Sega Metropolis Street Racer Instruction Manual

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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

Button

Button
Button

Start Button

Analog Thumb
Pad

Directional
Pad

Trigger Trigger

Steering Wheel

Button

+ Button

- Button

Button

Start Button

Trigger

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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