posted 04-07-2004 01:33 AM         

Mazda RX-7 LM Race Car
Subaru Impreza LM Race Car
Toyota Altezza LM Race Car
Honda S2000 LM Race Car
Mitsubishi FTO LM Race Car

posted 04-12-2004 09:28 AM         

Wait a few seconds for the names of the cars to start scrolling by on the left. Notice the line that says "PENZOIL GTR", missing one N from Pennzoil.

(NTSC:USA,CDN)

posted 04-14-2004 11:18 AM         

Buy a VW Beetle 2.0
Buy the NA3 tune-up
Buy all other tune-ups including Racing Muffler and...
...the last one you buy will decrease the power.

posted 04-14-2004 11:44 AM         

Oi WG ... bad automotive puns are my balliwick :lol:

posted 04-14-2004 02:28 PM         

quote:

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Originally posted by WasteGate:
Buy a VW Beetle 2.0
Buy the NA3 tune-up
Buy all other tune-ups including Racing Muffler and...
...the last one you buy will decrease the power.

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CONFIRMED - NTSC U/C

Only happens w/ NA3 though.

posted 04-14-2004 09:54 PM         

Anyone remember the bird in the opening sequence of GT1.. It was sitting on the lights gantry and flew off. Well it's in GT3 too, just hard to spot. in the Arcade mode page,( where it says single race, free run etc), watch the red letter "A" of "arcade mode" top left of the screen it flies by it. pretty trivial huh?

posted 04-18-2004 01:54 AM         

I still haven't won the second race... maybe I'm distracted.

Cheers,

posted 04-21-2004 11:49 AM         

In the PAL edition, it is necesary to drive a minimum of sixteen garage cars to win 100%.

PS. Unless you know different?

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posted 05-14-2004 11:29 AM         

To be truthful this is not the place you should be asking this sort of question - bad form for sure. No biggy this time.

I think someone has done a 48.5 in a Poly 001!

If you need to ask any more questions like this and you can't find any answers after using the seach button then start a thread or ask it in a related post. Someone will get to you in good time and it keeps everything relative.

posted 05-16-2004 03:02 AM         

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Originally posted by WasteGate:
I don't know if anyone has already come across this, and whether it's a PAL problem only but:

Buy a VW Beetle 2.0
Buy the NA3 tune-up
Buy all other tune-ups including Racing Muffler and...
...the last one you buy will decrease the power.

This works whichever one you do last. I can only assume this is a "bug". Geddit?

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I should point out that not only does the VW Beetle 2.0's "Sports ROM" mod decrease the car's power, it also makes the car incapable of revving between 1,000 and 2,500 rpm.

Spook!

posted 05-16-2004 02:10 PM         

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Originally posted by Famine:
I should point out that not only does the VW Beetle 2.0's "Sports ROM" mod decrease the car's power, it also makes the car incapable of revving between 1,000 and 2,500 rpm.

Spook!

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Does this mean you can stall it on the grid?

posted 05-19-2004 05:42 PM         

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Originally posted by wayn¤z:
does anyone know how many tracks in the GT's r made up & how many r made up??

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Two aren't made up, and two aren't made up. The two "real" tracks are Laguna Seca and Cote d'Azur (the Monaco F1 track), but both use some artistic licence. The three Tokyo tracks (R11, R5, R246) are all based on real streets, as is the Seattle track. I've seen no evidence for the Rome circuit being based on real streets, but it wouldn't surprise me.

posted 05-19-2004 08:19 PM         

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Originally posted by Famine:
Two aren't made up, and two aren't made up. The two "real" tracks are Laguna Seca and Cote d'Azur (the Monaco F1 track), but both use some artistic licence. The three Tokyo tracks (R11, R5, R246) are all based on real streets, as is the Seattle track. I've seen no evidence for the Rome circuit being based on real streets, but it wouldn't surprise me.

All the others are totally made up - although some claim the Super Speedway is based on the Twin-Ring Motegi track, High Speed Ring (from GT1/GT2) is supposedly based on Fuji Speedway (which is in GT4) and Apricot Hill bears a similarity to a mirrored Sugu.

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Rome Circuit is indeed based on real streets. Apparently Famine did not read page 2 of this thread, whic contained this link: http://tinyurl.com/sj91

However, I have never heard any evidence supporting the real-life existence of SS Routes 5 or 11. Famine, care to enlighten us?

posted 05-20-2004 03:36 PM         

Dial-up. Sue me. I'll add it to my list of knowledge, for future reference...

SSR5 and SSR11 are both in Tokyo, along with R246. I've never bothered to search out maps of them though. I might try at work tomorrow...

Edit: Okay, I looked at work today and found both roads in Tokyo (not much of a shock), but I didn't get a chance to trace the routed of the tracks properly as the server went and crashed... Grrr..

posted 06-22-2004 06:17 AM         

Set the wheel to Simulation mode in the options and run a Simulation mode (GT mode) Rally race in a powerful FR car at SS R5 Wet with no TCS or ASM. Running around in qualifying it's easy to use the wheel to correct slides, but once you run in the race it's almost impossible to collect a large slide before you spin.

posted 08-05-2004 01:41 PM         

Version: NTSC U/C
Type: Programming Error, perhaps?

