Gran Turismo 2/Revisional Differences/December 11, 1999 Build
This is a sub-page of Gran Turismo 2/Revisional Differences.
Revisional differences found in the second North American retail build of Gran Turismo 2, built three days after the original, are documented here.
This version is believed to have been first issued as a replacement for consumers who called Sony to complain about the flaws in the previous release, being available for sale until the release of the Greatest Hits version.
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General Changes
Car Updates
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The LOD1 model of the Vauxhall Astra racing modification (bvasr) did not include the brand's badge in its livery originally — this mistake is rectified by the December 11 build.
North America-Specific Changes
Arcade Mode
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The intro FMV received a minor update in this revision of GT2. In the original North American release, an edited version of The Cardigans' "My Favourite Game" was used, which omitted the second verse as well as the second and third choruses (the former replaced by an out-of-place first chorus) in order to fit in the intro's shorter length. In the revised FMV, the regular version of the song plays, simply fading out at the end of the video, during the second chorus. The audio is also louder.
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The 2-Player Battle menu option graphic for Arcade Mode, located in arc_panels_us.tim, was modified to capitalize the word "Player."
Gameplay
- The faulty global opponent list that caused some opponents to be mismatched was updated to fix this issue. As a side effect, the Peugeot 206 ghost from Tahiti Maze no longer kisses the wall, as that error was originally caused by the use of incorrect opponent data.
- In contrast to the above fix, playback of license test IB-4's demonstration replay is affected by a change to test_s2's surface data, resulting in the replay going out of sync and an "Out of Course" failure.
GT Mode Menu Fixes
Many North American English-specific GT Mode menu pages were altered to fix art mistakes or simply adjust elements:
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The Honda S2000 one-make event is awkwardly titled 'Challenge S2000' in the original Japanese release of the game as well as the initial North American version. This revision changes it to the more sensible 'S2000 Challenge'.
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The menu page for Event Generator — known as 'Event Synthesizer' in other regions — was touched up a bit. The description that partially covered the back button was moved up to be closer to the title, and a typo involving the Normal difficulty level was fixed.
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Special Event line-up 2 received a new background image in order to accurately reflect the change made to Muscle Car Cup's license requirements for western releases of GT2.
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An infamous typo on the GT300 Championship event menu involving Grand Valley East was fixed.
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The menu for the Tahiti Maze dirt event was updated to show the second event's opponent car name correctly, going from simply saying 'Rally Car' to '206 Rally Car'.
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A typo involving Rome Circuit was fixed on the International C License curriculum screen.
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The description shared by the Mazda Demio GL-X '97 (ademn), Demio GL '97 (adgln) and Demio LX-G '97 (adlxn) had two minor mistakes fixed on its first page.
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The Dodge Concept Car (dcphn) description received a couple adjustments in order to move some of its text to the mostly empty second page, as well as to restore a single row that was accidentally removed by an earlier revision. It still retains the "aehieved" typo however.
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The plural form of "Focus" was messed up in the Ford Focus Ghia 2.0i Zetec (effgn) description of the original NA version. This revision fixes it.
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The second page of the Renault Clio 16V (frc2n) description originally referred to the Clio Sport V6 24V as the "hottest hot hatch ever made." This revision changes it to "hottest hatchback" to cool things down a bit.
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The Renault Espace F1 (frf1n) had its description altered to replace "speeded up" with "sped-up."
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The description for the Audi A4 2.8 quattro (gaa4n) was significantly edited to disguise the fact it originally referred to the scrapped A4 Avant 2.8 quattro (ga4tn) station wagon found in demo builds of the game.
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A stray "is" was removed from the line "gives an edge" on the second page of the BMW 320Ci (gb0cn) description.
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A minor mistake was fixed in the description of the Volkswagen Lupo 1.4 (gvlun): "mix it" was changed to "mix in" in this version.
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A single missing letter in the word "Hatchback" resulted in the entire paragraph being readjusted in the description of the Honda Civic Ferio Si II (EK) (hcfnn) and Civic SiR-II (EK) (hcvnn) — respectively labeled Civic Sedan '96 and Civic 3 Door '95 in the North American versions of GT2.
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Two typos were fixed in the description shared by the Honda Prelude SiR '96 (hpnen) and Prelude Type-S '96 (hpnvn) — respectively known as Prelude '96 and Prelude Type-SH in versions shipped across the Atlantic.
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The description shared by the Honda Prelude Si '91 (hpren) and Prelude Si VTEC '91 (hprvn) — rebadged as 1993 and 1994 year models in North American versions — had three typos fixed in its second paragraph.
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Descriptions for the Fiat 500 Sporting (ii50n) and Fiat 500R (iio5n) were swapped at first; this revision fixes the issue.
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The description of the 1995 Tommykaira R (k233n) was slightly altered to remove a space in the brand's name in the first paragraph.
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Two typos were fixed in the description shared by the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI GSR (m2g6n) and Lancer Evolution VI RS (m2r6n).
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A single typo was spotted and promptly fixed in the description of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution III GSR (mlnon).
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Another typo was spotted in the description shared by the Nissan Silvia K's Aero SE (n2ksn) and six other S14 models.
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Two instances of backticks being used in place of quotation marks were changed in the description of the Nissan March Super Turbo (n2mtn), along with an instance of "liter" being incorrectly changed to "lliter." The second page sees "is was" being corrected to "it was."
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The description shared by the Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33) '95 (nr33n) and three other R33 models had the word "additional," previously split between its two pages, moved entirely to the second page. The "apperaed" typo was left untouched, however.
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Both pages of the description shared by the Subaru Impreza WRX STi Ver.IV '97 (s2i4n), Impreza typeR STi Ver.IV '97 (s2r4n) and Impreza Wagon STi Ver.IV '97 (s2w4n) saw minor mistakes corrected.
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The description of the Subaru Legacy Touring Wagon GT '93 (slgwn) had multiple typos fixed in this revision. It's worthy noting that this is actually a duplicate of the description assigned to the Legacy Touring Wagon GT-B '96 (slgan), which has its own set of typos that was left untouched.
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The description shared by the Toyota Celica SS-III '97 (t2c3n) and Celica SS-II '95 (tceln) — respectively known as simply Celica '97 and Celica '96 in western versions of GT2 — saw a minor typo fixed on its first page and two more on the second.
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A stray "with" was removed from the sentence "Introduced in mid-1991" in the description of the Lexus SC400 (t2lsn), affecting the formatting of the entire first paragraph.
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A stray "the" was erased from "The model 5's [...]" and, like the Lexus change above, moved everything around on the second page of the Toyota MR2 G-Limited (t2mgn) description.
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The Toyota Prius (t2prn) description, one of the longest in the game, missed part of its last sentence due to lack of screen space. This was fixed by moving up the text on the right column of the first page and adding an extra line to each column of the second page.
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The Toyota Vitz (t2vzn) description received one small fix in the form of the letter "n" in "an" — the car being described as the 'Toyota Echo' when the game itself retains the original 'Vitz' wasn't a notable enough issue apparently.
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The description shared by the Toyota Chaser Tourer S (tchsn) and Chaser Tourer V (tchvn) had a couple words capitalized, as well as letters added or removed where necessary.
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The description assigned to Toyota's MA70 Supra GT Turbo Ltd. (tsgtn) and JZA70 Supra Twin Turbo-R (tspon) had multiple spaces added as well as a typo fixed.
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The Wiegert Vector W8 Twin Turbo (uvw8n) had its description amended to offer dyno-confirmed figures instead of the less optimistic numbers from the original text. A remark regarding the car's aerodynamics was also removed.
