My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Monday October 30, 2000

(GT1 Version 1.1) GameShark Addresses and Codes for Arcade Mode

Some time I will probably need to start cataloging all the body codes, and what addresses they can be found at in which game modes. (By mode I don't just mean Arcade and Simulation; the contents of memory changes, for example, between when you are "car-shopping" and when you are racing).

Nonetheless, I will relate a few addresses I experimented with in Arcade Mode.

I started by searching for car body strings, and then worked backward to try and find memory locations that pointed to them.

I discovered:

With the <b>GS Pro</b>, the easiest way to arrange to drive different cars is to patch the string you find at those locations to be something different. You won't see the car as any different, but when you start your race, you will be driving the car you patched in. Be careful about changing the colour--you can end up with very strange results!

For instance, I tried:

You even see those cars if you save the replays! Selecting something like

does not work nicely, however. You get a sort of gutless Dodge Viper, as if they add the race-mod, and the extra drag slows it down too much, or something.

It does not matter what car you patch to select your car. The class you compete in is chosen based on the characteristics of the replacement car you give. I even verified that you get the appropriate red dot.

Special Models, such as the Impreza Rally Edition, and the Silvia LM count as A class (but overpower all the competition even more than the normal Dodge Vipers do!).

The thing I found most fun was driving cars, such as the Lancers, Alcyones, and Truenos, which regularly appear in the Arcade Mode fields but which are never made available for you to buy.

(You can also, of course, patch in cars which you have not "unlocked" yet).