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Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Simulator is a motorcycle simulator game for the Sony PlayStation 2 developed by Polyphony Digital , the makers of Gran Turismo . In China it was released on January 26, 2006, in Japan on February 2 of that year, in Europe on May 29 and in Australia on June 1. According to the list of features on its promotional page,1 it has more than 100 motorcycle models and more than 35 real and fictional tracks.

Tourist Trophy

Tourist Trophy is the application of Gran Turismo 4 ' s formula and engine to a motorcycle racing game. Even with reduced on-screen vehicle count and loss of certain tracks (including off-road courses, even with inclusion of motard models), the track features the Circuit Ricardo Tormo that would be given one chance for four-wheelers to drive in , as well as a 1080i support carried over from the game's four-wheeler cousin.

• 1 Cheat Codes
• 2.1.1 Secret (Special Settings)
• 2.1.2 Monitor (Detail Monitor Settings)
• 2.1.3 Bike (Bike Settings)
• 2.1.4 Course Registration Settings
• 3 Unused Motorcycle
• 4 Unused Thumbnail
• 5.2 Bike Changes
• 5.3.1 Added Gear
• 5.3.2 Equipment Combination
• 5.4 Soundtrack

Cheat Codes

Most of the previously undiscovered cheats for Gran Turismo 4 also work in this game. These codes have same requirement as in GT4, in which 365 game days must have passed.

• Pass any license (License Selection Screen): Select, R1, Select, R1, Select, L2, L2, R2, R2, L1, Select, L1, Select .
• Gold any specific license test (License Test Selection Screen): Select, Select, R1, R2, L2, L2, Select, L1, R1, Select, R2, L1, Select .
• Gold any event (Event Course Selection Screen): Select, L1, Up, Up, Select, R1, Down, Down, Select, L2, Select, R2, Select .

Special Settings

The hidden menu that was in GT4 can also be accessed in this game using the same method: enter the Options menu and input the same code, L1, Up, L2, Down, R1, Left, R2, Right, Start, Start on the second controller. The sound heard when entering a menu from the main menu will then be played to confirm the right input. Unlike in GT4, the code does not need to be entered each time the player visits the screen.

In addition to the Secret and Monitor , two additional options also appear here to support the Secret portion of the menu.

Function Overview

Secret (special settings).

This portion of the menu works exactly the same like in GT4, although with some changes as TT does not have Favorites option in its Arcade Mode.

• Specific Bikes : Restricts the motorcycles available in Arcade Mode to those defined in the Bike menu.
• Specific Courses : Restricts the courses available in Arcade Mode to those set in Course Registration Settings , which is a hidden setting in this game as TT does not feature LAN mode.
• Specific Opponents : Restricts the opponent motorcycles chosen in Arcade Mode to those defined in the Bike menu.
• Specific Makes : Allows the game to be set to only feature a certain manufacturer. When this is the case, you cannot enter Tourist Trophy Mode , and the title screen's is modified with the chosen manufacturer on top of the game logo on the title screen. Selecting none , the default option, reverts to normal gameplay.

Monitor (Detail Monitor Settings)

This portion of the menu also works exactly the same like in GT4, where it allows you to adjust the camera and the display of the screen during races.

• Flag : Four flags can be chosen (FLAG_NONE, FLAG_ROTY, FLAG ROTX, and FLAG_ROTX|FLAG_ROTY). These appears to deal with settings on each horizontal/vertical axis, but it does not appear to affect anything.
• Zoom : Adjust the field of view, in range of 0.00 to 3.00.
• Distance : Adjusts the distance from the viewpoint of the player's camera between 200 to 1200 millimeters; the default setting is 276 mm.
• Width : Adjusts the width of the display area, between 200 to 600 millimeters.
• Height : Adjusts the height of the display area, between 200 to 400 millimeters.
• Aspect : Adjusts the pixel aspect ratio, between 0.00 to 2.00.
• Overscan Factor : Obvious what it adjusts, the value is 0.00 to 2.00.
• Border Width (Left, Right, Top, Bottom) : Adjusts the width of each side of the screen border in millimeters. The range of each is 0 (default) to 300 millimeters.

