Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe FAQ/Guide Platform: PC From: gamemaster79 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================= Table of Contents ================= Chapter 1: Introduction a. Welcome ID#1a b. Why? ID#1b c. Version History ID#1c d. Hotkeys/Controls ID#1d Chapter 2: Build Coaster a. Pieces and Buttons ID#2a b. Types of Coasters ID#2b c. Environments ID#2c d. Themes and Loading Docks ID#2d e. Building Your Coaster ID#2e f. Making it Better ID#2f g. Some Extra Things ID#2g h. Props ID#2h i. Builder Options ID#2i j. Ride It! ID#2j Chapter 3: Ride/Load ID#3 Chapter 4: Imagineer Mode a. In the Beginning ID#4a b. Original Tracks ID#4b c. Standing ID#4c d. Flying ID#4d e. Wooden ID#4e f. Steel ID#4f g. Hanging ID#4g h. Final Track ID#4h Chapter 5: Options a. Audio ID#5a b. Game ID#5b c. Graphics ID#5c d. Revolution ID#5d Chapter 6: Credits ID#6 Chapter 7: Exit ID#7 Chapter 8: Closing a. FAQs ID#8a b. Contact Me ID#8b c. Legal Stuff ID#8c d. Credits ID#8d e. My FAQs ID#8e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++ +Chapter 1++++ +Introduction+ ++++++++++++++ a. Welcome ID#1a Um, well, welcome to my Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe FAQ! I sure hope that you find this FAQ of any help and/or interest to you. I guess that's all I have to say about this. ************************************************************************ b. Why? ID#1b Why? means why I wrote this FAQ. I did because I was playing the game when I though "This game is pretty fun. I should type up an FAQ of it." So the main reason I wrote it is because I thought the game is fun. ************************************************************************ c. Version History ID#1c 2/14/2003 I began this FAQ. I finished up to the Hotkeys/Controls part and finished THE MOUSE. 2/15/2003 I finished up to the props section in chapter 2. 2/16/2003 I finished almost all of the props section in chapter 2. 4/9/2003 I completed part of the Imagineer Mode part. That's it! 3/31/04 Version 1.0 I added games to the My FAQs part and added a "skip to" code. The first official version! ************************************************************************ d. Hotkeys/Controls ID#1d THE MOUSE Move the mouse = move the cursor Left click = select Mouse wheel up = move forward in roller coaster Mouse wheel down = move back in roller coaster HOTKEYS Short Straight = A Long Straight = S Curved Right = D Curved Left = F Loop = G Corkscrew = H S-Turn = J Straight Up/Down = W Shallow Right = E Shallow Left = R Half Loop = T Half Corkscrew Right = Y Half Corkscrew Left = U Add Accelerator = Z Add Brake = X Add Chain = C Add Retarder = V Add Tube Decoration = B Delete = Delete button Finish Coaster = N Pitch Up = K Pitch Down = L Bank Left = : (colon) Bank Right = " (quote) Curve Right = M Curve Left = , (comma) Lengthen = . (period) Shorten = / (right slash) Load Menu = 1 Save Menu = 2 Toggle Camera = 3 Toggle Placement Grid = 4 Test Coaster = 5 Ride Finished Coaster = 6 Builder Options = 7 Return to Menu = 8 Move Forward in Coaster = + (plus sign) Move Back into Coaster = - (minus sign) Move to Loading Dock = Home button Move to Last Piece = End button CAMERA VIEW Zoom In = Num 8 Zoom Out = Num 2 Move Left = Num 4 (only when riding coaster) Move Right = Num 6 (only when riding coaster) Pan Camera Left = Left arrow key Pan Camera Right = Right arrow key Pan Camera Up = Up arrow key Pan Camera Down = Down Arrow key +++++++++++++++ +Chapter 2+++++ +Build Coaster+ +++++++++++++++ a. Pieces and Buttons ID#2a There are a total of 13 different pieces, 5 different "helping" add-ons, 8 coaster modifiers buttons and 8 buttons in the column at the top of the screen. When I list them I put down the name, hotkey, a description, then show what the piece looks it looks like. The helping add-ons won't have a look part and the same with the buttons and coaster modifiers. Here's the list: Short Straight (A) These, as its name says, are just flat straights. Just use them for straight areas or to make hills. ______ Long Straight (S) These are similar to the short straights, they're just a little longer. You can make higher hills with them and longer straight paths. _________ Curved Right (D) This piece is a 90-degree turn to the right. /--- | | Curved Left (F) This piece is a 90-degree turn to the left. ---\ | | Loop (G) Loops are put up for the fun parts in roller coasters. The loops are straight- like, so it will end going in the same part forward as the beginning. They take a full up side down turn going up then back down. (Not like in Roller Coaster Tycoon where it ends to the right or left.) /\ / \ / \ \ / __\__/___ Corkscrew (H) Corkscrews make a loop-like turn and a half. They don't go as high as loops. They will turn around in circle like a loop but it will be smaller and more turning-like. /\ /\ / \ / \ \ / \ / _\/___\/_ S-Turn (J) S-turns move just like an S. They will move to the right, left then back to the right. The turns aren't very big, though. / / \ \ / / Straight Up/Down (W) These pieces will either move straight up, or straight down. They will normally go up, but if the piece behind it is pointing down, then it will go straight down. |-- --| | | | | __| |__ Shallow Right (E) A shallow right turn is a turn to the right that is about 30 degrees. / / | | | | Shallow Left (R) A shallow left turn is a