World Driver Championship

World Driver Championship
Developer: Boss Game Studios Publisher: Midway Games Platform: Nintendo 64 Released in US: May 31, 1999 Released in EU: November 1999 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has hidden bonus content.

To do: Figure out what the unknown cheats do.

Just another racing game in the N64 library.

Cheats

Several cheats can be input while in a race, or the main menu. It's best to enter these while driving. These will change visual appearances of map and car graphics, unlock cars, enable special effects and more.

Button Inputs	Internal Cheat Name	Reward
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, C-Down, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right	cheat challanger	Unlocks the EXR Challenger.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down	cheat mirror championship	Championship races are played with the tracks mirrored.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, B, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, Start	cheat gt2 events	All GT2 events are selectable.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, Start	cheat gt1 events	All GT1 events are selectable.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, Z, D-Pad Right, A, C-Down, Start	cheat tracks	Unlocks all tracks.
B, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right	None	Unknown.
D-Pad Right, A, C-Down, D-Pad Right, Start, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, Z	cheat race Select	Unknown.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, A, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start	gt1 cars	Unlocks GT1 cars.
D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start	None	Small cars.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Up, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, C-Down, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Right	cheat interceptor	Unlocks the 2000 Falcon Interceptor, the final car in the GT1 class.
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Down, Start, B, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start	None	Invisible cars.
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, Start	cheat open win sequence	Unknown.
D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Up, Z, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right	cheat disable team specials	Unknown.
B, D-Pad Left, A, C-Down, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start	None	Change all cars to black cars.
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, A, Z, C-Down, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, Start	None	Retro map graphics.
C-Down, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, A, D-Pad Right, Z	None	Black and white mode.
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Down	None	Enable special camera angles.

(Source: Punk7890)

Error Messages

Throughout the ROM are several humorous error messages, many of which involve yelling at the game's developers.

DEREK!  The length was %d bytes!
GUUUA
Physics edge list is too big; tell Brian Fehdrau
FIX THIS STUPID CASE ROB!!!!!!!
Damn it Jim!!!!  Bad background index
danger jimmy joe, baby buffer exceeded!!!!!
danger will robinson, small buffer exceeded!!!!!
we are going to view the ghost
impossible to get this message!!!!!
what the fuck!!!!!!!!!
derek update
no freaking paks!!!!
yo baby!!!

Here's a hack showing what the output of these messages would have looked like when being run on a dev setup:

Regional Differences

The gamma boost option was added to the pause menu in the European version.