The default settings depends on the selected aspect ratio mode:

Bike (Bike Settings)

A replacement for the Favorites option in GT4, where chosen cars are determined, this menu allows the player to select what motorcycles are available to be used by the Secret Settings menu.

Course Registration Settings

This menu, originally part of GT4's LAN capabilities, allows you to select what tracks can be chosen for the Specific Courses option. Note that most of the tracks have the value for maximum vehicles on the track of six, even though Tourist Trophy only supports four.

Unused Motorcycle

An entry for Buell LIGHTNING CITYX XB9SX RacingModify '05 can be found in the database files in the American version of the game, which would have been a racing version of the Buell LIGHTNING CITYX XB9SX '05 , a motorcycle added in that version of the game. Coincidentally, the other three road-going bikes added in that version do have their own racing versions. In the European version of the game, this entry was removed from the database.

Unused Thumbnail

There is an Arcade Mode thumbnail for the Honda RC162 '61 , a bike not normally accessible in that mode.

Regional Differences

The American version of the game adds seven additional motorcycles to the game:

• Buell LIGHTNING CITYX XB9SX '05
• Honda NS400R '85
• Honda NS400R RacingModify '85
• Suzuki RG500 Gamma '85
• Suzuki RG500 Gamma RacingModify '85
• Yamaha RZV500R '84
• Yamaha RZV500R RacingModify '84

The European version of the game also adds three additional motorcycles, on top of the above:

• Kawasaki Z1000 R1 '82
• Kawasaki Z1000 S1 '82
• YOSHIMURA GS1000R YOSHIMURA XR69 '80

For the North American and European version of the game, the new Buell became obtainable from the 2-stroke Legend Series championship (in Hero Blue Translucid color) and the third race of the Nostalgic Festival series (at Special Stage Route 5 , for the Kick Ash Translucid color); these events originally do not award prize bikes in the Japanese version. Additionally, for the European version of the game, two events have their prize vehicles changed to accommodate that version's new ones:

Because of the changes to the K1200R Cup and Special Machine Cup, the Suzuki DR-Z400SM '05 and Yamaha VMAX RacingModify '05 are obtainable from the first two races of the Nostalgic Festival event in the European version instead.

Bike Changes

Some motorcycles have performance changes in the North American and European version of the game, where they use the "eu" variants:

Riding Gear

The North American version version adds the following Riding Gears:

The European version also adds three helmets to the above list. Curiously, entries for Arai SNC RX-7 RR4 NAKANO-1 and Arai SNC RX-7 RR4 NAKANO-2 are present in American version of the game, unused with different names.

Equipment Combination

Some Equipment Combinations in Arcade Mode were changed between Japan and International versions:

In addition, an extra motard Equipment Combination was added in North American and European version. It takes the tenth spot of the Japanese version, moving by one all of the other following combinations.

Seven new in-race songs were added in the North American version of the game, followed by additional six in the European version of the game.

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Tourist Trophy

"Spin-off" sounds about right.

Aimed at biking aficionados (and aficionadas - you can fiddle with the rider's leather you know), Tourist Trophy is meant as a counterpoint to Polyphony Digital's exhaustive Gran Turismo series. The set-up is immediately familiar - a series of "licence tests" to familiarise yourself with the concepts, a garage area where you can house and tune all the bikes you've acquired, and an enormous range of races in a variety of locations. The idea is to reapply Polyphony's renowned attention to detail, and biking fans sick of lightweight simulators are understandably excited.

They may very well enjoy themselves. Compared to MotoGP - one of the most celebrated series around - it's vicious. MotoGP knocks you over quite a lot, but you can generally see why you went over. Maybe you've gone too fast into a corner, or you're going too fast across the gravel, or you're powersliding a bit longer than you should be, or you're driving into somebody doing a handstand - that sort of thing. It's frustrating, but you know what you did wrong. Tourist Trophy doesn't care whether you understand why you've fallen over. It slaps you on the wrist every time you try to let your hair down. Make no mistake - this is a game where concentration is a must, and without the requisite biking experience only the dedicated need apply.

