Twisted Metal: Small Brawl faq by RHINO0187@aol.com I. Introduction II. Main menu III. Game options IV. special attacks V. Game modes VI. Weapons/pickups VII. Characters/cars VIII. Bosses/Billy Calypso IX. How to get secret characters X. Secret character info. XI. Stages XII. Secret stages XIII. Movies XIV. Gameshark codes XV. Favorites XVI. Credits Update 1- July 14, 2002, Well, first I wrote the faq, but then I heard a problem about how to get mime. But I think I know the real way, so I fixed that. Didn't think I would end up updating, but here you go. Thanks DarkStryder247@aol.com for finding out that you couldn't get mime with what I originally had. Update 2- July 15, 2002, Well, decided for another update. Someone told me that there was a better strategy for endurance mode with Slam and freezing cars then lifting them over the edge in the Tree Top Rumble stage, but I still stand strong on my strategy, it is less risky, I tried out that, I was on 28 kills and fell off the edge by accident. So anyone who reads my faq, I encourage you to use my strategy. Plus I beat the game with Darkside on hard mode, so I added that. And lastly I added the reason for me not having a walkthrough, right under introduction(even though no one has questioned me about it yet). Update 3- Wow, thought I had my last upgrade before... But that's ok, cause I am glad to give some knowledge to you all. I am going to correct how to get the secret characters(again) cause for some odd reason they didn't change last time, plus, JCrowe3400@aol.com told me the real way to get Piecemeal, which all I really need to add is that it must be under hard mode. Lets hope this is my last upgrade, but then again, you never know... I do not tolerate plagiarism. In case if you do not know the definition, Plagiarize is defined: To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own or to appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another). Thanks Dictionary.com for the definition, pretty much, don't copy my stuff, you can look, you can refer to it all you want, maybe print for your own use. But do not copy for your faqs, as your own work, or anything along those lines. I will be happy to answer any questions, just E-mail me at RHINO0187@aol.com. This is my first faq, but I think it is done well and should help a lot. I. Introduction --------------- Well first of all I should say that I don't really think that a walkthrough is needed for this game, so just go to the car you like, then get some strategies, I put some strategies for the bosses too. If anyone wants a walkthrough, E-mail me for I can decide if it would be useful. -------------- What kid will be toughest on the Block? Billy Calypso, the mean bully of Twisted Metal: Small Brawl. He has teased the kids on the block, stolen their lunch money, shot spit wads at them, and sent their pets to the veterinarian. After getting bored of all this, Calypso had to think of something a little more fun to do. --------------- So while watching some demolition derby. Calypso thought, now this is action, I would love to see all them dumb kids go at it like this. So he says, "I gotta have this tournament! It would absolutely rule!" ---------------- But even though the idea was so great, the backfire was none of the kids in his neighborhood knew how to drive. But Calypso thinks of something fast... So he "invited" all the kids to a tournament (some more willing then others). ---------------- He tells them they will all need a remote control car. Then get ready to put your remote control cars to the test. He told them to make it interesting, "Ill grant the winner one wish...so think about what you want...Cuz you'll really get it...heh heh..." ------------- II. Main menu ------------- One player-One player mode, go alone, modes include tournament, challenge, or endurance. -------------- Two Player-Two player mode, play with a buddy in head to head, cooperative and free for all modes -------------- Options-Look at my next section ----------------- III. Game options ----------------- Difficulty: Easy, medium, or hard ---------------- Memory card: load and save game progress, unlocked stuff and game settings can be loaded here, use switch to switch your memory card. ---------------- Movies: lets you watch the movies you have unlocked, you start with the movie at the beginning of the game, once movies are unlocked simply play them all at once, or pick them individually. ----------------- Controller: allows players to choose what buttons