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the ricker 1st Lieutenant Posts: 320 |
posted 10-04-2003 06:14 PM
  
More GT3 trivia: On the back of the Vauxhall Astra, there are big letters: GENAU MEIN DING... translated - "exactly my thing". thats all.... IP: Logged |
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Tony Randall 1st Lieutenant Posts: 362 |
posted 10-06-2003 01:37 PM
Appart from racing against the fast guys, Where's the only place in GT3 you can get a Haircut? "The clean Cut" barbers half way up the hill in Seattle normal IP: Logged |
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GTer 1st Lieutenant Posts: 240 |
posted 10-12-2003 08:26 PM
There are hardtop Miata's in the game! I was going through my cars with no mileage on them and putting in some seat time, when I noticed that particular Miata's (4,250 credit sell price vs. 4,225 credits) have a hard top when you race them. I have over 1500 days on my original game and over 530 days on my new game (I love my job!) and I just noticed this last week... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-13-2003 04:41 PM
OK here's some more trivia for you ... 1. The street running up the hill at Seattle is called Madison Av. (at least I think it's "Av", it is not quite clear on my screen). 2. The streets crossing it are also all called Madison Av. 3. The only other street names signed are "Kingdome" (several crossings)and "Alaska Trail South" (turning under the elevated section) - unless you know different? 4. The slowest recorded lap at Seattle normal is 15'33.799 by player2 on 2003/10/13 IP: Logged |
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overpowered Crew Member Posts: 21 |
posted 10-15-2003 07:42 AM
quote: This may be true of the PAL version but it is not true of the NTSC version. I won all winnable cars and was able to also sell all cars. There was no gameshark/sharkport activity on this memory card. I don't know if that makes a difference. IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-23-2003 07:59 PM
Here's a trivial fact that I just noticed. when you go to your garage and sort your cars by Make, the aren't listed entirely in alphabetical order. Any make that is written in all capital letters is listed before other makes that begin with the same letter but include both capital and lower case letters. For example, MITSUBISHI is list before Mercedes-Benz, and TOYOTA is listed before Tickford. It seems all the major Japanese manufacturers are the ones listed in capital letters, so that is probably explains things. But some of the smaller Japanese manufacturers, such as Tommy kaira and Tom's are listed in lower case letters. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Santiago22 1st Lieutenant Posts: 2917 |
posted 10-23-2003 11:20 PM
quote: I always sort my Garage by Manufacturer and I never noticed this. gg Japanese auto industry sponsorship IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-26-2003 08:49 PM
Okay, I have way too much time on my hands. Thanks to the good people at MapQuest, I've planned out a scenic tour if you're ever in the Seattle area: Rotate the Seattle map clockwise and look at this: And here's a photo:
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-27-2003 04:05 AM
Nice work, Quagmire! I love it! So there's no street called 'Madison'? rofl IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-27-2003 07:44 AM
Thanks! Looks like there's a Madison Street, a couple blocks north of the track. IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-27-2003 10:53 AM
And here's Rome. [This message has been edited by Quagmire (edited 10-27-2003).] IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-27-2003 05:08 PM
Took me a moment to work out the track, before I figured the back straight was a 'B' road. That's great Quagmire, and you're right - you do have too much time on your hands!  IP: Logged |
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Georged1958 1st Lieutenant Posts: 103 |
posted 10-28-2003 01:51 PM
I didn't realise but once you lap the field it no longer tells you how far ahead you are at the 'split' points. Used the info from an old Numberone post to set up a Yaris and lap the field in Pro series on the Test track (mind numbing) George ps surely they wont have 'Test track' races in GT4 IP: Logged |
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eggmann Officer of the Bridge Posts: 3521 |
posted 10-28-2003 01:52 PM
quote: We can only hope you're dead-on there. IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-28-2003 03:08 PM
quote: ...And finger numbing. I second that motion, eggman. [This message has been edited by Quagmire (edited 10-28-2003).] IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-28-2003 04:38 PM
I believe they will likely have an enduro for every track, and have heard that all previous Gran Turismo tracks will be included in GT4. So does that mean a test track enduro? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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GT3mich Officer of the Bridge Posts: 6756 |
posted 10-28-2003 04:43 PM
quote: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Please! Nooooooooooooooooooooo.  IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-28-2003 04:44 PM
Wimps! IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-28-2003 05:08 PM
One lap is an enduro. Some useless trivia: IP: Logged |
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eggmann Officer of the Bridge Posts: 3521 |
posted 10-28-2003 05:18 PM
Do those totals overlap Q? Example: Tokyo R246 is named for a place and a street. IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-28-2003 07:02 PM
Exactly. And Cote d'Azure I counted as a geographical feature (I think it means Blue Coast in French). If it was Monaco, it would count as a place. IP: Logged |
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Santiago22 1st Lieutenant Posts: 2917 |
posted 10-28-2003 08:03 PM
