_______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ __ __ _____ _ _ __ __ \ \ / / | __ \ /\ | | | | \ \ / / \ \ / /_____| |__) | / \ | | | | \ \_/ / \ \/ /______| _ / / /\ \ | | | | \ / \ / | | \ \ / ____ \| |____| |____| | \/ |_| \_\/_/ \_\______|______|_| C H A M P I O N S H I P E D I I T I O N _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1. - Introduction......................................VR01 2. - Cars..............................................VR02 3. - Tracks............................................VR03 4. - Disclaimer........................................VR04 *Please Note - This entire FAQ/Walkthrough has been designed for easy access. This means that you can use your browser's search function to find any section immediately. Just bring it up by pressing ctrl+f and search for either the section name or the code to the right. You will go right to that section. _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 1. - Introduction VR01 _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ V-Rally Championship Edition is a racing simulation game for Game Boy. It's all about rally racing so dirt, snow, and rain all play major factors on every track. There are two game modes: Arcade and Championship. Arcade has three difficulties, which you can unlock by finishing the previous difficulty. Championship is about completing the standings with the most points. _________________________ Controls _________________________ D-Pad...............Steer A..............Accelerate B...................Brake Start...............Pause Select.............No Use _________________________ Strategies _________________________ A key factor in this game is track conditions, whether it's rain, snow, or dirt. These all will affect your grip. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to affect you too much during the turn. What it does is make you slide coming out of the turn. If it's a dirt track or the weather is particularly bad, make sure to keep turning when you come out of the turn or you may slide off the track and crash. You don't get an option between an automatic or manual transmission in this game. It's one less thing to worry about really although you'll notice the game doesn't downshift too much anyway so missing out on this feature isn't detracting too much from the game itself. There is no trick to starting in this game. A lot of racing games have a set time you should start hitting the accelerator to get the best start possible once the race starts but it makes no difference in V-Rally. If you hold the accelerator the whole time, there's no penalty, and you will accelerate just as quickly as if you timed it better. As a result, I suggest always just holding the accelerator at the start of a race to make sure not to lose any precious seconds. Overtaking other cars is one of the two big challenges of the game. Bumping into them lightly will slow you down big time. When this happens, they will probably pass you and bump you again, slowing you down further. This does not slow down other cars. If you hit them really hard, you'll flip your car and will have to wait until you stop, then your car will finally respawn from a dead stop. Cars will start turns on the inside of the turn and slide to the outside. If you're not in good position to pass them, you're better off slowing down rather than risking trying to squeeze into a tight area, especially around a turn. Hazards are your other big challenge. There are three kinds of hazards, all which you will have warnings for with the triangular exclamation point sign. You basically have three types of hazards: JUMPS You can see jumps coming because you'll just start to suddenly go uphill quickly. If you go too fast, your car will flip when you land and you'll have to wait until you stop before your car can respawn. If you slow down to about 185 kph (or even slower,) you can land safely and keep going. OIL Oil slicks are just big black patches on the road, they can be anywhere so keep an eye out when the hazard warning comes up. If you drive over them, your car will swerve and you'll lose control. You will mostly go straight so if you don't have a turn right away, oil isn't much of a problem. The faster you go, the more time you lose control of the car. BARRIERS Barriers can be one of two things depending on the track, they will be either gates or rocks. They both do the same thing and are about the same size. Hitting them will cause you to crash and you'll have to wait to reset your car. Courses aren't always the same either. It doesn't make much sense to try to memorize tracks for that reason. You want to learn how to deal with hazards and overtaking cars in arcade mode and then take what you learned to championship mode. This game can be hard because it's so fast and so unpredictable. Try out every car and find what you like, learn about overtaking cars and hazards. That's what the game is all about. _________________________ Championship Mode _________________________ The course order will always be the same. You get a certain amount of points for every position you finish and have to complete all ten tracks in the game. Wherever you finish in the standings in the end of that is where you finish the game. See below for the order of tracks and for what position will give you how many points. _________________________ | _________________________ | Championship Points: | Course Order _________________________ | _________________________ | 1st - 10 | Italy 2nd - 6 | Greece 3rd - 4 | New Zealand 4th - 3 | England 5th - 2 | Indonesia 6th - 1 | Corsica 7th - 0 | Sweden 8th - 0 | Argentina 9th - 0 | Safari 10th - 0 | French Alps _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 2. - Cars VR02 _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ There are only four different cars you can use in V-Rally Championship Edition. Each one has a healthy balance to fit your play style so don't necessarily go for the car name you like, think about how you drive and pick something you like. When playing in arcade mode, rather than championship, pick the car that is best for the track. If there are a lot of turns, max speed isn't going to do you much good. Just be situational with your choices. _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Peugeot 306 Maxi | The Peugeot 306 Maxi is a great all around car. It's | | | not particularly bad in any category but isn't maxed | | Acceleration - *** | out in any category either. Fortunately, that's not | | Max Speed - ** | much of a problem because there's not many options to | | Grip - ** | be maxed out in any of your selections. This is | | Brake - *** | personally my go to car. | |_____________________|_______________________________________________________| | | | | Subaru Impreza | The Subaru Impreza is