Mario Kart Arcade GP

The red-hatted stepchild of the Mario Kart franchise: a Namco-developed arcade racer. Snubbed by Nintendo in the numbering of Mario Kart 7, 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 source of the third picture is slightly... bizarre. This 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). You can find more information at the Wikipedia article linked above. The picture was taken by Yuri Tutov.

The second image depicts the mascots of Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan.

Test course
A number of files in the ROM are prefixed with "test_course": Whether these make up a complete, playable course is not yet known.
 * 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

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.
 * 1) define SE_ID_ENGINE1		0
 * 2) define SE_ID_SKID		1
 * 3) define SE_ID_ENGINE1_NO_LOOP		2
 * 4) define SE_ID_SKID_NO_LOOP		3
 * 5) define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_FIRE		4
 * 6) define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_VOICE		5
 * 7) define SE_ID_SIRATASMA_SMOKE		6
 * 8) 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