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Cars 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Mac OS X, Wii)

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Prerelease Info Unused Audio"Unused voice lines unlocked."

Unused Maps#

Holoian#

A test map that includes unused weapons, models of every playable character in the game (except for Chuki and Daisu Tsashimi), and even an unfinished model of Lewis Hamilton, who was planned to be in the game.

Watch on YouTube

Tutorial Weapons#

Only present in the files of the Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the game, this map is a very basic flat plane with bombs at two different corners, likely there for the player to destroy with their designated weapon in the cut weapons tutorial.

Watch on YouTube

Holocars Skidpad#

A large test map with many useful test structures, including a height-measurement pillar, groups of destructible objects, and numerous ramps and slopes.

Watch on YouTube

Cinematic Oilrig#

The map used to render the game's opening cutscene with Mater and Finn McMissile at the Lemons' oil platform.

The cutscenes of Return to the Rig, which are exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, in the PC version. Watch on YouTubeWatch on YouTube

Unused Music#

Tokyo_Spy.wav#

On the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, there is an audio container named IMUSIC_STR.FSB which has a track named Tokyo_Spy.wav. Despite both of them having the same name, they are two different tracks, and one of them isn't even related to the Tokyo maps' music.

PlayStation 3 Appears to be a higher quality version of Race (1) from the Nintendo DS version of the game, which is a different mix of Oil Rig (Race).

Xbox 360 Appears to be a higher quality version of Spy (3) from the Nintendo DS version of the game, which is a different mix of Tokyo (Hunter).

Win/Finish Jingles#

Located in EMUSIC_STR.FSB are 14 jingles in different keys (7 for winning, the other 7 for losing) used whenever the player finishes a track-based mission. However, only the first, third and fifth of each (in the keys of A, C and E) are used in the game. Even then, the used win stingers are programmed to fade out halfway through in-game, meaning they are never heard in their entirety.

Finnish_stinger_Bb

Finnish_stinger_D

Finnish_stinger_F

Finnish_stinger_G

Win_stinger_Bb

Win_stinger_D

Win_stinger_F

Win_stinger_G

Unused Model#

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Please find an archived version of the video(s) or a suitable replacement.

An early version of Lightning McQueen's model.
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Unused Cutscenes#

Opening cutscene#

An early and unfinished version of the game's opening cutscene, only present in the PlayStation 3 version's files, lacking any soundtrack.
Watch on YouTube

London Boat Cutscene#

An unused cutscene for a cut shortcut in either Buckingham Sprint or Hyde Tour.
Watch on YouTube

Unused Text#

Cmdline.var Comments#

cmdline.var has some developer comments.

"Spencer" probably refers to Spencer Parkin, a programmer at Avalanche Software.

AI takes over control of player car right away (from Spencer)
AI always takes hint (note that AI will NOT take a drive-to-target hint if he’s driving backwards, or turboing, or in the air, etc)
tokyo c, before tunnel with hopovers
All Wiimotes must be awake for this to work.
Worlds.db is ignored now, default is 3

Data.zip#

Filelist.txt#

In assets/data.zip, there's a file named filelist.txt.

The "permanent" section is the place to put files that should only be loaded once, and they stay memory-resistent permantly after that.
this guy needs to be loaded first before geoms are loaded

Soundocc.txt#

In assets/data.zip, there's a file named soundocc.txt.

Sound occlusion table
material= volume factor; pan factor;
if the material is missing, it is 100; 100
    (no volume reduction, no panreduction)

File Path Strings#

data_wii/sound/DIALOGRU/dialog_str.lst has a list to a ton of different sound effects.

Development Files#

Compilation Log?#

LogWii.html is present on the root.

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CodeWarrior Projects#

To do:
Please check other regions in case they are different.

The root of the disc has two projects from CodeWarrior for building a debug build and an optimized build.

Download Cars 2 CodeWarrior Projects

File: Cars2_Wii_CodeWarriorProjects.zip (6.10 KB) (info)

Possible Lotcheck Spreadsheet#

To do:
Please check other regions of the game for their lotcheck sheets if possible. US was checked already.

The root of the US disc has Cars DataTitleInputFormat_US.xls, likely being used when sending the game to Nintendo for lotchecking.

Download Cars 2 Possible Lotcheck Spreadsheet

File: Cars2_Wii_US_PossibleLotcheckSpreadsheet.zip (284 KB) (info)

Uncompiled Octane File#

Most Octane Engine files in the game were compiled, but fonts.zip/sample.oct was not compiled and left compilation information.

Texture =
{
    FilePathName = "C:\depot\Octane\main\Content\Game\Frontend\fonts\sample.dds"
    ExportTextures_NumFrames = 1
    ExportTextures_TextureHasAlpha = 1
    ExportTextures_TextureHas8BitAlpha = 1
    ExportTextures_TextureWidth = 256
    ExportTextures_TextureHeight = 256
    ExportTextures_TextureFormat = "A8R8G8B8"
    ExportTextures_ActualFilePath = "c:\depot\octane\main\content\game\frontend\fonts\sample.dds"
    ExportTextures_DummyImage = 0
    ExportTextures_TextureSize = 262144
}
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        FileName = "sample_0.tbuf"
    }
}

Internal Project Name#

The game's internal title is simply Cars.

Version Differences#

Wii and PC#

  • The graphics, textures and models were heavily scaled down. The Wii version's lighting, however, is superior to the PC version's.
  • The position tracker features the characters' icons, which were also heavily scaled down, and does not display them performing their movements in real time.
  • The maximum number of opponents and laps in a race was changed from 9 and 9 to 7 and 3, respectively.

Anti-Dolphin Code#

The Wii version of the game uses methods in attempt to render the game unplayable on emulators during the time. During gameplay, Cars 2 attempts to write garbage data to lower MEM1, where important data is stored. However, it writes just enough that the data is never actually written to RAM and, instead, is only written to the CPU cache, which the game requests to be cleared right after. Because the GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin does not emulate the CPU cache and instead makes all writes go immediately to RAM, the game proceeds to crash due to important data being overwritten with garbage. Dolphin's development team suspects that this behavior was purposefully implemented to target Dolphin, and implemented a hack to prevent the game from attempting to trash its own memory. This anti-emulator code is also present in the Wii version of Disney Infinity and an older version of it is also present in Toy Story 3.

(Source: Dolphin Emulator)

Regional Differences#

To do:
Replace with a better comparison video.

The German version of the game censors Mater and Finn using Gatling guns in the opening cutscene. The fiery effect of the explosion that occurs in the oil platform's tunnel was also removed, having only the explosion's sound play.
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The Cars series

Windows

Cars • Mater-National Championship • Cars 2 • Fast As Lightning (Prototype)

Game Boy Advance

Cars • Mater-National Championship

Nintendo DS

Cars • Mater-National Championship • Cars 2

Nintendo 3DS

Cars 2

Wii

Cars • Mater-National Championship (Prototype) • Race-O-Rama • Cars 2

PlayStation 2

Cars (Prototypes) • Race-O-Rama

Xbox, GameCube

Cars (Prototypes)

Xbox 360

Cars • Mater-National Championship • Race-O-Rama • Cars 2 • Cars 3: Driven to Win

PlayStation 3

Race-O-Rama • Cars 2 • Cars 3: Driven to Win

Mac OS X

Cars 2

Arcade

Cars

Plug & Play

Cars 2

iOS, Android

Fast As Lightning (Prototype) • Hotshot Racing

Adobe Flash

World of Cars Online

PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch

Cars 3: Driven to Win

Planes

Nintendo DS

Planes • Fire & Rescue (Earlier Prototypes)

Nintendo 3DS

Planes