BLAST CORPS Cheats
Blast Corps
Ghost Car
In a level where you go around a race course, after you complete the
number of laps it says to do, do the race again with another vehicle. Now, when you start,
you'll be racing a ghost car. The ghost car will be the vehicle that you just used and
will do everything you did in the last race (just like in Mario Kart 64).
Bonus Level: Shuttle Island
The new challenge is to clear a path for a runaway space shuttle. The space shuttle has
been battered and disabled and must land in the middle of a city. The Blast Corps must
destroy the entire city to let it land. To beat this level, you must locate Thunderfist.
At the level's immediate beginning, drive right, and follow the perimeter of the buildings
on your left. You'll take a left, and then drive straight until you reach a set of
buildings with dynamite crates surrounding them. Blow up the first one, and inside it is
Thuderfist. Use this awesome destructor to annihilate the city. The runaway shuttle level
isn't too hard. You have room for about three mistakes max to beat the level
Instant Explosion
Simply drive up next to something and try to get out of your vehicle by using the Z button. If you're too close, your man will yell and not get out. If you continue holding the Z button, the obstructing object will blow up like magic.
Z-Button Tricks
Some people say the Z button trick is useless in Blast Corps. Certain levels are made
very easy by the proper application of this trick, making platinum times a cinch!
Get a really fast time on Oyster Harbor using a combination of tricks. First, it is not
necessary to have the boats in place or fill the holes in order to complete the level.
Second, it is possible to destroy the series of walls that one usually uses the TNT on, as
well as the final building, using the Z button trick. So by destroying the small blocks in
the beginning of the course using the Ramdozer, and using the Z button trick on the
buildings, one can do the level in under 1:30, where the platinum time is 2:55!
Another hugely useful application of the Z button trick is on Beeton Tracks. Normally, one
would have to move the Ramdozer across the tracks and use the TNT to blow up the big
building. Instead, the Z button trick can blow it up, resulting in a time of around 33
seconds, instead of the platinum time of 1:15! A somewhat less useful application of the Z
button trick is on the last huge building on Diamond Sands. Most of it is destroyed by
TNT, but the remaining part of the building can be destroyed without using the TNT on the
other side of the tracks. Just use the magic Z button!
There are a few other useful application of this trick, but none as useful as the first
two. It seems that the only win condition for each level is that no buildings be blocking
the carrier. Everything else can be ignored, even if green arrows are pointing to it.
Using this strategy, some levels have extremely easy platinum times.
Bonus Level: Moon
After saving the space shuttle you'll have completed the transition level that leads
the Blast Corps into outer space. You'll fly to the moon onmthe space shuttle and wreak
havok there, having to destroy several constructs within sixm minutes. Backlash is the
only chooseable vehicle. Gravity is different, much like it would be on the moon, and
control of ones's vehicle is even more of necessary than ever. As in the Earth's levels,
look for ditches and hills to launch Backlash into buildings with even more power. This
level is truly fun. Huge low-gravitational jumps, extra-long, 360 degree skids, and even
more destruction are all very present in this cool level.
Nitro Boost
At the beginning of a bonus level after the green light, press the gas button and
you'll get a nitro boost similar to that in Mario Kart (you have to do it really fast
after the green light).
Bonus Levels: Extra Planets
There are at least four extra planets (in addition to the moon) that players can reach:
Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Neptune, and there may be more (since there are four more
planets in the solar system). The pre-mission briefing clearly states that to continue on
"perhaps even more missions, one must attain a perfect score." To play these
levels you must get a gold medal in each of the regular stages (including all
training/bonus levels, Shuttle Clear, and the Moon). Once you have done this you get a
congratulations message and Mercury will open up, after you beat it Venus will open, and
so on. If you've attained gold medals in all the planets, you will get a message asking to
"Do it Faster," which means going back to all of the missile stages; medals will
then be awarded based on time. But you're still not done yet! If you received a gold in
all of the timed-missile stages you will be asked to do it even faster to earn platinum
medals in every stage you've played so far! There may be even more, but the platinum
medals are almost inhumanly possible.
Six Scientists
There are six scientists in Blast Corps, and once you've found these white-jacket clad
old men, you have completed the game's first major segment. The six scientists are located
in:
1. Ebony Coast
2. Ironstone Mine
3. Argent Towers
4. Oyster Harbor
5. Tempest City
6. Glory Crossing
But there's more. After the game ends, the carrier is directed to a safe place to explode, and after all of the credits roll by, a brand new set of challenges awaits you. Wait until the credits roll by to see this new bonus level.