Sega Metropolis Street Racer User manual

CONTENTS

•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 , , , and START buttons during the game. You will return to

the game’sTitle Screen.

•This game requires a Visual Memory Unit (VMU) for saving the game data.

CONTENTS

Basic Controls 2

Starting The Game

Starting the game 4

The Home Menu 5

Options 6

Kudos 7

Playing the Game

Your Garage 9

Street Racing 12

Time Attack 19

Quick Race 19

VMU 20

Internet 20

Multiplayer 21

Hints and Tips 22

Thank you for purchasing Metropolis Street Racer. Before you start playing the game,

please read this instruction manual.

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Basic Controls Basic Controls

RACE CONTROLLER

Keys Function

Steering Wheel Steering (analog)

Button Hand Brake

Button View Behind

+ Button Shift Up (for manual setting only)

- Button Shift Down (will enter reverse gear if stationary)

Trigger Brake

Trigger Accelerate

Start Button 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.

DREAMCAST CONTROLLER

Keys Analog Mode Digital Mode

Analog Thumb Pad Steer (analog) Change the driver’s view

Directional Pad Left or Right on Up or Down on Directional Pad

(digital) Directional Pad - Horn - Change the driver’s view

Button Hand Brake Accelerate

Button Shift Up (for manual setting only) Brake

Button Shift Down (will enter reverse Hand Brake

gear if stationary)

Button View Behind View Behind

Trigger Brake Shift Up (for manual setting only)

Trigger Accelerate Shift Down (will enter reverse

gear if stationary)

Start Button Pause / In-game Menu 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.

•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.

Button

Start Button

Analog Thumb

Pad

Directional

Pad

Trigger Trigger

Steering Wheel

Button

+ Button

- Button

Button

Start Button

Trigger

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Starting the game Starting the Game

Starting the Game The Home Menu

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.

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 P20

Here you can change many options associated with the game.

Quit

Quit your current game to start a new single or multiplayer game.

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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!

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.

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.

kudos \ ku”dos \ , n.

1. Respect given to a skilled individual

2. Praise conferred for status achieved

3. Honor awarded to the ultimate winner

KudosKudos

EARNING 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

- doing huge powerslides, massive skids, etc.

•Impressive racing skills, such as clever overtaking

maneuvers.

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!

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Kudos Playing the Game

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

Unfair Advantage

•Using other cars or barriers to gain position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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YOUR GARAGE

Anew 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.

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.

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!

STREET RACING

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

STREET RACING – STAGE TYPES

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

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.

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.

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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!

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 head start to the

other car at the beginning of the race, and then try to catch

them. You need to beat the other car to win, so think

carefully about the head start you want to give - as the

more you gamble, the more Kudos you’ll gain!

Kudos: The bigger the head start that you give, and still win the race, the bigger

your Kudos score for the Stage.

STREET RACING – STAGE TYPES

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.

For this race type, the Kudos also depend on how well

you do in the race, depending on your car. For example,

2nd place in a slow car, beating faster cars, will gain

more Kudos than winning in a fast car against a group of

slower ones!

To successfully complete any Street Racing Stage (either

single race or the mini-championship) you don't need to win

- but you MUSTmake sure that you don't come in last!

Kudos: The better you do in the car that you’re driving relative to the

opponents, the more Kudos you’ll gain.

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STREET RACING – STAGE TYPES

This Stage type is a mini-championship where you test

your street racing skills over a number of circuits. You and

your fellow drivers have to race a whole series of circuits,

taking your finishing positions from one circuit to the next.

The more you beat the others by, the higher your Kudos!

Kudos: The better you do in your car relative to the others, and the higher your

position, the more Kudos you’ll gain.

The Challenge Stages are designed to test your skills as a

driver. There are too many to list them all here – you’ll learn

about each Challenge at the start of the Stage. Here are

just a few examples:

•Overtake challenge – try to overtake a set number of cars

•Maximum speed – set a top speed for a fast track

•Lap your opponent – try and lap your opponent within

the time limit

Kudos: Each challenge has a number of ways to earn Kudos – just wait and

see!

STREET RACING – STAGE TYPES

In some Chapters, you may encounter a Special Stage. The Special Stage can be

any of the Stages already detailed but has a restricted entry so you’ll have to meet

certain requirements to enter. Here are a couple of examples of the requirements

needed to enter some of these Special Stages:

•Only certain cars/manufacturers may race in some Special Stages.

•Some are restricted to certain times of day, such as night races.

Special Stages have two goals rather than the normal

single goal.

-The first goal is the usual Stage goal, which is successful

completion of the Stage, helping you to unlock the

Chapter's car.

-The second, more difficult goal will unlock one of the

game's Bonus Items. And of course you'll also earn extra

Kudos!

Kudos: You can earn normal Kudos for a Special Stage, but you also stand a

chance of unlocking a Bonus Item!

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TIME ATTACK

TIME ATTACK OPTION

This option is outside the main Kudos challenge, and lets

you take a drive around any of the circuits you have

unlocked in the main game. It also allows you to post a

personal ‘fastest lap’on any circuit, which means you can

compete with others via the Internet and VMU. It’s ideal to

get some practice on circuits you find difficult, before

putting your Kudos on the line by committing to race in the

real Stage! You race against your own Ghost Car for the

circuit.

QUICK RACE

GHOST ATTACK OPTION

This allows you to load in any Ghost Lap from the VMU which you have saved,

received via e-mail, or downloaded from the Internet. You can then race against this

Ghost Lap.

The Quick Race mode allows you to set up your own street

races, for practice or for fun! You can choose from any of

the circuits that you have unlocked, and you can choose to

race with, or against, any cars you have in the Showroom.

There’s no Kudos to be earned, but for those wanting a

quick street race, or a practice, it’s ideal!

When you start the game, MSR will detect and ask you if you wish to use any VMU

you have connected. If you do not have a VMU inserted, you will be given the option to

insert one. You will need a VMU to save your progress in the game, to combine and

exchange data with others, or to upload and download data to and from the Internet.

•The game will automatically save your single player

progress in the game, including your Kudos rating,

progress, garage, and best laps.

•Ghost laps can be saved after a Time Attack, and

loaded via this menu too. Multiplayer games can be

saved via the Multiplayer menus.

•Remember not to insert or remove a VMU while saving,

as this could damage the VMU or the saved data.

Select this option on the Home Menu to connect to the MSR website on the Internet.

Here, following the instructions on the site, you can upload your own data, and also

download data to your VMU, to compete against in the game.

VMU

INTERNET

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