Both MotoGP Ultimate Racing Technology and Whacked! were the first Xbox games to support Xbox Live prior to the service's launch on November 15, 2002. Whacked! was also the first game to pass Xbox Live release certifications, and both games had online demos in the Xbox Live Starter Kit. Whereas Whacked! had online support out of the box, online support for MotoGP Ultimate Racing Technology was limited to the demo disc and had a smaller amount of content. If players wanted to import more tracks and customize bikes for the online mode, they would have needed to have save data for the full game on the Xbox's hard drive to unlock access to the rest of the base game's content online.