

[Ninjakitty]

The Beta sword.

[Robman]

Yep there's lots of goodies in there

Hendricks has some stuff about the beta too.

[Ninjakitty]

There are a few images of the beta on this website that I haven't seen anywhere else:

Link

It almost seems like the creator of the website was involved with the making of the game.

[Robman]

Hadn't seen his site, bryan2000 is JamesKX2 on this forum, that's his site.
Hehe no, he wasn't part of the crew making sw.

[Ninjakitty]

I was looking around and I found some higher quality enemy models(Although, it's kind of hard to tell the difference in some of them). 

[Robman]

kinda looks like someone erased the red background from behind them. There's similar ones in the gfx/art section on the site.

Cool find though.

[Ninjakitty]

Yeah, I know. I was going to use the skeleton/ghost for my profile picture but I wasn't able to find an image with high enough resolution. So, I went searching and somehow I came across this forum: www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=476634

Then I found these pages: 
web.archive.org/web/19970601160338/http://www.shadowwarrior.com/lowang.html
web.archive.org/web/19970601160450/http://www.shadowwarrior.com/script.html
web.archive.org/web/19980630131113/http://www.shadowwarrior.com/screenshots.html#TOP

BTW, I think these two look a little too much alike to be coincidence:
 


Especially since the coolie ghost design was made before the skeleton undead samurai thingy(I think). I think skeletons may had been planned to have their own variations at one point.
Also, I think the ghost image I found was actually made at a higher resolution and different angle than the one in the art section. If you compare them side by side, there is a pretty big difference besides the background.

[High Treason]

Sceletor Priest?

Oddly I think the final has a copy of the Coolie Ghost labelled as such. Don't remember if SW has a NAMES.H file but you'd probably be able to look quickly in there to see where it is, said label even exists. It's been a long time and I don't remember anymore.

[Ninjakitty]

names.h (2.48 KB)

names2.h (38.97 KB)

I'll look into them tomorrow.

[Ninjakitty]

Aight, so looking back on all I've posted this stuff is pretty cringey. But also, I've taken notice of the fact that Jones made a lotta skeleton variations for this game.



Old ghost which showed up as early as the betas. It's got blood all over it and it looks quite dirty (I've taken the liberty of squishing it horizontally in order to get it back to the correct aspect ratio)

This render and the old ghost seem to be basically the same (the old ghost has a jaw btw, I've decided it's just closed as a human sized jaw would be, hence the teeth being all scrunched up in a small space)

This one looks similar, obviously, but it also has been polished up a bit. The jaw is now in a physically possible position and the weird goldish-brown section of the head now just looks like normal skull

And here's the final in-game version. The other ones didn't really seem to be rigged, but this one is. It's also been cleaned up (blood on the face and hands is now less visible or nonexistant), presumably to make it less ugly as a low resolution sprite