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The trophy girls are all named after Sony representatives that were in various branches at the time, particularly one Megumi Hosoya who came up with the Crash Dance, so it was already a 'thank you' gift.

Heartwarming in Hindsight: Ami becoming a racer in her part of the 'Where Are They Now?' Epilogue, in light of the remake making her a playable character.

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A very elaborate series of glitches can be used to put the game in a pseudo custom boss race mode, which gives even more bizarre glitches if two people are playing.

The PAL version, meanwhile, has a bug when selecting the game language: pressing the triangle button to back out instead of selecting a language will cause most text to display as dashes and hyphens, and, even more bizarrely, causes the bosses barring Ripper Roo to swap heads during cutscenes, leading to the surreal sight of Pinstripe's head on Papu Papu's body, Oxide's head on Komodo Joe's body, Komodo Joe's head on Pinstripe's body, and Papu Papu's head on Oxide's body.The PAL version of the game fixed the error, but the version on the PSN store still has the wrong dialogue. These were two placeholder sound effects recorded by programmer Gavin James, which went unnoticed until the game was being put up for sale.

While he mostly makes typical penguin noises, his cheers for when he boosts have him saying 'Penguin Yay 1' and 'Penguin Yay 2' in a monotone male voice.

In the NTSC version of the game, Penta Penguin's voice files are unfinished.

Perhaps due to this, the remake alters it so that the Roy expy doesn't die and Pura just goes solo after that. Four years later, Roy Horn was mauled by one of the duo's own tigers mid-show, effectively ending their act.

'Funny Aneurysm' Moment: According to the 'Where Are They Now?' Epilogue, Pura gets a job as part of a Sigfried and Roy expy's act, which ends when he accidentally kills the Roy expy.He would, however, become playable in later games, including the remake of this game. It didn't work, however, and instead he became one of the most popular characters in the whole series (partly thanks to being the only racer in the game you can't actually unlock). Nitros Oxide was created to be The Scrappy in order to kill the franchise, since Naughty Dog knew this was it for them anyways and they thought fans wouldn't take an alien character seriously (see Asterix and the Falling Sky for why this is justified).Most Battle Mode tracks require good handling in order to be agile against most projectiles flung at you by other people, while most other kinds of tracks can have handling issues be circumvented a la power sliding to get proper boosts to not fall behind. Some of the more straightforward tracks require a bit of top speed, while others are more favorable for karts with better acceleration and/or handling. Character Tiers: It varies from track to track.Especially once you know the Easy Level Trick for it. Most of the late-game tracks as well, notably Oxide Station the longest in the game.The best part is a half-pipe section including a wild shortcut that requires you to hop off the top of the halfpipe with a drift boost (or item) to reach it.

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