Mario Cart (Adobe Flash)

Mario Cart
Publisher: KillHours Platform: Adobe Flash Released internationally: July 4, 2012 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material.

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Mario Cart is an unofficial Flash racing game with Mario, Green Mario, Yellow Mario, and Purple Mario driving shopping carts. Much to the surprise of those browsing ye olde Flash sites, this game took advantage of using a 3D engine. At that time, 3D browser games tended to either hog resources or use other plugins, which makes Mario Cart something of a curiosity for those who had a beefy enough PC.

It's certainly a lot closer to its source material than Sintax's Mario Cart, in any case. A sequel, Mario Cart 2, added new items and more varied tracks.

Unused Sounds

Main_instruction_snd

Some weird laser zapping sound.

Unused Graphics

Main_Ced2

An image of a house.

Main_Ccactus2T

A recycle bin from the stock image website Dreamstime.

bmpmaterial23

Unknown material texture patterned with stars.

Car Material Textures

Unused car textures taken from a different game. From these textures, it looks like the game was edited to use Mario textures and a shopping cart model instead of these textures and car models.

Main_Ccar2material	Main_Ccar3material

Main_bmpcalle2

Early road texture.

nissan_sphereMaterial

A placeholder texture (?).

eclipsemesh_bmpmaterial23

Unknown texture, probably a car texture or a pinball paddle.

CPaint1

Placeholder version of the title screen background.

CnormalBackground20, CMouseOverBackground20, CButtonDownBackground20, CButtonOnBackground20

Placeholder version of the KillHours logo.

CbuttonOnBackground21

Weird unused version of the "Start Game" button in blue.

CbuttonOnBackground18

Placeholder version of the buttons used on the title screen,

Removed Abilities

Nitro

Key	Key (Pushed)	Text
		Tap [Up] twice to nitro

Drifting

Key	Key (Pushed)	Text
		Tap [Z] while turn to drift

Debug Mode

If the debug mode is turned on when you enter a race or time trial, you can spawn models including unused ones.

By pressing the keys from 1 to 9, it will spawn models that are used in the level and unused.

Pressing E will turn on noclip, though this also turns off any interaction of objects like mushrooms, bananas, and the finish line.

Unused Models

Unknown Model 1

A cube with no textures, possibly a test model. Can be spawned by pressing 7 in Debug Mode.

Unknown Model 2

What looks like either a water tower or a tall-legged hut, with a black texture. Can be spawned by pressing 8 in Debug Mode.

Unknown Model 3

A giant...pile? Mountain? Pyramid? Can be spawned by pressing 9 in Debug Mode.

Unused Object

Early Mushroom (Main_CturboT)

In-Game	Ripped Graphic

An early version of the Mushroom object can be spawned by pressing T. In-game, it acts like a banana object.

Hidden Date and Internal Name

Found by using ffdec inside the SWF file.

Metadata

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
    <rdf:Description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1" rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>application/x-shockwave-flash</dc:format>
        <dc:title>Adobe Flex 4 Application</dc:title>
        <dc:description>http://www.adobe.com/products/flex</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>unknown</dc:publisher>
        <dc:creator>unknown</dc:creator>
        <dc:language>EN</dc:language>
        <dc:date>Jul 4, 2012</dc:date>
    </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

The metadata file simply lists the game's name as "Adobe Flex 4 Application", suggesting that it was the program used to build the game. July 4, 2012 may be the build date.

Sprites

C3DMOTORACING2
C3DMOTORACING3

Reference to a pair of unused blank sprites for the title screen, suggesting that "3D Moto Racing" was a codename for this game.