Motion blurring:
Press C-Left during an instant replay to add a motion blur effect.
Reversed track:
Start the game without loading or saving and select Grand Prix mode. Keep
advancing through the menus until you reach the first course. Select and
play that course. When the race begins, immediately turn around and drive
into the concrete wall. Your car will keep bouncing off the wall, but keep
driving that way that until you go through it. If done correctly everything
in the course will be now be reversed, including the signs, track, and name
on your car.
Golf Caddy car:
Unlock the reversed track and finish it in first place. You can also obtain
the golf caddy car using a loaded or saved game by completing the first
race of the second stage in reverse. The golf caddy car will then become one
of you saved game cars.
Blinky ghost car:
Drive 99 laps in free run in time attack mode on any track.
Pooka:
Select time attack mode and choose stage 7 or 8. Select set record. Break
the record to unlock Pooka.
Crazy Canuck:
Select car attack and choose stage 8 in mirror mode. Defeat the car to
unlock Crazy Canuck.
00-Agent:
Note: Two players are required to unlock this car. Select two player mode
and the team mode. Choose three teams and pick stage 7 or 8. Win first and
second place to unlock 00-Agent.
Car preview:
Press C-Up, C-Down, C-Left, or C-Down at the car selection screen or
trophy screen to change the view and rotate the cars.
Galaga '88 mini-game:
Finish Ridge Racer Extreme Extra in first place to play one level of the
classic Galaga '88 game. Destroy all forty aliens to unlock the Galaga '88
car. When you win the Galaga '88 level and get the special car, you also
get the "Galaga Pac Jam" Song.
Reverse 360 Powerslide:
Set the drift mode option to "RR64". Begin game play and get to a sharp
turn. Stop accelerating, turn the opposite direction from the turn, and
accelerate again while still turning. If done correctly your car will
spin around during the powerslide. After you are turned around, control
the car as if in a normal powerslide and re-align it with the track.
This trick allows your car to get through winding turns without braking
or losing speed.
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