turn to the left that is about 30 degrees. \ \ | | | | Half Loop (T) A half loop is only half of a loop. It will go through half of a loop and then let you continue building. This puts the cars up side down until you flip them back over. ----\ /---- \ / / \ ____/ \____ Half Corkscrew Right (Y) A half corkscrew right is half of a corkscrew moving to the right. /\ / \ \/ / ___/ Half Corkscrew Left (U) A half corkscrew left is half of a corkscrew moving to the left. /\ / \ \ \/ \___ Advanced Track Piece Display This button opens up the more advanced track pieces. Those pieces are straight up/down, shallow right, shallow left, half loop, half corkscrew right and half corkscrew left. Accelerator (Z) >>>>> These make the cars on the coaster go faster. They are marked with green arrows pointing forward. You should place them on loops or corkscrews where there isn't a hill in front of them or you should put them on straights. Brake (X) OOOOO Brakes help stop the coaster. You should place these on areas that have too much G-force. They are marked with red arrows pointing backwards. Chain (C) 88888 Chains are used to carry the cars on a roller coaster up hills or other upward areas. It is marked with a chain. Retarder (V) <<<<< Retarders are the best item for slowing the cars down. You should place these at the end of a ride to stop it. Retarders are marked with a red chain. Tube Decoration (B) Tube decorations don't change the coasters actions in any way. It just puts a tube around the roller coaster for decoration. Delete (Delete button) The delete button deletes the last piece on your coaster. The piece must be selected for it to by deleted. Finish Coaster (N) When the square button with the X on it is lit up, then you can finish your coaster. Clicking on the button adds more or less pieces and connects the piece to the back of the loading dock. It lights up once the last piece is in close enough range of the back of the loading dock and the last piece is almost evened up with the loading dock. Pitch Up (K) The pitch up button makes the selected piece move diagonally higher. Loops and corkscrews can't get moved up as high. Pitch Down (L) The pitch down button makes the selected piece move diagonally lower. Loops and corkscrews can't get moved as low. Bank Left (colon) Bank left makes the selected piece pivot to the left so that the cars ride on that side. Bank Right (quote) Bank right makes the selected piece pivot to the right so that the cars ride on that side. Curve Right (M) When any piece but the straights (short, long, up/down) is selected then you can turn that piece more to the right. Curve Left (comma) When any piece but the straights (short, long, up/down) is selected then you can turn that piece more to the left. Lengthen (period) Lengthen makes the selected piece longer. Shorten (right slash) Shorten makes the selected piece shorter. Load Menu (1) The load menu lets you load a saved coaster or ride a finished coaster. After pressing the load menu button a screen will come up asking you if you are sure that you want to load a saved coaster. There are already 8 pre-made coasters. Save Menu (2) The save menu lets you save your coaster. You will name your coaster using letters, numbers and spaces. There is a caps lock key on the save menu, as well. Toggle Camera (3) The toggle camera button lets you switch between a close view and a far view. Toggle Placement Grid (4) This button turns the placement grid on which is a grid that goes across the ground. Test Coaster (5) The test coaster button lets you test ride your coaster. You can do this even if your coaster isn't finished. Once the screen changes and shows you on the coaster, press space bar to start. Press escape on the keyboard to exit the test ride. Ride Finished Coaster (6) This button allows you to actually ride your coaster in seats. You can only do this if your coaster is finished. Builder Options (7) The builder options lets you edit your coasters looks and functions. Refer to the builder options part in chapter 2 for more information. Return to Menu (8) Return to menu takes you back to the main menu. In Imagineer Mode it takes you back to the mission select screen. ************************************************************************ b. Types of Coasters ID#2b There are a few types of coasters in this game. None of the coasters effect the ride in a different way. The type of car is different depending on the coaster type and the car type. Here's all the different coaster types: -Flying On a flying coaster the people ride on their back looking downwards if they're on a straight. If they are going up then they look in front of them. -Hanging The cars for a hanging coaster are under the track. The people hold onto bars that are beside them and they let their legs kick under them. -Standing Standing coasters allow the people to stand up during the ride. -Steel Steel coasters are standard coasters where the cars are on the top of the track and people sit down. -Wooden Wooden coasters have a bunch of wood holding them up. The cars are above the track and the people sit down. Due to building ways, you can't make a corkscrew or any of the "half" pieces with a wooden coaster. ************************************************************************ c. Environments ID#2c Along with the track types there is a ton of environments or background. Different