they want to do what in the three different modes available: TM:2 Classic, Small Brawl and SB: Reverse. ------------------ Credits: people who contributed to the game are here. ------------------- IV. Special attacks ------------------- Freeze: Helpful to freeze the opponent temporarily. When froze the opponent can not move. Damage them while they are frozen. Press up, down, up to execute. -------------------- Shield: Temporary shield that blocks any attack. Use when you are low in health and trying to escape. Press right, right, down, down to execute. --------------------- Rear fire: Launch your weapon backwards, when being followed show them a lesson by blasting them behind. Press right, left, down, L2 to execute. ---------------------- Drop Mine: A mine is also a great way to get those cars away from your tail. Press right, left, down to execute. ----------------------- Jump: Use this to jump, doesn't talk a lot of battery power either press L1+R1 to execute. ------------------------ Ramming: This isn't really a special attack but with a larger car you can get ramming damage in. Just go full speed and ram for damage. ------------- V. Game modes ------------- Tournament: If you're ready, take on Calypso's tournament. The battleground is filled with enemies of Calypso's choosing. ------------- Challenge: This is fun to do, just pick your enemies and have fun destroying them. ------------- Endurance: How long can you last? Select your battleground and fight for your life. I can last extremely long. Can you? Use all your skills and give them the fight of their life. -------------- Head to head: No computer in this mode, just you and a friend. As I am undefeated in the mode, I have bragging rights. Earn some for yourself by beating any opponent that comes in your way. ---------------- Cooperative: Tired of beating your friends to bits, well then help them out in cooperative mode. Work together to beat the stages. ---------------- Free for all: Everyone for themselves. Player1 against player2 against computer. Everyone is against everyone here. Show off your skills by showing you can beat man and machine. ---------------- VI. Weapons/pick ups ---------------- Fire missile: This firework rocket is your basic missile. It is a little stronger then homing missiles but have slight homing abilities. ---------------- Homing missile: This bottle rocket flies out and tracks down your opponents, less power but way easier to hit with. ---------------- Power missile: This big firework does great damage but has no homing abilities. ---------------- Roman candle: A rapid firing weapon lobs explosive bouncing balls around. Height and length it goes depends how far your opponent is away. I think it is useful on larger opponents. ---------------- Ricochet bomb: A ground bloom firework that spins out in a straight path. If it hits it does great damage, if not it ricochets until it hits someone(it will be just as powerful as when launched). ---------------- Napalm: Isn't this creative, flaming doll heads. It is a lobbing arc, and explodes on impact, if it hits the ground it will have a wall of fire, when someone hits it they will catch fire until extinguished. ----------------- Remote drop mine: Huge cherry bombs are more powerful then you would expect! Put it on the ground then detonate it when you are ready. ------------------ Environment weapon: Every battleground has a different effect with these, when you use something happens on the battleground; usually these are pretty effective, look out for them. -------------------- Mystery weapon: That question mark you see, it's a mystery weapon, it gives you a random weapon. ------------------- Special: You cant pick them up but they build up overtime, each car has a different one and some are better then others. -------------------- Machine guns- This weapon you can use as much as you want, I use it a lot while shooting other weapons or when chasing down an opponent. -------------------- Green battery: Just call it health. -------------------- Red battery: Just call it turbo. ------------------------ NOTE: Battery attacks are used from the blue bar on the side of your health, it fills up automatically and can not be refilled instantly. -------------------- VII. Characters/Cars -------------------- NOTE: Stats are based on 10, I estimated the amount of points with the bars in the game. -------------------- Sweet Tooth: The youngest of the kids, but also the most mischievous. He enters the contest just wanting a little