Need for Speed: Underground Cheats

Need for Speed: Underground

Hint: Easy Reputation Stars:
Make this set up for the S2000 Headlights:
Voltage Tailights Chrome: Neon (you can leave that stock if you like)Muffler Rocket Roof Scoop Dually Wide Body Kit Mantis Rims Split Tint(Any) Color black or any dark color will be fine. Mods EXTREME SpoilerDual GT (GT=Gran Turismo) or CarbonX or Warhawk. Muffler Color ChromeRims Chrome. Follow this and you should have five rep stars.

Unlimited Nitro cheat:
Press X, Circle, Triangle, Triangle, X, Circle.

All circuit tracks:
Press Down, R1(3), R2(3), Squareat the main menu.

All drag tracks:
Press Right, Square, Left, R1,Square, L1, L2, R2 at the main menu.

All drift tracks:
Press Left(4), Right, R2, R1,L2 at the main menu.

All sprint tracks:
Press Up, R2(3), R1, Down(3)at the main menu.

Drift physics for all cars:
Press R1, Up(3), Down(3), L1at the main menu.

Hint: 1988 Nissan Skyline GTR34:
Select underground mode and complete at least the first80 missions. A recommended car to use is the Acura RSX. You willthen challenge Samantha. Defeat her under the medium difficultysetting and win the next drag race to unlock the 1998 Nissan SkylineGTR34.

Hint: Eddie's: Nissan Skyline:
To unlock Eddie's car in the end, keep winning stylepoints. Note: It is faster to win them in drift. When your stylemeter maxes out, a message stating that you have won Eddie's NissanSkyline will appear.

Hint: Samantha's car:
Keep getting style points until you get all the vinyls,then fill up the next meter.

Hint: Kurt's Killa Ride:
Use a Stock Mazda RX-7 and keep trying until you win.

Hint: Easy drift points:
Simply stay behind a car and watch the points rackup.

Turn off the stability control by going into options and selecting"Car". This will make the car drift easier.

As you progress through the levels, the score required to winthe drift competitions get higher, especially when you have upgradedyour car's handling. Before you enter the drift competitions,go into "Customize Car" and "Setup". For example,go to the engine upgrade section and refit stock tires to yourchosen wheels. This will make drifting much easier. As you approacha bend with a bit of speed, back off the throttle, turn into it,and return to full throttle. With practice you can earn 50,000style points on the figure of eight style track. Note: Do notforget to refit the better tires before entering a street race.

Hint: Easy wins:
If you are having trouble winning circuit, sprint,or lap knockout races, take off all of your engine performancemods. Note: This works for every car, is most useful for the NissanSkyline. You do not need to take off the handling mods.

Hint: Easier drag wins:
To get to higher gears quicker in drag races, tap L1repeatedly as needed to increase the RPM to the appropriate levelto switch the gear. This also lessens the full force of the nitrousto lower the chance of burning the engine out.

While drag racing, once you get into fourth gear use your nitrous.Your meter will shoot up into the red zone. Then, switch gearsand get a perfect shift. You will get more speed when you do this.You can do this as long as you have nitrous.

Keep tapping the nitrous button at start of the race.

Hint: Faster speed:
Hold R2 for greater speed. Note: This does notwork in drags.

Hint: Easy style points:
After you unlock the oval drift track, go into "QuickRace" and choose that track. Then, race around it using thehandbrake to powerslide into the corners. Depending on how goodyou are, you will unlock rewards every time you fill your meter,which does not take too long.

Go to quick race mode and choose any circuit. Set it to five lapswith maximum cars on. Then, just get near misses in a row to geta large amount of points. Once your reputation goes up you canmake 20,000 points in one go around.

Press Nitrous at the start of a race to purge your nitrousfor 150 style points.

Unlock the Toyota Celica in split screen/quick race mode and successfullycomplete the first tournament in underground mode. Go to "CustomizeRide" at the main menu and select the Toyota Celica. Selectthe "Performance" option and equip your new engine,tires and drivetrain. It does not matter what brand package youchoose for them. Return to the menu where you choose from "Visual","Performance", etc. Choose "Visual", thenequip your vehicle with parts from all of these options (thoughputting decals, painting, and placing vinyl on the vehicle isnot necessary). Do not use any default parts. If your vehicledoes not have a two star reputation rating or more, then you mayhave forgotten an option. Note: In the body section, the lastoption may be locked; it is not necessary for this trick. Returnto the main menu and select "Quick Race", then "DriftRace". Select your Celica. Select the square track (shouldalready be highlighted), and set the difficulty to medium andlap number to 10. You should be able to easily get "GreatDrifts", and if you are good enough, you can get "SuperbDrift" and "Colossal Drift" ratings occasionally.You will get a lot of style points for doing these drifts. Thisis an easy way to get style points early in the game. Also tryto do drifts around corners in the bonus zone areas rather thendoing drifts throughout the track.

