posted 09-04-2002 11:49 AM            

Well.....how is this done? I've tried a couple of times, but I guess I'm just a dumb chiken..can't figure out how to get this done.

posted 09-04-2002 12:46 PM            

In series championships you can save the game after each race (a handy option for those of us who don't have 12 spare hours to run the F1 championship) and also you can quit out at any point where your lead is such that none of the AI cars can pass your point total with the number of races left (ie and 11 or more point lead with one race to go, 21 or more with 2 races etc) and then win the championship without having to do the final races.

If you save the game at the point where you can't lose the championship, go into the next race, start it without qualifying and then quit as soon as it begins the computer will spit you out of the championship but still give you the overall win and a random (and it really is random) selection of the prize cars on offer. If you know which car you want and you don't get it you can go to the main menu screen and select 'Load Game' which will take you back to the point in the championship where you saved. At this point you can then go into the next race and repeat the above process ad infinitum until you get the yellow Imprezza LM/F1 car/GT-One Road car you were after.

*phew!*

posted 09-04-2002 10:27 PM         

This is what I tried after I heard of this and it didnt work. I saved on race 8 becuase I had to go somewhere and couldnt finish. Then I came back, loaded my game and clicked "series race." it started me over on race 1. what did I do wrong?

posted 09-05-2002 04:33 AM         

Here's exactly the same explanation again - but maybe another form of words will 'turn on the lightbulb' for you...

During a series race event, there are two screens which show yellow icons for things like Start, Save, Settings, Next etc.

One is the Start screen, which comes up before each round, which you'll mainly use for Settings, Qualify and Start. This is not the one we're interested in here.

The other is the 'Next' screen, which comes up immediately after you complete a round of the series. This screen contains two different 'Save' icons. One has a movie camera symbol, and is used for saving a reply of the race you just ran. The other shows a memory card symbol (I think) and is used for saving your game during the series race, ie. what we're talking about here.

When you click this Save Game icon, you get the usual screen for selecting memory card slot 1 or 2 etc.

The difference between this save and a normal save is that if you start up with - or at any time reload from - this save, you will enter the game right at the save point, in the middle of the series race. This is the basis of the 'Save & Reload' approach, which is for one thing the only relaistic way of retaining 100% win ratio, and for another thing the only practical way to collect specific (or all) prize cars.

If you are keeping 100% win ratio, and are concerned that you may get yourself into a series which you can not eventually win at 100%, do not worry - you can always exit the series between races without harming your 100% record, as long as you never saved any time after a defeat.

To reload from a saved game, you need to Exit the series & 'triangle' your way back to the red screen at the start of the game, and scroll down to 'Load Game', fourth down on the intro menu below Arcade and GT Mode etc.

Hope that says it all - this is pretty important to understand if you're going to get the most out of GT3!

Happy racing,
p2.

posted 09-05-2002 04:37 AM            

It's like Mich said earlier, after each race in a championship you get to watch the replay. After you quit out of that (or watch it all the way through, whatever) you get to a menu screen where you have the options of re-watching the replay, saving the replay, saving your progress, going on to the next race or quitting the championship. If you save your progress and then don't save the game again anywhere else, next time you load up GT3 it will automatically put you back at the point where you saved, and you can continue the series from there.

posted 09-05-2002 10:30 AM         

>> I have to save my series games all the time because my son also wants to use the PS2.

The PS2 just came down in price in the UK - 170 pounds ( ~ $260 ); I didn't look at US prices, but I know the solution for you!

2 PS2's, 1 PSX, 1 N64, 5 Gameboys, 1 Atari ST, 1 Sega Master, 1 PC - and only two sons competing for screen time!

posted 09-05-2002 11:35 AM         

Lol, p2.