wild ride! cheats
First of all, there is a fairly accurate list of moves
which the various surfers can do, and the special powers.
It's from memory, but should be pretty well entirely correct.
Tricks and what they do:
Up and the trick button:
// ollie for alana - jump over stuff (really hard to do)
or land on the top of the wave to do a floater for extra
points
// headstand for bucky - slowly repair damage to board
(in contest mode only)
// hang ten for lee - gravity has only half the normal
effect during his air
// arch for sandy - can go though the break
// kickflip for todd - jump over stuff (really hard to
do) or land on the top of the wave to do a floater for
extra points
// luge for vic - can go through the break
Down and the trick button:
// duck for alana - slowly repair damage to board (in
contest mode only)
// scorpion for bucky - summons the UFO (semjase) if
held!!! - there is more chance of this working if you
are in the air.
// quasimodo for lee - slowly repair damage to board (in
contest mode only)
// split headstand for sandy - slowly repairs damage
to board (in contest mode only)
// noseride for todd - slowly repairs damage to board
(in contest mode only)
// duck for vic - slowly repairs damage to board (in
contest mode only)
Right or left and the trick button:
// 360 slide for alana
// 360 slide for bucky
// walkaround from for lee
// kick for sandy
// powerslide for todd - if held, this will slow you down,
but you can slide around obstacles.
// 360 slide for vic
How to get more points:
- All trick-button tricks give you a bunch of points depending
on how long you hold them.
- Do airs
- Do spins in the air - the more spins you do, the more
points it's worth. And using the trick button does NOT
help this value at all as it is scored separately. To
really spin, haul ass accross the wave, and just before
you launch, hold down the turning button and a direction.
Work on timing out the landings. You should be able to
do at least a 900 with every surfer in this manner. Do
lots of these in a row for quick points. - Go though the
tube, and do tricks while you are in it - Go under the
pier and the oil rig
- Don't hit the dolphin! (this costs you a lot of points
and hurts your board) - Try to stay on your board (wiping
out costs you points and hurts your board) - Hit the UFO
- this gives you a lot of points(7500), but causes everyone
but bucky (who doesn't get near as many points - 1000,
or 2000 if he is doing the scorpion at the time) to wipe
out.
How to get crazy amounts of points:
- Air over the pier at the end of your run (hard) - 10000
points - Air over the break (hard) - 10000 points
- Air over the oil rig (bloody impossible!) - 20000 points
- If you time it right, you can air over just the corner
of any of these and get the full amount of points! This
is the only way to clear the oil rig that I know of.
Other notes:
- When the UFO is over top of you, all scores are doubled!
- If you do a trick in the air, it's score value is doubled!
- Bucky can 'bounce' off of the UFO without wiping out.
This is one of the only ways to do a ridiculous insane!
(2 900s)
- In contest mode, wiping out damages your board. Especially
bouncing all the way across the oil rig.
- Each character plays different. They all have different
speed, acceleration, and steering capabilities, which
become impaired as the board condition worsens.
- Save your game after every run, you never know when
you'll have a crappy run.
- Watch the timer! Important stuff like the pier, oilrig
and breaks happen at the same time, every time. Use this
knowledge to your advantage.
Surfer Stats:
turnability - the speed at which the surfer can turn
acceleration - the rate at which the surfer can pick up
speed top speed - the surfers top speed
traction - the amount of sideways slide the surfer experiences
during sharp turns in inversely related to this attribute,
and this also has a small amount to do with their ability
to land a big air
Please note that sometimes a high value in a stat can
work against you, so the following chart may be a little
misleading. Although it may seem that the points are distributed
unfairly in the below chart, all of the surfers behave
uniquely in certain situations. The highest scores are
not always achieved with Bucky or Lee, I've seen all of
the surfers decimate the 30000 point mark on one run at
one time or another. And without cheating, either.
Alana:
// turnability 6
// acceleration 6
// top speed 7
// traction 5
Bucky:
// turnability 7
// acceleration 7
// top speed 7
// traction 6
Lee:
// turnability 5
// acceleration 5
// top speed 9
// traction 3
Sandy:
// turnability 7
// acceleration 5
// top speed 6
// traction 6
Todd:
// turnability 5
// acceleration 6
// top speed 7
// traction 9
Vic:
// turnability 6
// acceleration 6
// top speed 7
// traction 6
*CHEATS* :
Well, I suppose now that you have read all this, you have
decided that you still want to know the cheats. Well,
there are some. at any time during your game, type:
holyheck!
exactly like that, with the exclaimation mark. Now a dialog
box will pop up. This is leroy, our friend who will help
you out when you need it. Here's what he can do for you:
re-entry -> You got kicked out of that contest? No
problem. He'll pay off the judges and let you back in.
extra-life-> Running low on runs in thrash mode? Once
again no problem.
score-> Want some free points? go ahead.
summon semjase-> How's about inviting that UFO over
to have some fun? alright!
cheat keys numpad-> Enable the use of the in-game cheat
keys on the number pad. More about them later.
beach nav mode-> Screws up the beach scene navigation,
making in navigatable
in a way similiar to doom. You cannot actually do anything
in this mode.
tron mode-> The name speaks for itself.
Try clicking on leroy himself for some better info on
the music on the cd.
Numpad Cheat Keys:
numpad9 - speed up
numpad3 - slow down
numpad1 - wipe out
numpad2 - wipe out and lose a life
<Thanks to Jeremy Evers from www.runandgun.com
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