Sorry. I don't have any proven theories on how to get the car you want but I do have some observations.
For those who don't know I have nearly completed the task of getting all prize car / colour combinations.
This has involved restarting saved games many times. In total I have probably looked at the prize car wheel about a thousand times in the last few weeks. And this is no exaggeration. I needed about 150 specific car/colour combinations when I started and I have not got them 1st time. some I have had to work hard to get so a thousand is no exaggeration believe me.
If I was programmin the prize car wheel I would be confronted with a certain task. How to program in the randomosity (good word that).
I would first of all get it working by determining the following parameters:
Starting position of the black circle eg position 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Initial speed the black circle moves at eg 1/4 sec per position.
A deceleration rate eg each cycle adds 1/4 sec per position to the previous cycles time.
Total time it spins for eg 10 secs.
I have no idea if any of these parameters are measured this way but this is an illustration not yet an observation.
When I set it up I could run it and it would always finish on the same car unless I changed one of these parameters (in a random fashion).
Having watched the prize car wheel at least half of the time in the last few weeks so maybe 500 or 600 I have concluded that the randomosity comes in by changing the starting position.
Each time it comes up the black circle appears under the car that finishes on the right (this is where we see it first because that car is the first to appear on the screen). But I have observed that the black circle appears at different times. The change is subtle but still noticeable. So it starts in various positions (which is out of our sight 3/4 times).
This rules out the X theory. I believe that if I studied it with the goal being to be able to predict what car will come up I could do it just by watching the first cycle of the black circle.
The randomosity therefore comes in to play by determining where the black circle starts.
How does the game do this ?
Some people have the theory of total time in the series or racing quality eg total time divided by number of crashes etc. Sorry. No Go. In my experience where I need certain cars I did not have the time to vary my total race time but still found all cars come up.
eg The lastest car I needed was the Midnight Pearl Mugen S2000. The cars from the Type R series all came up in approx 25% each allocations over about 200 restarts (yes you heard right). The problem was that the Midnight Pearl did not come up. I did not do any extra race time to alter the outcome. But over 200 restarts all 4 cars came up in about even distribution.
There is one theory that I can not rule out. Please hear me I am not saying this works. I am saying that I can not rule it out. I heard someone say that on the prize money screen there is an ok button in the bottom right that flashes when your money is in the bank. They said if you press it on the 2nd flash a certain car comes up. On the 4th flash a different car came up etc. I don't think it is that simple. But I do think it is possible that the timing of pressing X for ok may determine the car but with a granularity of no more than 1/4 sec. I tried to test this and there may have been a pattern but not such that I could predict what car would come up with any certainty.
But we can try something based on this. If from a certain game save the same cars keep coming up try pressing ok at different times as I think this may change the outcome.
I am not 100% certain of this but it is worth a try.
For those who don't know I have nearly completed the task of getting all prize car / colour combinations.
This has involved restarting saved games many times. In total I have probably looked at the prize car wheel about a thousand times in the last few weeks. And this is no exaggeration. I needed about 150 specific car/colour combinations when I started and I have not got them 1st time. some I have had to work hard to get so a thousand is no exaggeration believe me.
If I was programmin the prize car wheel I would be confronted with a certain task. How to program in the randomosity (good word that).
I would first of all get it working by determining the following parameters:
Starting position of the black circle eg position 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Initial speed the black circle moves at eg 1/4 sec per position.
A deceleration rate eg each cycle adds 1/4 sec per position to the previous cycles time.
Total time it spins for eg 10 secs.
I have no idea if any of these parameters are measured this way but this is an illustration not yet an observation.
When I set it up I could run it and it would always finish on the same car unless I changed one of these parameters (in a random fashion).
Having watched the prize car wheel at least half of the time in the last few weeks so maybe 500 or 600 I have concluded that the randomosity comes in by changing the starting position.
Each time it comes up the black circle appears under the car that finishes on the right (this is where we see it first because that car is the first to appear on the screen). But I have observed that the black circle appears at different times. The change is subtle but still noticeable. So it starts in various positions (which is out of our sight 3/4 times).
This rules out the X theory. I believe that if I studied it with the goal being to be able to predict what car will come up I could do it just by watching the first cycle of the black circle.
The randomosity therefore comes in to play by determining where the black circle starts.
How does the game do this ?
Some people have the theory of total time in the series or racing quality eg total time divided by number of crashes etc. Sorry. No Go. In my experience where I need certain cars I did not have the time to vary my total race time but still found all cars come up.
eg The lastest car I needed was the Midnight Pearl Mugen S2000. The cars from the Type R series all came up in approx 25% each allocations over about 200 restarts (yes you heard right). The problem was that the Midnight Pearl did not come up. I did not do any extra race time to alter the outcome. But over 200 restarts all 4 cars came up in about even distribution.
There is one theory that I can not rule out. Please hear me I am not saying this works. I am saying that I can not rule it out. I heard someone say that on the prize money screen there is an ok button in the bottom right that flashes when your money is in the bank. They said if you press it on the 2nd flash a certain car comes up. On the 4th flash a different car came up etc. I don't think it is that simple. But I do think it is possible that the timing of pressing X for ok may determine the car but with a granularity of no more than 1/4 sec. I tried to test this and there may have been a pattern but not such that I could predict what car would come up with any certainty.
But we can try something based on this. If from a certain game save the same cars keep coming up try pressing ok at different times as I think this may change the outcome.
I am not 100% certain of this but it is worth a try.
On B6 I am 0.069 off gold. Problem is I thought that run was perfect. B7 I have only done 1 bronze run.
