f-zero environment mapping

Obviously, the cars in F-Zero X cannot possibly be using environment mapping, yet the geometry mode says that they do. Is there any command that can set the geometry mode other than geom_mode?

Here is a screenshot of what F-Zero X as it is now. The lack of detail on the cars is caused by spherical mapping setting the coordinates way beyond the clamping borders of the texture.

btw, in case anybody's wondering... the screenshots in the other thread were taken from a copy with enviornment mapping disabled, so they show correctly. I still do need the answer to this question though.

Argghhhh... what the heck?? This has nothing to do with it being correct or not, this is with it being enabled.