Beetle Adventure Racing FAQ v.38, r1
Author: Steven Towle
E-Mail: dipstick at superkawaii dot com
(Change it around to get it to work in an e-mail program)
Date: March 31, 1999
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How the secrets work:
Getting new cars and new racing tracks: You must finish each championship
in first place to get different sets of cars, and new tracks. You are
rewarded the cars and tracks as follows:
When you win the novice circuit, you get the Beetle with racing stripes,
the lightning Beetle, and the eight-ball Beetle. You also get the track
Inferno Isle.
When you win the advanced circuit, you get the flower Beetle, the lighting
Beetle w/ spoiler, and the eight-ball Beetle w/ spoiler. You also earn the
track Sunset Sands.
When you win the pro circut, you get the alien Beetle, and Metro Madness.
When you win the bonus circut, you get the police Beetle (who's horn stops
CPU cars), and the track Wicked Woods.
Multiplayer tracks: To earn multiplayer tracks, you have to get all 100 points
on a single track in a Championship race. For the points to count, you also
have to finish the race.
You start off with the Airport, Garage, and Stadium levels.
Get all 100 points on Coventry Cove to earn the Castle level.
Get all 100 points on Mount Mayhem to earn the Ice Flows level.
Get all 100 points on Inferno Isle to earn the Volcano level.
Get all 100 points on Sunset Sands to earn the Dunes level.
Get all 100 points on Metro Madness to earn the Rooftop level.
Get all 100 points on Wicked Woods to earn the Woods level.
the secrets:
Cheats: There are three flower boxes hidden on each track. If you find one,
you get a cheat. Again, you can only get these in Championship mode, and you
must finish the race.
Oh yeah, you're disqualified if you fall behind by 1 minute or more behind the
leader. If you are disqualified, the points/cheats you earned DO NOT count.
Bonus/Flower Box Locations:
Explanation: When you see something that says "BREAK", that means there is
more than one possible route through that part of the stage.
Also, you can only take one of these routes per lap (unless
you were to turn around and go backwards, which the 1-minute
time limit makes difficult.)
Coventry Cove: Track 1
2 points - Right after you merge onto the main road from the start (it's
jump over the bridge near the house with the British flag flying
on it), a two-point box is to your right, just off of the road.
4 points - Immediately after the first box, cut left and you'll find two
two point boxes on the left side of the road. Somewhat hard to
get if you got the first box, pick it up on your second or third
lap.
--- BREAK ---
5 points - When you enter the village after crossing the stone bridge, there
should be a passage to your left, off of the main road. right
before that, there is a window. break it, and grab the five point
box inside.
11 points - contintuing from the last box, head straight for three more 2
point boxes. Then hit the jump, go flying through the ship (doh),
and grab the 5 point box on the other side.
OR
4 points - following the main road in the village, there should be a left
turn before the drawbridge that is up. Instead, go straight (to
the right of the phone booth), bash through the boxes, and grab
the two two point boxes.
--- end break ---
Cheat Box - After taking the jump either over the ship or the bridge, turn
around. There should be a little gap in the wall that keeps you
out of the docks (it's right to your left from the bridge, and
to your right from the ship). Go through the gap, and a flower
box should be to your right.
4 points - Right after you jump over the bridge/ship, there should be some
train tracks. Follow them through the train tunnel, and grab the
two two point boxes inside.
7 points - After going up the hill, there should be a barn to your left.
In the haystack right in front of the barn door, there is a two
point box. Break through the barn doors, and on the right side
of the barn is a 5 point box.
Cheat Box - Hidden inside the haystack to the left of the barn is a cheat box.
2 points - On the downhill immediately following the barn, there is a 2
point box just to your right, off of the road.
--- BREAK ---
7 points - Exiting a small cave, you should see two signs pointing right.
Ignore them, and instead, hit the jump behind the signs. Line
yourself up with the five point box. After that, repeat this
for the jump that'll put you back on the main route, for a two
point box.
Cheat Box - After the first jump, look behind the monolithic stone figures
on the left. There is a flower box behind one of them.
