Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing
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Also known as: TOCA World Touring Cars (EU), WTC: World Touring Championship (JP)
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The American release is particularly infamous for being named after (and featuring) a pair of NASCAR busts, despite the actual game having zero NASCAR content.
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Unused Text
Despite the European versions lacking in-race music, text mentioning the feature can be found in localization files. The file WTC/FE/LANGUAGE/FE_E.LTS contains the strings:
RACE MUSIC OFF RACE MUSIC ON
Additionally, the WTC_MUS.XA music file is present in that (and the Japanese) version, and contains only menu music.
Regional Differences
The US version includes several music tracks, which can be played in race, as well as commentary from Ned Jarrett. In the start of career mode, Jason Jarrett or Justin Labonte can be chosen, although you still can write any driver name. All instances of the term "touring car" were replaced with "stock car" to match the changed title.
The Japanese version (known as WTC: World Touring Cars in-game) is overall closer to the European release, although the music files are different. The game also contains a partial Japanese localization, with most of the in-game text being in English.
Branding
To reflect each region's title, the logo at the end of the intro movie (INTRO.STR) is different, though the movie itself is otherwise the same.
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The branding changes also extend to the copyright notices and title screen:
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Menus
- When starting a new championship, in the European and Japanese versions you choose territory to start; in the US version you choose one of the titular NASCAR drivers instead (an additional View Biography option is also added to accompany this change).
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- When inputting the player name after that, the Japanese version uses arrow icon here, instead of a driver silhouette.
- The ability to toggle race music on and off is added in the US version. Additionally, pit crew speech is disabled by default.
- WTC Records named in US version as WSCR Records, since all "touring car" mentions were changed to "stock car" in that version. This change also applies to the final championship.
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Revisional Differences
There are two European releases: SLES-02572 which contains English, German, and French languages, and SLES-02573 which has only Italian and Spanish.
SLES-02572 | SLES-02573 |
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Anti-Piracy
Some PlayStation games released after 1998 (especially in PAL regions, like Europe, Oceania and South Africa) contain the LibCrypt protection system developed by Sony, in order to curb modchips and illegal copies on the system.
The LibCrypt functions on the software level in two ways: by detecting a modchip upon bootup of the game and by detecting an illegal copy through a 16-bit key located in the subchannel data of the disc. The first check is to see whether or not a modchip is installed on the system. As earlier modchips are active by default, all that is necessary to detect one is for the program to return data from a modchip. If it detects it, the game crashes immediately. This was mitigated by pirates with so-called "stealth" modchips, which turn off immediately when loading disc region data during boot-up. However, the second check now comes into play. The second part functions as a part of the game. It decrypts the 16-bit LibCrypt data key stored in the subchannel of the disc and stores it in the coprocessor of the system. If the data is incorrect, the game implements its anti-piracy measures. As most CD burners cannot properly replicate subchannel data on the disc, a pirated copy, whether burned directly to another disc or as a disc image, trips the anti-piracy measure by default.
A modded system allows for a backup, a pirated copy, or a legitimate copy of the game from a region different than the console, to start normally. However, with LibCrypt, the game can crash, freeze or perform tricks to prevent pirates, depending on the title.
In this case, the game starts out fine, until the player choose any race to play. It always freezes when loading stage is almost finished, making race not available.
This unfortunately prevents the European version from being played on a PlayStation 3 due to the software emulation setting off this measure in some cases.
The TOCA/GRID series
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PlayStation | TOCA World Touring Cars (Demos) |
PlayStation 2, Xbox | Pro Race Driver |
Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | Race Driver: Grid |
Windows | Pro Race Driver • Race Driver: Grid • Grid 2 |
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