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The Traveller's Tales Oxford Studio was a division of Traveller's Tales , created solely for the purpose of reviving the Crash Bandicoot series . Their first and only game that they developed was Crash Twinsanity . The team was originally planned to develop Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Tag Team Racing , however both titles were passed onto Vicarious Visions and Radical Entertainment respectively. The studio also came up with the concept for Cortex Chaos but the game was never develop by Traveller's Tales Oxford nor by any other developer. The division is now defunct.

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Traveller's Tales

Traveller's Tales was a video game development studio from the United Kingdom, and they are a current subsidiary of TT Games . The first Crash Bandicoot game that they developed was Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex . After this, their Traveller's Tales Oxford Studios division developed Crash Twinsanity . Their next game after Crash Twinsanity was Lego Star Wars: The Video Game , which is the first game that they released as TT Games. Since then, nearly every game from Traveller's Tales has been licensed Lego games developed by TT Games.

There are two different instances in which Traveller's Tales tried to create a Crash Bandicoot racing game. The first attempt was Crash Nitro Kart , but Universal Interactive handed over the project to Vicarious Visions . [1] A few years later, after Crash Twinsanity 's release, the Oxford Studios division started development of Crash Clash Racing . For unknown reasons, Vivendi Games handed over the development to Radical Entertainment . [2] Around the same time, the Oxford Studios division planned Cortex Chaos , a game which never got past the concept stage. [3]

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• ↑ Crash Nitro Kart by Traveller's Tales - CrashMania.net
• ↑ Crash Clash Racing - CrashMania.net
• ↑ Cortex Chaos - CrashMania.net
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Credited on 2 Games from 2004 to 2006

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Cortex Chaos

Cortex Chaos, or The All-New Cortex Show, was the name of a project started by Traveller's Tales Oxford Studio after the release of Crash Twinsanity. Helmed by one of Twinsanity's main artists, Keith Webb (a.k.a. "Space Cat" among Crash fans), it was going to star Dr. Neo Cortex. Despite entering pre-production, the project never really took off, but Keith kindly revealed some of his concepts to Crash Mania in 2006:

Keith Webb: The first proposal was based on the idea that Cortex had a series of little Clones (either humanoid or robotic). He would be able to control them to do several little tasks ... such as pick up and throw bombs, collect items, or line-up to create a bridge (bit like Pikmin in some respects I suppose).

Keith Webb: The Second followed a Rockman/MegaMan style idea. Cortex had been kicked out of the Evil Scientist league, because of his fratenising with the cretinous Crash Bandicoot (during Twinsanity). The new team of evil doctors, now led by N.Tropy were trying to get their revenge on Cortex for some reason or other, and so each of the levels were based around them (N.Trance/N.Tropy/N.Brio/N.Gin/N.Oxide) etc...and of course introducing new villains (Doctor N.Tombed (a huge egyptian mummy like pharoah; Doctor N.Tertain (a strangle clown like doctor) and Doctor N.Tangle (a doctor that had plants growing from him - I think?)...there were more also, but I don't remember them.

Keith Webb: The Third idea somehow had Nina involved more...and used the weapon upgrades. Can't remember much more about it.

To be honest the final design would probably have incorporated all of the above ideas to create a gaming masterpiece of legendary status, but unfortunately Universal wanted to keep it on the backburner for a later date. Space Cat out!

Super Monkey Ball Adventure

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is a sequel to the highly popular game Super Monkey Ball 2 . This new installment developed by Traveller's Tales' Oxford studio featured a full story mode with multiple open worlds to go around and do things in (all without the ability to jump!). This particular entry received immense amounts of negative reception due to its poor controls, poor story, and lesser emphasis on the actual platform gameplay. Safe to say TT's Oxford division didn't last much longer, even after their one diamond in the rough. Although the franchise's next entry (which was ironically developed at the same time) would receive mixed results.

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Present only in the PS2 version is an FMV named TTIDENT.PSS which is the older version of the Traveller's Tales logo.

Build Dates

Crash debugger.

Exclusive to the GameCube port is this crash handler which appears whenever the game crashes.

Internal Level Names

The internal file names for some of the levels are different from their in-game names.

• FREEWHEELER is internally known as threewheel .
• SKID SLALOM is internally known as skidbiffers .
• CIRCUITS is internally known as threedom .
• FUNRUN is internally known as funnelrun .
• BACKFLIP is internally known as electricbiffersofdoom .
• HEADLONG is internally known as threebie .
• STRANDED is internally known as threesticks .

Settings.xml

• Edits to settings.xml do effect the game and can be used to activate unused jumping abillities.
• default_jump_enabled gives the player an unused jumping ability when pressing the B button.
• default_power_jump_enabled gives the player another unused jump this time charging up with an unused animation before jumping. The height of this jump is determined by the <power_jump_size> setting.

A gecko code to enable power jumping in-game.

Power Jump Activator (NTSC) [Lakitu64]

c2060570 00000002

3c000000 60000001

901e000c 00000000

• If one increases power jump size, squash, and recover distance (in this example, everything is multiplied by 10), the results look like this:

Debug Level Select

• In the PSP version, you can edit Command.txt in the root\PSP_GAME\USRDIR path with the word 'levelselect', enabling you to access any part of the hub world, challenge levels in levels.xml, even the null minigame levels (the game crashes if those are selected)
• Some cutscenes unfortunately crash due to lack of loading the hub and related objects prior

• Oddly this also includes the unused cutscene "GonGons Garden Day", which plops the player inside the first hub's model. The game then seemingly hangs afterwards, unless you exit and reenter the application, in which case it rapidly displays cutscene text with monkey chitter at random of the area. If you don't skip the scene, the game crashes

File Oddities

There is a folder in the font folder named "shitfuck".

For the GameCube version, although the Level folders outside Puzzles have many files (.CSC models, .lgt lights, .lk hub world link files, etc.), the game actually only uses the .SEQ file, which has all the previous mentioned files if seen in hex. For why there's duplicated unused assets, it's probably due to rushing source files when porting from PS2 development. This is fairly common for other 6th gen Traveller Tales games.

Unlike the PSP version, the PS2 version's RM/SM archives are compressed.

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