And while those of you who've been waiting for this sort of challenge can happily run off and buy it, the rest of us are left here wondering what the hell to make of it. For us, it exposes the flaws in the GT concept at every turn. And Tourist Trophy isn't without its own problems either.

We might as well start with the licence tests, since the game does. In many respects they're next to useless - overly easy to begin with, and full of instruction that goes right over my head. I understand the words, and the descriptions, but the basic problem I have is not that I can't find the optimum line through a hairpin, it's that I don't understand why I keep falling over, or what I have to do to be allowed to go fast through, well, anything; it's that on the occasions I do succeed, I can't really tell what I did differently.

Gran Turismo is frequently berated for assuming an incredible level of ignorance in the player, and then failing to offer practical advice anyway by giving you a radically different car for every test. But where GT did these things, it almost didn't matter - and you could forgive it to a certain extent, because aiming for the gold medals was moreish. Tourist Trophy does these things and, from my perspective, it does matter. I've had tons of fun with MotoGP and I still struggle with Tourist Trophy after countless hours. So, depending on your level of biking experience, the game either fails to teach or, if you do get it, simply repeats GT's haphazard approach and gets damned with the same faint praise. Some sort of beginner's course would have been invaluable, rather than expecting you to pick it up the hard way - and if that sounds like whinging, bear in mind that Tourist Trophy asks a lot more of you than either of the rival MotoGP series.

Things don't really improve when you graduate and start trying to win bikes. Tourist Trophy adopts a different strategy to GT. Instead of earning money and then investing it in vehicles and upgrades, the idea is to take part in 'challenges' to earn the full complement of bikes from each of the (mostly Japanese) manufacturers. Some of them are only available when you complete the more advanced licence tests, and naturally there's a steady curve of difficulty the higher you pitch yourself.

Appropriately, this new approach isn't so much reinventing the wheel as lopping a couple of wheels off. You can no longer perform large-scale upgrades to your vehicles, for example - if they're crap, you've very limited options to improve them. You can change the front and rear spring rate, preload, shock absorbance, the brake balance and tyre compound, your exhaust type and gear ratio, but that's it. GT's tuning options wouldn't fit in a single paragraph, let alone a sentence. Absurdly, much more time appears to have been spent allowing you to change the rider's clothes and riding style - how he leans and so forth - even though it makes precious little difference to race performance.

More importantly, it's much harder to acquire bikes than it was cars. Because you can't just go off and mine certain completable areas for cash; you have to complete these challenges or you can't have the bike. They take the form of a one-on-one race against another biker, starting behind him, and the goal is to spend ten seconds ahead of him or finish the race first. The problem arises because some of them are much meaner than others, and because even the slightest mistake - one tumble on the second lap, or a couple of seconds scooting through the dirt - results in instant failure. In a game that does the opposite of GT and assumes improbable competence, it's not a great fit. There are whole sets of races I simply can't try because I'm fed up of failing a particular challenge. This sort of carrot dangled from a stick works as an occasional side-quest in racing games; demanding it every time is too punishing.

The races themselves aren't exactly enthralling either, although at least here the game resets you to the track (near instantly) when you fall. Many of the tracks are simply lifted from Gran Turismo (I realise GT is quite exhaustive, but surely there were better ways of doing this), but more painful is the initial lack of speed and the predictable AI. MotoGP is ludicrously quick, and offers a wide viewing angle. Tourist Trophy is much closer in third-person, but only starts to move quickly after a few hours of toiling around on scooters and weaker bikes. TT's braking and acceleration is sluggish throughout, leaving you with plenty of time to sit there and calculate just how many seconds you've given away to the man in front as he zooms out of the corner ahead of you. Or to note that he doggedly sticks to the racing line and rarely demonstrates any knowledge of your presence. There's a real feeling of dampness to every encounter, too - as though you're hugging a canal boat. The weight just feels wrong.

