Foretelling prize cars

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I didn't create any codes for that. I just used the memory monitor feature. I'm not sure I have sufficient notes to recreate even for myself how I figured out that particular detail (alternate garage location during races).
 
SportWagon
I didn't create any codes for that. I just used the memory monitor feature. I'm not sure I have sufficient notes to recreate even for myself how I figured out that particular detail (alternate garage location during races).
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So your results were inconclusive?
 
I think I've figured out how to get a specific prize car with the ones that give out more than 1 car! I think that maybe the prize car that you get depends on what car you used for the races. Like for example; I had won the US vs. Japan event with a fully tuned Viper GTS, and I won the Viper GTS-R! And just to see if this idea was tangible, I also did the other "Country races" with the Griffith 4.0 in the Japan vs. UK event and won the Cerbera, and I used the Corvette in the US vs. UK event and won the Concept Car! At least, that's what I think...💡
 
superberkut
But it can. 'Digital Fortress' had a good example in TRANSLTR, the decrypting supercomputer that was on the verge of exploding in the book.
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Dude, I just finished this book! +++ Really dug it, except the part near the end where Strathmore displayed his love with his head codebreaker as TRANSLTR was about to blow up...that was kinda predictable and weak. But I guess Dan Brown was trying to go for one of those "Hollyweird" moments. :indiff:

gtmaster08
I think I've figured out how to get a specific prize car with the ones that give out more than 1 car! I think that maybe the prize car that you get depends on what car you used for the races. Like for example; I had won the US vs. Japan event with a fully tuned Viper GTS, and I won the Viper GTS-R! And just to see if this idea was tangible, I also did the other "Country races" with the Griffith 4.0 in the Japan vs. UK event and won the Cerbera, and I used the Corvette in the US vs. UK event and won the Concept Car! At least, that's what I think...💡
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...and here we go again. Will this debate ever end? :ouch:
 
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Maybe like in GT2 it is by the AI cars used in the race against you.....
For instance if you have the Shelby Series 1 in the Seattle endurance in GT2 you always win the GT90, If you don't it is the Escort Rally car.
A Citroen Xantia in the SSR5 endurance (in GT2 again) will yield a TVR Cerbera LM edition, if no Xantia then the Lancer Evolution Rallly Car.
I havent been playing anything for a while now because I am being shot with 100obligations every day....( I am going extremely hardcore with my school work this year and am trying to get a real car)

I promise to test the theory in GT1 at most by early december (I had only a few days to play it over summer when I just got it, so all I could do is Gold one license and pass another one with gold on half the tests)... can someone else test please if they get more PS1 time than I do?
 
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Famine
No maybe. It's random.



It's random. As it is in GT2 also. Random.

Random it is. Is it random. It random is. Random is it. Is random it.
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Is that a Red Dwarf reference?

To be honest I didn't find any of the cars to be rare in GT1, but then I raced every winnable car, including the Demio, in every race it could complete in so I easily covered the prize cars. This is on a PAL system so maybe it was harder to win certain cars on NTSC, but I didn't have to race 50 times to win a certain car.

P.S. Hi PB, I'm back taking up the slack!!!!
 
http://www.geocities.com/gt2toxs/gt/logs/blue.txt

documents a game in which I got all colours of all prize colours (except license test cars).

The longest hold-out was the red-orange Toyota Soerer at the Mega Speed Cup.

A reputedly difficult car to get is the ectoplasm green Silvia LM from the All-Night II, but I never had any particular difficulty winning it.

By way of superstition, I did enter many cars in some minor race (usually the Sunday Cup) before taking them to the events they were more suitable for.
 
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So it's random. Is this debate settled, then? :guilty: Or do we have yet more "new" theories out there about how GT is not random?
 
It's random, but new theories will always pop-up once in a while. Best thing to do: ignore them.
 
I don't mean to bring this back up- but one contribution: I did the mega-speed cup and won a Soarer in purple. My PS2 then proceeded to screw up and I had to redo it. I won the same car in the same color. Just wanted to add a little fuel to the fire!! :P -kevin
 
No fuel is being added. There is certainly the possibility the same car & color could be won twice in a row. :)
 
Or more, it's random after all. Computers can do psuedo random numbers with clever calculations but only human's can do real random and even then who knows whether even cleverer calculations are going on to make that choice appear random. However, certain cars could be weighted against, for example pick a random number between 1 and 10. The options are as follows: -

1-4 Red CRX
5-8 Blue Astra
9-10 Ferrari

The Ferrari is weighted against as there is less chance that it will be chosen.

I don't think GT works like this, suspect that all cars were given even chances of being picked, however the variation of randomness made it appear that certain cars were 'rare'. Later GT games might have been modified as games got more complex.
 
Well, I've certainly noticed that GT4 is definitely NOT random in some respects.

For instance, I have a habit of resetting races so I can find a good line up of cars to compete against. I hate it when there's one Ai car that blows everyone else away, I prefer having 2, or 3, or more on the grid which compete more or less equally.

So I sit there and reset and reset sometimes. There are times when I've reset a race, had to turn off my PS2 (for whatever reason) and later come back to the same race, resetting again. The 5-car Ai grid definitely rotates. You'll see the same cars in the same spots over and over as you reset from grid to grid, and there are many many grids to rotate thru so that it seems you never see the same one twice.

This follows the same logic as the used car lots. Each 10 days (or whatever) the lots reset themselves so that new cars show up. Eventually, after many hundreds of days, the entire system rotates to the point that it starts all over (as if the game is at Day 1 again) and you'll see the exact same cars that were in the lots on Day 1 even though you're on Day 600 or whatever.

So I'm not sure if GT1 follows the same pattern so far as racing grids go. But there is definitely a pattern with the used car lot in GT1 (as in other GTs) that has been well-documented.
 
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