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PC Cheats & Easter Eggs

Many features accessible from these cheats are the result of late night sessions and inter-company jokes. Hope you like them!

All Cars & Tracks

How to activate: set player name to r pettersson and team Swe. This is a tribute to Ronnie Peterson, a Swedish F1 driver who tragically died during the 1978 Italian Grand Prix.

Supercars-mode

This changes the camera to a top-down view. You can activate this view by setting player name Supercars and team Grem. The cheat code is a tribute to the 1990 game Super Cars developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Interactive for the Amiga.

Ignition-mode

This changes to camera to a bird's eye view. You can activate this view by setting player name Ignition and team UDS. The cheat code is a tribute to the 1997 game Ignition developed by felow Swedish developer UDS (Unique Development Studios AB).

TRON-mode

All geometry will now be rendered with hidden-line vector graphics, and there's also a cool message scrolled at the bottom of the screen. This cheat only works when running with Glide. You can activate this by setting player name tribute to tron. You can use whatever team name you want. As the code suggest, this is a tribute to the 1982 movie TRON. The scrolling text reads:

Hello there
Here is something for all the oldskool people out there:
A tribute to the classic movie TRON!
Enjoy the look and feel of the very early 80's --
when hidden-lines were 'in'
and never forget your roots!

Regards,
all the former demosceners at Digital Illusions

The text is only displayed once at the start of the race at takes about 40 seconds to scroll through the whole thing. If you want to see it again, you need to start a new race.

Moon gravity

A small step for a man, a huge jump by your car.

How to activate: set player name Buzz Aldrin and team NASA. This cheat code is of course a tribute to the NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Avenger

The map will be replaced with the Avenger sprite. This cheat only works when running with hardware acceleration (so no software rendering). You can activate this by setting player name Avenger and team Zx. This cheat code is a tribute to the 1986 ZX Spectrum game Avenger.

LA-style suspension

Play that funky music, and off you go! We can see this working nicely with the SuperBee car. You can get this cool trick by setting your player name to g-ride and your team to west.

Mega-springs-mode

Your car will be equipped with very bouncy suspension.

How to activate: set player name Demon and team Grem

Thunder-mode

The sky will become red and move quickly with lightning effects. The cheat code is a tribute to the band. This cheat only works when running with hardware acceleration (so no software rendering). You can activate this by setting player name Lemmy and team name Ace

Underwater-mode

The graphics will wave slowly and you car will move in slow-motion. This cheat only works when running with hardware acceleration (so no software rendering). You can activate this by setting player name Ramlosa and team H2O. This cheat is a reference to Ramlösa, a brand of carbonated mineral water from a source in Ramlösa Brunnspark in the southern part of Helsingborg, Sweden.

Bat-cave in Olympos

There's a bat cave in Olympos a little after the start/finish line. This is a cool room with the faces of the developers. It's extra cool that they are group by team, e.g.car/track designers, music composer, coders, etc.

The Black Lotus Club in Ruhrstadt

Ruhrstadt is such a cool track to drive, with a very unique vibe. No surprise then that there's a very special club playing loud music all night long. You can park right outside the club's door and get a cool "Welcome to Club TBL! Tonights Guest DJ: Randolph Carter!" message. The Black Lotus or TBL for short was the name of one of the demoscene groups where some DICE developers started. The name is a tribute to the black Lotus F1 car of Ronnie Peterson. TBL is also sprinkled around the game files as a header in encrypted files. The person responsible for this part of the game was 'Eq', who, you guessed it, was a member of The Black Lotus group.

Neocity sky road

There's road in Neocity which leads to the top of a skyscraper. The road is invisible, so you need to know where to go. The short version is do the long jump in reverse and aim for the left side. Needless to say, this road has been removed in the reversed track, as it would make driving Neocity in reverse pretty annoying.

OkkunSpeedway helicopter

There's a helicopter flying near the start/finish line in OkkunSpeedway. The cool trick is that you can actually bring it down by crashing it. To do this, use the track's billboards and tents as ramps. Note that you cannot save a ghost to show to your friends, as the helicopter's position is random when starting a race.

