NASCAR Thunder 2004 (PlayStation)

NASCAR Thunder 2004
Developer: Budcat Creations Publisher: EA Sports Platform: PlayStation Released in US: September 16, 2003 This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

NASCAR Thunder 2004 was the last NASCAR game for PlayStation (based on the last year for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series name, no less), still based on the NASCAR 2001 codebase.

Unused Audio

John Andretti has a leftover MRN, voiced by Joe Moore (but not PRN, for use at SMI-owned tracks) voice commentary clip, likely from NASCAR Thunder 2003. Andretti was replaced by Petty Enterprises from the #43 car mid-season by Christian Fittipaldi, a change so late that Fittipaldi is not mentioned by name by any of the radio announcers. (In other versions of the game, Fittipaldi's car is referred as "Cheerios Dodge", referring to the sponsor and make of the #43 car.)

Unused Driver Profile Data

NASCAR 2001, the base game for all NASCAR Thunder games on the PlayStation, displays the driver's sponsor and rookie year in addition to their current team, birthday and hometown. While the former two information is no longer shown in the NASCAR Thunder games, data for the driver's sponsor and rookie year are still stored in the driver profile, present in 0x2C127 on the console's RAM, while in the game's menu. The information appears to be mostly sorted in numeric order, with some exceptions; additionally, Busch Series drivers and legend drivers are mingled together.

Note that the sponsor information only apply to primary paint schemes and follows the spelling of how it appears on the profile data, and that the debut year of Busch Series drivers represent their full-time Winston Cup debut year; as such, they are set to 2003 if the Busch Series driver had never raced in the Cup Series full-time up to that point.

For readability purposes, driver names and numbers has been added, and this information is served in a table form.

No	Driver	Sponsor	Rookie Year	Notes
Winston Cup Series drivers
1	Jeff Green	Pennzoil	1997
2	Rusty Wallace	Rusty Wallace	1984	Miller Lite in real life.
5	Terry Labonte	Kellogg's	1979
6	Mark Martin	Mark Martin	1982	Martin's car in-game does actually have Pfizer logos on it in-game (in place of Viagra, Pfizer being it's manufacturer), just like the PlayStation 2/Xbox version; in real life, this sponsorship arrangement was used at the Subway 400 at Rockingham.
8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	2000	Budweiser in real life.
9	Bill Elliott	Dodge Dealers	1976
11	Brett Bodine	Hooters	1986
12	Ryan Newman	ALLTEL	2001
15	Michael Waltrip	NAPA Auto Parts	1986
17	Matt Kenseth	DeWalt Tools	2000
18	Bobby Labonte	Interstate Batteries	1993
20	Tony Stewart	Home Depot	1999
22	Ward Burton	Caterpillar	1994
24	Jeff Gordon	Dupont	1993
29	Kevin Harvick	GM Goodwrench, Service Plus	2001	Harvick's sponsor entry has a comma for some reason, unlike Earnhardt's (both shared the same sponsor as Harvick took over Dale's ride after his death)
38	Elliott Sadler	M&Ms	1999
40	Sterling Marlin	Chip Ganassi Racing	1983	Coors Light in real life; Marlin's car in-game feature his name written in Coors Light font.
42	Jamie McMurray	Havoline	2003
43	Christian Fittipaldi	Cheerios/Betty Crocker	2002
48	Jimmie Johnson	Lowe's	2002
88	Dale Jarrett	United Parcel Service	1987	There is a huge gap of emptiness (consisting of 0A being written throughout) between Jimmie's (ends at 0x2C736) and Jarrett's data, which begins at 0x2C84A.
97	Kurt Busch	Rubbermaid/Sharpie Ford	2001	The only driver with manufacturer mention on the car/sponsor.
99	Jeff Burton	CITGO SUPERGARD	1994
0	Jack Sprague	Net Zero	2003
01	Jerry Nadeau	US Army	1997
Busch Grand National Series drivers and legend drivers
2	Ron Hornaday	ACDelco Automotive	2001	Hornaday drove for A.J. Foyt Racing full-time in 2001, his only full-time Cup Series season. His Cup entry was not featured in any version of NASCAR Thunder 2002, however.
3	Dale Earnhardt Sr.	GM Goodwrench Service Plus	1979
3	Junior Johnson	undefined	1959
5	Brian Vickers	GMAC	2003
7	Alan Kulwicki	undefined	1986
8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Nabisco	2000
9	Jeff Burton	Kraft	1994
12	Bobby Allison	undefined	1959	Piper Aircraft is his in-game sponsor; he is the only fully sponsored legend other than Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.
18	Coy Gibbs	MBNA America	2003
20	Mike Bliss	Rockwell Automation	2003
23	Scott Wimmer	Stacker 2	2003
28	Cale Yarborough	undefined	1959
36	Bobby Wawak	undefined	1976
43	Richard Petty	STP	1959
55	Tiny Lund	undefined	1959
64	Elmo Langley	undefined	1959
112	Benny Parsons	undefined	1970	Parsons' car does not have an actual number, as his car has NBC Sports logos in place of a racing number; the game assigns #112 for him.
99	Michael Waltrip	Aaron's	1986	There is also a huge gap of emptiness (again, consisting of 0A being written throughout) between Parsons's (which ends at (ends at 0x2CE79) and Busch Series version of Waltrip's data, which begins at 0x2CF32.