LittleBigPlanet Karting

LittleBigPlanet Karting
Developers: United Front Games Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Platform: PlayStation 3 Released in JP: January 17, 2013 Released in US: November 6, 2012 Released in EU: November 7, 2012 Released in AU: November 8, 2012 This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has a prototype article

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?

To do: There are a number of unused levels in DATA/ROM/TRACK that might be worth taking a look at.

LittleBigPlanet takes a jump into 3D with a kart racer, as it's not a video game franchise without a kart racer.

On July 2nd, 2018, the game's servers were shut down...two years after they were meant to.

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Prototype Info

Unused Levels Test levels, early versions of existing levels and community levels that died along with the game's servers.

Unused Costumes

DATA/ROM/CHARACTER contains a handful of costumes that either aren't used or can't be obtained normally.

LittleBigPlanet 2 Curators

AVALON_CHAR_0000047F, EVE_CHAR_00000487 and VICTORIA_CHAR_00000400 are costumes of Avalon Centrifuge, Eve Silva Paragorica and Victoria von Bathysphere respectively, which are all characters from LittleBigPlanet 2. These characters are referenced in this game's Story Mode, but their costumes are never given out. Below are all of the icons associated with these costumes.

AVALON_CHAR_0000047F	EVE_CHAR_00000487	VICTORIA_CHAR_00000400

Unused Hoard Variants

There are three unused variations of the Hoard characters, being HOARDCHAR_0000040B, HOARDCHAR03_00000550 and HOARDCHAR04_000004FA. While these variants can be seen in the opening FMV and certain tutorial videos, they do not appear anywhere in-game, either in Story Mode or in user-made levels where the Hoard are set to spawn. Below are all the icons associated with these variants.

HOARDCHAR_0000040B	HOARDCHAR03_00000550	HOARDCHAR04_000004FA

Unused Karts

DATA/ROM/VEHICLE/MAXKART contains files for five unused Karts. Their icons depict recoloured vehicle parts from ModNation Racers, however, the "SMALL" icons either show disembodied wheels, floating steering wheels or are effectively blank images. Attempting to load any of these karts in-game causes the game to crash, likely due to them relying on nonexistent assets.

MAX0_00000010	MAX1_00000011	MAX2_00000041	MAX3_00000043	MAX4_00000065
	Blank Image	Blank Image

Early Pod Background

The LBP2 Pod background with all of the objects removed from the level.

By entering the Pod level in Create Mode and changing the Background Pano Style to 2, the Pod background from LittleBigPlanet 2 can be seen, albeit with the outer chunks removed to save on resources. Unlike the final Pod background the Earth and Moon are baked into the geometry, though for some reason the Earth's land is separated from the actual planet. The final Pod is much bigger than the room it was originally meant to occupy, suggesting this version was designed with a much smaller Pod in mind.

Early Graphics

Race HUD

DATA/UI/ART/RACE/UIARTRACETEXTUREPACK.TEMP.BIN contains early versions of a couple of HUD elements.

Weapon Well

Early	Final

Custom Dial

Early	Final

Unused Graphics

TESTOBJ 00000E1A.PNG

DATA/ROM/OBJECT/TESTOBJ_00000E1A.PNG is a screenshot of a level being saved in an early build of the game, presumably meant for testing something. A 128x128 version also exists in the same directory, labelled TESTOBJ_00000E1A_SMALL.PNG.

Kart Polaroid

Found amongst Pod-related graphics in DATA/UI/ART/POD/TEXTUREPACK_POD.TEMP.BIN is a polaroid with a blue icon of a kart. A similar icon that features a blue Sackperson icon is used for the default player polaroid image, but this kart variation is never used.

PlayStation Eye Polaroid Image

Found amongst the PlayStation Eye overlays in DATA/UI/ART/GLOBAL/UIARTGLOBALTEXTUREPACK.TEMP.BIN is a polaroid overlay. While this isn't unused in and of itself, there is an image inside the frame that normally can't be seen due to the inside of the frame being fully transparent. By removing the overlay's transparency in an image editor, a picture of someone in a plastic box - presumably one of the developers - is revealed.

Unedited Transparency	Adjusted Transparency

Team Minimap Icons

Red Team	Blue Team

DATA/UI/ART/GLOBAL/UIARTGLOBALTEXTUREPACK.TEMP.BIN contains six red and blue icons that were most likely intended for use on a minimap. They do not appear to fit in with this game's art style.

ModNation Racers Leftovers

Found in various places in the game's data are leftover graphics from ModNation Racers.

Track Studio Icons

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DATA/UI/ART/ICONS/TRACKSTUDIO/UIARTTRACKSTUDIOTEXTUREPACK.TEMP.BIN contains a handful of icons leftover from ModNation's Track Studio.

PlayStation Store Icon

Found in various TEXTUREPACK files throughout the game is a PlayStation Store icon for ModNation Racers.

Unused Music

Buried within SONYKARTDEFAULT.PCK are five licensed music tracks that are never used anywhere. None of these songs have previews tracks, so it's unknown if they were intended to be given out or if they were simply for testing purposes.

African People

African People by Trentemøller.

Hully Gully

Hully Gully by Tommy Kinsmann.

Remind Me - Live

The live version of Remind Me by Röyksopp.

Square Rave

Square Rave by Squarepusher.

Toccata And Funk In D Minor

Toccata And Funk In D Minor by Walter Murphy.

Unused Video

DATA/MOVIES/INTROMOVIE.BIK is an early version of the live action intro, using the standard Orb of Dreamers music with no stickers or Stephen Fry narration. It also starts with a title card.