The Person Formerly Known as Geep

Keeping the spirit of the Grand Prix alive, also just have this because necessity.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Also, I'm on bluesky now & will probably be using that more: https://t.co/fAxjLx4VJX

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's a few apparent cut cars from Test Drive: Eve of Destruction- a compact called "Carrere", a muscle car called "Pony", & 2 special cars called "Tow" & "Clown", presumably a tow truck and a clown car.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

So you know how the NT2003 beta crashes upon race completion on PS2? Turns out it's just an emulator problem; not a ROM problem, as demonstrated here using the PS2 ROM on a jailbroken PS3 slim.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

One last thing for the time being, there's a file called "trackwalker.txt" in the files of the PS3 versions of both NASCAR 08 & 09. Maybe someone else can take the time to see if following the steps works or not. https://t.co/RkswG10ejy

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

The coolest thing about PS3-era EA NASCAR games is that since they used the same file format as NCAA, the NCAA AST Loader works for them. This means the sponsor textures can be extracted and replaced by whatever you want with paint(dot)net

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

As it turns out, the Watkins Glen website & Chevrolet were also cut sponsors from NASCAR 08 PS3. So far as I've found, these were the only cut sponsors from that version of the game.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

The reason why it's in black-and-white in-game is because anything that's meant to be repainted (CaC layers, numbers, etc.) is automatically converted to black-and-white if it isn't already.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's what looks like a placeholder scheme in the PS3 version of NASCAR 08. Best thing is, is that it can work as a Create-A-Car layer!

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's a short vid on all the cut sponsors that are in the files of NASCAR 09 (PS3). A whopping 15! Also, yes this is my new channel. I hate to self-plug, but YT just hates my old channels, so 3rd time's the charm hopefully.
https://t.co/xQvptKtyW3

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Dream Top 10

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's a placeholder loading screen that's in NASCAR 09 (PS3). It's under the name "LoadOut.p3s", and looks to be an aerial shot of Daytona with a NASCAR 08 logo slapped on top with "PLACEHOLDER" slapped on top of that.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here are the other 4: the 149, 161, 171, & 198.

Also, sorry for the poor quality. These are directly from the files and are only 32x32.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

There are 8 unused minimap logos for cut Sprint Cup fantasy drivers. These rides have something connecting them, but I'll save that for later. Here's the logos for the 105, 122, 133, & 147

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

There's a bug in NASCAR 09 where if you drive the 106 car in the Nationwide series, the minimap logo will be for the 122 car. This is because the minimap logo for the 106 car is a duplicate of the one for the 122 car. Because of that, there isn't a fix.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's a black-and-white, overly saturated template for Mark Martin's 01 Army car from '07 that I'm not 100% sure what the purpose of is. Maybe a backup texture in case something fails to load?

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Who's ready for some unused NASCAR 09 PS3 stuff? Here's a couple placeholder textures, the first labelled "BILLBOARD_SPRINTNEXTEL_COL_SPEC" and the 2nd simply "placeholder".

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Might've been discovered before, but there's a reference to Andy Houston in the NASCARDB.DAT file for NT2002. I don't think there's anything else leftover, but it looks like a sponsor req was to beat him during the race. Pretty cool.

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

@TeamYouTube https://t.co/9k99XXzV9E

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

@TeamYouTube Can you take a look at my channel and tell me what monetization policy I violated?

[The Person Formerly Known as Geep @2002GrandPrix]

Here's a full showcase video of the unused Atlanta Motor Speedway in NASCAR 06!
https://t.co/QsdSbKjlM1