Textures
This page is under construction. Note: GoldenEye game textures presented at 4x original size.
Most textures on the page were spotted by Roovahlees of the Render96 Video Game Texture Preservation (VGTP) Project. It's a fascinating project that has identified the original sources of many video game textures including some of those used in GoldenEye. You can follow their work on Twitter.
Textures are presented in order of their hexadecimal addresses on the GoldenEye game ROM.
00C4: Terrain Photo
This aerial photo of arid terrain is found in Frigate's radio room. It seems that someone manipulated the photo to paint a lake in the middle. Why? Is this supposed to be the lake that hides the Janus base? And where is the real life location of the photo? It's a mystery.
The high resolution version comes from GoldenEye: Decoded. The original source is unknown.
0256-025D: Colored World Map
This map is technically used in Frigate's radio room, but it normally cannot be seen because of a rendering issue. In the image below the game has been modified to delete the wooden board so that the map is visible.
The source of this image is the Wraptures Volume One CD.
030B-030E: Helicopter Blueprints
The Pirate Helicopter Blueprints found in Depot's safe were scanned from the book An Illustrated Guide to Military Helicopters by Bill Gunston, published 1981. Book on The Internet Archive.
The Pirate Helicopter is based on the Eurocopter Tiger, but the blueprints are of another helicopter, the Agusta A 129 Mangusta. The book was published a decade before the Eurocopter Tiger's prototype even took flight, which would explain why the A 129 was used instead of the Tiger.
037F: City Map
Frigate is set in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Thus it's slightly surprising that this map on the wall is not Monte Carlo, nor even any place in Europe. It's a map of Benicia, California.
The map, produced by the United States Geological Survey, is the 1981 edition of a map first surveyed in 1959. You can find it on the USGS's historical topographic map viewer here. Click near Benicia and scroll down to the Benecia, CA 1959 map (HTMC, 1981 ed.).
It's a slight mystery as to why the developers picked this particular map. If you squint and tilt your head this map of Benicia has a superficial resemblance to Monte Carlo and its Port Hercule.
0380: Eastern Bloc Map
Map of eastern Europe circa 1950 from the book Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union, p. 177. The image is flipped upside down in the ROM but rotated correctly when used in-game.
0383: Leningrad Map
Map of Leningrad/St. Petersburg found in the book Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union, p. 214. The image is flipped upside down in the ROM but rotated correctly in the one level it's used, Archives.