environments can have hills, holes, and ledges or they might just be completely flat. Here are the many different environments: -Asteroid The asteroid takes place on an asteroid floating around in space. There're plenty of craters and hills here. -Canyon The canyon has a lot of flat mountain-like area. It takes place in a dessert- like area and, obviously, in a canyon. -Cavern The cavern is quite similar to the canyon. It is inside cave with a lave river flowing at the bottom. This place seems to be a little bigger than canyon. -Field The field is a surface that has almost no hills at all. It may go up a little at times but it might not even look like it does. The field looks like a grassland area with some patches of dirt. -Grid The grid puts you into a completely flat area inside a cube that is a full grid al around. The cube is dull blue color. The whole cube looks pretty dull and not so colorful, really. -Neo Cube The neo cube looks similar to the grid. The neo cube has more layers of a grid and has a nice blue color to it. I seem to like this one more because it doesn't look as dull. -Island The island is a bundle of islands that you can build your coaster on. The coaster can also be built on the water around the islands. -Mountain This place is sort of a mix between the field and island areas. It has the water of an island and the greens of a field. There are also mountains surrounding the area and a big mountain in the middle. Things can be built on the mountain in the middle. ************************************************************************ d. Themes and Loading Docks ID#2d There are 6 different themes in this game. Each theme has its own loading dock, type of car, fanfare and props. This section explains those themes. There is one theme that only holds props. That theme will be listed last. This section also tells about the loading docks and how to make them, or to start a roller coaster out. THEMES-- -Amusement Park The amusement park items are pretty much the main things in this game. They are the things you'd find at a real amusement park. The cars for this are just original theme park cars. -Medieval Medieval are the things you'd find in the middle ages. Those things are dragons, castles, knights, jewels and many other things. The cars for this are dragons. -Gothic Gothic objects are things you'd normally find in a haunted mansion or any haunted place at all like a cemetery. Here there are things like organs and gravestones. The cars look like some haunted cart with spider webs. -Crystal Empire Crystal Empire has things that fly through the air or are mechanical. Those things include gears, hot air balloons and even Big Ben! The cars for this are wooden carts. -Monster Island Monster Island has some weird looking plants, tiki god thingamajigs and, well, monsters. This monster-filled catastrophe is actually pretty cool looking. The cars are some weird monster like carts with horns. -Outer Space The name "outer space" pretty much speaks fore itself. The things here look better than the rest. There are TV screens, hover cars, robots and a sack of some other things. The cars on this here area seem to be metallic and have planets on them. -Environment The environment section only holds props. The props are volcanoes, trees, plants and planets. LOADING DOCKS-- -Amusement Park This loading dock seems to be the only one that looks natural. It has the lines of which the people line up at and it has a sun on the top and 4 blinking stars on some little pillars. -Medieval Medieval has a brick castle with four tall pillars; one on each corner. There are also to torches in the front and back. -Gothic This is a brick building with windows on both sides and two electric pillows sending s beam of electricity through each other. On the front there are two straight pillars with electricity inside them. -Crystal Empire On the sides there is a big window. In the middle are to fat pillars that look like pipes. The front of both window has a bunch of flags. -Monster Island A wooden tiki god with a mouth on both sides. -Outer Space The space one has a robotic head with two yellow eyes. Where ears should be there are arrows pointing down. There're also arrows pointing backwards close to the bottom. ************************************************************************ e. Building Your Coaster ID#2e You start building your coaster by clicking on one of the loading docks that appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. After that you should place a straight. You will then just click on the pieces you want and make an awesome, thrilling roller coaster. Hills are pretty much needed to make a good coaster. For more insanity in a ride add accelerators on straight paths. Use half loops to send the people upside-down for some time. If a collision happens then use the modifying buttons to get out. If that doesn't work then just delete the piece or pieces. You can also make turns by using the same half corkscrew. Corkscrews going downwards will add fun to your coaster and using accelerators instead of chains will add even more excitement. Click on the finish coaster button to finish the coaster and ride it! ************************************************************************ f. Making it Better ID#2f 1. A coaster can be made better by adding brakes in areas where there are to many G's. 2. Accelerators should be placed on one or two track pieces where the cars on the coaster go too slow. 3. If the car or cars can't make it up a corkscrew, loop, half loop or half corkscrew (left or right) then you should put accelerators instead of chains. 