===================================================== RRRRRR VV VV RR RR EEEEE VV VV OOOOOO LL TTTTTTTT RR RR EE ===== VV VV OO OO LL TT RRRRR EEE ===== VV VV OO OO LL TT RR RR EE VVVV OO OO LL TT RR RR EEEEE VV OOOOOO LLLLLL TT ===================================================== Re-Volt Star Location FAQ Version 1.0 - by Michael Koenig 11/19/01 ================= Table Of Contents ================= 1. Legal Information 2. Introduction to the Game 3. Purpose of the Star FAQ 4. Easy Tracks 4.1 Toys in the Hood 1 4.2 Supermarket 2 4.3 Museum 2 4.4 Botanical Garden 5. Medium Tracks 5.1 Rooftops 5.2 Toy World 1 5.3 Ghost Town 1 5.4 Toy World 2 6. Hard Tracks 6.1 Toys in the Hood 2 6.2 Toytanic 1 6.3 Museum 1 7. Extreme Tracks 7.1 Supermarket 1 7.2 Ghost Town 2 7.3 Toytanic 2 8. Other FAQ Stuff ==================== 1. Legal Information ==================== This FAQ belongs and is Copyrighted to Michael Koenig under the international Copyright law. You may not in any way, shape, or form change the content of this FAQ or distribute it without permission of the author. Any information taken from this FAQ must be credited to me. This FAQ cannot appear in any magazine/website/guide without my permission. The only site that has my permission to appear on (so far) is GameFAQs . =========================== 2. Introduction to the Game =========================== Re-Volt is an RC Car racing game for the Dreamcast that puts you in control of a small RC car to race against rivals in life like (and life- size) environments. You'll find yourself racing through neighborhood streets dodging the occasional basketball, leaping over supermarket cash registers, breaking into museums past closing hours, and sailing along on a cruise ship. It has just short of 50 different cars to race on 14 different tracks. It is quite difficult, and takes quite a while to unlock the whole game. ========================== 3. Purpose of the Star FAQ ========================== To fully unlock the game, not only will you have to win all the races and beat all the times. Those will come from experience, hard work and determination. The rest of the unlocking will come from finding and nabbing all the stars in the Practice mode of the game. Each track has a star and as the tracks get progressively harder, so does obtaining the stars. When you get the stars on every track of a certain difficulty level, more cars will be unlocked, so to get all of the cars, you need to get all of the stars. ============== 4. Easy Tracks ============== These tracks all have the stars in easy to spot locations and are all easily accessible. Supermarket 2 will give you the hardest time to get but it should only take a couple of tries. (On a side note, for some reason, the numbering of the tracks in the game is weird. The second track you race in the game is Supermarket 2, when later in the game you come across Supermarket 1. The same thing goes for the Museum tracks) <4.1 Toys in the Hood 1> This star requires skill or insane jump to reach. It is found midway through the track underneath the red car that is halfway parked up on the curb (license plate PP4 CLE). Simply drive under the car and the star is yours. Car to Use: Any <4.2 Supermarket 2> Proceed through the track and find the three cash registers. Back up as far as possible and then accelerate towards the middle register. Use the conveyor belt ramp to launch over the register and to get the star in the air. Car to Use: Any car with fast acceleration. Adeon or Sprinter XL. <4.3 Museum 2> The star on this track is located on the handrail between the two escalators midway through the level. Line up with the bottom of the handrail and drive the ramp and onto the narrow rail between the two escalators. The star is about half way up. Car to Use: Any <4.4 Botanical Garden> At the end of the track, as you are coming down the last hill, there is a small window to the left of the big arch. Drive down the grass, into the window and onto the elevated soil box. Behind the last pillar is the star. Car to Use: Any ================ 5. Medium Tracks ================ These are all easy with the one exception being the Rooftops star. This one is simply maddening to get. <5.1 Rooftops> This star is one of the harder ones to obtain in the game. The star can be seen on a ledge just past the roof with the two large satellite dishes (on the dark, unlit roof). To get the star you will have to travel beyond this point. Take the track around the building on the rooftop and get to the next one with small pyramid like structures on your left, and large buildings on your right. Drive between the first and second pyramids and turn yourself back towards the rooftop you just came from. This is where the difficulty starts. You have to jump off the rooftop and land on the narrow ledge that goes around the one you just came from (the dark rooftop). Driving too slow will make you miss the ledge and going too fast will make you fly over it. If you land on the ledge, stop your forward momentum by using reverse. It will take several tries. Your best bet is to point the nose of your car at the ladder in the distance and land somewhat on the corner, which allows for a little more room. After you land on the ledge, travel extremely slowly and carefully along the top until you reach the star. Car to Use: I found it best to use Adeon and start accelerating from the second pyramid-like structure. <5.2 Toy World 1> Another easy star. Instead of just jumping