Talk:Crash Team Racing

NTSC Cover

You think it would be better if we had the NTSC cover of CTR instead of the PAL cover? I feel that should be in the, you know, other-language parts of WikiPedia. Cat's Tuxedo 15:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes but only for the sake of consistency, most video game articles use the NTSC covers. That said, don't forget that it's not just the U.S that speaks English, there are at least 5 countrys that speak English and use PAL systems. -- Doc711 23:53, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Best in the Crash Bandicoot Series

Agree or not? Mlaheji 13:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

This reply isn't really canon to the topic, but I'd just like to say that I read this discussion after reading the article I didn't see some of the things talked about. For instance, there's a lengthy argument about character tracks, but there isn't anything about it in the article. So, I'm just going to edit the article with stone-cold fact as best I can. This will be my first edit, so keep an eye on it. I'm using the official site linked in the article as my source, so I should be okay.--Qeramah 11:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Character Tracks

In the track listing on this page, most of the tracks have a character listed next to them. I was just wondering, since I've never encountered one, does racing as a character on "their track" have a special advantage? Does each character having their own track affect the game in any way? If so, then the effect should be added to the article to make it clearer. If not, then the idea of character tracks should be removed from the article, as it's purely a fan thing with no encyclopedic merit.

Of course it doesn't. And it's obvious why each character has their own track. Play Team Racing and you'll see. It's a cosmetic thing, and CERTAINLY isn't fan based. CBFan 19:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC) CBFan.

• It is a fan-based thing. Each character does not have their own track, as it has no actual effect on the game, and I don't think it's necessary to include that N. Gin Labs is named after N. Gin, for example. That's blindingly obvious.

• You are disgracing Naughty Dog. You're not a Crash fan and never can be.

• I think linking the character's pages within the track name is a good solution, as it recognises the track is named after that character, but doesn't make any assumptions about it being the 'character's track'.

• You are the only one making assumtions, and you're the only one who has EVER been making assumtions. It's OBVIOUS that, in all those cases, that those tracks belong to a character. Why else do they have those names?

• What I'm saying is, there's no in-game effect of the character "owning a track". They're named after the characters, sure, but it doesn't improve their stats if used on "their" track, or have any special effect. It's not a tangible feature of the game.

• That's not the point and you know it isn't. It's an in-game feature that Naughty Dog did.

• But there is no in-game feature of it. I think we should simply acknowledge the tracks are named after the characters, because that's all it is.

• Yes there is. In Adventure Mode, a character ALWAYS starts in first place on his/her personal track. Stop vandalising threads constantly because you don't agree with them.

• No they don't. I made a point to check for that when last I played CTR, and they don't. Ona side note, stop calling everything you disagree with vandalism.

• Excuse me, but I've played Team Racing virtually NON-STOP for the last two days. Every time I played Crash Cove in Adventure mode, Crash was in first position at the starting line (except when I was Crash, of course). Every time I played Coco Park, Coco was in first position. Every time I played Tiger Temple, Dingo Canyon, Polar Pass, Tiny Arena, N Gin Labs, Cortex Castle...and each time, their representative character was in first position at the starting line. It's obvious, therefore, that you haven't played Team Racing at all. Also, you have some cheek to tell me not to do the very same thing you've been doing since you first came here. You vandalised the Papu Papu page, you vandalised the Dingodile page, you're STILL vandalising the Wrath Of Cortex page and now you're vandalising this page. For heaven's sakes, cut it out.

• I've been playing it all week, and only on one occasion did the respective character start in first place. It is not a feature of the game. I did not vandalise any page. Stop calling everything you disagree with vandalism.

• You're the one doing it. You're the ONLY one who has EVER done that. Go back and worship Mario. You've been warned countless times now, and BOTH of us have gotten into trouble because you REFUSE to accept the truth.

• Mario? What the hell are you talking about? I have never called one of youe edits vandalism, except the ones you made no explanation for. You've also been warned countless times.

• I've made many an explanation, but you simply delete them. Also, the only reason I've been warned is due to your silly actions, being that you don't know when to accept the truth.

• I';ve never deleted anything you've said, which is more than can be said for you. I could say I've only been warned because of you. You don't know when to accept that something does not belong in an encylopedia.

• No, that's what you've been doing. It's trivia, it's worth noting. You're the only one saying "I haven't seen it, therefore it isn't true and isn't verifiable". You've flammed the Papu Papu, Dingodile and Wrath Of Cortex pages ALL with the same silly routine.