Atlantika scrolling text

Position the car on the roof to the left of the Atlantika station. A message and some objects should appear. This only works when running with hardware acceleration. Text reads:

Welcome to HCR&D's hidden scroll, this is GRU typing... Time is 00:04, date is 7th of march 1998. I've just come back from Jameson, took a couple of beers together with Eq, Axl, and Skaning. Eq and me talked about how we started, he started in basic on the pc, moving to the Amiga demo scene in 1993 or something. I started on the spectrum, moved to the Amiga in 1990. Without the demo scene or the Amiga none of us would have started at all... The pc haven't spawned any coders. Greets goes out to all Amiga coders. State report from the office, Danne (coded the geometry engine, all lighting, reflection mapping, asm-transforms, and more) is dominating the quake scene as McCoy/sWeMoB. Vidar (wrote the main loop, multi-player support, plus all those lines that have to be there to make it all sum up to a game), also plays Q as Agorn/FuN. Greets goes out to id for making a really good game on the pc (about the only one). Scout, a new recruit (made the glide renderer class), is teaching others over the mirc. Offa, who coded the physics, has left gothenburg for his home grounds in Dalarna. I guess okkun is around as well, don't know for sure since he's in another room. I hope you've enjoyed Motorhead so far, we've worked really hard on it, for more than 18 months now. I hadn't coded for 3 years when I started coding on the rasterizer code (got much help from Chris Hecker's articles in the Game Developer Magazine). But since you see this you must be playing HW. I hope you'll like our future productions.. Time for my personal greets (check the end streamer for di's greets): GRC (my homies), Werner (for being the first coder I met), Ringo Star (for being the best coder I've met), all coders of all those great spectrum games (Star quake, Quazatron, Knight Lore, Tau Ceti), all coders of all those great Amiga games (Battle squadron, Beast, Xenon 2). And remember all the truly important lines of code is written between hours 00 and 05... GRU signing off, take care...

Hidden story in executables

There's a large chunk of text in the game's main executables, most probably talking taking place during the Eskilstuna Computer Entertainment Show (ECES) 1991. Not sure why an event from 1991 made its way into an executable of a 1998 game, but it's there. It's in both motor.exe and motorm.exe (the multiplayer-only executable), but not present in Matrox and Diamond releases. Those two were probably too uptight to appreciate the humor. The text reads:

Welcome to this kewl part. This is nicho and Chevron hitting the keys on this A500. The time is almost 5 in the morning and its only 12 min. to deadline. We have been drinking a huge amount of coke. we have been awake for 2 days and we have only been eatin pizza and potato crisps. estrella 4ever. This party has been a really kewl one with a lot of elite guys like fuzzac, alta, sincoz, tip & mantronix, firefox, mr gurk, terminator, 4042, mogwie, karl IIX, dezed, mr defect, kyd & balle, celebrandil, bit'n'bytes, uno, slayer and more. wow.

We have been here in Eskilstuna in almost 3 days and have not been out for a second, exept to buy some chips. And these damn germans with big stereo's. The trip to this dump where quite awful, we had to travel by train because the driver lost his license on the way from his place to mine. major fuckup. so he had to carry all the monitors himself. hehe. What happen the first day on the party? Ofcourse someone stole macke's 40Mb-harddrive on which we kept all the gfx to the demo, he has been running around digging peoples bags and sleepingbags. he have not found it yet and don't think he will, but he has stolen alot of candy while searching. The toilets and the showers have been closed since 1:00 pm this morning so outside it looks like there have been a flooding. before i sat down here writing i planed a little nap, but NO...... something did not smell like it's suppose to. It was my sleepingbag, someone had built a landmark in it, a MAJOR dump, and what a stench. What also stank was the music compo, a f..king lamer cheated so he won with a real crappy tune made of only st-00 sounds. But as usual, slash was there and copied it before it was released, so we had already heard the shit. Ohhh damn i forgot... the deadline is in 2 min. Ok, time for some greetings:

Alcatraz Anarchy Andromeda Angels Black Robes Budbrain Byterapers Carilian Carnage Classic Complex Crusaders Cryptoburners Crystal Def Jam Dexion Dual Crew Elite Faglight Flash prod. J-Beam Kefrens Madness Mythos Ninja Cracking Crew North star Noxious Onsala Sector Paradox Phenomena Pure metal coders Quartex Razor 1911 Rebels Red sector S.O.S Sanity Sciense 451 Scoopex Shining Silents Spaceballs SPECTRE Spreadpoint Stellar The Link Tommy knockers Top swap Tri Star Triad Triangle UnitA Vaxine Vision Vortex 42 And all the groups that we've forgot. Text restarts! 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - etc etc

Playstation Cheats & Easter Eggs

Note! Playing the game with a cheat activated which affects gameplay other than visually, will disable hi-scores for those races.

