Motocross GO! FAQ v0.6 by Poln (psu19257@odin.cc.pdx.edu) Basic Guide ONLY! Updated 04/06/99 What's New v0.4-0.5 -Added one new stunt jump (but Can't finish the word) -Added one new stunt jump [Massive] -Added position conditions -Added some strategy about jumping a fork of the road and diagram -Minor changes in Advanced section v0.55 -Added the conversion between KM and MPH thanks to my foreign electronic dictionary. v0.57 -Minor fixes v0.6 -Fixed the stunt jump thanks to KX80RACER@aol.com Namco, the makers of the game, has teamed up with Yamaha to make this game possible. You will also see _live_ footage of dirt bike racing action. This is similar to NFL Blitz. Note: I do not mean live as in right now, just real footage of real action. Welcome to Motocross Go! This is one of the new racing games from Namco who brought you the Tekken series, Soul Edge, and other goodies. This is a basic guide for this game, (what it is, Times, etc..). This is NOT a FAQ on how to do better techniques, improve your skills during the race, etc.. You can write about them yourself or you can e-mail me and I'll add it to this FAQ. If you are into racing games, then this game is for you. For first timers (if no one's waiting) take the time to watch the screen as they will teach you how to operate a motorcycle in this game. This is _NOT_ a substitute for a real motorcycle (125cc, 250cc, etc.). This is ONLY a game. The machine will show you how to steer, do turns, speed up, etc. or you can ask someone with experience or watch someone on what they do. This is a one player game similar to Alpine Racer, Time Crisis, Prop Cycle, etc. (you get the idea). Now.. Start of Game When you first put in your coins, you choose what race to start. You have about ~15 seconds to choose. There are 3 levels. Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced. Move the bike to choose the stage, press the green button to start. More about them in a minute. If you have played Suzuka 8 Hours, Cyber Cycles, or other motorcycle type of game, then this may be familiar to you. Unlike past motorcycle games (except for Prop Cycle), this game has hills, turns, and jumps like in a real dirt bike race. You have two views to choose. The Default is like view 3 from Sega Super GT or Daytona USA. If you press the green button, you are in the driver's seat. The only catch is when you do jumps, you won't see the action. After you choose your level, be ready to start the race, you have 3 sec. before you start up. You wear a light blue suit with the number 1 which is also your bike number. Similar to a real bike race, you and other bikers (CPU) will start in a line. The gate will go down when you hear the word "GO." As in any other racing game, you will start dead last. In this case, you will start in Position 17 as you try to move up the position to 1st. You have ~70 seconds to start. Time will be added as you pass through the checkpoints. FOR FYI ONLY You can only move the position up if you pass the orange/red bikers. Don't worry about it.. just try to pass all bikers and try to be in 1st place.. ------------------- Starting by yourself.... [No Drones] (I don't know if this is right). Similar to SF Rush/SF Rush: The Rock, you can race by yourself. You first hold the green button, then insert coins. Choose the stage and if successful, you can play by yourself with no one around you.. so you don't have to worry about other bikers hitting you, get in front of you, etc...If you completed the race_____ (see towards the end for answers). At the end, finish or not, you will be in position 1. Good luck. If that doesn't work, hold green button, insert coins, while still holding, choose stage, run clock out, play game. ------------------- There are 2 different fastest times. One is for SOLO play, the other is for Interplay (you and other bikers). You need to be in 1st place to put in your initials in interplay. Like driving, you will need to watch the signs and where you expect to go or turn. This is very important. When you do the jumps (if successful), you will see the player do a stunt. Below are some of the stunts. Remember, if you choose the driver's seat option, you cannot see the stunt action... There are NO techniques in doing this, the CPU does this for you randomly when you do big jumps. The announcer will tell you what stunt performed. At times during small jumps, he'll look at you and give a thumbs up. He'll say "Yea!" at times when appropriate. Sometimes, he'll get off the bike and float during a big jump before putting himself back together. OK...the only technique is that the speed should be adequate enough