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Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver CD-ROM can be summed up in a single word: simple. Everything in the game is designed to appeal to the intended 5-year old and up age group. Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver is a racing/driving video game developed by Mattel Media and Semi Logic and published by THQ. The game is based on the Hot Wheels franchise. It was released on October 15, 19.

Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver
Also known as: Hot Wheels Circuit Cascades Developer: Semi Logic Entertainments Publisher: Mattel Media Platform: Windows Released in US: October 15, 1998 This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver

Also known as: Hot Wheels Circuit Cascades
Developer: Semi Logic Entertainments
Publisher: Mattel Media
Platform: Windows
Released in US: October 15, 1998

This game has unused areas.
This game has unused playable characters.
This game has hidden development-related text.
This game has unused graphics.
This game has unused music.

Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver is an FMV game in which Mattel's ever-popular Hot Wheels cars apparently become sentient and do ridiculous backflips of their own accord on tracks constructed by the richest and most overprivileged child in the world, who somehow managed to run a bunch of those flimsy plastic strips through his whole house and an entire sandcastle. It's actually pretty slick for its genre – the stunts are fun, though the physics are occasionally wonky. It also has an excellent rock soundtrack by a Mr. Bill King, whose only other known compositions are this game's sequel and Michelle Kwan Figure Skating. Something of a fall from grace, that.

1Unused Graphics
5Unused Batch Files
6Unused Music

Unused Graphics

Car Textures

There are two duplicate sets of car textures. One uses a standard 'car[x].bmp' numbering system, while the other has actual names for the cars. Only the first set is used in-game, leaving these files (and car names) unused.

Car 1, SALTFLAT
Car 2, TOEJAM
Car 3, SOLAIR
Car 4, Hw500
Car 5, SLIDE
Car 6, SHADOW
Car 7, FLYER
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Car 8, POWER
Car 9, BLASTER
Car 10, TWINCOM
Car 11, SPECIAL
Car 12, WAY2FAST

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Drawn between textures in BLASTER.BMP.

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Extra Textures

There are also several textures that are not used at all, most of them apparently leftovers of earlier designs.

Car 4, Hw500

HW5001.BMP

Hw500pal.bmp

Hw500.bmp, used in-game

Three different versions of the texture for Car 4, Hw500. These are arranged chronologically according to the file timestamps, with the far right being the final version. The artist seems to have tinkered with the colors and added an extra decal so that the Hot Wheels logo wouldn't be backward on one side of the car. The text directly below it was not given this treatment, though, so it shows up backward anyway.

Car 6, SHADOW

Shadow.bmp

SHADOW.BMP, used in-game

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For some reason, this car and this car only has an older, named version of its texture stuck in the data folder with the numbered textures. Its design changed significantly for the final.

Car 7, FLYER

FLYER.PCX

FLYER.BMP, used in-game

For some bizarre reason, Cars 7 and 8 alone have duplicate, older versions of their textures stored in PCX format alongside the regular BMPs. Both of these are dated over a month before the final versions.

Car 8, POWER

POWER.PCX

POWER.BMP, used in-game

See above.

Car 11, SPECIAL

special3.BMP

special8.BMP

special1.BMP

NSPECIAL.BMP

specialA.BMP

SPECIAL.BMP, used in-game

These files seem to be left over from an artist's struggle to properly produce the textures for this car.

Miscellaneous

MAINPAL.BMP

This is a still from the very start of the greenhouse level. It serves no apparent purpose.

thepal.bmp

A pink 81x81 box. It is duplicated as the sole file in the folder datacarsjunk. Perhaps a transparency test?

Unused Car

car00.BMP

This car, numbered 0, has no corresponding file with an actual name. Its textures are unused and structured differently from any other car's, suggesting it is a leftover from early in development. It has a corresponding MMD file, and can be accessed by swapping the MMD file with the MMD file of a car accessible in the game. This car is similar in appearance to Speed Blaster.

The car is actually used at the beginning of the Stunt Track Driver demo found on the Hot Wheels World Adventure sampler CD. One more interesting bit is that halfway through the demo, the car switches to car01, Salt Flat, via an FMV transition.

Unused Credits

The file CREDITS.PCX contains, obviously enough, the credits, but they are never used. There is no credits sequence in the game, even after winning the tournament mode.

Unused Extra Playable Level

The game has a hidden, half-complete level. It can be accessed by completing tournament mode, going to the level select menu, and right clicking around the left half of the Mattel logo. This causes the music to change to an unused track (see below). At this point, starting the race will begin the secret level.

The level's FMV is clearly unfinished; the background consists only of green wireframe scenery. Its scope suggests that it was intended to be a large outdoor areas, such as a quarry. The video also does not seem completely synced to the collision model in some points, causing the car to occasionally 'float' above the track. Aside from these graphical details, the level seems more or less complete and is entirely playable. It ends with the car crashing through a sign.

The level was probably scrapped because of time constraints or because it didn't fit the household theme of the other levels well enough.

Unused Batch Files

car.bat

This short file is located in the directory datacars. When run, it copies the named textures shown under 'Unused Graphics,' as well as their corresponding .MMD model files, into the data directory, renaming them to use a sequential numbering format. This is probably a leftover development tool to quickly prepare the graphics data. Microsoft office 2007 download kostenlos vollversion deutsch mit key.

Most notable are the three REM'd out lines at the bottom. If uncommented, they would overwrite the data for cars 10, 11, and 12 with the prototype versions of SPECIAL shown above. This might have been used to quickly compare how the different versions of the car looked in the actual game.

CAR.BAK

This file is almost identical to car.bat. Aside from having a different extension, the line

has been omitted, and the three commented-out lines below it are restored.

ASPS.BAK

This file's purpose is less clear. It contains the following:

Its use is unknown.

Unused Music

SAG Files

The music used in the game is stored as .sag files, which are actually IMA-ADPCM files encoded at 22050 Hz. Two of these are unused or otherwise hidden:

wire.sag