1. To me it seems they had plans for the entire 2003 Busch Series as a selectable championship, but scrapped it and waited for the next year (Chase for the Cup). 2. The #'d 100 fantasy drivers are just EA Tiburon employees. It's likely the cut drivers are simply people who left the company during development.
With that many Busch cars cut it seems like they would have had enough to have the Busch Series as an entirely separate series in the game, which sucks because that would have been really awesome with the Thunder career modes.
Didn't know someone finally cracked the code on how to mod NASCAR Thunder 2004. For as long as I knew, it was downright impossible to get it passed the start screen.
I always found it weird why Spencer and the 7, and The Onion and the 54 werent included, but for some reason, Todds stats were given to Hermie Sadler, and Tony Raines gettiing bumped was weird too. There was also the 37 of Derrike Cope, who attempted most of the 03 schedule that could've/should've been in it
I used to get so pissed about this stuff a lot as a kid and this video proves exactly why! Great stuff GrandPrix! Some of these drivers in particular I still wish made the final cut even to this day.
We could have lived in a world where we could have raced with Hideo Fukuyama smdh. Though I love the two announcers sounding like they're arguing over how to pronounce "Dwayne Leik" lmao
I was looking into modding NT2004 so I could swap paints and stats in career mode to keep the roster 'current' as you played through the game. I am having some trouble changing paints in the game itself as the textures seem to swap randomly and I was wondering if you had any insight as you seem to have messed with these files plenty.
I like how there was absolutely no reason to remove Tony Raines at all and they just did.
Probably because it's Tony Raines so no one really cares
@@Gage_Brumley that's not a reason to remove him tho
@@jc1424 no, but if it was close to release time, it would be. Which lines up with how finished his car is in the files
I find it funny how both announcers pronounce drivers and sponsors differently like how one of them pronounces Kahne's last name "Kahane"
"the kick-a-man Ford"
1. To me it seems they had plans for the entire 2003 Busch Series as a selectable championship, but scrapped it and waited for the next year (Chase for the Cup).
2. The #'d 100 fantasy drivers are just EA Tiburon employees. It's likely the cut drivers are simply people who left the company during development.
7:14 sounds like they’re arguing over how the name is pronounced
It sucks that due to Jasper working with Papyrus, Dave Blaney was left out of this game. As a huge Blaney fan it was such a bummer.
Jasper was in Heat 2000 somehow, though...
Joe Moore and fake PRN guy saying Ciclon, Kikkoman and Leik differently 😂
At least fake PRN guy got Ciclón right.
The Kick A Man Chevrolet
The Raines one is especially odd because you can see his car with blurred numbers in some of tutorial videos
In some (possibly) trailer videos you had John Andretti in the 43 complete with his face
@@masoneveridge4078 John Andretti wasn't cut until one of the final pre release builds.
@@namemcnamerton4249yeah because Andretti was fired after Texas or Richmond and Christian Fittipaldi took over which we know how that went
@@LSTNSCRFN damn he only made it to Pocono
@@namemcnamerton4249 yeah
With that many Busch cars cut it seems like they would have had enough to have the Busch Series as an entirely separate series in the game, which sucks because that would have been really awesome with the Thunder career modes.
Definitely, and especially if they went as far as to obtain licensing rights for the non-Cup tracks like Nazareth, IRP, Memphis, Gateway, etc.
Didn't know someone finally cracked the code on how to mod NASCAR Thunder 2004.
For as long as I knew, it was downright impossible to get it passed the start screen.
I always found it weird why Spencer and the 7, and The Onion and the 54 werent included, but for some reason, Todds stats were given to Hermie Sadler, and Tony Raines gettiing bumped was weird too. There was also the 37 of Derrike Cope, who attempted most of the 03 schedule that could've/should've been in it
Kingsford car was fire
7:17 Sounds like they are arguing XD
I used to get so pissed about this stuff a lot as a kid and this video proves exactly why! Great stuff GrandPrix! Some of these drivers in particular I still wish made the final cut even to this day.
8:08 Honestly, I never knew the cut Thunder 2003 fantasy drivers had updated version of their schemes until now. That's pretty cool.
as a Kahne fan knowing that his car was almost fully complete and it got cut made me sad
And for some reason they never put his number 38 Busch Series Great Clips cars in NASCAR 2005 and 2006.
Great job covering Thunder 04's cut content. Helluva more concise compared to mine
Man I really wish they would have keept the Busch cars. Another series on 04 would have been awesome in the Career mode.
Ricky Rudd's Air Force scheme has been cut
I wondered what any of Gordon's placeholders cars were supposed to be
Probably older schemes
I don't get why they never put his classic rainbow car in the Thunder games.
Kahne being cut is a crime!
There should be a Google doc filing this stuff
Thanks for this video, I always wondered about the Field Fillers/alternates that didn’t make it.
Nascar 25 needs playable legends like david pearson or darrell waltrip
And better have a paint booth like 09
13:38 kasey KaHEYne lol
Love the video!!! Awesome work
Nice work! How were you able to get these files to show up in game and edit and extract the NASCAR.DB file?
Great video. Been playing that game for 20 years and never knew all this
12:39 the KICK A MAN FORD!
would be cool if you did the same for 2005 and others
If youre reading this your special
I honestly think the Shane Hall one was going to be similar to his Thunder 03 car but both his car and the sponsor was cut
Awesome video! I had no idea about any of this! Now I have to figure out how to get these in the game because I still play it from time to time 😅
We could have lived in a world where we could have raced with Hideo Fukuyama smdh. Though I love the two announcers sounding like they're arguing over how to pronounce "Dwayne Leik" lmao
Very Neat!
🏆🔥👀🥂🥂
I was looking into modding NT2004 so I could swap paints and stats in career mode to keep the roster 'current' as you played through the game.
I am having some trouble changing paints in the game itself as the textures seem to swap randomly and I was wondering if you had any insight as you seem to have messed with these files plenty.
by swap randomly, I mean reload constantly and at new memory addresses it seems
How did you manage to extract the car textures. I am interested in modding this game. Please help
why ror how we calling these placeholders?
I feel dumb for asking but does anyone have a way to modify these cars for the ps2
Emulator only brotha
@@giospage damn there's gotta be a way...looks like I'm going to get a better laptop then lol
This is why NT2003 was better
Kick a man Ford!