to jump (you should know what it is)... Here are the stunts: NO HANDER CANDY BAR HEEL CLICKER NINJYA CAN CAN BAR HOP SEAT HOP NAC NAC* NO FOOTER SUPER NOTHING TUB_________ WHIP BAR WRAP CAN CAN NO FOOTER BACK FLIP MASSIVE *Either this is my error or a game error.. The correct name for this stunt is NAC NAC. The arcade game may say NAG NAG which it is incorrect which I don't know why. NAC NAC is the official stunt name used in motocross racing. This was a patented stunt done by Jeremy McGrath, a motocross champion. You can use your favorite search engine to find out more about him. There is also a game for N64 which is called Jeremy McGraph Supercross '98. Go check it out. I still need your help in fill in the rest of the spelling/word. TUB_________ More will be available later as I get to see them or you can tell me what the rest are. When you go past the checkpoint, time will be added to the time remaining left on the clock (time extended). You will also see the elapsed time so far. If you see the flashing red, that means you broke a record for that part of the race. Speed Check. OK..I can now convert from KM to MPH. Like 100KM ~ 60MPH At some point (during the middle of the race) you will do a speed check. If you are in Advanced mode, you will do this twice if you have time leftover. In this one you will need to go as fast as you can. From what I saw, the avg. MAX Speed is around 85 MPH/136 KM The record is usually 88,89,90 or 141-145. I rarely saw someone doing 90 MPH/145KM. Usually it is done in Intermediate and 2nd half of the Advanced course because the turn is not so tight there towards the end. It would disappoint me if you crash your bike during this part of the race by hitting another bike. Towards the end.. you may see billboards showing what other games Namco did like Final Furlong. Jump Strategy at Fork of Road ----------------------------- This is an odd section, but this is a strategy based from my experiment/experience and/or observing other peoples work. Here is a diagram below.. (I apologize for this poor ASCII art). Turns are not as tight as shown. Also.. not to scale.. at the fork of the road.. You can either A to D (go around)... B to C which is the jump ramp.. For experts you can jump from B to D. This is a bit challenging, but that's the fastest way to go.. just jump, during the jump, steer to the right so you can land in D. [From Start at race for Novice and Advanced]. Return trips from Intermediate and Advanced, follow the opposite way.. Either from D to A, go to the jump ramp (C to B), or C to A. Personally, I would use C to A. It's easier.. (Jump, steer right, land in A). Look in Novice section if you don't jump well. | | / | / /\ \ / / \ \ | | | | | C | | D | | | / | | Jump | / | _______________________________/ | / | / <--> | / / | _________________________________/ | / | / | | | Jump | | | | | | | PC | | | | | | \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / | \ / / | A \ / B / | \/ / | | | | ^\/^ PC= Pac-Man Figure Level of Difficulty ------------------- -Novice- You will start at the beginning and you will finish 1/2 way. You first go through a couple of turns and your first jump. After the first checkpoint, you go to the fork of the road where you either jump or go around it. When you jump, you won't do any stunts, just a general jump. If you try to make the jump, but missed...the CPU is nice enough that it will force you to go back onto the road to a certain degree. On the other hand...you may crash, what a way to start the race... You will see a Pac-Man figure giving a thumbs up. I'm thinking that he likes the race. After that, you will turn left, go under the bridge (overpass) and you will do a speed check. Be sure to go as fast as you can on the straightaway. Once you finish, you will turn right, and try to do another jump. You will go to a 2nd checkpoint. Hope the time after the 2nd checkpoint is at least 35 seconds on the clock left [about 1:03:xx-1:05:xx]. Anything less than that, you may have a slim chance of completing the race since this will be the last checkpoint.. You will go up the stairs and you will need to do a hard right and decrease your speed (like around 30-40 MPH/50-64 KM) in the turn cause if you hit wall when you turn, you will crash. From the time you crash to the time you get back takes about 3-5 seconds and you will lose valuable time. This is the ONLY the hardest part of the game, the rest, hope you can maneuver the turns. Next, you go through the dirt road the rest of the game.. If you ride in water, your speed will go down considerably. You will go through more turns, and 1 or 2 