Description:

Simulation Mode / Beginner League / Evolution Meeting

Third place awards 1,000 Cr.
Fourth place awards 1,500 Cr.

posted 08-09-2004 02:40 PM         

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Originally posted by Spen:
You guys want to know the best cock-up in GT3 ? Vauxhall "Caribra" race-car. Thats nice, reminds me of the old Mitsubishi Stallion/Starion joke !! This maybe just a PAL error, but it deffinately says Caribra in my garage !

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I think I've seen that on my game, as well.

posted 08-17-2004 08:25 AM         

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Originally posted by Spen:
You guys want to know the best cock-up in GT3 ? Vauxhall "Caribra" race-car. Thats nice, reminds me of the old Mitsubishi Stallion/Starion joke !! This maybe just a PAL error, but it deffinately says Caribra in my garage !

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Not terribly surprising though - and yes, it's common to all versions (except it's only a Vauxhall in PAL/English language - it's an Opel everywhere else). The "Starion" gag is also actually true...

Anyway, nice to see another Sheffielder about. Whereabouts in God's Own City are you from? I'm a Chapeltowner.

I suppose I'd better validate this post with some actual trivia now... Err..

GT3 uses an absurd conversion factor of 1.5km/mile. It should of course be, to 3dp, 1.609km/mile. How's that for trivia?

posted 08-17-2004 10:00 AM         

A kilometer is, obviously, 0.621 of a mile.

I have to ask how you noticed that one Famine?

posted 08-17-2004 08:06 PM         

A curious oddity of this is that the Data Analyser speeds and distances are still metric... And there's a hell of a discrepancy between the displayed speed at a given point in the replay and the speed indicated by the graph.

posted 08-18-2004 01:33 AM         

If you drive on Tahiti Maze tracks, you can hear AI cars when they are near you relatively (as a bird flies), but far behind you following the roadway. You can hear them well after you have "blown their doors off", as you pass each other going in the opposite direction, while in the loops.

posted 08-18-2004 01:38 AM         

Cheers,

posted 08-20-2004 07:47 AM         

We are at opposite ends, you're up at Chap and Im down in Greenhill. We've a few Chap residents working at our offices off Abbeydale Road.

Im glad youve mentioned the km/miles conversions, as I had a theory about that being wrong.

posted 08-22-2004 08:55 AM         

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Originally posted by Spen:
Yo Famine,

We are at opposite ends, you're up at Chap and Im down in Greenhill. We've a few Chap residents working at our offices off Abbeydale Road.

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Ah. Played hockey down on Abbeydale road many a time. Not to mention buying my last car from a "dealer" there...

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Originally posted by Spen:
The only V8 thats ever sounded like a V8 in the GT series was the W8 Weigart Vector. Hope that baby's back in GT4 !

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No argument from me there.

I loved that car. So totally and utterly insane. And driven by Eddie Sakumura in the film "Rising Sun"

posted 08-22-2004 05:05 PM         

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Originally posted by Famine:
[b]No argument from me there.

I loved that car. So totally and utterly insane. And driven by Eddie Sakumura in the film "Rising Sun"

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mmmm... 98mph in first gear

posted 09-14-2004 09:32 AM         

could anybody please tell me wtf is a HYBRID, and what makes them different to any other car

posted 09-20-2004 05:28 PM         

There's something odd...

Racing up a flat straightaway, in the middle of the track, miles from the wall (eg. the race to turn 1 at S-5: SSR5 Wet) ... and suddenly, "bump", the wheel in your hand gives a kick! Is it my imagination, or does this only happen when you are overlapped with the ghost? I think there's a bug in the program which occasionally lets you 'collide' with the ghost car. Sends a shiver up your spine too!

Oh, and unrelated, did anyone notice the way the sunlight reflects off the side of your car in the short straight after the hairpin at LSR in S-6, and lights up the adverising hoardings on the right of the track just before the first right-hander? (Only ... with the sun so low on the horizon, shouldn't the car be in the shadow of the hoardings when that happens????)

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posted 10-27-2004 04:40 AM         

There are TWO Dodge Viper GTS-R Team Oreca race cars in GT3.

One is #91 - well known the the NTSC-U/C drivers as the Arcade Viper Oreca

The other is #51, and you can catch a glimpse of it in the GT3 intro movie.

posted 11-01-2004 08:00 AM         

How's things ? Last weekend, I was out gardening and heard this way-out growly, bad tempered sounding motor decending Bocking Lane (yes, you non-Sheffielders, thats spelt right), poppong and banging on the over-run, I looked up the road and yes, it was a genuine road-legal Speed 12 ! The engine note on GT3 is spot on, I can now state. It accelarates damn quick, and stops like nothing Ive seen before ! Thats what you have to be ready for trying to drive a monster like that on a busy road with parked cars etc. It had a Speed 6 as a follower, and you couldnt even hear that engine over the AJP-12 in the Speed even though the 12 wasnt under load !