3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:47 PM Page 17 CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing Metropolis Street Racer. Before you start playing the game, please read this instruction manual. CONTENTS Basic Controls Starting The Game Starting the game The Home Menu Options Kudos Playing the Game Your Garage Street Racing Time Attack Quick Race VMU Internet Multiplayer Hints and Tips · This game is for 1-2 players. · Before you switch on the power, please connect the Dreamcast peripheral(s) to the console. · If you wish to reset, press the the game's Title Screen. ,, , and START buttons during the game. You will return to 2 4 5 6 7 9 12 19 19 20 20 21 22 1 · This game requires a Visual Memory Unit (VMU) for saving the game data. 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 18 Basic Controls DREAMCAST CONTROLLER Analog Thumb Pad Button Button Button Directional Pad Button Start Button Keys Analog Thumb Pad Analog Mode Steer (analog) Left or Right on Directional Pad - Horn Hand Brake Shift Up (for manual setting only) Shift Down (will enter reverse gear if stationary) View Behind Brake Accelerate Pause / In-game Menu Trigger Digital Mode Change the driver's view Up or Down on Directional Pad - Change the driver 's view Accelerate Brake Hand Brake View Behind Shift Up (for manual setting only) Shift Down (will enter reverse gear if stationary) Pause / In-game Menu Trigger Keys Steering Wheel Button Button + Button - Button Trigger Trigger Start Button Function Steering (analog) Hand Brake View Behind Shift Up (for manual setting only) Trigger - Button Basic Controls RACE CONTROLLER + Button Trigger Button Start Button Button Steering Wheel 2 Directional Pad (digital) Button Button Button Button Trigger Trigger Start Button 3 Shift Down (will enter reverse gear if stationary) Brake Accelerate Pause / In-game Menu · If you have selected Automatic transmission, shifting up and down will occur automatically. · Reverse gear can be selected when the car is stationary. · The Jump Pack cannot be used with the Race Controller. · For 2 player games, you will need to use an extra controller. · Only official Dreamcast controllers should be used to play this game. · If you have selected Automatic transmission, shifting up and down will occur automatically. · Reverse gear can be selected when the car is stationary. · If you insert a Jump Pack into Expansion socket 2, you can feel the vehicle's movements. · For 2 player games, you will need to use an extra controller. · Only official Dreamcast controllers should be used to play this game. 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 20 Starting the game Starting the Game When you start the game, you'll be asked to enter your personal details, which will be used throughout the game. Also, you'll be asked for your time zone, as MSR operates on the REALTIME CLOCK. This means that wherever you are racing in the world, you'll be racing at the correct current time in the real cities - London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. You will need to create a save file on your VMU, if you have one, which will then keep a record of your progress. If you do not have a VMU, you will not be able to save your progress and personal details. · While saving or loading, please do not switch the console off or remove the VMU, controller or any other peripheral. · Game data (including game progress, Kudos Rating, personal details, option settings, Garage, and best laps) will be saved automatically during the game. · If you remove or insert the VMU during the game, your data may not be saved/loaded correctly. Starting the Game The Home Menu You will find the following options on the Home Menu: Your Garage P9 In your garage, you can view and select your own cars as well as view, test drive, and challenge for new cars. Street Racing P11 The Street Racing option is the main MSR game, where you take on a series of races and driving challenges to earn Kudos. Time Attack P18 This is where you can practice any circuit you have unlocked in the game, record a hotlap, or compete against a ghost car. Quick Race P18 This option allows you to create your own street races using any of the cars and circuits you have already unlocked in the game. Internet P19 Use this option to connect to the Internet to download or upload your Kudos Rating, records, and ghost car data. Options Here you can change many options associated with the game. Quit Quit your current game to start a new single or multiplayer game. P20 4 5 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 22 Kudos EARNING KUDOS kudos \ ku"dos \ , n. 1. Respect given to a skilled individual 2. Praise conferred for status achieved 3. Honor awarded to the ultimate winner Kudos You need to earn Kudos to progress through the game. But since Kudos are about style as well as success, it's not just winning that boosts your rating. Kudos can be earned in the following ways: Skill · Winning and doing well in races. · Beating the best times set for the lap. · Achieving the goals in a skill challenge. Style · Clean, stylish laps. · Being great fun to watch, and having fun when you drive What is Kudos? Metropolis Street Racer is all about Kudos. It's Kudos that you earn from winning, from driving with style and care, and from being an impressive driver to watch. It's Kudos that you gamble each time you race, and it's Kudos that you lose if you're driving badly! 6 Each race, speed-trial, and challenge you race on the game's 200+ routes can earn you Kudos. The Kudos you receive is a measure of the skill and style that you drive with and of the successes that you achieve within the game. - doing huge powerslides, massive skids, etc. · Impressive racing skills, such as clever overtaking maneuvers. 7 The Kudos are added up for an overall Kudos Rating.Your Kudos Rating unlocks the 250 Stages and 25 Chapters that make up the Street Racing game. It allows you to progress, unlock new cars, and compete in the Global Kudos Challenge on the Internet. Gambling · Each time you retry a race, you are gambling your Kudos on that race, as it's the last time you raced it that counts! · You can set your own goals to beat in a variety of ways. The higher the goal you set, the more Kudos you can earn. · Play your Jokers to gamble for even more Kudos! 