Mafia's cut racing mode - victory cutscene

[AsaSK]

Hi everyone,

I know that Neutral & Pinkshit already discovered this (they used it as the 'win' cutscene for the racing mode they created as part of Mafia Classic Mod Deluxe), but I haven't found it anywhere in isolation, so I loaded it into a mission and recorded it for all to see.
One thing that's worth noting is that the three winners loaded in by the .diff file disappear when the .rec file is loaded (I put them back in manually). I assume this is because they are placeholders that would then be replaced with whoever came 1st, 2nd & 3rd in a specific race.
Looking in the hex there were also a number of sounds that had their filenames deliberately altered so the game wouldn't find them to play, but any attempt to restore them seems to produce a crash. Additionally, I assume the ground is missing either because the cutscene was meant to be transplanted into one of several locations (depending on which circuit was selected), or because it requirs a model/scene.4ds that was completely removed from the game.

Below is the cutscene in question, along with the loading screens that originally accompanied each circuit. If you look to the left of a couple of the images, you can see the edge of the raw screenshot they took with the edge of the filter they put over it!

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[semodo]

How did you manage to put the cup into winners hands? Thanks

[AsaSK]

[semodo]

[AsaSK]

[brokenneedlecaa76]

AsaSK thank you so much for sharing this find with us.I would really like to have this celebration as the one for the version of the racing i've pieced together. certainly love to hear see more of the racing stuff, in fact it's a shame that some of the modders couldn't do a project of it.
I've had so much trouble playing the races for the last few months; however, in the last week I've gone from playing one race over and over to now having 13 different tracks to race on in championship without crashes. I found some of this and added some of that and it all worked out in the end finally. I appreciate all your input and great shares and knowledge that i've been able to use to complete my task. I do have one problem though; I have single race and it allows to complete central island but this is the only single race it will play any thoughts? One other question, is how to have the rounds go into next rounds or at least always go back to racing menu automatically when completed.any input would be great? thanks again, and please keeping sharing it helps us all.

[brokenneedlecaa76]

i found the two cutscenes on the ps2.iso for the races. one being the fairplay celebration and the other being the championship. how do i load the cutscene into the game.I want to include it as my ending for my championship race ending all 13 races finally. what do i do to change their pss extension into a usable pc extension. again thank you for whoever made the racing mods.

[semodo]

There is an improved version of this mode created by olegon:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/4Fsn/j4HRcQCzb

[Duelist]

Race #12 from PS2. Lighting might be off (PS2 version has a little different lighting settings and I didn't bother with figuring it out that much) and npcs are easy to beat for some reason.

[Duelist]

Race #11 from PS2. Same as above

[brokenneedlecaa76]

thanks for input Duelist, I appreciate any update info etc regarding the racing. It is a complete shame that it was removed from pc version; but I appreciate that it was included in ps2 version, I don't know anything of the xbox version might be an idea to check that out perhaps more goodies. thank you for adding the pics, i would love to be able to add these races to the collection that i have installed. After the last mod adding session to my mafia version; I have 13 different race tracks/routes for championship and now the same for single races. Do you have any idea how i could add the ps2 tracks and the celebrations to mine thanks

i love the ps2 races. To this day it is the only thing i can do on the ps2 with mafia as I cannot beat the mission to get the race car to lucas. I have to have tried this 1000 times or more now as well as friends tried to beat it and no go. I watched all videos i could to learn from maps anything i could and i can't beat it. I'm glad i have the pc to fall back on.thank you pc.
As for the ps2 version, how and what programs are being used by anyone to rip/ open files to tear it apart reverse engineer. I know that hex editing is used but how anyone have any guide info how to decipher the hex edit.

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[Duelist]

I think I should've stated it more clearly. I've converted these 2 races from PS2 to PC version. It has been played on PC.

I've changed that blue fog, created more detailed lightmaps and found out how to make npc more difficult to beat - race has to be started from racing menu in main menu with highest difficulty setting instead of mission load from other mission .

[svanis]

Looks very cool! I would like to race on these maps.

[brokenneedlecaa76]

who wouldn't want to race on these tracks they look incredible, I wonder how close they are to the original version of ps2 with placements etc. Does anyone know if the coordinates for races have to fit within the area that the race should take place within ie. country tracks?