Go to quick race, then select "Drift" and use the littlesquare track. Keep doing this to win vinyls, cars like Eddie'sSkyline, the Mystikal car, and more.

Once you have unlocked the orange Acura Type R in Undergroundmode, use it in regular quick race and win. Doing this will multiplyyour style points by five because this Acura has five reputationstars. Your style points gauge will fill up quicker, allowingyou to unlock other things faster.

Hint: Easy money:
In Underground mode, take a VW Golf and upgrade itperformance-wise as much as possible. Trade it in for a NissanSkyline (or the best car unlocked so far), then downgrade thenew car to stock. Trade it in for a Golf and you should make aprofit (about $6,000 each time). You can use the money to buymore upgrade for regular mode if you want to play with the partsor are stuck in Underground mode.

To earn a profit of about $5,500 or more (depending on how faryou are in Underground mode), follow these steps. Go to Undergroundmode and enter the "Customize Ride" menu. Then, selectthe "Trade" option and trade your car for a Mazda RX-7.If you already have it as your car, skip this step. Downgradeall of your performance upgrades to stock. Then, go back to the"Trade" option and trade your car for a Volkswagen GolfGTI. Then, put all of your performance upgrades back onto theGolf GTI and trade your car for the Mazda RX-7. If done correctly,you should gain a profit of at least $5,500. Repeat those stepsas many times as desired. In a short time you should have at least$30,000.

Hint: Use rims that normally will not fit:
Certain cars can only fit so big of a rim. For example,the Miata can only fit 17s, but if you get a car like the Skylineput 20s on it and trade it in for the Miata. The Miata will nowhave the 20s that the Skyline had in it. Do not try to installany other rims on your new car because the rims will go back tothe maximum sized allowed.

Hint: Purge nitrous:
To purge your nitrous and appear to shoot out smoke,either put your car in neutral, or at the beginning of the racepress Nitrous.

Hint: Change color of vinyl:
Choose any vinyl except for uniquem then select thelayer you changed on the layers menu. Press Square andthe color change menu will appear.

Hint: Shortcuts:
Look for alternate routes on your in-game map whiledriving. These can get you ahead of an opponent easily or shaveoff seconds on your timer. They will look like another road onthe map, but sometimes are narrower. Most of the time these shortcutswill be hard to see or take, and can be extremely risky.

At the beginning of the races that take place in front of theprison Samantha told you to race to for a reward, when the racestarts, crash in the gate of the prison. It is an undergroundshortcut. Note: This only works after the race in which Samanthatells you to race to the prison in time for a reward.

Hint: Recommended cars:
The stats on the performance bars are not all thatcount. The Mazda RX-7 is extremely responsive. Quick movementsand the ability to get yourself out of tight jams is what winsthe race. The Mazda RX-7 responds very quickly and can help youout a lot with dodging cars and making it through quick S turns.The RX-7 may not have as good of a turning radius as the Skyline,but this can be compensated by holding the gas and pressing thebrake at the same time while in a turn. This may bring your speeddown a bit, but it also tightens your turning radius. Use thistactic when speeding through one of the tunnels with poles inthe middle. Do not be discouraged by the poor start of the RX-7.This car will make up for it with its phenomenal top speed andability to turn quickly. Objects always appear at a set distanceahead of you. At high speeds this will only give you a small instantfor you to react and for your car to respond to your commands.The RX-7 responds faster than the Skyline, and therefore givesyou a definite advantage at high speeds. It also turns more tightlyat low speeds. It is also a good tool to use in Drift challengesbecause it is a light rear wheel drive. When you go sideways,the tires will just keep spinning as you drift. There is no needto use the handbrake with this car in drift mode except to slowyourself down -- you will continue to accelerate a lot with thiscar in drifts. Because drifting does not slow the car down (aslong as you hold the gas), it is easy to go into a wall. Thereis no other car that can make it all the way around the 3/4 circlein a perfect 3/4 circle without losing speed. Do not use stocktires with the fully souped up RX-7 in drift mode, as the caris extremely slick on the ground (light rear wheel drive).

Hint: See where you are landing in slow motion:
Pause game play while you are in the air and the gameis in slow motion. Resume the game and you can see where you arelanding.

Glitch: Street Glow:
When you have Street Glow on your car, if your carflips over so where you can see the bottom of the car, the glowis gone. When you finally land back down, you can see it on thestreet.

When your car jumps over another car, the street glow will notappear on the car that you are over. When your car flips to itsside and is on a wall, the street glow will not appear on thatwall.

Glitch: No blur with nitrous:
When you hit a jump the makes the camera move in frontand slows down the game, press L1 (nitrous) immediatelybefore you land. If done correctly, your view should all be clearand you should still see the flames shoot out of your muffler.

Glitch: No mirror:
Sometimes when you are racing in circuit or sprintmode, your driver side mirror will not be there for a lap or two.