But if you're really into the game, the side 'quests' are amazing, with great challenges to unlock new tracks and characters and beating your own records (actually receiving in-game rewards for it). If you are a casual, you could just play until the final boss is defeated and you're good to go. The career mode actually has a fun story (despite being an arcade game) and the difficult increases through the plot, forcing the player to evolve the driving style. When it comes to arcade racing games, people always remember Mario Kart, and I've always found it to be a huge injustice. This further supports the theory that the Japanese version was built off of the PAL one, also evidenced by the fact that it retains all the improvements from it.

As you've probably guessed, these challenges use the letters CBR instead of CTR in that version. CBR stands for Crash Bandicoot Racing, which is the name of the game in Japan. The reason it seems to do this is because the CTR challenges in adventure mode will say 'CBR' along with some missing characters. The game seems to change to the Japanese language when you do this (the only problem is that neither the voice lines nor the Japanese font are there, and that's why it doesn't work). Another difference is that Aku Aku/Uka Uka will be silent. You can get such atrocities as Papu Papu with Pinstripe's head, Komodo Joe with Oxide's and Oxide with Papu Papu's (Ripper Roo, on the other hand, remains untouched). The glitch gets really interesting in Adventure Mode, because most bosses strangely swap their heads and dialogues with each others. When prompted to select a language before the title screen, you can press Triangle to cancel it, leaving you with nothing but blank spaces and hyphens where words would normally be.

In the PAL version, there's an interesting glitch.

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