Cars: Mater-National Championship/Beta elements

This is a list of beta elements for the game Cars: Mater-National Championship.

Early builds

In concept, Gudmund and Koji's names were originally going to be "Sven" and "Hiro" respectively. This is what their directories are called, as well as all of the animations and textures located within it.

It can be presumed that their names were changed to Gudmund and Koji to match thier origins better.

Unused data

Scrapped characters

There are some lines of data for the characters DJ and Mack present in the game files. Both are listed as "Non-playable characters" in the game's "VehicleInfo.dat" file, with Mack having a name string found in CommonUI data file.

Additionally, there are some characters that have playable data for races and minigames. These characters include Guido, Snot Rod, Fletcher, Philip, Yuri, Mia and Sheriff. It is possible that these characters were not included due to bugs with them, or time constraints. To support this, gameplay footage of Snot Rod is shown during the intro of the PC game.

Unused paint jobs

There is one unused paint job for Fillmore by the name of "fill_body". It was apparently intended to give Fillmore an alternate orange color scheme, but was scrapped due to bugs or time constraints.

Unused icons

One of "MODT"'s four icons.

Perhaps the most interesting of unused data, there are five unused icon files for two different characters, named "MODT" and "STAN". "MODT" appears to be an early version of Lizzie's icon, with less detail and no tan outline. Interestingly, there are four of this icon in the UI/TEX folder, the four are named "MODT_a", "MODT_b", "MODT_c" and MODT_d".

Stanley's icon.

Strangely, the "STAN" icon appears to be a depiction of Stanley in his appearance from Time Travel Mater. What makes this odd is that Time Travel Mater was released nearly five years after this game, meaning it was unlikely that Stanley's design was concieved at the time. It is unknown what this icon was to be used for.

No directories for either of the two cars are present in the final game, nor any other data referencing these icons.

Gallery

• Snot Rod after being loaded into the game via hacking.

  Snot Rod after being loaded into the game via hacking.

• Fletcher after being loaded into the game via hacking.

  Fletcher after being loaded into the game via hacking.

• Yuri after being loaded into the game via hacking.

  Yuri after being loaded into the game via hacking.

Deleted/Beta Elements

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