M&M's Kart Racing (Wii)

M&M's Kart Racing is a notoriously poor racing game featuring the M&M's spokescandies.

"APPROACHING SOUND BARRIER!"

Track Skip#

During gameplay, press B, -, and 1 simultaneously and the game will skip to the next track. If done on the final track, The Stadium, the game will load the main menu map as a track, causing a bunch of odd glitches.

Wolfschanze 1944 Leftovers#

Easily the weirdest part of the game is data from another game, Wolfschanze 1944, which was developed two years prior by Calaris Studios. Calaris and Frontline share a lot of staff between both studios, so they may be separate development teams owned by the same parent company. data/gfx/menu is where the leftover data is located.

There's a leftover text file in TEXT.STD, along with a Russian and Polish version:

selected weapon: 
no ammo for: 
not available: 
Wolfschanze 1944: Online server (BETA).
screen saved...
item obtained: 
 was killed by 
 captured the flag 
team 
,have captured the flag.
has killed
has died
current video mode is: 
select slot for load game...
select slot for save game...
enter new name...
empty slot...
yes
no
invert mouse:
mouse look:
mouse move:
mouse_attack:
always run:
to the next page...
ready
host is not responding, error: 
player is not responding. 
connection lost, error: 
you are disconnected from the server...
session is lost, error: 
max players: 
game mode: 
deathmatch
cooperative
capture the flag
unknown match1
unknown match2
teams: 
no
yes
difficulty: 
easy
normal
hard
very hard
frag limit: 
none
10 frags
20 frags
30 frags
40 frags
50 frags
60 frags
70 frags
time limit: 
none
5 min
10 min
15 min
corpse limit: 
level: 
none
start 
password: 
episode: 
dificulty: 
   killed: 
 / 
player parameters
create game
join game: 
looking for available games... 
team name: 
create team: 
join team: 
teams would have the same parameters

Unused Graphics#

Thumbs.db#

This game has many Thumbs.db files, which contain thumbnails to all the files in a specific folder, and there are some that aren't in the folder anymore. The one in the data folder contains some really odd stuff.

The thumbnail of the folder itself.

A temporary loading screen.

Leftovers from Chicken Shoot, unsurprisingly from the same developers. For some reason, they're normally upside-down.

Loading Test#

The front of a car pasted over and over.

Weird HUD Stuff#

HUD graphics from an obscure 2005 PC game by Calaris based on the famous Polish comic series Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek (which translates to "Monkey's Adventures").

The HUD for the cursor from Mysterious Island, another obscure PC game by Calaris.

Unused Level Screen#

In levels_screens.bmp (the image for all the level previews), there is text in the bottom-right corner reading "wolne", which means "free" in Polish.

SDK Leftovers#

The only sound in sound/sound_data.brsar is Yoshi.

The sound folder has two leftover MIDI files from the Wii SDK.

References#