Reset all cheats

To disable all cheats without resetting the game, enter NOCHEATS in the code-field on the options-screen.

Unlock division 2

Enter the code COWRULES on the options-screen. This will unlock tracks and cars from division 2.

Unlock division 1

Enter the code FRAGTIME on the options-screen. You will gain access to cars and tracks from division 1.

Unlock track 7

Enter the code TURBOMOS on the options-screen. You will now unlock everything except the last car and the last track.

Insanity-mode

Enter the code INSANITY on the options-screen. Exit back to the main menu and wait for the demo-mode to activate. It will be much longer, have new music, motion-blur and some other nice effects. A seizure warning is also in order.

Hidden message

Enter SH4 as your name in the high-score-list. Once you do, you will get a short scrolling message:

Check out the cool scrolltext in the credits section of the menu!!!

If you go to the credits screen as advised, you will notice that the credits screen will be replaced with a short message:

hello there gamers!!! the time is close to 05:00 on the 1:st of march 1998 and we are finally getting this game together. we really hope you like it because we have been working on it for almost two years now. it has been a lot of late nights - a lot of torn hair - and a lot of fun of course. wrap!

Motion-blur

To get a motion-blur effect when you play, enter SOFTHEAD in the code-field on the options-screen. The frame-rate will be set to 25fps even if you have only 3 enemies. Reading the health-warnings in the manual would be even more appropriate now...

Supercar-mode

Enter the code SUPERCAR on the options-screen. The camera will now look down from above on the track.

LA-style suspension

You need to go from the alley to the left of the Atlantika Central building to the left corner on the right side of the building within 20 seconds. The cars will jump around in tha' funky way! Note that this will also apply to any next race.

Jeep-mode

On RuhrStadt: Park your car on the sidewalk outside the "The Black Lotus" club's door, facing the right direction, and wait for 15 seconds. A short scrolling text will appear:

Have you ever wanted a jeep going 300+ ??? Restart race and you'll have it!!

You will now get high suspension and a much softer ride! Note that this will also apply to any next race.

Moon gravity

On NolbyHills: Fly into the leftmost garage with the "Digital Illusions" sign with at least 75kph. A short scrolling text will appear:

So you like to jump?? Try it the Neil Armstrong way!! Moon gravity...

You now have moon gravity! Note that this will also apply to any next race.

Demo-scene names

On the credits-screen, hold down all four front-buttons plus the square and circle. You must not hold down any other buttons. The names will then change to show the demo-alias and group of all the people. Also note how the team names also change, for example "music and sfx" is now "noise" and "produced by" is now "whip-wielding." Good sense of humor!

Disco-smoke

On Goldbridge: At the gasstation, drive backwards around the gas-pumps three (3) times within 20 seconds. If you do it correctly, a small text will appear on screen reading:

Hold your breath, it's time for radioactive disco smoke !!!

Your car will now start giving off colored smoke when sliding. Note that this will also apply to any next race.

RocketMan

On Redrock: You need to go to the dead-end at the tunnel in the beginning of the long straight within 30 seconds from start. If you do, a message should appear reading:

Wow you're one fast llammah! Here's a real turbo kick!!

Now you probably have the fastest car ever in a racing-game. Note that this will also apply to any next race.

BatCave

On NeoCity: Just below the long hill, before you reach the cinema and the disco, drive through the wall on the first house to the left, and you will find pictures of the PSX graphics-team.

External cameras

On Olympos: Drive out on the heli-bridge (on the long straight before the road-block up to the plaza) and stay there for 10 seconds. A short scrolling message will appear:

Do you like nice views??? Try the external camer mode, use camera switch button to change

You will now get an extra view-option in addition to inside and outside the car. This is the external camera that the PC release had (F3). Note that this is persistent, and you can continue using the external cameras on all subsequent races/tracks.