City Racer

City Racer
Also known as: Downtown Run (EU), Уличный гонщик (RU) Developer: Ubisoft Romania Publishers: Ubisoft (EU/US), Akella (RU) Platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Windows Released in US: April 29, 2003 (GCN), June 30, 2003 (Windows) Released in EU: March 28, 2003 (PS2/Windows) Released in RU: April 1, 2003 (Windows) This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

A generic urban racing arcade, but with Mario Kart gameplay.

Unused Graphics

PlayStation 2

• The PS2 version contains some graphics (some screens and memory card icon) for unreleased US version.
• Other copyright and loading screens (located in the DATA directory). The US copyright image has an ESRB notice, but lacks the game title.

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• Screens with different Memory Card errors (located in the DATA/MC_N directory). The only difference between them and the used images is the game logo.

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• Unused memory card icon with City Racer logo.

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GameCube

• The GameCube version also has leftovers from unreleased EU version. Here presented banner for EU release.

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• Some early powerup icons (located in Data/Misc/PowerUps).

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PC

• The PC version contains title screens from PS2 (same unused US copyright image) and GameCube (same image as used in-game, but with reduced resolution) releases (located in Data/Sponsors).

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Unused videos

• The GameCube version contains intro (intro_eu.h4m from Data/Movies) from unreleased European release. This intro is the same, as in PlayStation 2 and PC versions.

Cut track

• Tracks.cfg (located in Data/Tracks) from PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions mentioned 15 tracks. SPEC1 track is absent from any game release.

[SPEC1]
Day=Yes
Flag=Portugal.tga
NormalStr=1
MirrorStr=2

• en_track.txt (located in Data/Menu) mentions this level as SPEC1 in console versions and as SPEC4 in PC release.

PS2/GameCube	PC
[SPEC1] Name=Special 1 Mirror=Special 1M	[SPEC4] Name=Under construction Mirror=Under construction (M)

Platform Differences

UI

• Console versions offer 3 save slots, which have names "The Good", "The Bad" and "The Ugly". However, these saves could be renamed.
• Console versions in garage don't show required amount of points for unlocking cars and their class.
• In the PlayStation 2 version, fading of the menu (after starting race) goes without dissapearing side black stripes.
• In the console versions menu music stops playing after starting race.
• The GameCube version hasn't option to restart race in race results menu.
• The PC version uses another race countdown timer. While on console versions timer used texture with "1,2,3,go" text, PC version used video with this text being animated.

PS2/GameCube	PC

Tracks

• Console version have only 13 tracks, when PC version contains 14. Additional track has in-game name "Sibiu, Transylvania" (located in Data/Tracks/Spec3).
• en_track.txt (located in Data/Menu) also mentions this level in console versions

PS2/GameCube	PC
[SPEC3] Name=Special 3 Mirror=Special 3M	[SPEC3] Name=Sibiu, Transylvania Mirror=Sibiu, Transylvania (M)

Gameplay

• In the PlayStation 2 version car doesn't become transparent after finishing race.
• The PC version has option to save replays.

Sounds

• The PC version stores sounds as separate files, when console releases have them in encrypted archive.
• Music in PC version plays directly from CD (except menu theme) and can't be copied on hard drive.

Regional Differences

• Australian, Polish and Russian PC versions are DRM-free, when European (which came earlier) PC releases used SafeDisc.
• Australian and UK versions have 20 music tracks on disc (Track02 is unique for these releases), when European has only 19.

Russian version

• Russian version doesn't contain music (except menu theme) on disc for some reason.
• In en_hud.txt (located Data/Menu) strings 196-199 have incorrect translation (mentioned strings has the same logical mistake).

Here'a a string 196 for example, and it's russian to english translation.

English	Russian	Translation
196=Four more left!	196=Еще четверо вылетело!	196=Four more excluded!

Leftovers from Speed Challenge: Jacques Villeneuve's Racing Vision

• All versions contains some files (configurations, memory card icon, textures and etc.) from Speed Challenge, and lots of strings in executable files.