ice cream. ------ Vehicle: Frosty Treats Ice Cream Truck- Sweet Tooth has a special weapon that is a ricocheting frozen treat. It goes around a while until it hits someone, it does pretty good damage too. ------ Stats: Armor- 7 Acceleration- 5 Speed- 4 Handling- 6 ------- Agent Stone: A young gentlemen who dreams of being a British secret agent. He enters to uncover and put an end to the bullying ways of Calypso. ------- Vehicle: Crimson fury sports car- His special weapon is 3 flaming paper airplanes with great homing accuracy. Plus they put the opponent on fire. ------- Stats: Armor- 3 Acceleration- 8 Speed- 9 Handling- 5 ------- Mr. Grimm: An overzealous youngster who is crazy about Halloween! He enters for Calypso can show him the portal to a mysterious place where it is Halloween everyday of the year. ------- Vehicle: Grimm's stunt motorcycle- His special weapons are two evil jack-o-lanterns launched straight with large damage. ------- Stats: Armor- 2 Acceleration- 6 Speed- 8 Handling- 8 -------- Mortimer: Mortimer is just a kid who just wants to do math and science experiments. But when Calypso steals his pet frog, Mortimer joins the tournament to get him back. -------- Vehicle: Shadow Hearse- Shadow's action figure is the special Shadow uses. Fire it with L2, direct hits get most damage, but if your going to miss, might as well press L2 again to detonate it. -------- Stats: Armor- 6 Acceleration- 4 Speed- 3 Handling- 6 -------- Vinnie and Bruce: These tag team homeboys are looking for the ULTIMATE sound system. They join the tournament hoping Calypso can show them it; will he give them the phattest sound? -------- Vehicle: Thumper lowrider- Plug your ears cause when Thumper fires his special weapon, 3 super sonic shockwaves will blare out towards your opponents. They do pretty good damage. ------- Stats: Armor- 5 Acceleration- 5 Speed- 4 Handling- 8 ------- Officer Roberts: This little guy just wants justice in the neighborhood, which means no more bullying by Calypso. ------- Vehicle: Outlaw Police car- The special weapon on this vehicle is an electrocuting taser beam that latches on to your opponent, keep pressing L2 rapidly for more damage. ------- Stats: Armor- 3 Acceleration- 5 Speed- 4 Handling- 6 ------- Warthog: This little soldier is tired of being picked on by Calypso. After one last time in the trash can, he is ready for war! ------- Vehicle: Warthog Off-road assault vehicle- His special is a barrage of 3 red, white, and blue homing missiles that have great damage. ------- Stats: Armor- 2 Acceleration- 8 Speed- 7 Handling- 8 ------- Twister: This girl isn't the smartest in the pack, but she is one of the best drivers! She is the fastest in the tournament and is looking for the ultimate hi-speed ride. ------- Vehicle: Twister Race Car- Twister's special weapon is a tornado that goes right above her car, capture opponents in it and whip them out for great damage. ------- Stats: Armor- 2 Acceleration- 10 Speed- 8 Handling- 4 ------- Slam: The oldest and tallest in the tournament. He seeks revenge after Calypso destroys his tree house. Don't mess with him. ------- Vehicle: Slam Construction Vehicle- Use Slam's special when close to an opponent; he will pick up his opponent with the jaws of this vehicle, watch out cause if he misses an earthquake forms where he missed. ------- Stats: Armor- 9 Acceleration- 8 Speed- 3 Handling- 5 ------- Spectre: This young and shy boy in a ghost suit is looking for his lost father; little does he know there is a connection with him in a past contest. ------- Vehicle: Spectre sports car- Three little ghosts launch out and scare your opponents. Watch out cause it can travel through objects for a limited time. ------- Stats: Armor- 3 Acceleration- 7 Speed- 6 Handling- 7 ------- Hammerhead: This teen rocker just wants to be a hardcore rock star! He is trying to win to make that wish come true. ------- Vehicle: Hammerhead Monster Truck- This special weapon is used to crush cars by spikes forming on the tires and running all over your opponents, not the biggest amount of damage but pretty cool. ------- Stats: Armor- 8 Acceleration- 6 Speed- 4 Handling- 4 ------- VIII: Bosses/Billy Calypso ------- Billy Calypso: Owner of the tournament, just a downright mean kid. But after all the teasing, it's the kids turn to get even. Billy isn't a playable character or a boss. ------- Trapper: This guy is pretty tough, so pay attention. This is the hardest guy in the game. His special is little red monkeys that