• Actually, I've only contested verifiability on the WoC page. It's worth noting that the tracks are named after the character, which is why I link them within the track name, but calling them the "character's track" implies some sort of feature within the game, of which there is none.

• No it doesn't. Have you NEVER played a racing game before? It's basic trivia, get over it. Besides, this was the way it was originally written, meaning you are the only one rebelling against it. OK, so they also tried giving Fake Crash, N Tropy and Penta a track of their own, of which they don't have an official one. But this is different. Besides, like I said before, in Adventure Mode, the character starts in first position on his/her home track, unless you are using that character. Believe me, I've been through it at least three times. We keep the article as it ORIGINALLY was, we suss out the argument, THEN we can edit it. At the moment, you're only vandalising by posting your opinions before the argument is over.

• Take your little slap-fight somewhere else, gentlemen. You've both been reported for 3RR. HalfShadow 23:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, get a life.Coco 01:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

be civil guys. BTW I'm pretty sure those character-specific tracks do put that character in 1st, (no excuse for bad manners though).--Headcase 07:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Epilogues

Should we maybe merge these with the character sections, to both save space and round out the character descriptions a little?

Main Series

I heard this game is part of the Crash Bandicoot main series from Crash O Pedia (The others are Crash Bandicoot, Cortex Strikes Back, Warped, Wrath of Cortex, and Twinsanity). is this true? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.3.2.129 (talk) 23:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

That is an unreliable source. Crash Team Racing is probably non-canon, even though Oxide does appear briefly in Twinsanity, his appearance there is never referenced during the battle by Cortex, so that appearance could just be put down as being non-canon. Michael Mad 19:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

While CrashMania is CERTAINLY NOT unreliable, if you were to pay attention, you'd know that that page is marked as "Speculated" and "purely opinion." CrashMania is certainly reliable, but there are pages where it is blatantly marked as opinion. Only then should it be disregarded. Jumpbutton 00:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

It's an unanswerable question, because of a plothole between Team Racing and Twinsanity. Oxide appears in Twinsanity, so Team Racing must be canon, but at the very end of the game, he said he'd leave Earth alone, and seeing as he shows up at Earth again, that would mean that Team Racing can't be canon. In fact, one could even consider Twinsanity as non-canon in that aspect.

Well, CBfan, while Oxide did appear in Twinsanity, that appearance may not be canon, mostly due to the very nature of Twinsanity, where charcters, particularly Cortex, break through the fourth wall. It could be something just put in there by the developers for fun. Also, the events of CTR have never really been referenced in any later canon game(WOC, Twinsanity), with the exception of that minor appearance by Oxide, which Cortex never even comments about in the fight. Michael Mad 13:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

We need a cover picture for CTR. Coco 03:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Raceable N. Oxide - Only by using cheat devices

I will hereby take it uppon myself to announce that N. Oxide is in no known way unlockable to be played with in CTR.

The only way you are able to race as him, is by using a cheating device such as GameShark, Action Replay, etc.

To provoide a source for my information, as well as proof, I have been reading through this entire thread.
Topic: N.Oxide Discussion Thread
I kindly request that you leave this part of the article alone:

"All bosses, except from N. Oxide, are unlockable to be played as outside for the main story mode."

If you don't beleive me, please take your time to read through the thread's 31 pages, and you will see that the people on the board has tested about any rumor, and/or technique which is known, and has confirmed them all to be false.

However, if you are able to provoide evidences stating the opposite, you're more than welcome to show us all.
Pure words claiming it, are not evidences, in case anyone wonders.

I hope this cleared up everything, and that people won't be troubleling that part of the article again.

Mads Ren`ai 15:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:38, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

hmmm why CTR is at the wrong catgory

Well it's kinda wierd that all the crash racing game are at racing catagory but Crash Team Racing is at the main series category... Even the video game name include "racing" at his title so this game spouse to be at the racing category and not at the main series category. 82.80.144.4 (talk) 12:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Naughty Dog giving up the series??

