GT4 FAQ's - Play GT4 ONLINE!!!

[Pimp Racer]

Ok I am gonna kinda rush this so I will probably end up leaving out some stuff but I will get back to adding it tommorow when I hope to do it "properely"

Question: "what do I need 2 put my pics on my Pc?"
Answer: You need a USB thumb drive. Currently the only ones I hear that work are all here - http://gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=57633&highlight=USB

Question:"how u get 110 000 credits on day one?"
Answer: You must go to the Stats screen in your home and then hit seclect and you will get the rest.

Question: "how do i tranfer my liscenez from gt3?"
Answer: You must go to the Stats screen in your home and then hit seclect and you will get the rest.


Question:I cant get the (Insert car here)! How do I get it?"
Answer: You can find the Prize Car List here - http://www.angelfire.com/ult/gt4hotspot/GT4prizecars.htm

If you still cant find the car you are looking for then go to the Used car lot and the Historic car lot and wait.
*NOTICE* The Used car lot and the Historic car lots refresh every 7 days.


Question:"Why cant I race at (Inser Track here.)
Answer: You get the tracks on a certain day in the GT Mode. To find out on which day you get which track go here- http://www.angelfire.com/ult/gt4hotspot/Tracks.htm

Question:Is there anyway of playing GT4 on the computer VIA the emulation method?
Answer: I dont think this is possible but if your look around the web you might find it and this also is probably illegal?

Question:Which car did you use to win the GT World Championship in the Professional Hall???
Answer: I suggest you use a Toyota Minolta Race car or the Nissan R92 wiht Super Hard Racing tires! I also heard any one of those 4 rare black cars should kick ass easily!

Question: What are these 4 black cars I keep hearing about?
Answer: They are 4 old Lemans race cars that come in the Used car LOTS between day 649 - 700. CHECK EVERY DAY BETWEEN DAYS 649 - 700!!!
You will need about 9,000,000 ( NINE MILLION ) Credits to buy them all.

Question:But I already am past days 649-700 and I want those cars! What can I do?
Answer: Dont worry I heard they appear again but you just have to wait another 649-700 days!

Question:I see 2 or more cars during a photomode shoot! How do I do it?
Answer: Its not possible in GT4 but you must use an external PC program such as PhotoShop and cut and paste the image.

Question:How can I get photomode during replays?
Answer: You must save the replay and then go to the replay theater and then press seclect to take a picture and then you can move the camera around and all the other good stuff.

Question:What are A-Spec and B-Spec points and the purpose of each?
Answer: A-Spec points you are awared for driving yourself and there is no purpose other than bragging rights. B-Spec points is how much points you get from your computer driving. The point to B-Spec is the more the better your AI driver is.

Question:How do I increase my A Spec points?
Answer: Race with close to stock cars and http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1489896#post1489896

Question:How do I increase my B Spec points?
Answer: We have yet to crack the point system but according to most people having a stock car should help.

Question:What is the quickest way to earn money?
Answer: There are 2 very easy ways -
1) Enter the second Special condition race on easy. Win the two races and sell the prize car for $256,000 and keep doing so until you get your goal. When you go to this race after you get all golds it will ask you clear trophies? Say yes and then re race so this way you get a prize car again.

2) Enter the German Touring Car Challenge (European Race Stadium) B-spec the entire series, sell the prize car and you have made a total of $900,000. You can also do it in A-Spec if you perfer.

Question: I am pissed you can play GT4 online but I heard you can trick your PS2 and play is this possible?
Answer: This IS POSSIBLE! You must use X-Link. I saw it on a TV show where they had two guys from PD come over and even talk about it so its not fake!
Try - http://gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=55956

Question: I have a Logitech Wheel and I need help with it.
Answer: Just about everything you need to know is here - http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=375114#375114




Ok thats just about it for now. As I said this is just a temporary FAQ until I get the time tommorow to add more detailed answers. :D

[SilviaEvo]

nice job im getting jealous of you GT4 owners

[ZfrkS62]

another question you can try to answer:

What is damn point to the A-spec points?

[Pimp Racer]

ZfrkS62 that will come tommorow but I will answer it anyways. There is really no point at all to A-SPEC except for bragging rights against your buddies on the internet such as here. :)

BTW if you have any questions PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK!

