Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA

Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
Developer: Midway Games Publisher: Midway Games Platform: Nintendo 64 Released in US: November 10, 1998 Released in EU: February 4, 1999 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text.

Unused Text

Present at 0x1CB2C in the ROM are some compression related strings.

bug in vfprintf: bad base
Out of memory while unzipping!
unzip failed at byte %d
unzip used %d bytes out of %d max

Present at 0x800CA610 in memory are a few error strings.

audio
Movie
Road Path
Corrupt Maxpath Data
Maximum number of %d moobs reached

(Source: Ferrox)

Hidden Credit

The string

Ed Logg

can be found many times throughout the memory. Ed Logg is one of the programmers of this game.

(Source: Ferrox)

Hidden Room

There is a hidden room on the "Midway" track which can be accessed by respawning at one of two blocked entrances when playing in "Practice Mode". One entrance is blocked by a closed door, while the other is hidden by a "Mountain Dew" drinks machine. The purpose of that room and why it was blocked but not removed from the final game is unclear. One could assume that it was designed to be a shortcut but scrapped because of the unfair advantage the player gains when using it. While the player can only see one single chair standing in the room, the player´s car reacts to some invisible objects on the floor when driving along the wall at which the chair stands next to. The fact that everything in the room is textured (besides the named invisible objects) implies that the decision not to use this part of the track was made in a later development state of this game.

How to access the room

Unused Audio

Hidden in the sound bank are some unused sounds that seem to be sampled from various Atari arcade games, all seemingly from the 80s. Purpose of all of them are unknown, but it could have been scrapped easter eggs for the Midway track.

The fanfare is the first few seconds of the music for the beginner stage of marble madness

Sampled from the first stage music of Peter Pack Rat

samples Hard Drivin' arcade version's track select music