The result is a game that doesn't really offer motorbike enthusiasts the same attention to detail that petrolheaded car nuts get out of GT, and takes hours and hours for the rest of us to warm to. What's most annoying isn't that it's hard to start with, or makes no attempt to accommodate the rest of us; it's that where it contradicts GT, it does so to its own detriment. GT isn't a realistic driving game - it's an illusion that benefits from things like the lack of cars exploding and overturning on a whim, set on a curve that teaches you how to handle monstrous machines gradually. TT sets off in the other direction at a speed the game can only dream of; it starts you off on scooters, which are awful, and which fall over just at glacial pace as real bikes do at breakneck, and kicks you back to the start simply for wanting to unlock new toys.

For a very long time I found very little satisfaction playing it. It's telling that the main thing I feel like applauding is the way that the camera doesn't lean left and right every time you turn. Motorbike devotees may very take to it a lot more quickly, and for those that do there's a great deal of content to unlock and a high-end game every bit as enamouring as GT's - but even they would have to admit Tourist Trophy cuts corners, poorly, in a way that bikes demonstrably can't.

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Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Simulator Review

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Tourist Trophy has been hailed as the Gran Turismo of the motorbike world, but that’s a rather lofty claim. Gran Turismo isn’t for everyone, but it’s undoubtedly one of the premier driving (see what I did? Not racing) franchises available. For Tourist Trophy to match Gran Turismo it would have to be very impressive indeed. While it comes close – this is from Polyphony Digital after all – it falls short in a few areas.

Before you read any further it’s worth noting that unless you’re a fan of driving simulations and bikes, this isn’t for you. While Tourist Trophy might not model riding a bike 100 per cent accurately, it’s by no means an arcade-style riding model, with real care and attention needed if you’re going to make it around a corner. The fact that it’s bikes and not cars simply ramps up the difficulty another notch, as pulling off the perfect lap in a bike is very different to screaming around a track in your souped up Nissan Skyline.

With that little warning out of the way, Tourist Trophy is an impressive game. You can ride over 120 bikes on more than 30 courses (although this includes slight variations of the same courses) and there’s a substantial Tourist Trophy mode to work your way through. Rather than competing in events for cash, you compete to win bikes, either through race events or challenges. The race events are pretty self explanatory, but the challenges are a little different. You’ll generally have to maintain a certain lead over another rider for a set period of time or until you cross the finishing line. With your rider often starting some considerable distance behind the target, these challenges can be very tough, especially as slight slip-ups will end the challenge – crash, cause your opponent to crash or come off the track, and it’s challenge over.

Before you even start the quest to complete all the events and challenges that the game offers, you’ll need to prove yourself in the riding license tests. For anyone remotely interested in bikes, the first two licenses are formalities, but the two more advanced set of tests take a little more effort. Bike riding experts will no doubt pass with flying colours, but for the rest of us the latter tests will be a real struggle. You don’t have to pass all four licences to compete in events, but you will have to pass them all eventually, so tackling them all at the start isn’t a bad way to go about it. It’ll also set you up well for the races ahead.

I’ve used ‘race’ numerous times already, but in truth the racing is Tourist Trophy’s weakest aspect. Your opponents don’t exhibit much in the way of human-like AI, and tend to stick to the racing line at all times, occasionally taking a corner slower than usual, but never taking a risk and taking a corner too wide. The Gran Turismo games are the same in this respect, and because of this you more often than not feel like you’re in a time trial with other riders on the track, rather than a proper race. The sense of riding a bike at high speed is great, with the high-end bikes starting to shake when they hit their top speed, but as a racing experience Tourist Trophy is very disappointing.