4. The end of a coaster should have retarders, not breaks, for retarders slow the cars down faster than breaks. 5. Putting chains on hills to get up would increase the suspense of the riders, so do that. 6. Parts that go straight down usually add a lot of G's. You should put breaks on every other piece to keep the G-force down. You should only have to do this on straight down parts that are long. 7. If you want to save space and want to make a hill then make the hill go straight up. For this you should add chains. 8. On dips (explained in the next part) you should put accelerators on every other piece while going straight up. 9. Springs that are going up (explained in the next part) are better with an accelerator. ************************************************************************ g. Some Extra Things ID#2g Be creative in making your coaster. Try to make some things that are not on the bar by using pieces that are. This area explains some that I've done. Keep note that some of these I really didn't make up, and they might by very obvious. Here they are: -The Spring (a.k.a. Helixes) The Spring is a very cool thing. You make it with one curved direction, any will do, and the shorten or lengthen buttons and the bank up or bank down buttons. First place a curve. Make the curve go down (for downward springs) or up (for upward springs.) Then continue clicking on that same button of the piece and the spring will start appearing. If a collision happens fix it by pressing the bank up or bank down buttons. If you want there to be more loops in The Spring then make the curve shorter. For extra fun try banking the curves. -Springtime Diver To make a Springtime Diver, first make The Spring going up. Once you reach as high as you want to go then make the last curve turn until it is facing through the top of The Spring. After that add a short straight. Shorten or lengthen the straight until it is in the center above the spring. Make the straight barely go down and then add a straight down piece. Continue clicking on it until you get to the bottom of The Spring. Once there make a straight and exit the middle of The Spring. If you get a collision on the part where the straight starts going down then continue to press down on the short straight. -Side Loop You need to first make a half loop. After that make two of the same curves. Add another half loop after that. Now make the same curve as you did before. You made it! This thing looks pretty cool from different views. -Taco Shell Stack This thing looks wicked awesome! Start by placing a half corkscrew, any direction, and make it go up. Continue making the same direction of the half corkscrew. After about every four or three pieces a collision will appear. Fix the collision by pressing up or down (depending on what direction it is going in.) Just like The Spring, you can make this go up or down and make more of the Taco Shell Stack by shortening it. You should also try to bank the half corkscrew pieces. -Taco Sauce You make this the same way as you make the Springtime Diver. First you make the Taco Shell Stack. Turn the last piece until it is facing through the center of the Taco Shell Stack. Make a short straight and continue to shorten it until it is above the center of the Taco Shell Stack. Press the pitch down button about 3 times and then add a straight down piece. Continue to press that button until the you get to the bottom of the Taco Shell Stack. Once it gets to the bottom add a straight and you're done. If you get a collision on the part where the straight starts going down then continue to press down on the short straight. -Corner-side Hole Start by making a half loop. Next make a half corkscrew, any direction. After that make another half loop and then make the opposite kind of half corkscrew (for example if you first made a half corkscrew right then your second half corkscrew would be a half corkscrew left.) Continue doing this pattern until you think it's good enough. -Hole Digger This looks like fun! First make the Corner-side Hole. After that make curves and short straights while using the pitch up or pitch down and shorten buttons. Make either the straight or curve go through the holes made by the Corner-side Hole. Continue making it go down through as many holes you like. -The Letter b or d First off, make at least two straight down pieces. Press the pitch up button when the last straight down piece is selected. After that make a half loop. Shorten the half loop until the collision made is gone. Next make a turn. Shorten the turn and curve in the appropriate direction. At one angle this will look like a lower case B. At a different angle this will make a lower case D. -The Letter p or q Same as The Letter b or d. Just make the straight down a straight up and make the half loop go down instead of up. -Big Dipper Make a straight up piece and make it long. Then make a short straight and make it go down a little. After that make a straight down. Then make another short straight and make that go up a little. Next make another straight up piece. Continue this pattern to your hearts content. -Little Dipper Make a