[ZfrkS62]

Has anyone had an issue with the brakes sticking? i've run a couple of races where i had a sliver of brake application on my gauge and acceleration was shit :? Smacking my controller in case the button was sticking didn't help anything.

[oantob]

guys, I have a question...
is the engine layout affect you to disable or enable the TCS and ASM (over and under incld.)
IMO, when I'm using an FR, MR, and 4WD cars I'll turn the ASM and TCS off..
but for FF cars, I let it on..cause I'm not the patience type of driver when it comes to corner exits :wink:

[Pimp Racer]

Has anyone had an issue with the brakes sticking? i've run a couple of races where i had a sliver of brake application on my gauge and acceleration was shit :? Smacking my controller in case the button was sticking didn't help anything.


Hmm....not that I know of. Maybe it must be your controller? Try another controller or something.

guys, I have a question...
is the engine layout affect you to disable or enable the TCS and ASM (over and under incld.)
IMO, when I'm using an FR, MR, and 4WD cars I'll turn the ASM and TCS off..
but for FF cars, I let it on..cause I'm not the patience type of driver when it comes to corner exits :wink:

Not quite sure what you mean but I usually drive with the all off unless its a high powered car such as 600+ HP. But I put them all to 1 in the tuning area. :D

But in most cases if you have a 4WD or a MR car then you should be better without them on.

Example : I rember in GT3 I ran 2 tests at Apricot Hill with my Purple NSX Type S Zero. I cant rember the exact times but WITHOUT the ASM and TCS on I was a WHOLE 2 seconds faster compared to when I had them on!

I will do a similiar test hopefully today and also try my best to get this DAG done later on today after lunch. :D

[mindgam3]

GT3 didnt have under/oversteer ASM which comes in fairly handy.

For example, if you're car changes direction quickly because you've set it up with quite a bit of toe out - your car will naturally oversteer.

If you then put the oversteer ASM up to 3 or 4 depending on car, you'll have a car that changes direction quickly but does not oversteer ;)

Generally, if you whack oversteer to 0 and understeer to 20, it will make your car turn in alot better. If your car naturally is oversteery though, setting it up like this will make your car very fidgety and skittish

[Pimp Racer]

GT3 didnt have under/oversteer ASM which comes in fairly handy.

For example, if you're car changes direction quickly because you've set it up with quite a bit of toe out - your car will naturally oversteer.

If you then put the oversteer ASM up to 3 or 4 depending on car, you'll have a car that changes direction quickly but does not oversteer ;)

Generally, if you whack oversteer to 0 and understeer to 20, it will make your car turn in alot better. If your car naturally is oversteery though, setting it up like this will make your car very fidgety and skittish

And it will help you learn to use the brakes when turning also am I correct?

BTW I have been told by alot of people on AIM that they dont like the F1 car becuase it oversteers too much so I told them ot go to the suspensions settings and lower the spring rates all the way and go drive and the found it to be better! So you guys might wanna try that out espicially at a track like the ring!

[LAMBOR]

Hey guys, just a basic question. Is there any way of playing GT4 besides the PS2, like for instance PC using some kind of emulator or else?

If not will it be lauched a later PC version?

[mindgam3]

GT3 didnt have under/oversteer ASM which comes in fairly handy.

For example, if you're car changes direction quickly because you've set it up with quite a bit of toe out - your car will naturally oversteer.

If you then put the oversteer ASM up to 3 or 4 depending on car, you'll have a car that changes direction quickly but does not oversteer ;)

Generally, if you whack oversteer to 0 and understeer to 20, it will make your car turn in alot better. If your car naturally is oversteery though, setting it up like this will make your car very fidgety and skittish

And it will help you learn to use the brakes when turning also am I correct?

BTW I have been told by alot of people on AIM that they dont like the F1 car becuase it oversteers too much so I told them ot go to the suspensions settings and lower the spring rates all the way and go drive and the found it to be better! So you guys might wanna try that out espicially at a track like the ring!

Well at the ring it could be many thing effecting oversteer with the bumps and everything.

