MR_highway_ground_C.dat - this file does not match the pattern.MR_highway_short_C.dat - Mario Highway Night.MR_highway_short_B.dat - Mario Highway Evening.MR_highway_short_A.dat - Mario Highway Day.MR_highway_long_C.dat - Mario Beach Night.MR_highway_long_B.dat - Mario Beach Evening.MR_highway_long_A.dat - Mario Beach Day.It doesn't follow the same naming conventions of the final files for this track:

This course also does not align with the mini-map of the final version. In the final game, Mario Beach and Mario Highway have their own separate sets of models. These may be objects, able to be enabled or disabled when the course is loaded by the game. It notably also has gated off all paths, both for Mario Highway and for Mario Beach. Some of the guard rails look like blocks from Super Mario World, like in test_course. There are still several differences from the final version. This file seems to be an early version of the model of Mario Highway / Mario Beach. EXIF data shows it was modified on 9th September 2004 12:25:57 - as this is only days after the event, the image was likely copied from a news website. Originally photographed by Yuri Tutov, and can be purchased from Getty Images. It is a picture of the Beslan school hostage crisis, a terrorist attack where over 1,100 people were taken hostage by armed separatist militants in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia (Russian Federation). The source of the third picture is slightly. EXIF data shows it was modified on 14th December 2004 20:00:51. The second image depicts the mascots of Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. EXIF data shows it was modified on 10th October 2004 21:34:06. The EXIF data of all images shows they were processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 in 2004.

It can be assumed that these were somehow used during testing for the NamCam player portrait feature.

Three JPG images exist in the Arcade GP ROM: camtest00.jpg, camtest01.jpg and camtest02.jpg.

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