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docs/tracks.html joins the roster page: all 18 tracks with a plan view, what the console calls them, which scenarios offer them, and how big they are. There are no track maps in the game's files. The console had pictures of them and those pictures did not survive - RPConfig.xml still points at "images/red planet maps/Wiseguy's Wake.bmp" and the folder is gone. So the plans are drawn from the tracks themselves. A map's instance stream places its scenery: 76-byte records carrying a position at +48 and a unit quaternion at +60, a few of them longer, so the reader resyncs on an unexpected class id rather than trusting the stride. The quaternion doubles as a checksum - a mis-read almost never yields a unit one - and 17 of the 18 decode every instance the header promises. Trough gives up 631 of 633 and the card says so. Seen this way the tracks have obvious shapes: Brewer's Bane turns two corners, Tour De Mars is one 23,000-unit run, and both arenas are a regular lattice of obstacles rather than a route at all. The eras come from the resource-file archaeology rather than a guess: 9 tracks shipped in the 4.10 cabinets, headoff and headmf arrived with 4.11, and 7 were built by the community afterwards. Scenario legality is read out of the front end's own kMaps and kFootballMaps, so the page cannot claim a track is offered when the menu does not offer it. tools/pages carries the generators for both reference pages, with a README covering the two formats they read and the id-alignment the listing is needed for. They were scratch scripts until now, which made a committed page harder to regenerate than to rebuild by hand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<!doctype html>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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<title>Red Planet - the tracks</title>
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<style>{css}</style>
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<header class="top">
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<div class="wrap">
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<p class="eyebrow">Red Planet 4.12 · plans drawn from RPL4.RES</p>
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<h1>Every track,<br><em>seen from above</em></h1>
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<p class="lede">There are no track maps in the game's files — the console had
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pictures of them and those pictures did not survive. So these plans are drawn
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from the tracks themselves: <strong>every plan below is that map's own scenery,
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placed where the game places it</strong>, viewed from overhead with height
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shown as brightness.</p>
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</div>
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</header>
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<div class="bar">
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<div class="wrap bar__in">
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<div class="seg" role="group" aria-label="Filter">
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<button type="button" data-filter="all" aria-pressed="true">All</button>
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<button type="button" data-filter="arcade" aria-pressed="false">Arcade</button>
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<button type="button" data-filter="r411" aria-pressed="false">4.11</button>
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<button type="button" data-filter="later" aria-pressed="false">Community</button>
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<button type="button" data-filter="race" aria-pressed="false">Death race</button>
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<button type="button" data-filter="football" aria-pressed="false">Football</button>
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</div>
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<input id="search" class="search" type="search" placeholder="Search track…"
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aria-label="Search track">
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<span class="count" id="count">{n} / {n} TRACKS</span>
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</div>
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</div>
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<main class="wrap">
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<div class="key">
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<span><i style="background:var(--ink-mid)"></i>Scenery placement — brighter is higher ground</span>
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<span><i style="background:var(--sys)"></i>Offered for the death race</span>
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<span><i style="background:var(--pilot)"></i>Offered for football</span>
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</div>
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<div class="grid">{cards}</div>
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<p class="empty-state" id="nomatch" hidden>No track matches that.</p>
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<p class="foot">{n} tracks: {arcade} shipped in the 4.10 arcade cabinets, {r411} added in 4.11, {later} built by the community afterwards. Each plan
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is the map's instance stream — the scenery the game places — read out of
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<code>assets/RP411/RPL4.RES</code>. Records are 76 bytes carrying a position and a
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unit quaternion, so a placement validates itself and a mis-read cannot pass as a
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building. Extent and relief are the span of those placements in world units, not a
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measured track length: a long thin plan is a point-to-point run, a squat one a
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circuit or an arena.</p>
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<p class="foot">What is <em>not</em> here: the driving surface. Only placed objects are
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stored this way, so a plan shows what lines the route rather than the route itself.
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Tracks marked NOT IN THE MENU exist in the resource file but the setup screen does
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not offer them.</p>
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</main>
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<script>{js}</script>
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