the best top speed car in the | | | game. To balance that out, it's not good in any other | | Acceleration - * | category. If you learn tracks well, this is a great | | Max Speed - **** | option but it can still be difficult to avoid | | Grip - * | obstacles which are variables no matter how well you | | Brake - ** | know a track. | |_____________________|_______________________________________________________| | | | | Ford Escort | The Ford Escort has a low top speed but excels in | | | every other category. That makes this a great | | Acceleration - **** | beginner car if you crash a lot. You'll be able to | | Max Speed - * | get back into position quickest that way. This is | | Grip - *** | also a great car for any windy track that you know | | Brake - *** | you likely won't stay at your top speed for long on. | |_____________________|_______________________________________________________| | | | | Mitsubishi Lancer | The Mitsubishi Lancer is the worst car in the game, | | | there's no other way to put it. The top speed is | | Acceleration - ** | above average but that doesn't mean much when your | | Max Speed - *** | braking, grip, and acceleration is low. If a track | | Grip - * | doesn't have too many turns, you should probably pick | | Brake - ** | the Subaru Impreza over the Mistubishi Lancer. | |_____________________|_______________________________________________________| _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 3. - Tracks VR03 _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ _________________________ Corsica _________________________ Here is your very basic track. There are no really sharp turns and no hazards anywhere on the track. If you get some good luck with cars you're overtaking, you can take the Subaru Impreza and never let go of the accelerator. _________________________ New Zealand _________________________ This track can be a bit daunting even for easy difficulty. It's on dirt so you'll be sliding more around turns. It's wise to let go of the gas on sharper turns. There's a couple hairpin turns in this track which will also require braking before entering the turn. _________________________ Safari _________________________ Here's another dirt track so it can make you slide a bit during turns. Watch for the hazards. It's a jump and if you go too fast over it, you will flip your car even if you're going straight. Just slow down a bit when you see the hazard sign pop up which is just a triangle with an exclamation point. _________________________ Italy _________________________ The most annoying part of this track is the hazards. There are a lot of them and it's not jumps like in Safari. The hazards on this track are all the obstacles on each side of the course. There are also plenty of hairpin turns that will require you to brake a bit before entering. This track is on pavement though so you'll get maximum grip. _________________________ French Alps _________________________ It snows here, which can lead to A LOT of sliding. Be very cautious around every corner, especially your hair pin turns. Make sure to brake on them. You'll slide a lot coming out of the turns especially so plan ahead for those. There are also hazards here that take up the right half of the track. Whenever you see a hazard icon, move to the left half of the track immediately. _________________________ Indonesia _________________________ The hazards can be tricky on this track. It's either going to be a gate on the left side or two sets of rocks on the track. Think if there's five lanes, it would be in the second and fourth lanes. You can stay in the dead center or far right for any hazard and be safe. The other thing to be mindful of on this track is the hair pin turns are a lot sharper than any you've come across in the easy and medium difficulty tracks. Be very mindful if you have a car that doesn't have good grip on those because this is a dirt track. _________________________ Argentina _________________________ There will be rain here which means you're in for some slippery turns. This isn't nearly as slippery as the snow in the French Alps though. There are also jump hazards on this track for the first time since Safari. Just slow down a bit before entering the jumps. _________________________ Greece _________________________ This track is probably the easiest of the hardest courses. The biggest difference compared to other tracks is the fact that there are so many different kinds of hazards. This track has jump hazards and gate and oil hazards as well. The gate and oil hazards will always be on the left side of the track, so just stay to the right when you see a hazard and brake if you see it start to go uphill. _________________________ England _________________________ Here's another rain track so be mindful of traction, especially on the exit of turns. The really tricky thing to this track is the hazards. This has every kind of hazard, similar to Greece, but they will be all over, not just to one side. All of the hazards except for the next hazard after the second and third jump will be on the left or middle of the track, so hug the right side and brake on those jumps. After the second and third jumps, the hazards will be a gate to the right, oil slick in the middle, and another gate to the left in quick succession. You could try to weave between them, but you can also hit the oil slick in the middle. You'll gain traction before you need to turn again. The only thing that could screw you up on those turns is if there's a car to overtake that blocks you. _________________________ Sweden _________________________ Sweden is the last of the hard tracks and it shows. It throws every hard thing at you. To start, it's in snow, the most slippery terrain in the game. The hazards are all over the place. They can be boulders on either side or in the middle. There are also jumps. The track is pretty long which leaves more room for error but also gives you a chance to catch up if you only make a couple mistakes. You're just going to have to be on your toes for this one and use every strategy you've learned to get this far, especially for the hazards. _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 4. - Disclaimer VR04 _______________________________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ This FAQ/Walkthrough is copyrighted © 2016 to Frank Grochowski. International Copyright laws protect this FAQ/Walkthrough. You cannot sell this FAQ/Walkthrough for a profit of any kind. You cannot reproduce this FAQ/Walkthrough in any way with out my written consent. You are however allowed to download this FAQ/Walkthrough for personal use. You can also post it on your web site as long as you give me full credit, don't change it in any way, and it is free. 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