IFSCL (Simulated Fictional Interfaces of Code Lyoko, or Flash/Fictional Interface of Code Lyoko Supercomputer prior to 3.0.0) is a Fan Game created by Alexis Foletto (commonly known as Immudelki or Immu) as a detailed simulation of the supercomputer from the animated series Code Lyoko. Initially created to mimic the main interface of the supercomputer and its programs, subsequent updates have added free roaming of the factory lab rooms as well as a Story Mode. Story Mode provides an original narrative in line with the show's canon, with divergences caused subtly by an enhanced Return to the Past launched in the prologue chapter to prevent a Bad Future.
IFSCL is currently at version 4.6.X that released January 13, 2024, with more coming in the later months. The game is currently available in six languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese. More languages may be added after the release of the final game. According to Immu's Quick Answer document, three candidates for more languages are Turkish, Russian, and Chinese.
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Tropes Used in Story Mode
- Bad Future: "Chapter 0: Xanapocalypse" takes place in April 13, 2010, roughly seven years into the future, and XANA has grown exponentially in power to the point of shrugging off multiple versions of Jeremie's Anti-XANA programs and being able to activate numerous towers simultaneously to send its monsters to the real world en masse. Jeremie is forced to launch an enhanced version of the Return to the Past program in an effort to prevent this future from happening, and present-day Jeremie in subsequent chapters starts having occasional flashes of his alternate future self's memories.
- Call-Forward: The security door that Enrique Quispe has designed for Project Carthage in the flashback chapter is a dead ringer for the doors for the lab rooms in the factory, suggesting Franz built the doors in his lab based on Quispe's designs.
- Dope Slap: In Chapter 5, When Hervé tries to convince Sissi that Jeremie and the others are up to something, it is revealed that the "secret" is them taking care of the cat from before the XANA attack with the rats. Needless to say, Sissi is not amused and slaps him for his stupidity.
- Futureshadowing: As Jeremie and Yumi wait out the countdown on the enhanced Return to the Past in Chapter 0, they reminisce on a night the former spent at the latter's house when the two had a one-on-one conversation. This event plays out in full during Chapter 4.
- Godzilla Threshold: The enhanced Return to the Past in Chapter 0; a far more powerful version of the program that turns back time a much greater degree and requires a master code to launch. Jeremie launches it once it becomes clear that XANA has become far too powerful to be dealt with anymore.
- Heartbeat Soundtrack: In chapter 4, as Jeremie looks around the path in the forest, a heartbeat starts to play, getting quicker and louder as he gets closer to the right tree, only for it to gradually dissipate and go softer if he goes too far away from the tree.
- I Know You're Watching Me: At the end of Chapter 3, Jeremie goes into a trance and walks from the factory to the Hermitage. When XANA spies on Jeremie approaching the old house through the security feed, he stops to turn and look straight at the camera with a knowing look.
- My Skull Runneth Over: One of XANA's early attacks has it attempt this on Jeremie through his laptop, but it hits Odd instead as he was using it at the time. The effects are undone when the tower is deactivated, but the attack as the peculiar long-term effect of giving Odd his Future Flash ability on Lyoko.
- Never Recycle Your Schemes: Subverted, as XANA curiously reuses his electric ball attack from the show's prequel episodes, even reattacking Sissi offscreen for reasons the Lyoko Warriors cannot fathom.
- Ominous Latin Chanting: The scores that play for the Story Mode opening credits and the end cutscene of Chapter 0 both utilize these, primarily as a dramatic rendering of the show's main theme.
- Sick Episode: In Chapter 5, Odd gets sick because he ran around with barefeet in the sewer, after Jeremie, Yumi, and Ulrich save Aelita from the Guardian.
- Waking Non Sequitur: Played for Drama in Chapter 0 when Jeremie rouses an unconscious Franz Hopper. Franz deliriously calls out to his wife Anthea before angrily asking the person in front of him what he did with her before remembering where he is and finding his head hurting.
- Who's on First?: Played for Laughs. When Jim calls out several student names, including Odd's, and finishes by saying, "Package!" Odd pretends to mistake the last comment for a student's name and asks who that is. Predictably, Jim isn't amused.
