Trivia

The TrackMania franchise as a whole has a long history of including various easter eggs and other peculiar concepts. This trivia page aims to provide a list of such less community-known things in a disorderly matter.

Gameboy release
Despite popular belief that the game was released in 2006, TrackMania was initially a title for the GameBoy Advance, published in November 1999. As Nadeo was not yet founded at the time, the game was launched by Hylis alone. Given how this was one of the first titles to use a pseudo-3D effect, there were many bugs left in the official release, such as the NoseBug which is still left in the latest release. This bug, however, was the only popularized one that had its own name in the community at the time.

Maps
Compared to modern day, this version had only 4 maps, one of which was used only for beta testing, leaving just 3 maps in the full release, by the names of:


 * 1) Landscape
 * 2) Ramps
 * 3) Loop-da-loop (renamed to Loop)
 * 4) whitespace (Beta only)

Environments
This version of the game had 2 accessible environments and one used for development but left in the game files:

Forest
As the title suggests, the forest is an environment with curved roads and trees scattered almost everywhere. This was the first environment without invisible walls to restrict the player within, so it was possible to go outside the maps (landscape, ramps) and fall off into the void.

Volcano
This environment uses the same curved roads as Forest, however it is a darker shade of grey, there are no longer any trees and there is a volcano in the corner of the map. The volcano itself is not accessible by normal means, but using glitches you could enter the volcano through the red lava surface, revealing a whole secret side with built-in ramps and roads. After a month of this being revealed, this was dubbed as the super volcano glitch.

drift_01 (Development)
There is not much known about this specific environment, as only its name was discovered in a leak in September of 2003 by the player 3x7r3m3_TM. Hylis has denied the existence of this mysterious environment several times, and even said in his most recent interview: "you see this in game? no" [sic].

Cameras
In the modern release there are 4 cameras (cam 1, 2, 3 and 8), however back then there were only 2, those being the main third person camera (cam 1) and the sky view camera (cam 2), whereas the first camera follows the player from behind them and the second follows them from above.