straight up piece and remember to make it short. Then make a short straight and make it go down a little. After that make a straight down. Then make another short straight and make that go up a little. Next make another straight up piece. Continue this pattern to your hearts content. -Mountain This one is pretty much required for a good coaster, and it's pretty obvious as well. First make a long or short straight. Then click on the pitch up bottom for a little bit until the straight seems high enough. Then make another straight and pitch this one down. -Under and Out First make a Mountain. Next click on one of the curve pieces and create three of the same kind. Next add a straight and your done. You may have to add a bit more pieces depending on how high the mountain is. -The Tunnel Set the track type to a wooden coaster and then make an Under and Out. -Speedy Start Change the chains that are in the loading dock to accelerators. Then add accelerators to the first piece made on the coaster. ************************************************************************ h. Props ID#2h There are tons of different props in this game. Each prop does something and some props even do more than one thing! Here's a list of the props: -Amusement Park- 1. The Norseman 2. Balloon Stand 3. Bench 4. Cotton Candy Stand 5. Carousel 6. Fun House 7. Flags 8. Ferris Wheel 9. Gazebo 1 10. Gazebo 2 11. Popcorn Stand 12. Airplanes 13. Camper 14. Car 15. Pinwheel 16. 3 Pinwheels 17. Street Lamp 18. Tea Party 19. Shuttle Spin 20. Fireworks -Gothic- 1. Bell Tower 2. Candelabra 3. Crystal Ball 4. Haunted Cauldron 5. Gypsy Cart 6. Fire Flies 7. Tombstone with Raven 8. Tombstone Edgy 9. Tombstone Roundy 10. Gargoyle Gates 11. Haunted House 12. Well 13. Magic Mirror 14. Pendulum 15. Pipe Organ 16. Spider 17. Spooky Tree 18. Vultures 19. Will O' Wisps -Monster Island- 1. Dragon Fly 2. Temple Gates 3. Giant Moth 4. Giant Snail 5. Hydra 6. Spirit Lodge 7. Pool Monster 8. Palm Tree 9. Hut 10. Idol 11. Beast Totem 12. Ancient Tree 13. Venus Fly Trap -Medieval- 1. Baby Dragon 2. Banner 3. Treasure Chest 4. Dragon Castle 5. Dragon Cave 6. Dragon 7. Flaming Lantern 8. Giant Sword 9. Horned Tower 10. Tavern 11. Japanese Tower 12. Knight 13. Mega Jewel 14. Shop 15. Thatched Roof Cottage 16. Wizard's Cottage -Crystal Empire- 1. Airship 2. Airship 2 3. Big Ben 4. Spinning Chinese Dragon 5. Cogs 6. Calliope 7. Cleopatra Needle 8. Crystal Pyramid 9. Crystal Tower 10. Drill 11. Fish Fountain 12. Green Hot Air Balloon 13. Yellow Hot Air Balloon 14. Pink Hot Air Balloon 15. Steam Elemental 16. Planetarium 17. Pinwheel 18. Steam Engine 19. Observatory 20. Victorian House 21. Zeppelin 22. Zeppelin 2 -Outer Space- 1. Space Diner 2. Gas Pump 3. Droid 4. Ice Cream Ship 5. Large Apartment Complex 6. Mainframe 7. Asteroid 8. Pizza Delivery Ship 9. Saturn Rocket 10. Small Apartment Complex 11. Streetlight 12. Mail Delivery Shuttle 13. Satellite 14. Highway Terraformer 15. Vacuum Cleaner Ship 16. Video Screen 1 17. Video Screen 2 -Environment- 1. Small Volcano 2. Large Volcano 3. Cactus 4. Dead Tree 1 5. Dead Tree 2 6. Dead Tree 3 7. Fir Tree 1 8. Fir Tree 2 9. Joshua Tree 10. Oak Tree 11. Pine Tree 12. Tree 1 13. Tree 2 14. Tree 3 15. Yucca Plant 16. Small Tree 17. Large Tree 18. Small Planet 19. Large Planet Well, that's every prop in the game. The next part in the props section tells what props are good for what environment. Here's list number 2: -Asteroid- Crystal Empire Outer Space Environment (planets only) -Canyon- Amusement Park Medieval Environment (not planets) -Cavern- Gothic Monster Island Medieval (dragons only) Environment (volcanoes only) -Field- Amusement Park Medieval Environment (not planets) -Grid- Crystal Empire Outer Space -Neo Cube- Crystal Empire Outer Space -Island- Amusement Park Monster Island -Mountain- Amusement Park Environment (not planets) Asteroid: Well, obviously outer space would work hear. Crystal empire a little, but it's not the greatest to have in space. It would make sense to have planets floating around in space next to an asteroid, wouldn't it? Canyon: An amusement park is usually outside, right. Medieval, well, you know it's outside and a canyon theme seems pretty good to me. Environment is outside so that fits the place well. Cavern: The only place that I put gothic in. You'd also expect monsters to be in a cavern, eh? For medieval I think only the dragons should go. That's every dragon in the medieval section except for the castle dragon. You wouldn't find a lot of trees and that kind of stuff in a cave, right, but you might find a volcano, and besides, there is a stream of lava at the bottom of the cavern. Field: This would probably be the best place for an amusement park. It would probably be the best place for a medieval kingdom, as well. You would find trees and plants in the middle of a field. Am I right about that or am I left about that? Grid: Not a lot of things would seem to work out very good in a grid. Outer space is probably the best for this. With this I imagine the crystal empire equipment to be the things working the grid in a cube. Neo Cube: Same as above. Not a lot of things would seem to work out very good in a neo cube. Outer space is probably the best for this. With this I imagine the crystal empire equipment to be the things working the grid in a cube. Island: An amusement park isn't the best thing for