Broken map / racing Johnny

[ms0019]

FIRST: One character in the programmer’s ending mentions: It'll cost you 10,000,000G to fix a broken map!  Has anyone ever determined if this is for real?

SECOND: I always thought I’d get something cool if I got a ‘perfect’ score racing Johnny.  I ‘rode’ him the entire race and broke 2100, but didn’t get anything for it.  Did I miss it by just a little or is there no point to getting a really really high score?

[fxar99]

FIRST: One character in the programmer’s ending mentions: It'll cost you 10,000,000G to fix a broken map!  Has anyone ever determined if this is for real?

I always thought the map thingy was just a joke, crap. There are no maps in the game and I'm sure he's not referring to the maps (locations) in the ROM.

[JLukas]

Keita Eto (the broken map NPC) is in the game credits under Field Plan.  I would guess he was one of the people responsible for adding the tile properties to the location maps.  That explains the broken map line.  The 10,000,000G part is just a joke, though.  BTW, the Jet Bike Bike Race max prize is at 2200+, IIRC.