Mario Kart Arcade GP 2

Mario Kart Arcade GP 2
Developers: Bandai Namco, Xeen Publisher: Bandai Namco Platform: Arcade (Triforce) Released in JP: March 2007 Released in US: 2007 Released in EU: 2007 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models.

Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 is more or less its predecessor but with extra content.

Also, Mametchi.

Unused Graphics

Early Title Screen

tpl2_tes_title_BG01.tpl is a placeholder title screen, using art assets from the previous game.

Concept Art

Pieces of concept art for Waluigi Stadium and Yoshi Park.

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  tpl2_BGimg_WS_5a.tpl

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  tpl2_BGimg_WS_6a.tpl

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  tpl2_BGimg_YP_5a.tpl

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  tpl2_BGimg_YP_6a.tpl

Test Images

There are numerous images meant for testing the UI system, two of which contain photos of an unknown developer testing the camera function.

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  tpl12_tes_namCAMshot_BG01.tpl

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  tpl12_tes_VSinfo.tpl

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  tpl12_tes_GPround_icon.tpl

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  tes_TAinfo_BG01.tpl

In addition, this game carried over three JPG test images from the previous game: camtest00.jpg, camtest01.jpg and camtest02.jpg.

Unused Models

LOD Models

The unused LOD models from the previous game are still intact, but Waluigi and Mametchi, who were added in this game, just use duplicates of Mario.

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  lod_waluigi.dat

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  lod_mame.dat

Build Dates

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Try to find context for some of these, what each one means is unclear. There are other build dates for the Dolphin SDK from 2004, should those be documented?

Version	Build Date 1	Build Date 2	acLib Build Date
Japan (Ver.A)	BUILD Feb 6 2007 : 08:25:20	MARIO KART��20:29:25����Feb 6 2007	acLib Ver.0.76 Build:Feb 6 2007 22:36:18
USA / International (Ver.A)	BUILD Feb 6 2007 : 08:25:20	MARIO KART��02:47:24����Feb 7 2007	acLib Ver.0.76 Build:Feb 6 2007 22:36:18

These build dates appear in the extracted ISO files.

(Source: Original TCRF research)