The red-hatted stepchild of the Mario Kart franchise: a Namco-developed arcade racer in which Mario and Pac-Man meet for the first time. Snubbed by Nintendo in the numbering of Mario Kart 7 and later 8, the game and its sequel both feature cameras mounted above the screen and magnetic save cards for recording progress.

Images

Three JPG images exist in the Arcade GP ROM: camtest00.jpg, camtest01.jpg and camtest02.jpg. It can be assumed that these were somehow used during testing for the NamCam player portrait feature. The EXIF data of all images shows they were processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 in 2004.



Possibly a color test. EXIF data shows it was modified on 10th October 2004 21:34:06.



The second image depicts the mascots of Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. EXIF data shows it was modified on 14th December 2004 20:00:51.



The source of the third picture is slightly... bizarre. It is a picture of the Beslan school hostage crisis, a terrorist attack where over 1,100 people were taken hostage by armed separatist militants in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia (Russian Federation). Originally photographed by Yuri Tutov, and can be purchased from Getty Images. EXIF data shows it was modified on 9th September 2004 12:25:57 - as this is only days after the event, the image was likely copied from a news website.





Unused Models

LOD Models

Unused LOD models for each character in lod_*character name*. Duplicates exist as well in mirror_*character name*.

Test Course

This needs some investigation.

Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.

A number of files in the ROM are prefixed with "test_course":

test_course_bm.dat

test_course_coconut.dat

test_course_f_ship.dat

test_course_ground.dat

test_course_obj.dat

test_course_road.dat

test_course_start_gate.dat

Whether these make up a complete, playable course is not yet known. This course also seems to appear in the credits.





Unused Items

In the credits, some items otherwise never seen in the game appear in a 10x10 square, like the Golden Banana and the Golden Shell that wouldn't appear until Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, a fairy, a coin, along with some other unrecognizable items.

Development Text

Root

Some server information. This file can be found in an archive along with a file named Entries, which contains a full list of assets. Yamana refers to staff member Masami Yamana.

:pserver:yamana@192.168.200.7:/Users/kartuser/CVS

selist00.h

A header file with an index of defines for sound effects.

#define SE_ID_ENGINE1 0 #define SE_ID_SKID 1 #define SE_ID_ENGINE1_NO_LOOP 2 #define SE_ID_SKID_NO_LOOP 3 #define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_FIRE 4 #define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_VOICE 5 #define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_SMOKE 6 #define SE_ID_GOAL 7

公開シンボル.txt

"Jyugemu" is the Japanese name for Lakitu. "finalrap" is "final lap". Sorry to disappoint.

○表示 ●非表示 ------------------------------------------------------ jyugemu_start ○signal ○hari ●final_obj ●flag_obj ●reverse_obj ○sao ------------------------------------------------------ jyugemu_flag ●signal ●hari ●final_obj ○flag_obj ●reverse_obj ●sao ------------------------------------------------------ jyugemu_reverce ●signal ○hari ●final_obj ●flag_obj ○reverse_obj ○sao ------------------------------------------------------ jyugemu_finalrap ●signal ○hari ○final_obj ●flag_obj ●reverse_obj ○sao