OR
10 points - Follow the signs instead of knocking them down, and take the
next left. On this straight, there is a big boulder. Immediately
in front of that is the alternate path (watch out for the small
rock though, you have to move around them like it is a sheakane)
Break through the wooden planks covering the entrance, and floor
it down the mine cart tracks. There is a 5 point box hanging in
mid-air at a jump halfway down, and another 5 point box at the
end of the tunnel.
--- End break ---
17 points - Right after the next tunnel on the main road through some rock,
cut left off of the road. You should be on a green incline,
running into a couple of bushes. Ignore them, and go through the
cave behind them. Just right of center is a 2, 5, and 10 point
box.
2 points - There is a turn left where the dividor beween the normal and
final part of the track is. Take the left (if you can, 1st and
2nd lap only), and on the next left, there is a two point box just
off of the road to the right.
--- BREAK ---
10 points - Right after the two-point box mentioned above, go over the wooden
bridge. After that, there is a dirt ramp off to the left of the
road. Put yourself on the middle of the jump and launch yourself
for a 10 point box.
2 points - When you land from the 10-point jump, you'll be running through
a castle. In front of you is a two point box.
OR
4 points - Go over the wooden bridge, and take the left on the main road. At
the right hairpin, cut hard inside the turn, so that you end up
on the grass. You should see a gap in the castle wall, and two two
point boxes in front of you.
5 points - In front of the two two point boxes is a hole in a tower covered
up by wooden planks. Break through those planks, climb up the
mound in the tower, grab the five point box, and smash through the
stain glass window.
4 points - After you merge onto the main road, and right before the end of
a lap, there are two two point boxes to your right. Grab them.
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Mount Mayhem: Track 2
2 points - Once you have merged onto the main road, there should be a snow
mound with a two point box on top of it. Hit the jump lined up
with the box.
5 points - From above, you should smash into some trees at this time (doh).
Turn left, and go through the vent-looking wall.
2 points - Continuing straight from above, there will be a two point box in
front of you.
--- BREAK ---
5 points - You can keep going straight, right off the edge, and hit a five
point box hanging in mid-air. Aim for where the detour looking
barraciades are, in a gap in the wall
4 points - Once you land, you'll be back on the main road. To the left, just
off of the road, are two two point boxes.
OR
10 points - After the two point box on the high road, instead of falling
down, cut right and go through that window. Floor it to make it
down the ski jump and over to the half-pipe. Two 5 point boxes
sit in the half pipe
OR
2 points - If you go down the main route, you'll eventually go down a hill
that runs next to the town. After going down a steep hill, there
should be a 2 point box off to the left side of the road.
--- End break ---
--- BREAK ---
9 points - Once you reach the first bridge, hit the bump in the bridge
veering left. You'll land in a cave pretty far down, and there
will be a 2 point box, a 5 point box, and a 2 point box inside.
Oh yeah, don't mind the UFO.
OR
5 points - going over the first bridge, swing wide around the first rock,
and there should be a 5 point box in front of you.
--- end break ---
--- BREAK ---
8 points - When you emerge from the UFO cave or the snowy path with rocks
in the middle and back onto road, there should be a frozen
waterfall to your left. Jump onto the frozen lake, and head for
the two point box. The ice behind the two point box will break,
revealing a path with 3 more 2 point boxes.
OR
11 points - When you come to the hairpin turn with the pipes sticking out of
the ground. Follow the normal route until you break two two point
boxes. At this point, turn around, and go in reverse. Right
before the divider wall begins (remember, you're going backwards),
there is a two point box to your right. Go down the hill there,
and there is a five point box in front of you.
--- end break ---
4 points - Going through the ice cave, there will be two 2 point boxes on
your left. This is easier to get from the latter route from
the last breakpoint.
2 points - Right after the normal/finish route fork (and the left turn
associated with the normal route), there will be a two-point
box to your right
--- BREAK ---
10 points - --- YOU NEED AT LEAST THE FLOWER CAR TO DO THIS ---
Right after you hit the two point box mentioned above, you'll
see a tunnel into a big cavern. Instead of taking the normal
route, veer left (or right), so you start climbing the slope.
On top of the slope, behind the trees, is a cave. And a big jump.
You'll want to go off of the jump a little to the right, because
to your left are some obstacles to smack into. There's a 10 point
box on the ledge.
