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World Driver Championship
World Driver Championship |
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Developer:
Boss Game Studios
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To do: Figure out what the unknown cheats do. |
Just another racing game in the N64 library.
Cheats
Several cheats can be input while in a race, or the main menu. It's best to enter these while driving. These will change visual appearances of map and car graphics, unlock cars, enable special effects and more.
Button Inputs | Internal Cheat Name | Reward |
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Z, D-Pad Right, Z, C-Down, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right | cheat challanger | Unlock's EXR CHALLANGER. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down | cheat mirror championship | Mirror's championship races. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, B, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, Start | cheat gt2 events | All GT2 events are selectable. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, Z, Start | cheat gt1 events | All GT1 events are selectable. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, Z, D-Pad Right, A, C-Down, Start | cheat tracks | Unlocks all tracks. |
B, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right | None | Unknown. |
D-Pad Right, A, C-Down, D-Pad Right, Start, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, Z | cheat race Select | Unknown. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, Z, Z, A, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start | gt1 cars | Unlocks GT1 cars. |
D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start | None | Small cars. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Up, Z, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, C-Down, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Right | cheat interceptor | Unlocks 2000 Falcon Interceptor in GT1 mode. |
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Down, Start, B, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start | None | Invisible cars. |
Z, D-Pad Right, Z, A, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, Start | cheat open win sequence | Unknown. |
D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Up, Z, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right | cheat disable team specials | Unknown. |
B, D-Pad Left, A, C-Down, C-Down, A, D-Pad Right, Start | None | Change all cars to black cars. |
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Left, A, Z, C-Down, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Right, Start | None | Retro map graphics. |
C-Down, D-Pad Left, D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, A, D-Pad Right, Z | None | Black and white mode. |
D-Pad Up, D-Pad Right, D-Pad Right, Z, D-Pad Down, D-Pad Down | None | Enable special camera angles. |
Error Messages
Throughout the ROM are several humorous error messages, many of which involve yelling at the game's developers.
DEREK! The length was %d bytes! GUUUA Physics edge list is too big; tell Brian Fehdrau FIX THIS STUPID CASE ROB!!!!!!! Damn it Jim!!!! Bad background index danger jimmy joe, baby buffer exceeded!!!!! danger will robinson, small buffer exceeded!!!!! we are going to view the ghost impossible to get this message!!!!! what the fuck!!!!!!!!! derek update no freaking paks!!!! yo baby!!!
Here's a hack showing what the output of these messages would have looked like when being run on a dev setup:
Regional Differences
The gamma boost option was added to the pause menu in the European version.
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