Generally, oversteer means the rear hasn't got enough grip, so you need to soften up the rear spring rate to give it more grip, not the front. On the ring obviously its very bumpy, so lowering the dampers bounce a few points nad maybe the rebound one will help it grip alot more. On a fidgety car like the caterham you need to mess around with cambers to get that last bit of grip.

Haven't played too much with the F1 car myself but these change in settings have definately worked for most cars ive worked on around the 'ring.

If your car is understeering, stiffen the back compared to the front, or soften the front springs.

[No.1]

I didn't want to create a new topic, so just a quick question. :wink:

Which car did you use to win the GT World Championship in the Professional Hall???

My CLK-GTR just ain't good enough :roll:

Thanks guys

[5vz-fe]

I didn't want to create a new topic, so just a quick question. :wink:

Which car did you use to win the GT World Championship in the Professional Hall???

My CLK-GTR just ain't good enough :roll:

Thanks guys

You will need cars like Nissan R92CP maybe tune it up so that you got a safety margin. If you want to do things the easy way, use the Grand Turiismo Formula car, it will beat the crap out of the competition.

[possessed_beaver]

Hey guys, just a basic question. Is there any way of playing GT4 besides the PS2, like for instance PC using some kind of emulator or else?

If not will it be lauched a later PC version?

there is one easy answer for this no..
it is only available on PS2 and there is no PS2 emulator, and even if there was it would run the game like crap.. buy a PS2 sorry there is no easy way..

and can someone PLEASEEEE make a guide of what cars are recommended for easy race please, lol im only at 35% and im sick of buying cars for races spending all my money on them only for them to peform like crap no matter what i do!! :(

[No.1]

I didn't want to create a new topic, so just a quick question. :wink:

Which car did you use to win the GT World Championship in the Professional Hall???

My CLK-GTR just ain't good enough :roll:

Thanks guys

You will need cars like Nissan R92CP maybe tune it up so that you got a safety margin. If you want to do things the easy way, use the Grand Turiismo Formula car, it will beat the crap out of the competition.

Well... atm, i'm saving up for the black cars, so i'll probably just use one of them when i get them. :D

[oantob]

GT3 didnt have under/oversteer ASM which comes in fairly handy.

For example, if you're car changes direction quickly because you've set it up with quite a bit of toe out - your car will naturally oversteer.

If you then put the oversteer ASM up to 3 or 4 depending on car, you'll have a car that changes direction quickly but does not oversteer ;)

Generally, if you whack oversteer to 0 and understeer to 20, it will make your car turn in alot better. If your car naturally is oversteery though, setting it up like this will make your car very fidgety and skittish

And it will help you learn to use the brakes when turning also am I correct?

BTW I have been told by alot of people on AIM that they dont like the F1 car becuase it oversteers too much so I told them ot go to the suspensions settings and lower the spring rates all the way and go drive and the found it to be better! So you guys might wanna try that out espicially at a track like the ring!

Well at the ring it could be many thing effecting oversteer with the bumps and everything.

Generally, oversteer means the rear hasn't got enough grip, so you need to soften up the rear spring rate to give it more grip, not the front. On the ring obviously its very bumpy, so lowering the dampers bounce a few points nad maybe the rebound one will help it grip alot more. On a fidgety car like the caterham you need to mess around with cambers to get that last bit of grip.

Haven't played too much with the F1 car myself but these change in settings have definately worked for most cars ive worked on around the 'ring.

If your car is understeering, stiffen the back compared to the front, or soften the front springs.

but for oversteer you could also harden up the front spring, if the rear spring rate already right...
what track you used for suspension setting? I usually use the deep forest, or the autum ring...these tracks gives good feedback...
what about down force? as far as I know, if the car is over than setting the downforce more at rear to maximize the grip, and for under, setting the downforce more at front... :wink:

[mindgam3]

I usually use midfield as its got long straights, fast switch backs, a few long slow corners that will punish understeering cars and a fast corner to very slow hairpin which if you want to get through quickly will neeed a very good car.

Unless its a high speed course, i tend to leave all downforce at maximum and try and fiddle everything else as this will give best grip ;)

[Pimp Racer]

Hey guys, just a basic question. Is there any way of playing GT4 besides the PS2, like for instance PC using some kind of emulator or else?