this, but it still works out. Monster island's probably the best thing you could find for island. Part of which because monster island has the word island in it. Mountain: A mountain could contain an amusement park for more excitement, couldn't it? Environment would diffidently work here. Just remember to make more dead or smaller plants closer to the top of the mountain. ************************************************************************ i. Builder Options ID#2i This section explains all the things in builder options. The hotkey for builder options is 8. You should go into builder options once you've finished building you're coaster and have placed all the props you can. Builder Options lets you modify your coaster in different ways. Now here're all the options in the options menu: -Options Menu- This takes you to the games options menu. See chapter 5 for more information. -Friction- I have no idea what this does yet. -Disable Prop Collision- If you disable the prop collision then you can place props in new areas closer to the caster. For example you can make the coaster go through the middle of one of the holes on the Ferris Wheel. -Number of Cars- You can choose for there to be 1 through 8 cars. -Music- Here you can choose what music you want to listen to while building the coaster. The different kinds music's are: -All music: plays one tune after another -Style 1 -Style 2 -Style 3 -Other: lets you chooses music from other files -None: Plays no music -Time- This lets you choose the time of day. The time of days there are here are: -Day: during the day/light out -Night: during the night/dark out -Dusk: sunrise/a mix between light and dark -Track Color- This lets you change the color of the coaster. Here's the coaster colors: -Color Scheme 1: all yellow -Color Scheme 2: Center orange, crossbar white, rail green, support light blue -Color Scheme 3: white center, blue crossbar, rail and supports -Custom Scheme: Default all yellow; this is the best place to put your custom schemes -Change Scheme: Lets you change the scheme or make your own. You click on one of the bars (center, crossbar, rail or supports) and change the red, blue and green dial things. The color that you have for the selected area will be in the square box at the bottom left corner. Below the change scheme box it will say as following: -Add Scheme: adds the scheme you made to the list -Save Scheme: saves the scheme you made as the default scheme to either scheme 1, 2, 3 or custom -Reset Scheme: resets the scheme to the default scheme -Cancel: brings you out of the custom scheme box without in changes unless saved -OK- This activates and saves the changes you made in builder options. -Cancel- Exits out of builder options with no changes made. ************************************************************************ j. Ride It! ID#2j You've built your coaster using a bundle of different pieces, you've made it better by adding some accelerators, breaks, retarders and tubes. You've placed all the props you want and have modified you're coaster in different ways through builder options. Now it's time to ride you're finished coaster! When you click on the ride finished coaster button or press 6 then a screen will pop up showing different settings you can make. Here's the list: -Options Menu- This takes you to the options menu. See chapter 5 for information. -Camera- This lets you change the camera view. The views are: First person: lets you sit in the front seat of your coaster Tether: this points the camera under the cars so you can see almost all of them Cinematic: this is an automatic camera meaning it will change and look at the coaster at different views throughout the ride Free: this zooms the camera all the way out and lets you look at the coaster in any way you want Track: this puts you on the track with no cars; can't do this once you've gone into the coaster -Car Type- This lets you change the car type. The car types are amusement park, gothic, medieval, crystal empire, monster island and outer space. For what they look like see the themes section in chapter 2. -Fanfare- The fanfare is what plays right before the coaster ride starts. The different fanfares are amusement park, gothic, medieval, crystal empire, monster island and outer space. -Music- The music is what plays during the coaster ride. Here's the list of music's: -Style 1 -Style 2 -Style 3 -Style 4 -Other: play other saved music -None: no music plays -Position- This lets you choose what seat you sit in on the coaster. You can choose seat 1-8 depending on how many cars you have. -OK- This puts you on the coaster. -Cancel- This takes you back to the build screen. That's the list that pops up once you click on the ride coaster button or press 6. The next lists is what you can press during the coaster ride and what it does. -Space Bar- Start coater. -Escape- Pause menu. -1- First person view, as if you where riding the roller coaster. -2- Tether view. -3- Cinematic view. Changes camera angles -4- Free view. Allows you to control the camera That's it. Next is the pause menu. The pause menu pops up when you press escape during the coaster ride. -Build- This exits you out of the coaster and takes you to the build screen. -Main Menu- This takes you to the main menu. -Load Menu- This takes you to the load menu. -Options- This takes you to the options menu. See chapter 5 for more