Crash Twinsanity (PlayStation 2, Xbox) (2025)

Crash Twinsanity is what you get when only having so much time to develop a new entry under the stress of new blood. Developed by the then-new studio of Traveller's Tales in Oxford, England, the studio was unfortunately crunched for time to finish the game, leaving a lot, and I mean a lot of unused content.

Despite the game being considered extremely unfinished and unpolished, it has gotten a cult following for its focus on slapstick humor and open-ended gameplay unique to the series' tropes.

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Hidden Graphics

This texture is used as a placeholder for a missing or unmapped texture in a model. It depicts Steve Riding, the team lead, who passed away in 2023.

Unused Animations

By using GameShark codes, the player can access a number of scripts that are unfinished or cannot be seen under normal circumstances. Many of these scripts lack collision or any sort of in-game functionality.

Crash

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Crash has some attacking animations that may suggest that the game was going to include more deeply engrained combat mechanics, (à la Crash of the Titans), though the traditional spin, slide & belly flop were maintained instead. Attempting the Fireball animation will remove Crash from sight, turning him invisible thanks to a missing model.

It should be noted that "CRASH_PUNCH" & "CRASH_WRESTLE_CREATURE" were explicitly known to be scrapped concepts later on, as the punch animation survived long enough to be eventually included in a demo build of Twinsanity, albeit with the loss of the slide move. Developer FakeNina (Paul Gardner), explains that a wrestling mechanic very similar to the Rollerbrawl function was to be planned for a mini-game on N.Sanity Island, where Crash would have to pin down a blue monkey for long enough to escape its offence.

"CRASH_VEHICLE_GROUND_TRICK_FWD" seems to be related to a scrapped race track dubbed 'Krazy Komodo Crash Course', a parody/tribute to the Sega game OutRun. According to developer SpaceCat (Keith Webb), the other two islands from Crash Bandicoot were going to appear in the game, and the Second Island would have contained this race track. Cortex would sit in the passenger seat complaining about Crash's driving ability. The gimmick of this was that the vehicle had no brakes.

Cortex

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The first of these scripts (which appears to be an effect file for a scrapped Tikimon attack) strangely replaces Cortex's ray gun with a TNT crate, though the effect otherwise plays as normal, because the attack was never finished. The other two scripts reduce Cortex's model to a white shade; the textures for them were never finished. Their names may suggest that Cortex would have mini-games inspired off of these classic arcade games, though they could also just be file naming oddities.

Interestingly enough, "CORTEX_LEAVE_COOP" suggests that the game was intended to incorporate co-op play to some degree, probably during the levels where Crash and Cortex work together - this is furthered by the "CRASH_JOIN_COOP" animation being left in the game as well.

Unused Audio

Cortex

A voice clip of Cortex giving a hint about spinning back the green plasma blasts from the first boss can be found in AMERICAN.MB.

Intended to be used for scenarios when Crash and Cortex are forced to work together. It may have been cut due to proving irritating upon hearing it repeatedly.

A cheeky reference to Naughty Dog, the company that originally created the marsupial to begin with. It very likely would have been used when Cortex "spanked" Crash during rollerbrawl.

Unused Music

Ice Climb

This unused theme immediately follows Iceberg Lab in the game's memory. While no direct confirmation of this is possible, its internal location heavily implies it would've been used for Ice Climb, which reuses Iceberg Lab's theme in the final game.

Iceberg Lab (Sped Up)

A sped-up version of the Iceberg Lab music.

Boiler Room Doom

An unused track originally composed for Boiler Room Doom. While it does play, it's only for some few seconds in the credits sequence. It has an odd position in the music file, being at the end after almost every ambience sound (this track has ID 136, while the music track before that has ID 64 and corresponds to the final boss music), implying it was only added back to be in the credits scene.

Interestingly, the Xbox version internally calls this track "Native Chase", suggesting that they may have tried to use it for the final section of Totem Hokum before scrapping it altogether.

Academy of Evil

A variation of the Academy of Evil theme exists without evil laughter.

Classroom Chaos

An unused track that was meant to play during Classroom Chaos. In the final game, there are two different tracks, one that corresponds to playing as Crash Bandicoot, and another that corresponds to playing as Doctor Neo Cortex. Given the track's difference in tone to the two final versions, it was probably scrapped due to not fitting the context and tone of the levels as the developers wanted.

Misplaced Objects

• In Ant Agony, if you look up while near a pile of boxes you can see a Nitro box oddly floating in the ceiling.
• Shortly after destroying Dingodile's house, but just before passing the frozen Rhynoc, there's an inaccessible Life Crate on top of the mountain on the right.

Unused Characters

Nina & Cortex

Using glitches and exploits, you can play as Nina with Cortex attached. Due to some of the coding being removed, the game will freeze if you attempt to move unless you move while spinning.

Using glitches, it's possible to achieve an effect similar to this. Nina will be grabbing Cortex but Cortex will act as if he was being grabbed by Crash (pressing X then Circle will throw Cortex while punching at the same time). However, you won't be able to grab Cortex again after throwing him.

Unused Objects

Hoverboard

By using codes or going out-of-bounds, it is possible to activate an invisible, controllable hoverboard. It is extremely buggy, though, and neither Crash or Cortex have animations for riding it.

