Blast Corps; who has played it?

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I also have received all of the platinums in the game, and without using the Z-trigger trick either. (Z-trigger trick makes some but not all platinums easier to get, some significantly easier)

I remember reading something in a gaming magazine at a store that said no one to date had all of the platinums in the game. Guess who had them? Yep.

Game advice I can give is to master every vehicle. Take every shortcut you can. Cut corners sharply. Remember that as long as you are airborne you will do a lot more damage and usually slice through things. And also know that if you are perfectly lined up perpendicular to the buildings (coming right in to the building perfectly head on) you will slice right through it or be more likely to, whereas if you are just the tiniest amount off you will probably just blacken it a bit and bounce around. Take your time to look around for the shortcuts in levels as well, such as the fake walls in some of the racing levels. Also know about the speed boosts which are necessary to gain the platinums in many of the levels. Press and hold the button right before the third light lights up. In levels without the light, you still hear the boop boop beep and you can still do it in those, right before that last beep.

If you're curious as to the Z-trigger glitch, notice that when you press and hold Z, the man gets out of the vehicle in one direction only (towards the Blast Corps van, actually). Well, put your vehicle right next to any destroyable structure and press and hold Z. You will hear "doh" a few times but then he will get out and no matter how strong the material was, that portion will be destroyed. Get back in your vehicle and do it again. This isn't too useful in most areas as it usually takes significantly longer to destroy buildings this way. Where it is useful is on the extremely strong buildings that otherwise take a lot of effort to take down and especially on the buildings where you otherwise need to cart the TNTs over to if you have to cart the TNTs over a large enough area.

Also there usually is a "correct" vehicle to use when you have a choice of start vehicle although in some cases it is possible to get the platinum with more than one. For example, in many cases you could choose the police car or the fast white car with bad steering and get the platinum. And in at least one case, you can get one particular one with either of those or even the van!

Red car: Average speed. Good startup. Really shines on grassy terrain and best choice to use here. Also small. Good handling so you may want to use this if there are a bunch of turns.

White car: Very fast. Terrible steering (keep it in mind). Grassy terrain absolutely kills the speed on this thing though and makes it run like a slug.

Police car: Fast. Potentially faster or as fast as the white car. Excellent steering. Terrible startup. If you pick this one you absolutely must get the speed boost by pressing before/during the third beep and never get slowed down.

Van: Reasonably fast. Reasonable on grassy terrain. The only one of the "cars" that is decent on rocky terrain/hills.

In most levels you are best off leaving the camera angle as it is but in at least two levels it actually is easier if you (quickly) turn the camera angle at the start for achieving platinum.

Also, in case you didn't know, you can erase your game (to start a new one) by holding Start on the controller before turning the N64 on, then turning it on (while still holding Start) and then it'll ask you if you want to delete your saved game. You would probably know this if you had the instruction manual but I assume many may have bought this second-hand and thus not have the manual. So I am telling you.

The two ground robots are best controlled by first pointing them in the initial direction of movement, then pressing and holding B and never releasing it but instead moving correctly from destroyable object to destroyable object. Sometimes the game lags a bit when using these and that lag can kill a platinum so just try again. Other times maybe you can barely nick something with these guys and it'll destroy. It's best with thunderfist if he nicks something to destroy it and moves on rather than if his fist goes way up in the air (that takes more time).

With the flying robot, try to fly him low to the ground and try to hit the bases of things. The only reason you'd want to fly him higher would be if something is just really high up or if you think you can destroy an entire large building in a single hit. Try to smack everything on the corners (this goes for all other vehicles too by the way). A corner hit does as much damage as a hit anywhere else and if you can, say, hit four pieces of a building on their corners, you'll destroy them all at once.

All vehicles are useful. The dumptruck is a necessary skill to master for completion of all platinums. It is awkward to control. It is very powerful but very awkward. If you get good with it you can throw it in semi-straight lines at things which does major damage. I say semi-straight because it will always curve but for a small distance you can straighten it out a bit.

My favorite vehicle in the game? That would have to be Ramdozer the bulldozer. Second favorite would be the flying robot. Of the cars I like the red car the best (yeah the one that looks and sounds basically like it was taken from Dukes of Hazzard)