off the very last ramp, slowly ride up the ramp and fall off the edge. You will get the star on your way down. Car to Use: Any <5.3 Ghost Town 1> This star is located right before the finish-line. If you flip around and head backwards right from the start you should see it. It's sitting on top of a wooden crate right next to a large ramp. Just drive up the ramp and fall off the side to land on the star. Car to Use: Any <5.4 Toy World 2> A little short of halfway into the track, one section of track jumps over the other. This jump can be found by taking the right path at the fork earlier in the race. Jump over the track then turn the car back around. Jump the opposite way you just came, but intead of landing on the track, land on the grassy spot to the right. The star is just in front of the big red door. Car to Use: Any ============== 6. Hard Tracks ============== Here is where the stars start being very difficult to get. All three pose a large challenge with Toytanic 1 being the hardest of the bunch. All three require fast cars and lots of patience. <6.1 Toys in the Hood 2> Take the first turn in the course and head towards the open doorway. Instead of entering, however, take a right. Drive down to the fence and up on the driveway to your left. Turn the car to face the white house at the end of the street and accelerate towards it. As you come to the street that intersects it, turn slightly to the right and hit the wooden ramp. This will launch you up and over the trash can that the star is sitting on top of. This one can be quite difficult. I wouldn't recommend accelerating up the street because it requires that you turn more at the end, resulting in a loss of speed. Also, you have to hit the ramp at a crooked angle. The wheels of the car tend to slip off the edge alot so getting this can be frustrating. Car to Use: Anything fast, Adeon <6.2 Toytanic 1> This is one of the hardest stars to get in the game, maybe even THE hardest. Towards the end of the track there is a big long stretch of deck followed by a red ramp. The trick is to speed down the right corridor of the deck and up the right side of the ramp. This will launch you towards a deck chair. Turn to the left and hit the top of the backrest of the chair and pray that you are going fast enough, and in the right direction. This one takes many, many tries and alot of luck to get. And if taking forever to get isn't enough, you have to do it all again (more on that later). Car to Use: Anything with speed and not too heavy. I got it with Adeon (my car of choice in case you couldn't tell). <6.3 Museum 1> Turn around at the start and take the course in reverse. Don't go up the large metal ramp after the first turn. Instead, go behind it to a room filled with lasers and infared tripwires. Accelerate down the room and at the very end, aim towards the top of the blue shell. You'll fly over the shell and out over the staircase. The star is hanging high in the air over the staircase. Another perk to this hard to get star requires a long drive back around the course. After you fly over the shell, you can't get back to the ledge you came from. So you have to drive back towards the finish-line and back to the laser room. Car to Use: Anything Fast. ================= 7. Extreme Tracks ================= These are on about the same playing field as the hard tracks (except Ghost Town 2, which is very easy to get). <7.1 Supermarket 1> Turn and drive the course in reverse right from the start. Drive all the way down the long corridor until you reach the wall. Turn yourself back towards the cash registers and floor it. Get as much speed as you can and launch off the ramp on the leftmost cash register. This one requires a very fast car. Car to Use: Your Fastest Car <7.2 Ghost Town 2> Turn around and start the course in reverse. Head through the small space between the two buildings and on through the course. Soon you will see the ramp that you used to get the star in Ghost Town 1. Go to the bottom and accelerate up. Instead of driving off the side like before, simply drive straight up the ramp. At the top, you will come to a vertical wall. Drive up the wall and the star is at the top. This one is very easy to get, but incredibly hard to locate. It isn't visible until you drive right over it due to the camera angle. Car to Use: A lightweight one. <7.3 Toytanic 2> Remember the first Toytanic? Well, the developers decided to put the star in the exact same place on Toytanic 2. You get to do the whole thing over again. In case you missed my advice for the first one, here it is: This is one of the hardest stars to get in the game, maybe even THE hardest. Towards the end of the track there is a big long stretch of deck followed by a red ramp. The trick is to speed down the right corridor of the deck and up the right side of the ramp. This will launch you towards a deck chair. Turn to the left and hit the top of the backrest of the chair and pray that you are going fast enough, and in the right direction. This one takes many, many tries and alot of luck to get. Car to Use: Anything Fast ================== 8. Other FAQ Stuff ================== If you have any questions/suggestions/things to add to the FAQ/etc... that are not covered in the FAQ, please send them to me at mootootwo@hotmail.com. If you suggest something or something is added to the FAQ because of your e-mail you will be credited. =========================================== This document Copyright 2001 Michael Koenig