Version Differences

NA 1.0

• It runs at a 512x448 resolution on PS2 and 640x480 on Xbox.
• The game crashes sometimes after Dingodile (specifically, when his model gets too far after you beat him).
• The 100% completion FMV is the therapy session in this version.
• This version contains some crates that don't exist in other versions.
• Skipping FMV's requires waiting a second.
• Cortex's and Mechabandicoot's plasma is huge compared to other versions.
• The short area after the bus chase and before switching to Cortex has an unlocked camera.
• There is no checkpoint right outside the top lab's interior and Cortex's position inside is far from the entrance.
• The world checkpoint outside the 10th dimension lab doesn't auto-activate upon leaving the lab.
• After loading the game, the "Autosave Enabled" screen doesn't appear.
• Dying while activating the first Boiler Room Doom cutscene will lock Crash in place.
• The checkpoint in front of the first ice wall in the Ice Climb exterior will not activate from a distance.
• An additional checkpoint exists next to the world checkpoint at the start of Rockslide Rumble.
• Next to Evil Crash's hut, one of the rocky platforms on the way to the gem has different collision than its visuals.
• A big tree exists right next to the farm, which lets players bypass Totem Hokum easily.
• The corridor just before the final boss contains a couple enemies.

Xbox Version

• Texture quality is overall better.
• The lighting on characters and environments is mostly nonexistent, making the characters and objects look darker.
• NA and EU share the same save slots.
• Tip text at the bottom of the screen is higher up.
• HUD counters are closer to the icons.
• The game doesn't clean up particles after dying immediately.
• Earning a life by getting 100 Wumpa fruit doesn't play a sound.
• Loading the game requires confirmation.
• Particles in general are more sparse, usually with a shorter lifetime.
• Transitions into and out of cutscenes show the game's logo in the bottom left corner of the screen.
• Some cutscenes desync from the audio due to in-game lag.
• FMV Extras are called that way in the menu instead of "Movie". The name was also localized accordingly.
• The rising slime in Classroom Chaos emits a sound that stays forever if the room is left by quitting or loading.
• Pressing the A button brings up the main menu on the title screen (in addition to the Start button).
• Scenery crystals and icicles are more opaque.
• The sound of Cavern Catastrophe's drill opening is different.
• The NA Xbox version is region-free, the other versions are not.
• The EU Platinum version is identical to the original EU version.
• The Xbox version works on the Xbox 360, although it suffers from big slowdowns.

These are exclusive to the Xbox variant of NA:

• Respawning on a world crate with autosave on saves the game every time.
• On some checkpoints, after loading the game for the first time, the game unpauses with the autosave screen open.

These are exclusive to the Xbox variant of EU:

• The ':' symbol is missing from the font, affecting the game time on save files, sound options, and the worm minigame timer.
• Due to the 50hz refresh rate, the sliding bug doesn't happen.
• There is no Spanish localization.

EU Versions

• This version runs at a 512x512 resolution on PS2 and 640x480 on Xbox.
• The 100% completion FMV is a short animation montage in this version.
• The font is smaller in order to fit letters from various languages in the font texture.
• It has less gameplay lag than NA.
• Some crashes (like the Dingodile one) were fixed.
• Bodyslamming onto higher surfaces snaps less.
• The Spyro trailer is unavailable in-game.
• Lives are taken and shown immediately when the animation starts, instead of after the fadeout.
• The airship departing cutscene was changed to show a different angle of the scene.
• Walking near the fence at Farmer Ernest's farm will detach Cortex from Crash.

These are exclusive to the PS2 variant of EU:

• Due to the 50hz refresh rate, the sliding bug doesn't happen.
• Evil Crash has pathing problems in Bandicoot Pursuit making him run in circles in some places.
• The menus are very slow.
• A save cancelling confirmation was added.
• The room before the last classroom has no enemies.
• This is the only version missing the Spyro trailer from the disc.
• Stunned Coco doesn't damage Crash.
• Resetting Nina's walljumping tutorial is fixed.

Japanese Version

• It runs at a 512x448 resolution.
• The 100% completion FMV is a short animation montage in this version.
• Crashing fixes from the EU version were ported over to this one.
• Lives are reduced and shown immediately when the death animation starts, rather than after the fadeout.
• The airship departing cutscene was changed to show a different angle of the scene.
• Many menu actions and skipping cutscenes requires pressing Circle instead of X. This is due to the Circle button being used to enter for Japanese and East Asian PlayStation units.
• Confirming the 'Continue without saving' screen puts you into the pause screen.
• As with usual Crash Japanese localization, the TNT and Nitro crate textures were changed accordingly.
• The shoulder button icons are on different heights.
• Sliding is as tight as on EU, but the random deviation from NA still exists.
• Rusty Walrus' pathing is broken.
• Evil Crash has pathing problems in Bandicoot Pursuit making him run in circles in some places.
• Bodyslamming works just like on NA.
• The disc contains the Spyro trailer, however it's unavailable in-game.
• Walking near the fence at Farmer Ernest's farm will detach Cortex from Crash.
• Stunned Coco doesn't damage Crash.
• The room before the last classroom has no enemies.
• Resetting Nina's walljumping tutorial is fixed.
• Characters in galleries (except McDonald's and the Test one) have more fingers than in other versions.

NA 2.0

• The 100% completion FMV is the therapy session in this version.
• Crashing fixes from the EU version were ported over to this one.
• The airship departing cutscene was changed to show a different angle of the scene.
• Walking near the fence at Farmer Ernest's farm will detach Cortex from Crash.
• The room before the last classroom has no enemies.

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