Shutokou Battle '97 - I NEED YOUR HELP

[torrente]

OK so I've bought this game which was recommanded by some of you!
It was worth the 1,52€ I've spent for it on eBay.fr ;D

Great gameplay, enjoyable graphics, good sound...

BUT

I don't understand how it works...

I decided to do a simple race against the CPU.
I took an AT car which refused to go faster than 180 km/h which is really really really slow.
And everyone of them did so.
No matter which one I took.
It seems there are only 4 gears on every AT cars.
So I took a MT car, but it was exactly the same, even if 6 gears appeared on screen, I didn't manage to go through the 4th gear!!!

And I promise you, it was really boring, and impossible to go past the CPU.

How can I go faster?

It's probably the kind of game where you have to win a race to customize your car to go faster.

But is there a tip to take a faster car from the begining?

And I worry about the fact that it could also be the kind of game where you need to take a MT car to go faster... which are racing games I usually hate.

Please help me

It has to be me.
There must be a trick, something I didn't unerstand in the options

[chizzles]

In every racing game ever made, MT cars are always faster.
Even Sega Rally and OutRun... :-P

I've only ever played Genki's treatment of Shit-oku battle on Dreamcast and I can't say I was overly impressed by any means.

Have you tried bashing and holding down every combination of buttons yet? :-P

[torrente]

No but I will real soon

You're true, MT cars usually run faster in racing game but in that particular case, I meant in my bad english that even with a MT car, I was stucked in 4th gear!
On a AT it seemed there are only 4 which already sucks (and which is the reason I'll probably sell this game), and on the MT, 2 more gears appeared but they're blocked...

[sonicshuffle]

I think I have the game. I will check it out this weekend.

[torrente]

That would be great
Thanks!!!

[vbt]

just win races to buy new cars and parts, then you'll see how fast is the game, it's boring with the first car. This game is quite hard, I think I didn't finish it.

[pkbunghole]

do you have a 60hz mod for your console? (or live in an NTSC region)? because I remember that some things are messed up by playing this game in 50hz, which makes it a lot harder to win

[Snowcat.]

:/ doesn't making the first part "quite hard" defeat the object? surely the first level is supposed to be easy so people think. yeah i can do this and carry on, Not oh screw this crap.