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 24 Kudos LOSING KUDOS There's always going to be a catch ­ like real life, your Kudos can go down as well as up! A poor driver will lose Kudos by driving badly, dangerously, or inefficiently. Here's a summary of the ways you can LOSE Kudos: Bad Driving · Crashes · Wall-scraping Playing the Game YOUR GARAGE In MSR, you earn cars to own in your personal Garage. There are initially three slots in your garage available for cars - you can earn extra garage slots later in the game. Selecting `Garage'from the Home Menu at any time allows you to view information on, or drive the cars you own, view or test drive a car from the Car Showroom, or challenge for a new car. Unfair Advantage · Using other cars or barriers to gain position. 8 Car Swaps · Changing your car costs you a trade-in Kudos penalty - a percentage of the Kudos that you've earned with the car. And importantly, it's the LASTtime that you attempt each race in the game that will count towards your Kudos Rating ­ NOT your best ever attempt! Your Kudos Rating can go down, but everything that you've unlocked will always stay available in the game. The first thing you'll need to do to start the game is to earn a car. Select a Garage Slot to fill, and you'll be taken to the Car Showroom, where you'll find three cars initially on offer. The options for each car allow you to view an exhibition race, take a test drive with no obligation, or challenge to own the car. 9 To own any car, you need to beat the challenge that is set for that car, customize the car, and then the car becomes yours for use in street races. When a car is in your Garage, you can select it as the car that you drive in the races at any time, by highlighting it and choosing the 'Drive Car' option. 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 26 Playing the game YOUR GARAGE A new car is on offer in every Chapter of the game (see `Street Racing'section). If you are successful in all 10 Stages in a Chapter, you will unlock that Chapter's car in the Car Showroom, ready for you to view, test drive, or challenge to own. Bonus Cars are also available as a reward for Special Stages. Playing the game STREET RACING Once you have one or more cars in your garage, you can race in the main Street Racing Kudos Challenge, which is selected via the `Street Racing'option on the Home menu. 10 Each car that you unlock has a unique Car Performance Factor - or CPF - which is used to calculate the Kudos you earn with it. A car with a higher CPF will generally be more powerful, and those with a lower CPF will generally be less powerful. You begin on the `Chapters'screen. This is where you can access which of the game's 25 Chapters you wish to try. You can find how many Kudos are needed to unlock the next Chapter by selecting the next unavailable one, which will be colored grey. Initially, only the first Chapter ­ `Start Your Engines!'­ is open (colored white), where there are initially three Stages unlocked and ready to race. 11 If you have a full Garage of cars, and want to own a different car, you'll have to trade in one of your cars by selecting a car in a Garage slot to discard and replace with the new car. Just like real life, there is a trade-in cost, and you'll lose a percentage of the Kudos you earned with that car. The higher the car's CPF, the higher the percentage you lose. Don't forget that the `Test Drive'option gives you a no-obligation exhibition race or test drive, so you can make sure the new car is worth trading in for! Each Chapter is made up of 10 Stages which are displayed as icons along the bottom of the screen. You need to successfully complete each of the Chapter 's Stages to unlock the available car. You need to gain enough Kudos (as shown on screen) to unlock the next Stages and Chapters. 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 28 Playing the game STREET RACING Stages that have been unlocked and are ready to challenge are colored white and can be selected and raced. If you highlight the next locked Stage, colored in grey, you will see how much Kudos is required to unlock it. If you have successfully completed a Stage, the icon will display a yellow tick ­ if you fail a Stage, it will turn red. Playing the game STREET RACING ­ STAGE TYPES There are a huge number of different types of challenges in MSR, which all take place on any of the 200+ circuits in the three cities. These can be roughly categorized into 7 types of stages which are listed below, along with the specific way you can gain Kudos on each Stage. Don`t forget that you'll always gain Kudos for stylish and skillful driving. 12 You can attempt the unlocked Stages and Chapters in any order, or skip any that you don't want to challenge at that time, as long as you have enough Kudos to progress. And at any time in the game, and with any car, you can return to any of the Chapters and Stages that are unlocked, to try or retry them for more Kudos. In these Stages, you must aim to post a best time for the circuit, beating the minimum goal. There are a wide variety of styles of hotlaps on offer ­ each requiring a different approach ­ mixed and matched from the options below: · Set number of laps OR single lap (very hard!) · Fastest lap achieved OR average lap time over all the 13 laps · Unlimited time OR `against the clock'time limit You have to achieve the given goal time to complete the Stage, but you'll earn more Kudos if you choose to reduce the goal time. Kudos: The more you reduce and beat the goal time by, the more Kudos you'll gain. 3 MSR UK 9/27/00 4:48 PM Page 30 Playing the game STREET RACING ­ STAGE TYPES Playing the game STREET RACING ­ STAGE TYPES Timed runs are all raced against a timer. You will be given a goal time in which to finish either a single circuit race ­ or in later, more difficult chapters, a series of circuits, with the time being carried over from one to the next. Again, you can gamble to reduce the goal time to earn more Kudos. The timed runs have the added hazard of other cars driving the course ­ and be warned, they may not be up to your racing speed! These are full-on street racing Stages where multiple cars compete in a race event. You could be racing against a variety of other cars (the average CPF will be shown), and the race will take place as a fixed number of laps on a single circuit. You can specify which minimum position you think you can achieve to earn more Kudos. 14 Kudos: The more you lower the goal time by, and still beat the clock, the more Kudos you'll be awarded. Here you compete against one other car to win a race ­ it may or may not be the same type of car as yours. In this type of Stage, you can choose to give a hea ...