Research Series (Mod) - F-Zero Maximum Velocity

This is a purely academic mod. I'm researching the internals of F-Zero Maximum Velocity, and had the idea to make the Championship and Single-Pak courses available in the other modes. And then I thought about putting the Single-Pak courses from GP Legend and Climax in it too. And then I thought that with just one more course, I could make a new series in Grand Prix mode. So I did.
Silence Open Circuit is already a part of Maximum Velocity: it's the course you race on in a Single-Pak multiplayer game. The music used here is also tucked away inside the game. One of four unused music tracks, it's the only one that's located among and uses the same sound font as the regular tunes. It's quite likely it was produced for use somewhere in the game but didn't make the cut.
The Single-Pak course in F-Zero GP Legend is Big Blue Calm Sea. The game uses the same course elements and graphics as Maximum Velocity, so migrating the data was a simple affair. The CPU pathing hints aren't present, however, so I had to set those up manually. Ancient Mesa was selected because I feel like it probably used to be Big Blue during development before they rebranded everything.
The Single-Pak course in F-Zero Climax is Fire Field Rat Race. This time, the course elements and graphics are drastically different, so a conversion had to take place on it. I got a fair amount of the way there with an automation, but had to do some touching up manually. All-in-all, I really like the way it turned out and it feels right at home.
One of the e-Reader courses for the Japanese version of GP Legend is Port Town Dukedom Circuit. I was immediately drawn to it because for whatever reason it just FEELS like a Maximum Velocity course to me, while none of the others in the game do. I've often wanted to actually play it in Maximum Velocity proper, and now I can.
Synobazz Championship Circuit is part of Maximum Velocity, as a special course that can only be raced in a time attack mode where the fastest user profile can save their performance as a ghost. The course wasn't set up for racing against CPUs, so some adjustments were needed. The result is a satisfyingly challenging experience.

[@RT55J]

feels weird seeing Fire Field as the middle course in a cup
great work

[@alunbuss7877]

Personally I feel like Ancient Mesa better lines up with White Land, and was disappointed with how underused Beacon Port was in the main game.

[@yokaipinata1416]

For real about Beacon Port. The poor thing only got _one_ circuit. At least Synobazz also has the time attack circuit (i.e. the one we see here).
Albeit, I guess both of them can be thankful to actually get to be in the main game at all, unlike Silence, lol.

[@CosmicTailz]

Fascinating! I rarely ever see people do stuff like this with Maximum Velocity, so seeing some unfamiliar tracks being played directly via a modified ROM is really surreal to see! :D
I also really like the use of song043 in Silence, it fits really well compared to song003 in soundbank000 (which everybody thinks is Silence for some reason)

[@johanneshaukanes4531]

2:22 This is a big day. First time I see a custom track in one of my favorite games

[@ThePerfectKiosk]

Calm Sea is the single-pak multiplayer course from GP Legend.

[@johanneshaukanes4531]

@@ThePerfectKiosk Ye, I did see your descriprion after. Very nice you described where every track came from

[@archienyaa]

wtf this is so cute. i want this mod so bad, i would love to see a download link to this in the future.

[@FighBat]

This is so neat

[@ReimuHakureiShrine]

I just found out about this and honestly this be cool as hell to see. Makes me wonder if there will be a modding scene for MV some time in the future like what's happened for F-Zero OG. Do you have any tools that you might release for people to use for this?

[@Infinity90ITA]

This is a great experiment, congratulations! Did you find any additional racing vehicles data while exploring the internal parts of this game, like the single pack race car?

[@elenasiegmanfan]

Yoooo whaaaat

[@khastvrokg]

I want this.

[@ThePerfectKiosk]

There's a patch in the F-Zero Online Discord server's modding channel.