slide around on the ground until they hit you and split to more monkeys which is pretty deadly. Use hit and run techniques on him. If you are low on health try to avoid him until health appears below the dropping anchor on the battlefield. If he is low on health, try to keep him away from health, after a long fought battle he should be gone. Try to use a lot of power missiles and stuff that are powerful like that on him. After beating him a couple times you will probably get used to him and soon he will be easier then ever. -------- Piecemeal: This guy takes the parts of other cars he has destroyed and puts them on his own. And he also knows all the specials, sounds tough right? Not at all, this guy is super easy. I never lost to him once. When you start out in the level you will fight regular opponents but every time you destroy an enemy Piecemeal comes out. He is a big guy so use a lot of big weapons on him, I like using roman candles, they hit him very well. After a while he will disappear until you kill another enemy. Make sure you get health when it is there. Use hit and run techniques If you have a guy who gets hurt easy. After a while all the cars will be gone and you will easily defeat him. This is the last guy so don't worry if you use a lot of weapons on him. --------- IX: How to get secret characters --------- This should make your day, any character you have battled out there is playable, even the bosses. I will tell you how to receive every character. --------- Axel: He is by far the easiest to get. When you start on the very first level go to the swings. Jump up and shoot a missile right at the middle swing. It should swing back and forth and an Axel figure should fall off toward you. Grab it to unlock Axel. --------- Darkside: Another pretty easy character to get. In the Easy death oven stage, go toward the plumber. Shoot a napalm at his butt and it should explode opening a whole under the cabinet in the middle of the room. Just go in and find the Darkside token to unlock Darkside. --------- Mime: You have probably never seen him in the stages. He is in the secret stage(go to secret stages to unlock this) Holiday Havoc. In the medium difficulty setting in endurance mode, shoot missiles at the Christmas tree until it is destroyed. Get on top of the fireplace then jump off backwards and shoot a missile at the stockings. Destroy all four to reveal the icon that unlocks Mime. --------- Trapper: Beat the game as all the characters on medium difficulty, if that doesn't work try hard mode. --------- Piecemeal: Beat the game with Trapper on hard mode. I'm pretty sure that was right. --------- X. Secret Character Info: --------- Axel: Axel's main objective for the tournament is to display his mastery of 2-wheel combat. --------- Vehicle: Axel- His special is a bunch of missiles that shoot all around him while he is spinning. It is a pretty good special, but I have seen better. --------- Stats: Armor- 5 Acceleration- 4 Speed- 4 Handling- 10 --------- Mr. Ash: A dark and mysterious boy named Jimmy Ash drives this big truck. His actions are unknown for this tournament. --------- Vehicle: Darkside- His special is when he rams very hard into the enemy, it is very effective and one of my favorite specials. --------- Stats: Armor- 10 Acceleration- 3 Speed- 8 Handling- 4 --------- Mime: This actress loves to mimic people, especially when it gets them angry. --------- Vehicle: Mime- Mime's special is actually anybody's special. When you switch to her special she gets the special of the closest opponent. So if you are closest to Axel you will get his special. You don't get rid of that special until you run out of specials or you switch to a different weapon. --------- Stats: Armor- 2 Acceleration- 6 Speed- 6 Handling- 8 --------- Trapper: Trapper is a mysterious hunter and nothing much more is known, but beware, he is relentless. --------- Vehicle: Trapper- Trapper's special is extremely good, when he releases it a bunch of monkeys go on the ground right toward the enemy and more monkeys appear as they hit enemies, eventually it wares off though. --------- Stats: Armor- 8 Acceleration- 4 Speed- 3 Handling- 5 --------- Piecemeal: He is a collector and a scavenger. This contestant takes the parts off of other cars that he has destroyed and puts them on his car. Sounds pretty scary huh... He likes to fashion this huge Car in Calypso's races. --------- Vehicle: Piecemeal- He also has everyone's special, when you switch to his special you get a random