California Speed (Nintendo 64)

California Speed
Developer: Midway Games Publisher: Midway Games Platform: Nintendo 64 Released in US: February 28, 1998 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

Sometimes, Midway makes an average N64 port of an average arcade game that doesn't really have anything odd in it. And sometimes...just sometimes...

it's California Speed.

Unused Weather Setting

An unused weather setting can be accessed by using the following GameShark code and pressing L at the track selection. It has two settings: Sunny and Rainy. Setting it to Rainy has no effect.

To do: Fog appears with the value 0x05.

Version	GameShark code
USA	D001F815 0020 8014FE23 0000
Europe	D001F835 0020 80150F83 0000

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

The name entry font left over from San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Placeholder Texture

In the track Mojave Desert, there is a "hidden message" on a billboard very close to the starting line that reads

SoMETIMES...	
God TAkES MOMMIES
ANd PuPPIES AWAY...
And SoMETIMES... 
JuST SoMETIMES...

I do

According to developer Morgan Godat, this was simply a placeholder texture that someone forgot to replace.

(Source: PopOptiq and Morgan Godat)

Debugging Text

[NULL]
[LIGHT]
[AMBIENT]
[TCAMERA]
[CAMERA]
SMALLBREAK
MEDBREAK
BIGBREAK
DRONEFRAME1
OLTRUCKFRAME1
WINFRAME1
TRUCKFRAME1
WHEELWHEEL
IMB%d
CALTITLEA
CALTITLEB
BG2A
BG2B
TITLERIGHT
TITLELEFT
TITLERIGHT2P
TITLELEFT2P %d
RUMBLE PAK
PLATE1
PLATE2
PLATE3
PLATE4
PLATE5
PLATE6
PLATEHOLDERNICH
LPLATENICHIMEN
P2START
P2NOC
CONTBUTTONS
LARGEPLATE
CD
VOL_NOB
VOL_BAR
DRONEFRAME1
OLTRUCKFRAME1
WINFRAME1
TRUCKFRAME1 WHEEL
WHEEL RIMB%d
Maximum number of %d moobs reached

(Source: Original TCRF research)