Top Gear Rally (Game Boy Advance)

Top Gear Rally
Also known as: Top Gear Rally SP (JP), TG Rally (UK) Developer: Tantalus Interactive Publishers: Kemco (JP), Nintendo (US/EU) Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: July 25, 2003 Released in US: October 28, 2003 Released in EU: October 31, 2003 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has regional differences.

Sound Engine Credit

Stored at offsets 0x440DC-0x44122 in the Japanese ROM, 0x43C4C-0x43C92 in the US one and at 0x462AC-0x462F2 in the European one:

GAX Sound Engine 3.01 (Sep 13 2002) © Shin'en Multimedia. Code: B.Wodok

Graphics Files Filepaths

A list of internal filepaths related to the game's graphics can be found in all the releases:

Japanese 0x42280 - 0x4248A	US 0x41F78 - 0x4216E	European 0x4224C - 0x42452
art/frontend/saving_ja.rbh art/frontend/backdrop1.rbh art/frontend/backdrop2.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites1.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites2_ja.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites3_ja.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites4_ja.rbh art/frontend/spinnies1.rbh art/frontend/spinnies2.rbh art/frontend/spinnies3.rbh art/frontend/spinnies4.rbh art/frontend/spinnies5.rbh art/frontend/font1.rbh art/frontend/font2_ja.rbh art/frontend/flags.rbh art/frontend/keyboard_ja.rbh art/frontend/tracks.rbh	art/frontend/saving.rbh art/frontend/backdrop1.rbh art/frontend/backdrop2.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites1.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites2.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites3_us.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites4.rbh art/frontend/spinnies1.rbh art/frontend/spinnies2.rbh art/frontend/spinnies3.rbh art/frontend/spinnies4.rbh art/frontend/spinnies5.rbh art/frontend/font1.rbh art/frontend/font2.rbh art/frontend/flags.rbh art/frontend/keyboard.rbh art/frontend/tracks.rbh	art/frontend/saving_eu.rbh art/frontend/backdrop1.rbh art/frontend/backdrop2.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites1.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites2_eu.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites3_eu.rbh art/frontend/misc_sprites4_eu.rbh art/frontend/spinnies1.rbh art/frontend/spinnies2.rbh art/frontend/spinnies3.rbh art/frontend/spinnies4.rbh art/frontend/spinnies5.rbh art/frontend/font1.rbh art/frontend/font2.rbh art/frontend/flags.rbh art/frontend/keyboard.rbh art/frontend/tracks.rbh

Build Date

Between the first and second path listed above, the build date of the game can be found:

Japanese 0x4229C - 0x422B6	US 0x41F90 - 0x41FAA	European 0x42268 - 0x42283
BUILD 131-JAP (22 May 2003)	BUILD 134-AUS (20 Aug 2003)	BUILD 135-EURO (22 Aug 2003)

Interestingly the US and European build numbers are consecutive, but there are two missing build numbers between the Japanese and the US ones.

(Discovery: WaluigiBSOD)

Error Strings

Error strings for the sound engine can be found at ROM offsets 0x44224-0x44408 in the Japanese version, 0x43D94-0x43F78 in the US one and at 0x463F4-0x465D8 in the European one:

GAX2_INIT
OUT OF MEMORY
GAX2_NEW
PARAMS ARG IS NULL
GAX2_NEW_FX
FXPARAMS ARG IS NULL
WHEN USING DIFFERENT FX_MIXING_RATE, FLAG GAX_FX_REVERB AND GAX_HALFRATE_FX ARE NOT ALLOWED
GAX2_JINGLE.GAX_NO_JINGLE FLAG IS SET
GAX_IRQ.GAX_PLAY HAS NOT FINISHED BEFORE GAX_IRQ. USE LOWER MIXING RATE OR LESS FX CHANNELS OR PUT GAX_PLAY IN VBLANK IRQ
GAX_FX
YOU TRIED TO PLAY A SPEECH FX BUT HAVE NOT USED THE GAX_SPEECH FLAG WITH GAX2_INIT
GAX2_FX
FXPARAMS->FXID IS GAX_DEFAULT

Regional Differences

Nintendo Logo

Outside of Japan, all versions display the Nintendo logo at the start of the game.

Title Screen

Japan	US/Europe	UK

The UK version changed the name to TG Rally due to copyright reasons regarding the Top Gear name. Additionally, "LICENSED BY NINTENDO" was changed to "LICENSED TO NINTENDO" as the other versions were published by Nintendo.