Enthusia Professional Racing

Enthusia Professional Racing
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Studios Publisher: Konami Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: March 17, 2005 Released in US: May 3, 2005 Released in EU: May 6, 2005 This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article

Enthusia Professional Racing was Konami's first attempt at a simulation racing game, with a diverse car selection, good driving physics, rather frustrating difficulty and car sounds that would make Gran Turismo 4 blush. Unfortunately, its lack of promotion, its release period and poor sales meant that this game would be Konami's last attempt at a simulation racing game.

To do: Because this game's data archive is all over the place with its data, it won't be too easy to sift through everything, but... I'm almost certain there's more leftover textures of an older build of the game. Figure out how to open .SDA audio files and see if there's anything unused. Also sniff around the OPS2M Issue 59 demo and the Official US PlayStation Magazine 91 demo Document the Car Debug feature. Document a review build from Jan 3, 2005 and a preview build from Jan 16, 2005

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Prototype Info

Unused Graphics

Old Screenshots

Two relatively random screenshots lie around in the files, both of which seem to be a relatively old build of the game. Bizarrely enough, both have completely different fonts for the timer text and the current lap timer differs by one one-thousandth of a second, but are completely identical otherwise.

Unused Copyright Text

The copyright text on the start menu has extra text not used. The "& Konami Computer Entertainment Studios" portion of the texture goes unused, and more interestingly, there's a version left over with a copyright date of 2004!

Regional Differences

As with the series it attempted to compete, in the US version of the game, the Esso decals in the Toyota GT-One and Esso Ultraflo Supra were replaced with Exxon ones; as such, the Supra was also renamed to Exxon Superflo Supra to reflect the modified branding.