Looney Tunes: Space Race (PlayStation 2)

Looney Tunes: Space Race
Also known as: Space Race (boxart) Developer: Melbourne House Publisher: Infogrames Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: May 8, 2002 Released in EU: February 27, 2002 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics.

To do: Lots of development files in a zip file.

A port of the Dreamcast game with a new soundtrack, and improved menus/HUD.

Keyboard/Mouse Configuration

A list of the game's keyboard/mouse configuration found in CTRLCFG.txt. Despite being called PeripheralConfigDreamcast, the list contains eight AXIS mappings instead of four, with the four directions forming an analog stick.

	} // PeripheralConfigDreamcast "Controller"
	~PeripheralConfigWin32 "Keyboard/Mouse"
	{
		19 // Number of button mappings
		"Left"			AXIS_LEFT
		"Right"			AXIS_RIGHT
		"Up"			AXIS_UP
		"Down"			AXIS_DOWN
		"Numpad 4"		AXIS_LEFT
		"Numpad 6"		AXIS_RIGHT
		"Numpad 8"		AXIS_UP
		"Numpad 2"		AXIS_DOWN
		"Return"		A_BUTTON
		"Escape"		B_BUTTON
		"Caps Lock"		C_BUTTON
		"Left Ctrl"		X_BUTTON
		"Left Alt"		Y_BUTTON
		"Tab"			Z_BUTTON
		"Q"			LEFT_TRIGGER
		"W"			RIGHT_TRIGGER
		"Right Shift"		START
		"Left Shift"		SHIFT
		"~"			TILDA

		4 // Number of axis mappings
		"Left-Right"		LEFTRIGHT
		"Up-Down"		UPDOWN
		"Numpad4-Numpad6"	LEFTRIGHT
		"Numpad8-Numpad2"	UPDOWN

Unused Graphics

A lot of background textures and UI graphics from the Dreamcast version are present on the PlayStation 2 version's disc.

Logos

During development of the PlayStation 2 version, the developer's logo seen in the Dreamcast version was replaced with an animated video with two cartoon characters playing video games on an Earth-like sphere, showing the company's logo with a bold cartoonish font. The MPEG Sofdec logo was also removed from this version.

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  The Dreamcast version of the Melbourne House logo.

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  The MPEG Sofdec logo.

Menu Screens

The Challenge Mode is a game mode omitted from the PlayStation 2 version, being replaced with a Tournament Mode. However, there's a character select screen of that same mode hidden in the game's files. Also from the Dreamcast version, we have several unused screens: the main menu, the Race Mode's character select, the options and the Acme Events screens. All of them were replaced with one single background screen.

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  Challenge Mode menu screen.

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  Race Mode's character select screen.

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  Main menu screen.

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  Options screen.

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  Acme Events screen.

VMU

Leftovers from the Dreamcast version. All of the images in the gallery below are saved in a folder called VMUSELECT.

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  Big VMU inserted.

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  Big VMU removed.

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  Big VMU with Space Race-themed screen.

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  Dreamcast controller connected.

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  Dreamcast controller disconnected.

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  Player 1.

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  Player 2.

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  Player 3.

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  Player 4.

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  VMU inserted.

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  VMU with Space Race-themed screen.

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  VMU removed.

Game Modes

Almost like a tradition, more assets from the Dreamcast version are found here. Fortunately the PS2 version's menu screen doesn't reach this level of blandness.

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  ACME Events Mode.

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  Challenge Mode.

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  Multiplayer.

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  Options.

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  Single player race.

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  Time Trial.

Unused ACME Token Sprite

Unknown if it's used in the Dreamcast version.