Atari Karts

Atari Karts
Developer: Miracle Designs Publisher: Atari Corporation Platform: Jaguar Released in US: December 15, 1995 Released in EU: December 22, 1995 This game has a prototype article

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Atari Karts is the kind of game you get when a company sees a particular game on competing hardware and wants it on theirs... "but better". If "better" means adding fake 3D morphing terrain which replicates hills, then yes, this is a better game. Otherwise? It's debatable.

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Prototype Info

Music Quality

In-Game Audio	Raw MOD File

The original ProTracker MOD files created by Fabrice Gillet don't seem to play as intended. As heard here, most of the samples are pitched down by two semitones. Curiously, neither Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales nor Tempest 2000 seem to have a problem playing their MOD files at a 1:1 rate during gameplay, so it may have simply been a stylistic choice rather than some hardware issue.

Possible Intended Course Order

The available MOD soundtrack rip of the game reveals some interesting information. Not only does it reveal some official names for all courses, but it also shows their "level number", from 1 ("level 1 halloween") to A ("level a miracle").

Title Order	File Order
Halloween	Farm
Ice World B	Route 99
Universe	Sea
Lava (Hell)	Japan
Japan	Bentley Bear
Farm	Universe
Route 99	Ice World B
Bentley Bear	Halloween
Sea	Lava (Hell)
Miracle	Miracle

While this has no bearing on the level order in the game, the file order (WLD0.MOD to WLD9.MOD) differs from the seeming intended order of the music.

What is interesting, however, is that the file order perfectly aligns with character selection list from the prototype of the game – with the exception of Miz Tress, who was never given a course type of her own. (Route 99 is, seemingly, Skully's territory.)