CTTR Modding Antics

HEY THERE! RACE FANS! Welcome to this exciting race post,where,by the title,you can already expect that i will be posting mods,discussing,and etc,about one of my childhood games,developed by Radical Entertainment,Crash Tag Team Racing,this may not the BEST place to discuss this game,but its the closest,as it seems there is no forums,discord servers,subreddits,or anything related to this topic (or even Crash Bandicoot PS2 modding) (i plan on creating a Fanwiki modding page documenting the game,but for that,id need more people,or else the wiki gets deleted for no interactions),but i suppose this is the closest due to how the Pure3D engine works,people can help people. I modded many games already,GTA SA/5,Mario Kart DS/WII,Cars Mater National,Sonic Adventure 2,and even fking Angry Birds,the difference here is,this is a completly untouched game (the only one i know who modded this game is BetaM [www.youtube.com/@BetaM])

Krash... rhat vhere you talking about? zese edibels ain sh**...

SCREW YOU MOM! I CAN DRIVE WHATEVER I WANT!

NOW LETS GET BACK TO THE POINT!
I plan on editing this post,to add small mods showcases i make for the game,"tutorials",documentation,and overall """"daily"""" posts of me trying to figure out how this game works,trial and error.

I NEED YOUR HELP!
Now,a reason i've came to this forum,was not only to show my work,but also inspire someone who'd be down to helping in this game,give suggestions,ask questions,answer questions,try making your own mods,thankfully a handful of tools needed already exist, RCF explorer and CML (to rebuild the game),,and yeah,i do need help,so anyone who knows the insides and outs of the engine,and wanna help me learn about it,it would be great,or reverse engineering,im still learning.

SO NOW WHAT?
For now i wanna see whats possible to do in the game with the tools that already exist,but there is 2 things i have in mind,two mods.
1 - Making it so everyone can drive any car,no exclusivity (and lets throw the beta cars there bcuz why not?),it would be easy if the quantity of cars per character wasnt capped to 4 (it could be hardcoded, please God,please no or i suppose its in a file i didnt found,or i dont know how to properly add them)
2 - Reverse engineer the textures,sounds,and maybe models,i suppose it wouldnt be impossible for the people who know how the game engine works,its probably a moderate difference between CTTR and SHAR,but the p3d editor doesnt accept these files,i suppose things changed in the engine after 3 years.

EDIT 1: Gamebanana page created,with a tutorial on how mod this game on its PS2 port: gamebanana.com/games/21589

Hello! 👋
As a SHAR modder, I've always been interested in modding CTTR since it was my childhood game on PS2. However, my attempts have failed (broken P3D files). What's the best console version of CTTR to mod, and what are the limitations when modding? 🤔
Thanks ☺

Hey there,well,this is more a case of choose your poison:

The PS2/PSP versions,being the most complete versions,with exclusive contents,like cars.
The Xbox version,without these exclusive contents,but has an architecture more similar to the PC,and Lucas' P3D editor can work with the Xbox p3d files (to an extent)
And the GameCube version,it... exists....

i use the PS2 version,because it has exclusive content,and i cant do proper xbox emulation,also a bit of nostalgia of the PS2

For now what is possible to do is mostly mod the .god files which are similar to lua scripts,completly modifiable with any text editor (i use notepad),which control some character(skin model,size,voice) and car (model,handling) configurations,and some "commands",or missions scripting (to an extent),and the p3d files,which arent modifiable using Lucas Pure3D editor... on the PS2,tho the Xbox version seems to work,not just that,the xbox models can be inserted into the ps2 and work... partially,the textures dont,i still have to figure out a way to convert the DDS xbox textures to an texture the PS2 can read.

Side note,ive also created a gamebanana page and modding tutorial of the game,might wanna take a look and help to make this game modding scene get some attention,more tutorials on the way!