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Top Gear GT Championship

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Title Screen

Top Gear GT Championship

Also known as: Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken (JP)
Developer: Vision Works
Publisher: Kemco
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Released in JP: March 21, 2001
Released in US: July 9, 2001
Released in EU: June 21, 2001


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RegionIcon.png This game has regional differences.


Top Gear GT Championship was the last stand-alone All Japan GT Championship/Super GT game for several years until Sega World Drivers Championship.

Version Number

Stored at x6A230 (JP)/x4AEE0 (US)/x4AF3C (EU):

GT-CHAMP Ver1.00

Development Text

Found only in Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken, at x5D3DC:

From: 
To: 
Subject: GT-CHAMP-ENTRY
Subject: GT-CHAMP-MAP
X-Game-code: 
AGB-AGTJ
-00.X-Game-title: 
GT-CHAMP
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--AGB-AGTJ"
----AGB-AGTJ
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
Context-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
.Content-Type: application/octec-stream; name=
"gtent00.cgb"
"gtent01.cgb"
"gtent02.cgb"
"gtent03.cgb"
"gtent04.cgb"
"gtent05.cgb"
"gtent06.cgb"
"100.gtexcrs"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=
----AGB-AGTJ--

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Top Gear GT Championship
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Title.png Top Gear GT Championship Title.png

Options Menu

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Top Gear GT Championship
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Options Menu.png Top Gear GT Championship Options Menu.png
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Top Gear GT Championship
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Sound Test.png Top Gear GT Championship Units Menu.png

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken's options menu contains a sound test, which was replaced with a menu to switch between miles per hour and kilometers per hour in Top Gear GT Championship. Key Config was also renamed Button Config.

Elementary, my dear Cactus.
This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Text for the sound test still exists in Top Gear GT Championship at x4893C (US)/x48998 (EU)

Name Entry

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Top Gear GT Championship
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Name Entry.png Top Gear GT Championship Name Entry.png

The Japanese character sets were removed in Top Gear GT Championship, and a handful of punctuation marks were added.

Mobile System GB

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Top Gear GT Championship
Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Single Race.png Top Gear GT Championship Single Race.png

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken supports the Mobile System GB adapter, allowing one to share course ghosts and custom courses, and to view and submit best times. This was removed in Top Gear GT Championship due to the adapter itself not being released outside of Japan, with the icons for the other options enlarged to fill the gap.

Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken Mobile System GB.png

The Mobile Adpater GB logo seen at boot in Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken was naturally removed as well.