Final Lap 2000

Final Lap 2000
Developer: Soft Machine Publisher: Bandai Platform: WonderSwan Released in JP: March 23, 2000 This game has unused text. This game has a prerelease article

This game/console's online features are no longer supported. While this game/console's online features were once accessible, they are (as of March 31, 2003) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

Final Lap 2000 is a handheld spin-off of the Final Lap series for the original WonderSwan. How many final laps can there be?? There's only supposed to be one!!

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Prerelease Info

Hidden WonderGate-related text

Present at 0x0483D0 in the ROM is text which seems to be related to the game's WonderGate functionality, which would have allowed you to upload times and see the top rankings at the time:

date=
course=
FLTOP=
SRVC-CLOSE:
SRVC-TIM:
CMND-TIM:
SRVC-TRM:
CMND-TRM:
SRVC-MTN-FROM:
SRVC-MTN-TO:
CHRG-MTN-FROM:
CHRG-MTN-TO:
SRVC-PRC:
SRVC-WAY:
CMND-WAY:
CNTS-WAY:
CONTENT-LENGTH:
CMND-BAL:
CMND-AID:
CNTS-AID:
CMND-URL:
LOCATION:
WM-RET:
CNTS-TIM:
CNTS-TRM:
SRVC-CNT:
FLTOP=||

date=
course=|
X-swan-srvc-id: BAN00A01
User-Agent: SWAN/1.0
http://wgg01.channel.or.jp/service/swan-ranking/final-lap 
HTTP/1.1 POST 
http://Host: 
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 
HTTP/1.1

&owner=
&score=
&list=
FLTOP|1|1
&list=FLTOP|%2B1|1
&group=HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: 20000201
Location: http://wgg01.channel.or.jp/service/swan-ranking/final-lap2

The two URLs in this text seem to be referring to the WonderGate servers. This is similar to text found in SD Gundam G Generation: Gather Beat. Also, the date is listed as February 1st 2000, which is about a month before the game's release.

(Source: Original TCRF research)