information. -Camera- This lets you change the camera view. The views are: First person: lets you sit in the front seat of your coaster Tether: this points the camera under the cars so you can see almost all of them Cinematic: this is an automatic camera meaning it will change and look at the coaster at different views throughout the ride Free: this zooms the camera all the way out and lets you look at the coaster in any way you want Track: this puts you on the track with no cars; can't do this once you've gone into the coaster -Music- The music is what plays during the coaster ride. Here's the list of music's: -Style 1 -Style 2 -Style 3 -Style 4 -Other: play other saved music -None: no music plays -Position- This lets you choose what seat you sit in on the coaster. You can choose seat 1-8 depending on how many cars you have. -OK- This continues the coaster ride with all the changes you made. -Cancel- This continues the coaster ride without making any changes. That's all the things in the ride coaster area. Now when you ride it you can use the mouse to move the camera when in first person mode. You use the arrow keys and the num arrow keys to move when in free camera view. Up and down arrow keys pans the screen up and down. The left and right arrow keys pan the screen left and right. The up and down num arrow keys zoom in and out. The left and right num arrow keys move the screen left and right. Congratulations! You just did everything you can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++ +Chapter 3+ +Ride/Load+ +++++++++++ ID#3 The ride/load screen is the exact same as the load screen that you get when you click on it when building your coaster. There are already 8 pre-made coasters. Lets first talk about the 5 buttons at the bottom of the screen: -Delete- This deletes the selected coaster. -Main Menu- This takes you back to the main menu. -Ride It- This lets you ride a finished coaster. -Edit It- This lets you continue to build a coaster. -Arrow- The button at the bottom left corner of the screen takes you back to the previous screen. That's all those buttons. Next up is the 4 bars at the top of the screen. Clicking on one of these bars orders the coasters in alphabetical order of that button you clicked on. The date one orders them from newest made to oldest. -Name- This is the name you gave to the coaster. -Environment- This is the environment that coaster is built on. -Track Type- This is the type of track you chose. -Date- This is the date you made the coaster on. The third and final part I will now put down is simply everything else that has to be told about this menu. -Getting in to a Coaster- Click on one of the coasters and click either "Edit It" or "Ride It." -Exiting- If you don't want to do anything at the ride/load screen then click on the button that's at the bottom left corner of the screen. -The Pre-Made Coaters- There are 8 different pre-made coasters in this game. The pre-made coasters' dates are all February 19, 2002. Here is a list of all the pre-made coasters: NAME | ENVIRONMENT | TRACK TYPE -------------------------------------- -Coaster 1 Island Wooden -Coaster 2 Mountain Steel -Coaster 3 Island Standing -Coaster 4 Island Standing -Coaster 5 Canyon Flying -Coaster 6 Field Flying -Coaster 7 Neo Cube Standing -Coaster 8 Neo Cube Standing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++ +Chapter 4++++++ +Imagineer mode+ ++++++++++++++++ a. In the Beginning ID#4a That was a horrible name for this section. Anyway, in Imagineer Mode you are challenged to a number of difficult missions. When I say DIFFICULT I mean DIFFICULT. These will take a lot of time, patience and concentration for you to beat them. You really don't get a reward for doing this but if your bored this is a good thing to do. The reward you get is more missions, but if you finish a mission with some special things done then you might get a bronze, if done good but not perfect, a silver, if done pretty good but still not the best or a gold, if done in a great, perfect way. Something you might want to know is that I haven't completed Imagineer Mode. In fact, I've only completed 2 missions. This section won't be complete until I have. Sometime I will have all of these finished, but I know it will take me a long, long time. I should also tell you that when you see and "=" sign that means that the following things are requirements. To get started you first click on "Imagineer Mode". After you do that a list will pop up showing the people who have started and Imagineer Mode game and what rank they are. Your rank increases as you do better throughout the missions. Well, anyways, if you already have a game then click on your game then click on "load". If you don't have one then click on the word "new". If you accidentally came into Imagineer Mode, then click "Main Menu". ************************************************************************ b. Original Tracks ID#4b None of these have I finished yet. You'll need to wait for the final results. ************************************************************************ c. Standing ID#4c -1- =Pass through all the rings on the green side =Sustain enough momentum to finish the ride Start by building a straight, any kind. Make that straight head through the high ring. Right after it's out of the ring make sure that the end is barely out of it. Then add a short straight and rise that one just barely. Make this one pretty short. After that make yet another straight and have this one go down, down through the next ring that is in front of the first one. Make that straight go pretty close to the ground then add a curve turning in the direction of which the final ring is. Add another curve, this one being of the opposite direction of the first curve you made. That curve might not make it through that ring so then you have to add another curve, this one moving in the same direction of the second ring. After that you should have all the rings selected. Once this is done just finish the coaster how you like. Just make sure to sustain enough momentum. This strategy awards you with a bronze medal. Hint: The narrator says that a longer coaster may give rewards. 