Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing

Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing
Also known as: TOCA World Touring Cars (EU), WTC: World Touring Championship (JP) Developer: Codemasters Publishers: Codemasters (EU/US), Spike (JP) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: November 9, 2000 Released in US: October 3, 2000 Released in EU: August 25, 2000 This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has anti-piracy features. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing, known in its home continent as TOCA World Touring Cars is where the TOCA series starts to drop its BTCC roots. The American release is particularly infamous for trying to pretend to be a stock car racing game.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

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.

Europe	US	Japan

The branding changes also extend to the copyright notices and title screen:

Europe	US	Japan

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).

Europe	US	Japan

• 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.

Europe	US	Japan

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

Anti-Piracy

The PAL versions of the game is LibCrypt protected; if the protection is tripped, the game will crash when the game is almost finished loading a track upon starting a race. This unfortunately prevents the PAL version from being played on a PlayStation 3 due to the software emulation config not having an entry for the game thus setting off this measure.

(Source: Copy Protected PlayStation games list, MVG's video about copy protection schemes on PS, Original TCRF research)