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Mario Kart Channel
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Nintendo
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If you were too lazy to put the Mario Kart Wii disc in your Wii to check ghosts, tournaments, etc. you could use the Mario Kart Channel.
Development-Related Text
rel/buildNR.dat (in 00000008.app) contains the build date of StaticR.rel:
| NA | EU | JP | KR |
|---|---|---|---|
3/13 17:19:21 |
3/13 17:18:27 |
3/13 18:54:58 |
7/11 16:10:03 |
rel/revDNR.dat (in 00000008.app), meanwhile, contains the revision number:
| NA/EU/JP | KR |
|---|---|
25381+ |
25877+ |
00000000.app (opening.bnr) includes the filename and build date of the channel itself, as well as what seems to be the builder information:
| NA | EU | JP | KR |
|---|---|---|---|
RevoKartNR.0803131851 @KARTBUILD-WIN |
RevoKartNR.0803131848 @WIIKARTLO-WIN |
RevoKartNR.0803131859 @WIIKARTCHK-WIN |
RevoKartNR.0807171818 @WIIKARTCHK-WIN |
SVN Leftovers
On the third partition of a Mario Kart Wii disc, there is a WAD of the Mario Kart Channel with an installer program.
On the Korean version, the .svn folders of the /installer/, /installer/CHN and /installer/KOR directories were left intact with its full contents. With this, a whole load of information can be retrieved.
All of these are for the WiiBitmapFonts.arc file (which is an archive font files used in the screen where the channel is installed) and its respective folders. Since the version control expects you to be connected to a Nintendo internal server, you cannot access the revision history of the repository.
The entries file in /installer/.svn is shown below:
8 dir 25892 http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer http://metis/svnprojects/revokart 2008-06-19T02:43:23.185561Z 25769 shiraiwa_yusuke svn:special svn:externals svn:needs-lock 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 � WiiBitmapFonts.arc file 2007-12-21T04:04:34.346411Z 865782cd7da42261d0a2bfa75925e651 2007-10-29T09:05:16.133340Z 11283 shiraiwa_yusuke has-props � CHN dir � KOR dir �
We can get a glimpse of the properties of these files/directories by running a Subversion command such as svn info -R --include-externals in the /install directory.
NOTE: Since these files are in an older version of the format (format 8), the command svn upgrade has to be executed before the one above if using newer versions of Subversion.
/installer
Path: . URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 25769 Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008)
/installer/WiiBitmapFonts.arc
Path: WiiBitmapFonts.arc Name: WiiBitmapFonts.arc URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 11283 Last Changed Date: 2007-10-29 09:05:16 +0000 (Mon, 29 Oct 2007) Text Last Updated: 2007-12-21 04:04:34 +0000 (Fri, 21 Dec 2007) Checksum: 4fad97fd4a288c47e0587f3bbd292379f8709eb9
/installer/CHN
Path: CHN URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/CHN Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/CHN Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 25769 Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008)
/installer/CHN/WiiBitmapFonts.arc
Path: CHN/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Name: WiiBitmapFonts.arc URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/CHN/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/CHN/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 25769 Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008) Text Last Updated: 2008-06-19 03:46:40 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008) Checksum: 2e75fb56bcc508fef83687693e4dcc1f182a0908
/installer/KOR
Path: KOR URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/KOR Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/KOR Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 25769 Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008)
/installer/KOR/WiiBitmapFonts.arc
Path: KOR/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Name: WiiBitmapFonts.arc URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/KOR/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer/KOR/WiiBitmapFonts.arc Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412 Revision: 25892 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke Last Changed Rev: 25769 Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008) Text Last Updated: 2008-06-19 03:46:41 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008) Checksum: 01488ecc904200005d01352fa279b2f79e7c45c8
Notably, the name of the branch, ChinaKorea, implies that both the Korean and the (unreleased) Chinese versions were being developed under the same branch, which explains why there are Chinese leftovers in the Korean version.
All of these files and directories were last changed by Shiraiwa Yusuke, a programmer credited for Mario Kart Wii. The revision number for most of these leftovers are 25769, and their last commit was on June 19, 2008 at 2:43:23 UTC.
The only exception to this is the /installer directory, whose revision number is 11283, with its last commit dating 2007-10-29 09:05:16 UTC.
The repository URLs point to internal Nintendo servers, and as a result, they cannot be accessed by someone outside of the company.
In each .svn folder, there is a subdirectory named text_base, which is meant to hold copies of the file for each version of it. In this case, only one file can be found under this directory (named WiiBitmapFonts.arc.svn-base), which is byte-to-byte identical to the final version.
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