Proto:Colin McRae Rally 04/July 6th, 2003

This is a sub-page of Proto:Colin McRae Rally 04.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

  This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

Notes

• The menu sounds are entirely different
• Inside the files, there is an unfinished livery for the Ford Focus, this is either the cut livery of the "Ford Focus RS WRC '01" Which appeared in the previous game, or an early version of the main Ford Focus livery entirely. Although the name does suggest the former
• Within the same folder there is also an unused texture for drivers who have the "Toyota" logo on their shirt. This suggests that at some point the Toyota Celica ST-185 was intended to be playable, but was cut similar to the 6R4 and the Cooper
• An unused value is present on most stages in the bottom left of the screen. It's likely that this is a scrapped feature which counts how many miles you've travelled on the stage, an idea that would be revisited and implemented into Colin McRae: DiRT
• You can access two part tests straight from the menu, a feature that would be locked behind a cheat code in the final game
• Some cars have unfinished physics ported over from Colin McRae Rally 3
• The Audi Quattro and the Lancia Delta's engine audio are both unfinished, So they reuse the Subaru Impreza's engine sounds
• The UI for the timer and splits is thinner
• The timer is completely broken. Sometimes reversing, sometimes stopping, sometimes flashing green in the middle of the race, etc
• The USA Special Stage is unfinished, not having most of the detail and having more spaces to clip out of bounds
• Losing all engine power is far easier in this version
• The UI disappears when finishing a race

Build Date

July 6th PS2 Prototype
Jul 4 2003 16:50:46

Temp folder

• This folder exists only in this prototype and OXM UK Demo 21.
• An unfinished MUSIC.vag only exists in this version. This song just repeats same small fragment from Virtuoso track by Slam.

• PROFKEY.HTM from OUTPUT sub-directory is an HTML file, which is unique for this build and explaining the color key for a graphics performance profiler of some kind. It is unknown if the actual profiling functionality is still left in the game itself.

• SSCREENS sub-directory contains some car renders.

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FrontEnd/UI

Videos

Differences in videos which located in DATA/VIDEOS.

• CHA_xxx.PSS videos contain another audio:

CHA_2WD.PSS

Proto	Final

CHA_4WD.PSS

Proto	Final

CHA_EXP.PSS

Proto	Final

CHA_GRPB.PSS

Proto	Final

• INT_xxx.PSS videos lack sound.
• END.PSS is absent in this prototype.
• This prototype has trailer for IndyCar Series (INDY.PSS), which doesn't exist in final game.
• Other game trailers in prototype just duplicates of STING.PSS, which is Codemasters logo.