Chinese Top Tens

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Good point about that profile showing those ghosts were from the same Wii, I never knew that exact link existed! I should have scanned thru the website better back in the day. I may have to fix the Top 10's then, but the hypothesis is that these Chinese Times were made by iQue employees so it's very possible Wiis were shared. Chinese Wiis were never release/made-public.

Regarding the Korean release date, there are some a couple of Chinese files within the Korean Game. There was a hypthoseiss that the Korean game was going to be like the Japan Game. In the sense that the game contains two possible Region ID outputs, and the Region ID is set based on what Country Code is set in the Wii's SYSCONF. This never materialized because if you apply the Chinese Country Code while using the Korean Game, you still get the Korean Region ID. More info - https://mariokartwii.com/showthread.php?tid=8

No, XeR never shared a save/backup file of any kind.

Yep! The strongest evidence of the relationship between the Korean and the unreleased Chinese version is the fact that the non-empty .svn remnants found in the Korean ISO's CHANNEL partition shows that the branch the Korean version was being developed was known as ChinaKorea. For example, here's how the .svn file associated to the "installer" folder within said partition looks like:

Code:

Path: .
URL: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer
Relative URL: ^/branches/ChinaKorea/RevoKart/lib/RVL_SDK/dvddata/installer
Repository Root: http://metis/svnprojects/revokart
Repository UUID: 7fdc3869-ac1f-0410-91b3-fa73b20fd412
Revision: 25892
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: shiraiwa_yusuke
Last Changed Rev: 25769
Last Changed Date: 2008-06-19 03:43:23 +0100 (Thu, 19 Jun 2008)

That's a good theory too, though I can't confirm much farther from looking at the code unfortunately. The Chinese asset leftovers in the Korean version + the NVIDIA Shield stuff (likely a port / hack of the unreleased iQue version, considering that uses the same font as the Korean version) + the China region appears to really be all that we have at the moment.

I wish there were more save files available for us to look at... Do we know of any other people who had accessed the China rankings in the WFC days that could potentially share a save with us? Not too long ago, I was helping some of the Time Trial Discord community members to get things like Miis and old ranking times left in wc24dl.vff, which the game didn't appear to show easily without hacks (such as old Competition ranking times, which normally require you to first connect to WFC, even though a simple change in the code makes you be able to enter those rankings just fine). We could do something similar if we had a save file that had WFC China stuff on it.