4 points - When you hit the ledge with the 10 point box, you'll go down a
tunnel. Fork right, and there are two two point boxes down this
path.
Cheat Box - When you jump down from the mountain to the grass, turn around.
There is a flower box behind the trees.
OR
5 points - Go the normal route, and right before you leave the second
bridge, you can spot a box hanging in the air. Line yourself up
with the box.
--- End break ---
2 points - Once you hit the main road on the grassy area from either route
above, there is a 2 point box just to the right of the road.
--- BREAK ---
5 points - after the 2 point box, there are some trees to your right..
covering a cave. Blast through the trees, and when you hit a
jump along that path, hang left, land on the green hill, and
crawl forward to a 5 point box.
OR
5 points - instead of taking the cave, follow the road until you see a
blue sign indicating a fork in the road. cut hard right at
that point.
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Inferno Isle: Track 3
4 points - Right after the start, after the first turn, you should see
the road snake left and right, and two two point boxes in
front of you.
4 points - As soon as you leave the beach for some road, you'll see two
two point boxes just to the right of the road.
--- BREAK ---
14 points - Right after grabbing the two two point boxes, you should see
a dirt road just to the right of the road.. you can barely see
it. Drive down that and through the foilage, and there's a two
point box on the road. Soon enough, you'll come to a hut. See
the ramp in front of the hut? See the 10 point box hanging in the
air? Line yourself up.. but start cutting to the right as soon
as you grab it, or you won't land back on the main road. At the
end of the route is a wall and a two point box. Smash them both.
OR
6 points - Staying on the main road, there is a two point box to your left
before you enter the dino park area, and two two point boxes to
your left right after you leave.
7 points - As soon as you enter the town, cut left, so that you'll be on a
roof above and to the left of the main road. Smash the barrels,
break the two point box, go down the passage, and break the five
point box down there.
--- End Break ---
--- BREAK ---
8 points - Right after you grab the two or five point box, there should
be a gap in the rows of houses to your right, heading downhill.
Go in there, and you'll find 4 two point boxes. Go slow, or you'll
jump over them.
OR
2 points - Following the main route, on one of the hairpins is a two point
box. It is on the hairpin that's after the hairpin after the blue
box.
--- End Break ---
2 points - On the last hairpin in the villa, there is a two point box to
your left at the tail end of it.
--- BREAK ---
7 points - Once you reach the docks, there will be a 2 point box on them.
Grab it and follow the docks all the way down, and hit the jump
at the end. You'll land on some ship wreckage, and there will be
a 5 point box in front of you. Line yourself up with it.
And if you want to get really clever, fall in the water right
after the third jump. The game places you right where the start
the other side of this breakpoint starts :)
OR
12 points - After the dirt area on the main route after the docks, there
should be a steep hill off of the road to your right. There's
a five point box hanging on top, so bash it and go diving into
a crater in the volcano. Once you're in, stay on that route to
find another five and two point box.
--- End Break ---
7 points - In the volcano, when you see a sign hanging from the ceiling
pointing right... go left. There is a five point and a two point
box on this route.
10 points - Same as above, except it's a little father from the sign, a
little bit better, and a little bit worse. And it's right
after the one above.
5 points - After the normal/final switchoff, you'll take a left, and then
there will be signs to tell you to take a right.. smack them down
and follow the beach. There is a five point box right before you
rejoin the road.
--- BREAK ---
7 points - Up the road is a broken suspension bridge. Fall down the hole, go
through the cave, and at some point you'll see a broken bridge
with a two point and a five point box on them, at different points
on the bridge.
OR
5 points - On the main route after the broken suspension bridge, there is
a hairpin turn facing an obsevory station and an old fort. On
this turn is a small dirt mount. Hit it, and get into the fort
(it looks like you can just drive up, but you can't). At the end
of this route is a dropoff with a 5 point box hanging over it.
--- End Break ---
Cheat Box - At the -very- end of the course (literally feet from the finish
line), break the hut to your left. There is a flower box inside.
Author's Notes:
Uh... I'll finish the FAQ when I can actually earn everything. ^_^
Somewhat hard to document a track you can not race on. Doh
This work copyright 1999 Steven Towle.
