Screamer Information Page

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What is it?

Screamer is an unashamed arcade racer, heavily influenced by the infamous Ridge Racer

Computer Specifications

Minimum Requirements

486 DX2 66mhz

8mb RAM (12mb for SVGA)

30mb Hard disk space

Double Speed CD-ROM

What's good?

The ability to network up to 8 computers together over an IPX network The speed, and arcade like qualities

What's bad

It seems very buggy, we had a number of crashes when playing networked.

Cars

Car Name
Top Speed (kph)
Manual
Automatic
Grip
Acceleration
Shadow 343 340 *** **
Tiger 340 336 **** ***
Hammer 336 332 **** ****
Rising Sun 324 319 * *****
Panther 332 329 ** ****
Yankee 343 338 ** *

Tracks

All these hints have been tried using automatic Hammer

Palm Town

Basic course, good for learning skiils on. Four corners, one in a tunnel.

Corner One

Take this at full pace from the start, on subsequent laps, get to the outside, back off the accelerator slighlty, then power slide

Corner Two

This is inside the tunnel, get on the outside, turn HARD left under the second yellow sign, and power slide

Corner Three

Lift off the accelerator as you pass the second yellow sign, then accelerate out of the bend.

Corner Four

Take this flat out, corner nice and steady!

Lake Valley

Alpine track, seven corners, one in a longer tunnel than Palm Town. Anyone know any consistent methods of getting round the missing corners, please let me know!

Corner One

Flat out, every lap, from the ourside, gently steer into the inside, and keep it smooth!

Corner Six

Back off, ever so slightly, then full throttle through the corner

Corner Seven

Flat out, every lap, from the ourside, gently steer into the inside, and keep it smooth!

Lindburg

Much trickier course, several fast sweeping corners, a trickey left, right, left combination, and several hairpins. The best tactic I've found so far for the tight hairpins, is to brake sharply at the last minute, which slows you down, but also induces a powerslide, so that you can powerslide through the corner

If anyone has any better ideas, let me know!

Palm Town Night

SunBeach Hill

Sandrock

Game Modes

Normal Game

A one course race verus other drivers and a (very short) time limit. Change the amount of laps you can do via the options screen

Championship Game

Race each course, with your chose car. You must finish within the top three to progress to the next course, but you always start in last position.

There are three leagues, rookie, amateur and Pro's. You must get enough points to progress to the next league. If you win the Pro's league you progress to the Bullet league Winning the bullet league gives you access to the ultra-fast Bullet car. (376k) Only problem is, you have to beat the Bullet car in this league to get access to it!

Time Attack

This is all about driving fastest laps. You have one shot at breaking the current lap record. What makes this mode even more fun, is after you have the record, you race a ghost car in future attempts. This ghost car is the current fastest lap record holder!

Cone Carnage

Great fun! You don't have enough time to reach the next checkpoint, unless you can hit enough cones. Each cone gives you another second!

Slalom

Similiar to cone carnage, except you must drive between two cones in order to get extra time, similiar to slalom skiing!

Hints and Tips

Manual vs Automatic

Whilst manual gears gives you a few extra kph, in my opinion, your best of starting with automatic, and getting used to the cars, tracks, handling etc. Manual gears can be useful to slow you down through a corner, however Power Sliding is a much better skill to learn.

Power Slides

All good racing games include this ability, and it is the only way to keep a good pace. Approach the corner on the outside, then turn hard into the corner. Keep your steering on full throughout the corner, then on the straight, use a little opposite lock to correct yourself, and you'll be flying around the corners. The first couple of times you try this, you'll slam into the walls, but stick at it, it's worth the time! As an extra hint, on Palm Town, try the power slide at the tunnel turn. Turn hard left just as your going under the yellow sign, hanging from the ceiling.

Cheats

Thanks to Ashley Burgess for some more explanations and the hex edit trick

Type these in on the main screen. Note: I have yet to try these codes!

A sample 'so you want to play dirty' will play to let you know a code is accepted, also for the mirror and upside down the background and loading screen will change.

HACK to allow play without original cd. use a hex editor to edit startl.exe or starth.exe search for the hex string 75 10 BB 01 replace with EB 10 BB 01 this changes a conditional jump into a non conditional.

Anyone know of any more cheats? Please mail them to me!

Best Lap Times

Palm Town
Car
Transmission
Time
Diff Setting
Who
Panther Auto 24:75 Professional JJ
Shadow Manual 25:20 Professional Thevenier Pascal
Hammer Auto 25:96 Normal Paul Bartalesi
Tiger Manual 25:96 Professional Constantin Sylvain
Tiger Manual 26:15 Normal Ashley Burgess
Panther Auto 26:49 Normal Nick Bruty
Panther Auto 26:74 Normal Greg Hilton
Lake Valley
Tiger Manual 40.10 Normal Lim Shell Fer
Shadow Manual 40:26 Professional Thevenier Pascal
Tiger Manual 40.52 Professional Constantin Sylvain
Tiger Manual 40:76 Normal Ashley Burgess
Hammer Manual 41:22 Normal Steven Wozniak
Hammer Auto 41:85 Normal Paul Bartalesi
Panther Auto 42:38 Professional JJ
Panther Auto 42:94 Normal Nick Bruty
Hammer Auto 43:07 Normal Greg Hilton
Lindburg
Panther Auto 43:00 Professional JJ
Shadow Manual 44:78 Normal Thevenier Pascal
Tiger Manual 44:99 Normal Ashley Burgess
Hammer Manual 45:21 Normal Darryl
Hammer Auto 45:46 Normal Paul Bartalesi
Tiger Manual 45:97 Professional Constantin Sylvain
Panther Auto 49:31 Normal Nick Bruty
Panther Manual 50:49 Professional Steven Wozniak
Hammer Auto 50:62 Normal Greg Hilton
Palm Town Night
Shadow Manual 44:58 Normal Thevenier Pascal
Tiger Manual 44.67 Professional Constantin Sylvain
Tiger Manual 44:97 Normal Ashley Burgess
Panther Manual 45.23 Normal Bruce Taylor
Panther Auto 47:11 Professional JJ
Sun Beach Hill
Panther Auto 1:25:50 Professional JJ
Tiger Manual 1:29.46 Professional Constantin Sylvain
Shadow Manual 1:30:68 Normal Thevenier Pascal
Hammer Auto 1:30:25 Normal Thomas Van Elst
Tiger Manual 1:30:95 Normal Ashley Burgess
Sandrock
Panther Auto 52:21 Professional JJ
Shadow Manual 56:38 Normal Thevenier Pascal
Tiger Manual 56:74 Normal Ashley Burgess
Shadow Automatic 56:83 Normal Bob&Marsha Decker
Tiger Manual 56.84 Professional Constantin Sylvain

Due to a lack of time, this list is now closed.