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I have my AX licence card
« Thread started on: Jul 3rd, 2003, 06:12am »

There is a game center 5mn from my residence (on the way to the university ) that has the DX version. one race is only100Y (half the normal price)

The 2 players hanging there were very good, I saw a nice time attack on green plant (?) ended by "impressive new record!!" He could choose some good parts after this.

I suck, still don't know how to turn (drift or slide?), I finished 2nd, 7th, (aeropolis) 12th (outerspace....where has everyone gone? where should I go?) and 13th(Port Town, just a big pipe, I hate this)
not too sure about the names of the circuits...
I should try mute city some day.
ID 0360 56...................
NAME: TONIO
PILOT RANK: 15 (the first one )
For me the pilot in the background is fat shark. don't ask me why

you get points depending on your rank, how many cars you crushed, and other things that I don't understand (in english though)

it costs 1 credit to make your card.

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« Reply #1 on: Jul 3rd, 2003, 08:26am »

sounds cool can you choose from different modes such as time attack, story, GP and so on on AX?

is the ranking only based on GP then? it should be time attack
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 4th, 2003, 03:57am »

you can only choose between grand prix and time attack.
In time attack you get full points by beating the staff ghost I think.
The rank is not relative to the other players.

I finished 1st on the 2 easiest track (out of 6) and reached the 9th level on the card. could buy my first parts. my car still sucks so I continue to try the normal ones.

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Re: I have my AX licence card
« Reply #3 on: Jul 4th, 2003, 7:44pm »

what exactly is the license? im kinda new and dont know much about f-zero ax/gx. i heard of this license but what is it?
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« Reply #4 on: Jul 4th, 2003, 8:53pm »

the licence card is just a.... card (size of a credit card)
to keep track of your progress and your personal machine (the worst stat at the beginning (body D- boost E-grip D)
you earn points when you play well (good ranking, good time...). with these points you can buy parts for your machine or change the pilot. your overall rank also increase (from lv.15 to "master").
for each track it's written on the card if you have cleared the race (btw ending movies are ugly), cleared the time attack, and another thing (?)

plus you need the card for the online ranking (from july 8th I think).
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Re: I have my AX licence card
« Reply #5 on: Jul 5th, 2003, 03:08am »

I still don't get it really.
You go to the machine and it "spits" out a license for you? And it writes down you records on it?
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« Reply #6 on: Jul 5th, 2003, 04:26am »

there is a card reader next to where you put your coins, you enter your card at the beginning and take it at the "game over". the records are saved (I think) on it but not written (unlike your name, ID, rank, and achievements for each course).

If you don't enter a card at the beginning you're asked if you want to make one (it costs one credit), you enter your name, you play normally and at the yeah it "spits" your card.

then will come the GC memory card to transfer some stuffs to GX . report on this in... less than 20 days
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Re: I have my AX licence card
« Reply #7 on: Jul 5th, 2003, 11:58am »

aha thats pretty cool
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« Reply #8 on: Jul 7th, 2003, 11:45pm »

Cool .. I see they added an AX internet ranking competition the oficial site. No idea if there's something you can win.

Hey Tonio , did you find already of you can do slides and boostlides to get the best times ?
The Magic Seagull looks like an excellent slider with A-boost , E-grip. If there's an acceleration <-> max speed setting you should stick it at max accel and see what happens

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« Reply #9 on: Jul 9th, 2003, 09:17am »

there will be a similar ranking for GX too.

I'm not a "X player" so I didn't try that. I don't slide enough I think. Maybe that's why I'm stuck in 2nd place on outer space...
boost slide is just boosting and sliding at the same time?
thanks for the suggestion.

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« Reply #10 on: Jul 9th, 2003, 6:11pm »

It's very similar to drift turning on MV: steering into the corner while holding the opposite shoulder button ( or in this case you'll have do hold down both ) and boostsliding is indeed simply pressing the boost while doing this. Gives enormous speed gains on X with an E-grip car .. just curious to know if this remains the same.


Another thing you might try is using the side-attack to help you take corners. On X this was done by double-tapping the shoulder buttons. Helped you preserve a lot more speed going through the corners when compared to holding down the shoulder buttons which completely destroyed it.
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« Reply #11 on: Jul 10th, 2003, 09:02am »

I think you mean "drift" turn for (A)X. sliding had no effect this afternoon (2'09 with my car (cause I ran out of time to properly choose the machine) A boost/D grip and max accel set).
I've just check the record... 1"13!! with max accel setting (the 10 best times are all like this). So you must be right... On the japanese board someone indeed said the secret must be very fast car+drift+max accel set. sugi replied that yes, it's like X who happened to be a just a drift-game, that he's not pleased with that.......


drift in AX is a bit weird: keep accel and lightly push the break. I'll try!
I finally cleared the 3rd race (outerspace). and the first time attack (mute city). Then I saw a guy who had accumulated 800000pts! (I have 70000). but his mute city time was just 10sec faster than me...

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« Reply #12 on: Jul 11th, 2003, 04:35am »

well by chance seems like I made the good choices when buying my parts cause I now have "Dread Drifter RX" (A/A/E, 2500kg ). And with that stuff (looks like a... missile) if you don't drift you simply can't turn. pretty good exercise. but I can't drift nicely enough to get some fast time. I sometimes hit the wall from the back of the car (need some blast turn?). the fact that you trigger the drift with the breaking pedal is quite confusing. (ohoh I actually braked... )
The mute city record has been set with another one but DDRX holds a lot of the good (awesome I should say)times.

I'm now rank 3.
cleared the first 3 races in GP and n1,n3 in time attack (which consists in beating a "target time". You can choose between
-no ghost
-the ghost of your best time
-the ghost of the machine's best time (I was about to beat this one on outerspace ) but it's only 19th on the online ranking and I messed up when writing down the password (the machine beeps to tell you to take your licence card back, it's so irritating that I forgot to write the last part). Anyway everytime you try time attack on a circuit the machines reminds you your record's passwd.
-the best time on the machine with the car you chose

conclusion: I won't drift anymore till I get used to it on GX.

btw in GX you can really display 5 ghosts at the same time on a track. what's the point? copy and then compete with the ghosts of your friends I guess.
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« Reply #13 on: Jul 11th, 2003, 06:00am »

2500 kg ? That's a bit on the heavy side..

The lighter your craft , the more effective the boost will be ( at least on X ). That's why the Blood Falcon slightly outperforms the Night Thunder ( at least when your name is not JKT ) so you might try and lose some weight.

Blast turning during a drift is a bad idea.. should try and steer more sharply into the corner or start drifting earlier and moving to the inside of the corner faster.

Anyway.. hard to tell as I can only say what's good on X and it might be a lot diferent on the new games.


BTW the point of the ghosts I believe is to experiment with diferent racing lines and strats so you can see which ghost goes fastes on which part of the track. Never used these on X myself as they were too big a distraction.

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Re: I have my AX licence card
« Reply #14 on: Jul 13th, 2003, 7:57pm »

okaaaaaaaaay.
but before trying hardcore techniques (quite expensive in arcade), I want to beat the game the normal way (like mv).
I can easily lighten my car I think. thanks.
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