2-8 I haven't seen a spec of finish on. ************************************************************************ d. Flying ID#4d -1- =Sustain enough momentum to finish the ride =Pass through all the rings on the green side The first ring is easy. Make a straight going partially downwards. After that make two right curves then a half loop, short straight then a half loop curved in the direction of the last, unfilled ring. Make the right kind of curve then make straight going up. After all that you can finish the coaster any way you like. This will get you a bronze medal. 2-8= unfinished! ************************************************************************ e. Wooden ID#4e None of these are done. Enough here said. ************************************************************************ f. Steel ID#4f Sorry, none here have been completed. ************************************************************************ g. Hanging ID#4g You know the drill. None here have been found in the series of completion ************************************************************************ h. Final Track ID#4h I believe you earn this set of tracks after completing every other mission. The only reason I know of this set is because it shows it in the help menu. Of course, I don't have nor have I beaten any if these tracks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++ +Chapter 5+ +Options+++ +++++++++++ =I want to try to make the options section brief simply because 1) there isn't a whole lot of people who care about the options menu that much and 2) I just want to finish this FAQ sometime before I graduate!!!!! a. Audio ID#5a Simple. Allows you change your audio system and adjust the volume of everything! ************************************************************************ b. Game ID#5b Unfortunately, I can't find the CD for this game, so I can't put anything in here because I don't remember what it does. :( ************************************************************************ c. Graphics ID#5c This allows you to adjust how good the graphics look. High, low I hope you know! ************************************************************************ d. Revolution ID#5d Changes the brightness and appearance of your screen (only to this game, not the entire computer.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++ +Chapter 6+ +Credits+++ +++++++++++ ID#6 Click on the credits button on the main menu to see who made the game!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++ +Chapter 7+ +Exit++++++ +++++++++++ ID#7 Click the exit button on the main menu to exit the game! This is kind of self-explanatory... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++ +Chapter 8+ +Closing+++ +++++++++++ a. FAQs ID#8a Any Frequently Asked Questions that you, the people, send in will get placed here. ************************************************************************ b. Contact Me ID#8b To contact me, send me and email to: gamemaster79@hotmail.com ************************************************************************ c. Legal Stuff ID#8c Okay. If you want to use this FAQ PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE email me about it first. I will most likely say yes, after checking out the website. If you do get a yes from me, you may not tamper or change this FAQ in any way and you MUST state that I made it and not you. The people that can have this FAQ are listed in the credits section. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright owners, in this case DEI HO920 ************************************************************************ d. Credits ID#8d Typed by, ME, gamemaster79 Websites currently allowed to hold this FAQ and thanked for putting this FAQ on their website: www.gameFAQs.com ************************************************************************ e. My FAQS ID#8e These are all of the FAQs that are done or are currently in progress. GAME SYSTEM FAQ STATUS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Animal Crossing GameCube House and Theme FAQ In Progress Mario Party 4 GameCube FAQ/Guide In Progress Pharaoh PC/Macintosh Building List In Progress Spy Fox in Dry Cereal PC/Macintosh FAQ/Walkthrough Complete Super Mario World SNES/GBA Secret Exit Guide Complete Super Smash Bros. Melee GameCube Adventure Mode FAQ Complete Ultim. Ride Coaster DX PC/Macintosh FAQ/Guide Complete Luigi's Mansion GameCube Money Guide Complete Mario Kart: Double Dash GameCube Item and Shortcut FAQ Complete Final Fantasy IX Playstation Areas FAQ Complete And So that concludes the so far longest of my FAQs! Good night!!!