It's 2008 and motor racing has taken a new turn...
Joystick in the usual port #1... Steering left/right Accelerate forward Brake/reverse back Boost fire
Once the car has started accelerating, you don't have to continue to push forward on the stick.
Keyboard... Steering S/D Boost+accelerate RETURN (hold down for boost, release for normal) Boost+brake/reverse SPACE Brake/reverse = Quit race ESC Pause P Unpause O
Redefining keys
During the game, pause and press F1. Type in the keys you want and unpause. Different keysets are held for different players.
Auto Alignment
When the car is on a straight and you're not steering, it automatically steers in the direction of the track.
Other controls.
In menus, use joystick or numeric keys to highlight an option and fire or RETURN to select it.
Practice mode.
A practice session last 3 laps, after which the car will be repaired and refuelled. More practice laps can be attempted if you want. If in SUPER LEAGUE, the extra performance of your car applies in practice as well.
Lap indicator (bottom left): Prefixed with 'L'' e.g. L2 is second lap.
Boost (next to lap): Prefixed with 'B' e.g. B30 means 30 units left.
Separation (below lap): Shows distance between you & your opponent in metres.
Lap time/stopwatch
The flag indicator lights up when you are in the lead. Top right is a display showing current lap time. Under this is the best lap time (for both players). The stopwatch lights up if the best lap time is yours.
Speedometer
Speed shown in 10s of mph (so much for metric in 2008!). If speed is above 250mph, the speedo resets and reads from 0 again (add 200 to whatever it shows).
Damage
1. Chassis cracks
A crack in the chassis occurs during hard cornering or landings. Should a crack travel right across the chassis, the car is wrecked and out of the race. Cracks are repaired after a race.
2. Structural damage
Severe impacts cause holes in the crossbar. Not repaired after races, and if a crack reaches a hole it progresses at a faster rate. Only in division 4 do you get an undamaged car for each season.
Crane
The crane lifts you onto the track at the start of the race and whenever you leave the track subsequently. Only press fire to release from the crane when you're over the track!
Objective
Become top driver in the first league and enter the Super League.
Super League
You can only enter this after becoming champion of division one. You can now compete against the best drivers in another series of races, but with much improved engine power and brakes.
Racing Seasons
A full season lasts six races; all permutations with all three drivers and the two tracks. You only compete in four of the races. The driver at the top of the division at the end of a season is promoted to the bottom of the next division up. Abort a season by holding down F1 while selecting NEXT RACE. REMEMBER! You are aborting the season, NOT leaving it temporarily!!
Practice Sessions
Use them or die, sucker!!
| Points | Awarded | |
| | Win | 2 points |
| | Best Lap | 1 point |
In the event of a draw at the end of a season, the player with the highest number of won races will be promoted. If that's equal too, a random choice is made! If you retire from a race or wreck your car, you lose. If both players wreck their cars, the first wreck is the loser.
Driver's Championship
Up to eight players can take part in the four racing seasons. Races are conducted by each player racing against the computer.
Access to tracks
Since there is no promotion in multi player, access to tracks higher than division four can only be made by saving games from single player when you have made it to a higher division. If you're good enough to reach division one in single player, you can play those tracks in multi player! Super League tracks can also only be accessed in this way. Remember that if you load higher tracks like this, the computer racers will perform just as they would in those divisions!
Save Game
Player names, positions and points can be saved after each season and loaded back at a later time to continue from that point (also applies in single player). To distinguish between single and multi player saved games, prefix multi player filenames with 'MP'. Once you've loaded a saved game, select 'START SEASON' to continue.
Restart Championship
To restart without having to re-enter everyone's names, select REPLAY. To restart the whole game and return to single/multi player selection, hold down F1 and select REPLAY.
Multi Player Racing Season
Consists of two rounds, one on each track. A round consists of each player racing against a computer car. Usual point rules apply. Bonus points apply like this:
Best lap time (for human players) 1
Best race time (for human players) 2
The computer car's times are ignored.
Quit the Season
Skip the remaining races in a round by holding down F1 while selecting to continue on the next race fixture page. You then go to the end of track bonus points screen. Individual races can be skipped by pressing ESC during the race.
Hall of Fame
Contains the track and lap records and the names of the people who achieved them. These can only be set in a real race, not in practice. Computer cars never get onto the hall of fame, thank goodness.
Save Hall of Fame
Select SAVE and prefix the filename with 'HALL'.
Load Hall of Fame
Select LOAD and select the appropriate filename. If the hall of fame already contains some records, only the better ones in the saved version are loaded. In this way you could load more than one file to combine all the best records.
Load / Save
To go over the filenames again...
Single player anything Hall of Fame HALLanything Multi player MPanything
Suggested filenames are DIV1, DIV2 etc. for different divisions or SDIV1 etc. for super league. Press ESC to abort from saving/loading. NOTE: use a BLANK disk for Stunt Car Racer saves!! You cannot use a disk that already has something else on it!! If you do, you may lose some of the data on that disk!! Do format the disk before you attempt to save to it, though...
Replay
This is effectively an UNDO option if you don't do as well as you expected in a season. Only for cheats and cowards really...
Computerlink Mode
See, it pays having these 16 bit machines! Connect two STs with a null modem lead (as in Populous and Falcon) and load the game on both computers. Select COMPUTERLINK (the first machine to select becomes the MASTER and the other the SLAVE. The master machine does all the selecting from menus.). Now play as in Multi Player League!
If any machine locks up, press F5 to abort the link.
Overtake on straights! Use boost at the start and get as far ahead as you can in case you crash. When leaving a bend, concentrate on the track ahead, not the curve into it. On certain tracks, going as fast as possible is suicide... for example, Stepping Stones and Rollercoaster- go too fast, and you'll go too far over a jump and find yourself going off the track. On the other hand, taking it nice and easy on a track like the High Jump will result in a blob of strawberry jam half way up the support...! In computerlink mode, you can barge the other player off the track by ramming his car. You won't get away without damaging yourself, though! One really flash trick is to crash off the track, and when being lifted back, release yourself from the crane as the other player passes below.