Actually, Babelfish (http://world.altavista.com/) translates "Côte d'Azur" into English as "Riviera." I'm assuming that means the French Riviera, where Monaco is  IP: Logged |
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eggmann Officer of the Bridge Posts: 3521 |
posted 10-28-2003 08:24 PM
Blue Coast sounds pretty accurate as well; there's an abstract painting in the hall at my office that says Cote D'Azur, and I was all excited thinkin it was a GT3 track, but when I got closer it just looked like a beach, probably painted nearer to Picasso's time than my own. I'm sure Sly9 could come straighten it out for us... IP: Logged |
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Quagmire Crew Member Posts: 66 |
posted 10-30-2003 09:17 PM
In the interest of completeness: Tokyo IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-30-2003 09:33 PM
Translate "Cote" and then "D'Azur" S22, and you'll get "Coast" and "of Azure" (which is of course a shade of blue). ------------------ [This message has been edited by Nightcrawler1 (edited 10-31-2003).] IP: Logged |
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mobilechicane 1st Lieutenant Posts: 398 |
posted 10-30-2003 10:38 PM
On the enduro + all gt tracks thing, imagine the joys of an enduro series along these lines: Rd1 - 150 Laps Super Speedway Actually, with the rumoured inclusion of NASCAR that could be a good chance. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Psyfalcon 1st Lieutenant Posts: 1824 |
posted 10-30-2003 10:53 PM
I can take 150 laps on SS. A nascar would would help I guess. Test Course would be murder however. 600 miles at 200mph= 3hours of doing nothing. A waste of electricity! IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-31-2003 06:02 AM
But think of the sense of achievement if you did it all with your toes?! - oops, sorry, wrong thread! IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-31-2003 08:55 AM
quote: You mean you guys just bought that "enduro for every track" part without question? I just made it up. But I would like it if they had an enduro for most tracks. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-31-2003 09:02 AM
He's some minor trivia. I was watching a replay of a run of mine using a Mercedes SLK 230 Kompressor, and when the camera switches to the low side view facing forward on the right side of the car (you can see the right front quarter panel and tire) the word "Kompressor" on the side of the car is shown in reverse, as a mirror image. I suspect that is because when they input the data for the car bodies, they didn't input seperate data for the right and left side of the car. They just input the image of the left side of the car and the image is reversed when they want to show the right side. But then the writing on the right sides of race cars would all be reversed. That isn't the case, is it? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-31-2003 09:26 AM
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-31-2003 09:36 AM
Well, I guess I'd like it if they had an enduro at most tracks as long as there was only one prize car you could win there. We don't need to be beating ourselves up trying to get all the prize cars by running enduro after enduro. On the other hand, I've never been obsessive enough to win all the cars, while you, p2, have. So maybe it would be good to have an enduro for each of the 100 tracks with 4 prize car position for each one, just to drive you insane. IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 10-31-2003 09:40 AM
quote: We don't believe anything you say any more. IP: Logged |
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Der Alta 1st Lieutenant Posts: 191 |
posted 10-31-2003 03:06 PM
Here's an odd factoid. At 25% you unlock the replay called "mismatch" It's a race between a Mini and an F094 at Grand Valley. The timer goes off, and the Mini putters on it's way. About a minute or so into the replay, the F1 fires up and streaks away. I'll leave the outcome to you to find. There was a real life test of a Mclaren F1 versus two mercedes street cars in the same style. The F1 driver sat sipping a cup of coffee and checking his stocks as the other two raced. AO [This message has been edited by Der Alta (edited 10-31-2003).] IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 10-31-2003 03:36 PM
I've seen the video of the real cars you mentioned, but not the GT3 replay. I assume I go to the replay theater and it's in there somewhere? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Santiago22 1st Lieutenant Posts: 2917 |
posted 10-31-2003 07:23 PM
Main menu/Replay Theatre/Demonstration scroll all the way to the bottom of the listing. 2P Battle/mismatch it's a little over 3 minutes IP: Logged |
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Samurai Officer of the Bridge Posts: 1459 |
posted 11-02-2003 01:47 AM
Dunno if it's been mentioned, but this little piece of info about GT3 is important to me, at least.... In the garage screen, there's a 2000 Dodge Stratus behind the Viper that's in the foreground, yet the Stratus isn't in the game...wrong place at the right time? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Der Alta 1st Lieutenant Posts: 191 |
posted 11-03-2003 08:29 AM
Has anyone mentioned the Monkeys in the tree at Trial Mtn? Also, I too was a bit bummed that the Stratus wasn't included, but was shown in that pic. What killed me even more was when I downloaded a game save and realized that I'd been mis-interpreting the "Stratos" as "Stratus" AO IP: Logged |
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player2 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3797 |
posted 11-03-2003 05:34 PM
Monkeys not mentioned here yet, though they do have their own threads. Ditto UFOs at GVS. IP: Logged |
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Nightcrawler1 1st Lieutenant Posts: 3193 |
posted 11-04-2003 10:24 AM
Ah, the UFOs. That was a good one. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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