If not will it be lauched a later PC version?

there is one easy answer for this no..
it is only available on PS2 and there is no PS2 emulator, and even if there was it would run the game like crap.. buy a PS2 sorry there is no easy way..

and can someone PLEASEEEE make a guide of what cars are recommended for easy race please, lol im only at 35% and im sick of buying cars for races spending all my money on them only for them to peform like crap no matter what i do!! :(



Hmm....doesnt sound bad! I will when I get free time but for now mind if you just ask us here in this thread and then we can help you out?

Updated the FAQ's!!! Keep the questions coming! :)

[Pimp Racer]

Updated! :D I added a link on how to play GT4 online! :D If you need anything else please feel free to ask! :D

[Pimp Racer]

Update and a sticky would be cool! :D

[oantob]

Guys...I have a simple question. Did you know if you take your car to a tunners area, there you could find a new stage for the Suspension called the original and Turbo called the stage 5 or the original (if its a turbo car)...If you take your car to the official tunner, you won't see that... If this stage is better then the official tunner? and what is the difference from the original tunner and the JDM tunners...

[Pimp Racer]

I dont think there is a stage 5 turbo? And there is no difference if you get a turbo from Honda or a Turbo from HKS or something.

[evoWalo]

Updated! :D I added a link on how to play GT4 online! :D If you need anything else please feel free to ask! :D
Have you got this work using the PS2's i.Link/Firewire/IEEE1394a? I dont have a PSTwo. :(

[RC45]

GT4 doesn't support iLink... GT3 does though.

[evoWalo]

GT4 doesn't support iLink... GT3 does though.
oh crud... :?

[RC45]

GT4 doesn't support iLink... GT3 does though.
oh crud... :?

We (the family) were all really dissapointed once we found out how crap the 2 player options on GT4 were.

We were all set to have 2 PS2's playing GT4 vs each other with wheels and all - and the ability to use the simulaiton mode tuned cars.

But the truth is, it is about as pathetic as PGR2 - you are stuck with stock cars... and it seems not even racing tyres.. only sport tyres.. :(

The truth is that GT4 is simply GT3 with more cars when itcomes to limked battles... :(

[5vz-fe]

I dont think there is a stage 5 turbo? And there is no difference if you get a turbo from Honda or a Turbo from HKS or something.

There is a stage 5 turbo, but not for all cars. There is however no difference between the first 4 stage when compare to tunning in the tuners village or in the manufacture tuning place.

GT4 doesn't support iLink... GT3 does though.
oh crud... :?The truth is that GT4 is simply GT3 with more cars when itcomes to limked battles... :(

Well, it also include "the ring".

[evoWalo]

I really wasnt expecting "jee wiz" improvements on the GT4. The PS2's about 5 years old already. I am impressed though at the lengths Polyphony was able to go beyond the limitations of the PS2 to delvier 1080i HDTV signals and streaming data to bypass the RAM limitation.

[oantob]

I dont think there is a stage 5 turbo? And there is no difference if you get a turbo from Honda or a Turbo from HKS or something.
there is a turbo stage 5 called the original, and also the suspension stage 4 or called the original...and I could prove it, if you have evo 8 for example, take your evo to tunners like hks or mines...then you choose the turbo or suspension part. althou the turbo stage 5 got less power then the turbo stage 4, but the turbo lag reduced...try it :wink:

[Pimp Racer]

I really wasnt expecting "jee wiz" improvements on the GT4. The PS2's about 5 years old already. I am impressed though at the lengths Polyphony was able to go beyond the limitations of the PS2 to delvier 1080i HDTV signals and streaming data to bypass the RAM limitation.

Me either.

I dont think there is a stage 5 turbo? And there is no difference if you get a turbo from Honda or a Turbo from HKS or something.
there is a turbo stage 5 called the original, and also the suspension stage 4 or called the original...and I could prove it, if you have evo 8 for example, take your evo to tunners like hks or mines...then you choose the turbo or suspension part. althou the turbo stage 5 got less power then the turbo stage 4, but the turbo lag reduced...try it :wink:


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