Tinkerers will be glad that a certain amount of tuning can be performed on the bikes, and that your riding style can be tweaked, with both having an affect on how the bike handles. Even so, the tweaking isn’t as detailed as you’ll see in Gran Turismo 4 and you can’t upgrade your bikes with new parts. One of the most pleasing parts to the Gran Turismo games was being able to take your cheap Skyline and spend a fortune on parts to turn it into a beast. With money not being a part of the Tourist Trophy mode, upgrades would have had to be won, but it would still have been preferable to bikes not being upgradeable at all.

The Tourist Trophy mode isn’t all the game has to offer. If you just want to take to the track and compete against AI racers, the Arcade mode lets you get right into the action. Two players can also compete against each other via split-screen. With the Gran Turismo games lacking online play, it’s not surprising that online play isn’t present here either, but it’s still disappointing. Bike aficionados will be pleased to see that the photo mode from GT4 is also available in Tourist Trophy, so you can take snaps of your beauties for everyone to see. The lack of bike customisation sadly makes this feature less worthwhile than it was in GT4, though, as the bikes don’t feel like your own creations.

Technically the game looks and sounds great. This is pretty much Gran Turismo 4, but with bikes, so its technical prowess is hardly surprising. One downside to this is that most of the tracks have previously been seen in the Gran Turismo series. They look great, but long-time fans might find them a little too familiar. Bike sounds are equally as good, and the soundtrack is fitting, if not spectacular. As with Gran Turismo, damage modelling is non-existent, and while it’s not something to overlook, it is something that Polyphony Digital fans are used to. Anyone expecting the 1080i and 480p display setting options found in the US and Japanese versions of the game will be in for a shock, as they’re nowhere to be seen in the PAL release. A little annoying, but the game looks great anyway.

All in all, Tourist Trophy is very close to being the game Gran Turismo loving bike fans would have wanted. Racing isn’t the game’s strong point, and customisation is sorely lacking, but the selection of bikes (even though those on offer are very Japan-centric) and wealth of tracks makes this something of a must for motorbike fans. The learning curve might be a little steep for casual racing fans, and the racing can be somewhat dull, but for people who like nothing more than to look at bikes all day long, there’s little better.

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Tourist Trophy – Guides and FAQs

Playstation 2, full game guides.

• FAQ by  CardigansFan v.1.5, 117KB, 2007

In-Depth Guides

• Race Rewards FAQ by  aj_the_one v.1.0, 14KB, 2006
• Riding Form FAQ by  aj_the_one v.1.0, 11KB, 2006

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Tourist Trophy (GT4)

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Tourist Trophy is an Audi one make race championship event in Gran Turismo 4 for Audi TT models.

• 1 AI Opponents
• 2 Other Allowed Cars
• 3 Races in Tourist Trophy
• 5.1 Prize Money
• 5.2 Prize Car

AI Opponents [ ]

Other allowed cars [ ].

• Abt Audi TT-R Touring Car '02

Races in Tourist Trophy [ ]

Strategy [ ].

The TT 1.8T quattro '00 can sometimes appear in the late-90's used lot for 23,850 credits. On PAL it appears in weeks 5 and 10, while on NTSC it appears in weeks 7 and 12. Since this event awards 35,000 credits and a powerful supercar, it makes the TT a fantastic early-game purchase if you have the money when it appears. Once you obtain the B licence, you can complete Civic Race , Suzuki K-Car Cup and/or Japanese Compact Cup to quickly earn enough money to purchase it.

The stock TT has wheelspin issues if you attempt to drive it with TCS set to 0. The way to fix this is by buying the VCD controller and setting the torque distribution to 10 in the car settings. This will remove all wheelspin, allowing you to win the championship with zero power upgrades. Buying weight reduction stage 1 and a racing flywheel is still recommended for better acceleration, while sports suspension with dampers set to 2 / 2 and camber set to 2.0 / 2.5 will further improve handling.

Prize Money [ ]

• 1st: Cr. 5,000
• 2nd: Cr. 2,000
• 3rd: Cr. 1,000
• 4th: Cr. 900
• 5th: Cr. 800
• 6th: Cr. 500
• Overall Champion: Cr. 20,000

Prize Car [ ]

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