special in the game, if you don't like that special just switch back to a different weapon then switch back. ---------- Stats: Armor- 8 Acceleration- 4 Speed- 3 Handling- 5 ---------- XI. Stages: ---------- Here I will give a description of the stage and easy ways to conquer it. There are 8 stages to start with. I used the easy difficulty first, but later used medium which I can beat pretty easily too. Hard is extremely difficult for me, you can try if you want, I only beat it one time. After you beat all the stages in any difficulty in tournament mode you unlock a movie. ---------- Playground Peril: Calypso has taken over the local playground just for you could battle in it. This is a pretty basic stage, see what you can do on the seesaws. There are no bosses on this stage, shoot at that duck in the stage for health. If you go up the stairs there is more health. Pretty much just play the stage. It is pretty self-explanatory; whatever character you are using refer to previous sections for help. --------- Carn-O-Maul: Carnival is in town, time for some RC car battling. Watch out for the blade in the middle of the room, it will send your car flying. The skeleton that goes around, don't hit him, he takes away a good amount of health, but you might want to follow him. He will take you to a hidden room with goodies including health and other pickups. There is no boss on this stage. Show those RC cars what you are made of. --------- Easy Death Oven: Time for some kitchen battling, look at that idiot under the sink. Don't touch the stove, it might burn a little. You can hit the spring on the counter top to go to the counter in the middle of the room. Go around up there, in the toaster/microwave thing there his health, but don't get trapped while going for it. The can opener may catch you, but don't worry about it, it doesn't do that much damage. There is no boss in the stage, just your normal enemies, by now you can probably figure out how to take out each one and are probably adapted to your car better then before. --------- Minigolf Mayhem: Minigolfing is a great way to start out your golfing career. But this is a pretty unique golf course, it has an erupting volcano and all other sorts of stuff. There are plenty of obstacles here. While destroying your opponents make sure to pick a ton of weapons to get ready for Trapper the boss on this stage. For strategy on him go up to bosses. Anyways, just make sure you reserve weapons and health for Trapper. ----------- Meat Your Maker: Time for the cold meat locker. Looks like the grocery store left their freezer door open, this looks like a nice battlefield. It is pretty dangerous out there, be careful. The meat grinder on the top of the battlefield will kill you in 1 shot, there will be health in front of it but only if you need it badly I wouldn't risk trying to get it. There is no boss on this stage. It's pretty fun if you can freeze your opponents on the conveyor belts and they fall into the grinder. ------------ Gridiron Gore: This is a big football field and one of my favorite stages. It is pretty much opened up to all you can dish out. Hard to hide and you can get weapons pretty easily. Blow up the helmets to find health. I would recommend you go back and forth grabbing health when you are low on health. There is no boss so don't worry about saving up weapons. This is a very easy stage to pass. ------------- Tree Top Rumble: This level is pretty fun too. This is a large tree house for your cars to battle at. When you fall of the edge you will blow up unless you can manage to hit the trampoline first. You can turn on the lawnmower by shooting it. There is a switch in one of the rooms that you can keep knocking down to make a whole form by it. It is fun to knock your enemies into this whole or to trick them into it. They will blow up, no doubt about it. There are no bosses on this stage. -------------- Now Slaying: Finally, the last stage, after this you can claim your prize. It's a great movie house with a crappy movie. Now it is intermission; how does RC car combat sound before the next movie starts? This stage is pretty simple, make sure you shoot that ticket booth or whatever it is at the top of the stage, it will roll down and uncover health, turbo, and another goodie. Just fight it out and stock up on weapons in the beginning. You will have to fight Piecemeal every time you destroy an enemy(go up to bosses for strategy). -------------- Well good job completing tournament, you unlocked a movie so