#Theme hospital mod

What is interesting is the patient starts off green already, so possibly they would start off using the Serious Radiation appearance. Animation frames for a patient to actually turn into an alien. However, the shadow sprite remains in the high res files, but appears to be corrupted.Īgain, this must have been part of the alien invasion event. This only exists in the low resolution mode files, in the high res equivalent these sprites are replaced by parts of hospital beds. Note this is actually the exact same set of graphics/animation as used in the other Bullfrog game Genewars, so it's not clear if this reuse was to save time, or if it was meant to be an explicit call back to that game (it also seemed to used the same sound effect as in Genewars making this likely).

Unused Graphics UFOĪlmost certainly part of the cut alien invasion disaster event. #gbv.AbductionsPerYear 2 Number of abductions allowed per-year after lead-in time. #gbv.MinimumAbductTime 4 Number of years after which first abduction can occur It's not clear if these were part of the invasion event or something else, but it seems at one point the game would also have alien abductions: SAM template entries that seem to be alien related. Aliens can only be seen during specific alien emergencies in the final game, so it seems this was how the leftover resources from the cut event were recycled and why aliens are not regular patients like other diseases. Most obviously there are the actual aliens and DNA Fixer that are used in the final game.

There are also several PA announcements to do with the event that remain unused. Firstly, there are graphics for the UFO from Genewars present in the low resolution graphics files, along with the hovering sound effect it used in that game. It's not clear what this would mean in gameplay terms, but the final game has several elements of the event left in its files. Intended as a further disaster beyond the existing earthquake event, it was said that aliens would 'destroy, maim and pass around nasty rashes to the population'. The official Theme Hospital Diary column in the UK GamesMaster magazine briefly talks about this cut disaster event. The room only costs $5, which is pretty unlikely to be a serious final figure for it. This doesn't seem to exist in the final game, and it's not clear what it would do (other than containing TVs). There's an unused PA announcement for pregnant patients included in the game files (see Unused Audio section)Īs with the cut pregnancy condition, there are also entries for a cut room simply called 'TV' in the level definitions. It's likely this was abandoned early on due to Bullfrog deliberately moving away from real world conditions, and having a game where pregnant women can die would likely be considered to be in poor taste. The 'treatment' for the condition is a stay on a Ward and then surgery. Pregnant patients have an entry as a 'visual illness' which means they would appear with custom graphics, but clearly this did not happen as no such graphics exist, and pregnant patients simply appear as normal women in the final game if hacked in. Pregnancy seems to be fully working but a rough implementation.

#Theme hospital mod

There is a user made mod available that simplifies this. As such this can be restored to the game by adding the needed fields to any level definition file.

However, these templates also reveal there is a further unused 'disease' called 'PREGNANT'. These files list all possible permutations of rooms, items, and diseases available in the game, with the actual levels only using a subset of these, depending on difficulty and game progression. (Source: GameSpot) Cut Gameplay Elements PregnancyĮach difficulty level in the level definition directory ( LEVELS) has a template file as its first file (e.g.