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Need for Speed: World Online launched with Test builds released in Taiwan sometime in Summer of 2009.
One of those builds, known as Asian Test 1, is a build with the version number 2.0.1.15 that was released in September 2009. Nowadays, due to both the servers being long shutdown for this version and the deprecated Anti-Cheat utility that it had it cannot be launched, throwing up a "Inserting the registry of game installation directory failed." error upon trying to run the executable.
Note that there's an even earlier build than AT1 (which is likely one of the Taiwanese builds), which was only released for internal testing and rejected pretty quickly as it was incredibly buggy. Unfortunately, this is so far the only footage of the build, and the uploader isn't in possession of its files anymore.
Unused Graphics#
Map
A different version of the map, with location names.
Title Screen
A static Loading screen, showing that the game's name might've been "Need for Speed: Shift", not to be confused with Slightly Mad Studios' identically named NFS entry.
Early Graphics#
Powerups
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Map
Generally the same as in the final, minus a few locations not being present on the earlier map.
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Avatar
A set of Avatars from the build, which didn't stay for long, being replaced by the time of 2010 Open Beta.
Driver11 and 12 are duplicates of driver4 and 7.
Unused Events#
These events are mostly leftovers from MW or Carbon. Found in GLOBAL\gc.vaults folder are:
- drag
- drag_test
- drift_test
- elton
- gpcore
- highspeed
- knockout_test
- mu_1_1_demo03
- oban
- online_test
- sf_2_1_demo01
- sf_2_1_demo02
- tag_test
- touge_test01 - 04
Unused SWF#
map.swf
A cute .swf file of a puppy, meant as a placeholder for the map.
Need for Speed: Carbon Leftovers#
As this game was built on top of Carbon's files, there are various leftovers scattered throughout, such as the entirely of the SUBTITLES folder. It should be noted that during Asian Test 1, Carbon's split time string references were present, although the strings themselves were missing.