jumps. There is a big jump about 3/4 of the way towards the finish. You better do good, otherwise you will fall in the hole. What a disaster. You will see it when you see the big screen ahead. After that, hope you finish the race. Complete the race in the time of 1:44:xx and you will finish the race w/ finesse. -Intermediate- You will start the 2nd half of the race. CPU calls it the latter half of the course. Complete the race time in 1:43:xx and you will do okay. I saw people almost finish the race, but can't go up the hill in time. Such a heartbreaker. You will start where you finish the race from Novice and end up on where you begin [in reality, you will start in reverse]. You will first go through a jump and maneuver some turns, this time up the hill, then you will do a hard left. Same rule as novice, but going the opposite way; if you accidentally hit the wall... it will be a big loss and may have a slim chance of finishing the race. You then go downstairs to the first checkpoint (Avg. time from Start to 1st checkpoint, 45 sec.) Then, you do a speed check. After that, you turn right (not a hard right like the other one) and you see the fork of the road. Either jump, or go around it. Same rule, you won't do a stunt. Then you go to the final checkpoint. Finally, you will do a final jump and a few more turns to finish the race. -Advanced- You will do a round trip. You will need to complete the beginner's course in 1:35:xx-1:38:xx (about 3-5+ sec. faster than the Beginners' course) or sooner. Otherwise you won't make it. Once you past the Beginner's area, you will do at U-Turn and come back.. You need about 45 seconds or better on the clock to complete this section successfully. Means you will loop back and later do a hard left (in succession) + going downstairs before your 2nd speed check (and 3rd checkpoint). In advanced, they assume you can maneuver and operate the cycle well in turns, speed, etc. so the time will be a little shorter. Avg. time is 3 mins. and some odd seconds when completing the advance course. (It's novice + intermediate combined). [ex. You can past checkpoint 2 in a Novice course in 1 min]. During the loop, you will see the banner "Mid-Point" as you are 1/2 way done. You will also see the props for start of the Intermediate course. Update... May not be 45.. could be 50.. anyway.. depending on your skill/performance. End results... -------------- If time ran out before you finish the race, the announcer will say "Aww, too bad, why don't you try again." or "What a hard rough race." You will see an official with the biker (you) in a way that you are very disappointed in NOT finishing the race. It will show you what position that you are on and how many more FT, or KM depending on how far way from reaching your goal. Then GAME OVER. When you complete the race, you will see the word "FINISH" on the center of the screen indicating that you complete the race successfully, If your ranking is 2nd or lower, you'll see the person is very happy that you completed the race. The announcer will say, "You're the winner, what a race!" then GAME OVER. You can ONLY put in your initials if you placed 1st. If you are 2nd, NO way. If you complete the race in 1st place, an official will drive the bike for you and you ride in it, celebrating the victory that you are in first place; you will do a victory lap, celebrating your triumph. As he drives towards the screen, the camera will pan to the big screen and you will see the credits (people who made this game possible). After the credits, if you got one of the fastest time, it will ask you to put in your initials. When finished, you will see what ranking you are when completed. Well...that's it..for now... Bonus....someone who had experience had this to say... >The orange/red bikers may be liberal in where you drive..while the blue >and purple bikers are very aggressive in winning the race. That is.. they >can come from no where and hit your bike..causing you to have an >accident. So you need to be careful when driving..and when passing. I don't know how to respond to this..but the CPU can be unpredictable at times (similar to Crusin' USA/World, California Speed, etc.). Credits -Mark Kim (vestiroth@hotmail.com) for catch-up of my spelling errors. -KX80RACER (KX80RACER@aol.com) for correction of a stunt jump. Closing If you see something wrong with this FAQ, have any suggestions, comments, corrections, something to add, e-mail me at psu19257@odin.cc.pdx.edu Visit my website at http://i.am/poln Also, I need to know about 2 Player link, if possible. Enjoy! "Have you ever rode a hog?" - women from a beer commercial