Why did Naughty Dog give up the Crash Bandicoot series to other companies after releasing this game? BulsaraAndDeacon (talk) 12:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

They never actually had the rights to the Crash series to begin with; the series was always owned by Universal Interactive. Naughty Dog pretty much sold them the rights from the day the first game was greenlighted. They just wanted to move on to greener pastures after working on Crash for so long, pretty much allowing Universal to do what they want with the series. This resulted in Crash being tossed around by a number of companies and releasing games of varying quality. That is until Radical Entertainment picked the series up for good and got the series onto the right track. So that's the end of that story. [[User:Cat's Tuxedo|]] (talk) 14:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Crash Team Racing/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review. I'm going to begin the review on this page soon as I haven't contributed significantly at all to it. Reviewer: Feedback (talk) 18:55, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Seeing as the above reviewer did not list him/herself on the WP:GAN page, and they have not started a review yet, I'll be taking over. Expect comments within a day. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 18:04, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

• Overall, a good article, almost decent enough to pass GA. Some points that I think should be mentioned before passing. File:CTRCharRoster.JPG has a pretty weak fair use rationale, in that A) it's fairly high resolution, but B) is low quality (and even if it was high quality doesn't display much relevant info), and C) the characters aren't that important per WP:NFCC. Same issues exist with File:NitrosOxideAdventure.JPG; I would say remove them entirely.
• Secondly, the "Racing modes" section could probably be cut down a paragraph or two. It's simply too much information for a general audience.

--Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 21:14, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the mentioned images and split up the "Racing modes" section into two smaller sub-sections, just so you're aware. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 21:55, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I'll take a look later on tomorrow. My concern was with length, however, not divisions. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 01:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

In case if the section still doesn't look good, I might need help on what needs to be trimmed down, i.e. info that doesn't really need to be covered. I'm having a little trouble on that part :| Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 00:07, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Things like "Open Warp Pads can be found through the use of the radar on the lower right corner of the screen. Open Warp Pads appear as small, flashing silver dots on the radar.[4]" are more fluff than important. For the secondary game modes, you don't have to explain every little feature, just shorten it up, ex. "If the player re-enters a level in which a trophy is already won, the Relic Race can be entered," → Change this to a more general "After beating levels, new modes become available, such as" or similar.

Similarly, you can cut "To aid the player, "Time Crates" are scattered throughout the level. When the player drives through a Time Crate, the clock freezes for whatever number of seconds is indicated on the Time Crate; (1, 2, or 3 seconds.) If all of the Time Crates are destroyed, the player's final time will be reduced by a further ten seconds. " → ""Time Crates" scattered throughout the level freeze the game timer when a player drives through them." (if you wanted to talk about the ten second bonus you could work it in too.)

-Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 20:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I've made the recommended changes. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 14:28, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm making the last tweaks myself; sorry for the delays, but I'll finish up this week. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I've made my edits, and so since I'm satisfied it meets GA criteria, I will pass it. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 16:37, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Special Edition

Special Edition

• You can 2012 announced by Brodie Buchanan and Nitrous Oxide in playable character of special edition in CTR: Crash Team Racing.60.231.168.219 (talk) 02:22, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

according to the VGChartz website crash team racing has sold well over 4.9 million units worldwide can someone update them please, the psn sales have also sold approximetly 1 million —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.3.240.198 (talk) 13:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

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Credits

The credits as showing Andy Gavin even involved with this project are wrong. Andy was the VP of the company but he was busy making a PS2 engine for Jak & Daxter. Daniel Chan was the lead programmer of CTR. You can verify Andy was not a programmer on this game on his own blog

Showing Charlotte Francis as a programmer is also wrong. She's an artist, not a programmer. You can verify this here send

I corrected the credits since I was on the team.

Greggman (talk) 13:24, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Greggman: Thank you for your additions to the article; your edits are appreciated, and your knowledge is helpful. However, per Wikipedia guidelines, your edits have been reverted. Template:Infobox video game states that only the lead designers, programmers, artists, etc. are listed in the infobox, and only to a maximum of three—while it may be unfair to omit some members of development, it is impractical to list all of them (imagine trying to list all designers, programmers, and artists of The Last of Us, for example. The infobox alone would take up the whole page). I hope you understand. Thanks again. – Rhain ☔ 08:12, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia guidelines say devs must be listed as those roles. No such documentation exists. The credits in both the game and manual just list all Naughty Dog employees including "Morgan" the boss's dog

And no I don't understand. Giving people too much credit for things they didn't do is fake news, false info, untruth. AFAIK that is not what Wikipedia is about — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greggman (talk • contribs) 02:27, 18 March 2018 (UTC) Greggman (talk) 02:39, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Also please stop listing Grady as the producer. He's listed under Sony of America. If you check other versions of the game, the Japanese version, the European version, he won't be listed because he was not a producer of Crash Team Racing, he was a producer in general at Sony USA. For example the Producer in Japan was TSURUMI-600. The producer in Europe was David Bowry . None of them are listed as "Lead Producer" nor were they the Naughty Dog's producer so by the same rules no producer should be listed

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