Road Rash (PlayStation)

Road Rash
Developer: Electronic Arts Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: March 22, 1996 Released in US: December 29, 1995 Released in EU: March 1996 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Whatever that "DEBUG" folder on the root of the disc is, it sure is of interest.

Road Rash is a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts in which the player participates in violent, illegal street races.

Unused Graphics

DEFAULT.TIM, DEFAULT4.TIM and PB.TIM, located in the root of the game's disc, seem to be placeholder textures.

(Source: tikal.)

Debug Text

On booting, the tty debug console displays some interesting information and a "HELLO" message. This is not visible to the user.

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KERNEL SETUP!
Configuration : EvCB=16h TCB=10h
boot file     : cdrom:\SLUS_000.35;1
EXEC:PC0(80013CFCh) T_ADDR(80010000h) T_SIZE(00096000h)
boot address  : 80013CFCh 801FFF00h
Execute !

                S_ADDR(801FFF00h) S_SIZE(00000000h)
Wanted 983040, Asking for 1027912 dram, heapsize is 1027928
KERNEL SETUP!
Configuration : EvCB=16h TCB=10h
Starting program, GetConf returns 22, 16, 0x801fff00
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          ### HELLO ###
        #################
Trying for 1027928 dram
Asking for 1027912 dram.
KERNEL SETUP!
Configuration : EvCB=16h TCB=0Ah
ResetGraph:jtb=80092348,env=80092390
CD_init:addr=80091160
PS-X Control PAD Driver  Ver 3.0
Outdated PAD Stuff: TYPE 6 free button or flying-V form (ok)
MemMgr:  AllocMem(1027912) -> 0x801040ac
CD_init:addr=80091160
VSync: timeout
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