Castle (Whirl Tour)
Description
The first level from the 2002 motor-scoot game Whirl Tour! This is where you begin your quest to search for and rescue your kidnapped band members from the evil Dr. Skeezicks. This castle resembles a gigantic house along with the stereotypical stone structures often seen in medieval times. Shred on huge gothic statues and aqueducts, creating unique opportunities for scooting (and skateboarding)!
This level features gaps, CTF flags, KOTH crown spawn points, taggable pieces for Graffiti, and classic goals for Goal Attack! Expect many boost rails in this map since you can grind up rails with ease in Whirl Tour. Not every slanted rail is boosted, however.
I started working on this level for THUGPro right after I released Tibet. The process of ripping the level and piecing it together took about 2 weeks. Making the level compatible for THUGPro took about 8 months of on-and-off work. I did take some breaks here and there due to personal reasons. I began working on the reTHAWed version back in June right after I finished Tibet for reTHAWed. And after 4-5 months of on-and-off work, here it is! I ran into a bunch of roadbumps, but thanks to Zedek and other talented members of the community, it's now done!
It has always been a dream to get levels from Whirl Tour into a THPS game ever since I was little. Whirl Tour was one of the first games I have ever played on GameCube. It was not until around 2022 that I finally tried giving it a shot. This was not easy, since no matter what ripping method I used, the level would always turn out either skewed or in pieces. It was only until early 2024 that I finally got my hands on a good NinjaRipper importer for Blender that imports both textures and vertex shading. I tried it on Tibet, and it was still in pieces with everything snapped to the origin, no matter which settings I used. I went and pieced the level together by hand like a massive puzzle, and it worked out in the end. The same was done with Castle!
This is my second ever reTHAWed level, and my second level of 2025!
Original THUGPro version also included.
Put the Whirl Tour folder in this directory:
[reTHAWed install directory]\data\mod\UserMods\Maps
NOW GO PLAY!
Crave Entertainment & Papaya Studios: Publishing and developing Whirl Tour
ShOscar: Ripping assets, pieceing the level together, making it compatible for reTHAWed, scripting, and making the thumbnail
Zedek: help with emitters, flying bats, and goals
Skater1014 & Sarge: Providing me with a GOOD NinjaRipper importer plugin.
isocosa: providing playerclip, trigger and vert placeholder textures
Zedek, Fretworks, asdf__ & denetii/KSK: Making all this possible
ABOUT
This level features gaps, CTF flags, KOTH crown spawn points, taggable pieces for Graffiti, and classic goals for Goal Attack! Expect many boost rails in this map since you can grind up rails with ease in Whirl Tour. Not every slanted rail is boosted, however.
I started working on this level for THUGPro right after I released Tibet. The process of ripping the level and piecing it together took about 2 weeks. Making the level compatible for THUGPro took about 8 months of on-and-off work. I did take some breaks here and there due to personal reasons. I began working on the reTHAWed version back in June right after I finished Tibet for reTHAWed. And after 4-5 months of on-and-off work, here it is! I ran into a bunch of roadbumps, but thanks to Zedek and other talented members of the community, it's now done!
It has always been a dream to get levels from Whirl Tour into a THPS game ever since I was little. Whirl Tour was one of the first games I have ever played on GameCube. It was not until around 2022 that I finally tried giving it a shot. This was not easy, since no matter what ripping method I used, the level would always turn out either skewed or in pieces. It was only until early 2024 that I finally got my hands on a good NinjaRipper importer for Blender that imports both textures and vertex shading. I tried it on Tibet, and it was still in pieces with everything snapped to the origin, no matter which settings I used. I went and pieced the level together by hand like a massive puzzle, and it worked out in the end. The same was done with Castle!
This is my second ever reTHAWed level, and my second level of 2025!
Original THUGPro version also included.
HOW TO INSTALL
Put the Whirl Tour folder in this directory:
[reTHAWed install directory]\data\mod\UserMods\Maps
NOW GO PLAY!
CRED'S
Crave Entertainment & Papaya Studios: Publishing and developing Whirl Tour
ShOscar: Ripping assets, pieceing the level together, making it compatible for reTHAWed, scripting, and making the thumbnail
Zedek: help with emitters, flying bats, and goals
Skater1014 & Sarge: Providing me with a GOOD NinjaRipper importer plugin.
isocosa: providing playerclip, trigger and vert placeholder textures
Zedek, Fretworks, asdf__ & denetii/KSK: Making all this possible
Installation
Extract the mod's .zip file to the
data/mod/UserMods/Maps folder of your game directory.Each map should have its own folder!
Installed maps will show in the reTHAWed category of the level select.