sit back and watch, you deserve it. But that isn't all the stages. ---------- XII. Secret Stages ---------- These stages can be earned in the endurance mode. You can not play them in tournament but can play them in other modes. I will tell you how to get the stages and a little bit about them. I beat the endurance mode on medium so I'm don't know if you can get them on easy. Also I beat all of them in succession, I never quit playing until I had all stages, made it easier to get them all quick. Also, I would recommend using Gridiron Gore for your stage, it is easy to get health. ----------- Shock Therapy: This stage can be earned by killing 10 opponents in endurance. Pretty much this is just a scientific stage. It is sort of dark and there is a lot of electricity. Any of the secret stages are worth earning though, no matter how great the stage is. ------------ Buster's Lanes: This stage can be earned by killing 20 opponents, personally this is my favorite stages. If you can't tell by the name of the stage it is a bowling alley. To get items you can knock down all the pins on the lanes. If you go down the gutter it is pretty cool too. ------------ Holiday Havoc: You need to kill 30 opponents for this stage and the stage is necessary to unlock Mime. This stage is pretty cool. I like to shoot at Santa's feet, he says different things and it is pretty funny cause he is stuck in the chimney. You can blow up the tree and go up it too. ------------ XIII. Movies ------------ These are very easy to earn, all the characters you start out with will have a movie and secret characters will not. You must earn all the movies in tournament mode and difficulty does not matter. All you have to do is beat the tournament mode for the movie. Depending on which character you beat it depends on which movie you can get. Of course the character you beat it with will be the character's movie you will get. Try to get them all!!! -------------- XIV. GameShark Codes -------------- Now these are not needed but are nice to have, I only have the codes that are official and I didn't add the ones from the code creator's club. NOTE: These codes will also work for Code Breaker, that is what I have, but I got all of these codes from Gameshark.com. ------------- Infinite Battery Attack Power- ____80151e882a30 Infinite Environment Weapon- ______80151ebc0003 Infinite Health- __________________801504a004fb Infinite Homing Missile- __________80151ea40003 Infinite Lives- ___________________80160f8c0003 Infinite Napalms- _________________80151eac0003 Infinite Power Missiles- __________80151eb80003 Infinite Fire Missles- ____________80151ea00003 Infinite Remote Drop Mines- _______80151eb40003 Infinite Ricochet Bombs- __________80151eb00003 Infinite Roman Candles- ___________80151ea80003 Infinite Specials- ________________80151e9c0003 Infinite Turbo- ___________________801504ac03e8 Unlock Axel- ______________________301d1e3c0001 Unlock Darkside- __________________301d1e400001 Unlock Mime- ______________________301d1e440001 Unlock Piecemeal- _________________301d1e480001 Unlock Trapper ____________________301d1e4c0001 ----------- XV. Favorites ----------- As for my favorites: ----------- Favorite starting car-_______________Sweet Tooth Favorite Special Car- __________________Darkside Favorite Starting Stage- __________Gridiron Gore Favorite Special Stage- __________Buster's Lanes Favorite Movie- _________________________Thumper Favorite Weapon- __________________Power Missile Favorite secret character Special- ____PieceMeal Favorite starting character special-____ Warthog Favorite Battery Attack- _________________Freeze Favorite thing to do- Blow up the plumbers butt!!! -------------- I liked a lot of things about this game, of course I liked more cars and movies, I have only beat the hard mode once without cheating with Sweet Tooth, it is very hard to do. Well, I just beat it on hard on hard mode with Darkside, sot that's 2 time I have beat it on hard. ------------- XVI. Credits ------------- Well, I would like to some credit to my parents for getting me this awesome game for Christmas. Hmmm... As for credits, I don't have a lot of people who to thank. I would like to thank my friend Dwayne for getting me into Twisted Metal games, I got into them around when playing #2. I would like to thank myself for figuring all this crap out for the faq. And I would like to thank all of you who have read my faq. ------------- Thanks for reading, I hope this all helped, my E-Mail is RHINO0187@aol.com.