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Article 930 of alt.sega.genesis:
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From: [email protected] (John Szczypinski)
Subject: Re: Road Rash
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Why not just make your own passwords, like everyone else?
The articles below will explain how to do it.

There is a similar way to modify passwords for Road Rash II as well.

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Article 26084 of rec.games.video:
From: [email protected] (Chris Holt)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Road Rash
Date: 20 Feb 92 22:47:21 GMT

Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating. I've made it to level 5, and placed
on every course but Palm Desert. I had to do it all in one day, though. There
is no way I can handle the last two levels unless I've played all day, and
gotten accustomed to the courses with the Diablo. I can't memorize the
courses, either. I just remember the places I tend to crash the most.
Unfortunately, I got to Palm Desert at 1am, and I just couldn't
concentrate enough to finish. I kept crashing in the easiest places.

However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any
cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes:

The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is
no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers
(the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at
the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers
(bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the
bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also
encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and
maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a
better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the
code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for
another race. For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level
1. Your password would look something like this:

00001 2PT43
23RTU 10J32

To finish first on Palm Desert, just switch the 1 and the first zero and
keep everything else the same:

10000 2PT43
23RTU 10J32

That is also a legal password.

So in order to win, you just have to be able to place in the easiest of
the five races (definitely PCH) five times on all five levels. I can't
remember off hand which of the five numbers is PCH, but all you have to
do is race PCH first and see which number is no longer 0 (unless you
crash or get busted 🙂 If all you want to do is finish, this should
help a lot. Even at level 5, PCH is not hard.

I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an
interesting puzzle.

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Article 26171 of rec.games.video:
From: [email protected] (Steve Coltrin)
Organization: Department of Stormwater Mismanagement, Norman, OK
Subject: (password cheats in) Road Rash
Date: 21 Feb 92 21:38:53 GMT

[email protected] (Chris Holt) writes:

>Road Rash is indeed incredibly frustrating.

When the laws of physics change between levels? Bloody right...

>However, there is a way to make it MUCH easier to win. I don't use any
>cheats in games, but I know other people do, so here goes:

>The password has stores all the data of your game in it. Since there is
>no battery in the cart, that's pretty obvious. The first five numbers
>(the ones in the upper left) contain your placement in the five races at
>the current level. The first number in the last set of five numbers
>(bottom right) is the level you are on, and the second number is the
>bike you own (0 being your starting bike, 7 being the Diablo). Also
>encoded somehow is the number of tickets you get, your winnings, and
>maybe other things. Now, while you can't magically give yourself a
>better bike or go to a higher level (I believe the check bits to the
>code would be incorrect), you CAN switch your placement in one race for
>another race.

Actually, you can switch placements with either bike or level, and
bike and level with each other. Furthermore, you are not limited to just
swapping digits between these seven positions, but you can increment any one
of them and decrement any other, and still have a valid password.

>For example, suppose you finished first on PCH for level
>1. Your password would look something like this:

> 00001 2PT43
> 23RTU 10J32

If instead you finish _last_, you will get:

0000F ?????
????? 10???

which you can transform into:

11110 ?????
????? 57???

putting you at the last level, giving you a Diablo, and winning
all but one race in one swell foop.

(The entries marked ?, however, thou shalt leave alone; the
checksum apparently keeps better watch over those digits or something.)

>I wish I could've figured out the rest of the password code. It's an
>interesting puzzle.

Well, it obviously contains total winnings and current cash,
as well as Natasha's attitude towards you, along with a (IMHO pitifully
weak) checksum. I haven't thought of anything else I can prove it
contains... arrest record? Your violence quota? (I haven't noticed these
affecting game play, so I doubt they're encoded.)

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  3 Responses to “Category : Various Text files
Archive   : SEGAMISC.ZIP
Filename : ROADRASH.CRE

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

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