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Howdy all! I'm new here. Been a hardcore fan of the GT series since it's introduction on the first demo disk. Pre-ordered her as soon as possible and have been in love ever since 
(GT3 is the essential reason I bought my ps2, although it wasn't out yet and I got stuck with one of the horrible ridge racer series, lol) Anywho, I just recently found a kinda neat way to upshift that most of you will probably shoot me down for, lol. You see, I noticed last month that somtimes my downshift finger, (L2), would bump the reverse button, (L1), at the same time that I was upshifting and I would, say, miss a gear and go up two rather than one. Took me a few minutes to figure it out, until I realized that the hitting R would kinda "slip shift" it into the next gear, as long as it was tapped just before or in the redline. So just to play with it, I went to options and set the reverse button to be the one I typically use as my upshifting button, (R2). After doing this, I found that if you let off of the gass just before you hit the R/upshift button, and put your thumb back on the gas at just the right time, you could get a clean shift. If you were to quick into the gas or too slow, you would get a "laggy" shift. So then I went and got a bone stock civic and played around and found that upgrading the flywheel and clutch actually made the whole shifting area, (the new one I'm explaining), much quicker. I could tell the "clutch action" was much quicker do to the fact that my letting off and onto the gas had to be much quicker and timed. Then me and a bud decided to play 2p this way and found it was alot of fun because you two could be nose to nose going down the final straight, and if you slightly slipped a shift or whatnot, you would lose by a hair. So it put some more realism and competition in the game for me. There are of course a few downsides to shifting this way... 1-2nd is very tricky for people used to just mashing the gas and hitting the upshift button. You have to have steady throttle in the red, (or just before), in order to get it to go up to 2nd, (same goes for the rest of the gears, lessening on the way up, if you have an extreemely powerful car) The second draw back is with a select few cars, just tapping the reverse button will actually throw it in R and cause gas to be applied, which of course slows you down and screws you up at the same time. (so far I've only found this with the Escudos car) I decided to take my car to the test zone and time myself. After a while I could consistantly get shifts as quick and precisely as when I used to just hit the typical upshift button. And that's my way of shifting. Anybody got any comments or anything 
(GT3 is the essential reason I bought my ps2, although it wasn't out yet and I got stuck with one of the horrible ridge racer series, lol) Anywho, I just recently found a kinda neat way to upshift that most of you will probably shoot me down for, lol. You see, I noticed last month that somtimes my downshift finger, (L2), would bump the reverse button, (L1), at the same time that I was upshifting and I would, say, miss a gear and go up two rather than one. Took me a few minutes to figure it out, until I realized that the hitting R would kinda "slip shift" it into the next gear, as long as it was tapped just before or in the redline. So just to play with it, I went to options and set the reverse button to be the one I typically use as my upshifting button, (R2). After doing this, I found that if you let off of the gass just before you hit the R/upshift button, and put your thumb back on the gas at just the right time, you could get a clean shift. If you were to quick into the gas or too slow, you would get a "laggy" shift. So then I went and got a bone stock civic and played around and found that upgrading the flywheel and clutch actually made the whole shifting area, (the new one I'm explaining), much quicker. I could tell the "clutch action" was much quicker do to the fact that my letting off and onto the gas had to be much quicker and timed. Then me and a bud decided to play 2p this way and found it was alot of fun because you two could be nose to nose going down the final straight, and if you slightly slipped a shift or whatnot, you would lose by a hair. So it put some more realism and competition in the game for me. There are of course a few downsides to shifting this way... 1-2nd is very tricky for people used to just mashing the gas and hitting the upshift button. You have to have steady throttle in the red, (or just before), in order to get it to go up to 2nd, (same goes for the rest of the gears, lessening on the way up, if you have an extreemely powerful car) The second draw back is with a select few cars, just tapping the reverse button will actually throw it in R and cause gas to be applied, which of course slows you down and screws you up at the same time. (so far I've only found this with the Escudos car) I decided to take my car to the test zone and time myself. After a while I could consistantly get shifts as quick and precisely as when I used to just hit the typical upshift button. And that's my way of shifting. Anybody got any comments or anything 
