Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Bonus Disc

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Bonus Disc
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: GameCube Released in US: October 2003 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Bonus Disc is a pre-order bonus for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Customers who pre-ordered Double Dash!! received a bonus disc containing demos (including Mario Party 5, F-Zero GX, Sonic Heroes, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and videos of various upcoming games. It even includes bonus items for Fire Emblem on Game Boy Advance!

Hidden Message

thank many many people!!!!!!!!

Included in ________________.ird is a hidden grateful message.

Unused Graphics

cube.tpl

To anyone's surprise, cube.tpl, an image of a GameCube console on a blue backdrop, is present here!

movie_logo.tpl

Found inside of movie_logo.tpl is the Movies logo, which was used in the earlier GameCube demo discs.

Unused Banner

File Name	Image
zz_sonicheroes_game.tgc

If the Sonic Heroes demo is extracted and converted out of the encrypted TGC format to be a bootable GameCube game, it reveals that it has a complete banner to go along with the description. Since the game takes the player right straight to the demo, this doesn't get seen. Note that it looks slightly different to the one that's seen in the final version of Sonic Heroes, as the red square line was removed.

Unused Text

Unused Banner Description

(C) SONICTEAM / SEGA, 2003
Try Sonic Speed Team Action !!!

An early banner description for Sonic Heroes that would be displayed if the player went to the gameplay menu on GameCube, but again, because the demo isn't available on its own, this isn't used either. Another note is that the Engrish grammar is noticeable here, and there are no mentions of 12 heroes.

Oddities

Early Sonic Heroes Logo

Due to the trademark being too obscure with the background, it uses a different version of the Sonic Heroes logo (which has a white trademark)...and it's also used on the demo tutorial screen. However, it's actually very similar, if not identical, to the one used in two GameCube builds of that game. It can only be seen outside of the demo, as the final version is used there instead.