Micro Machines
Released: 1993
Players: 2 (Versus)
Type: Licensed
Developer: CodeMasters
It's miniature mayhem! Race micro cars, choppers, boats, tanks and formula one! Whiz around the spectacular scale mini tracks. Can you handle sand pits, pool tables and school desk courses? It's excellent!
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Micro Machines Cheats, Hints, Tips and Walkthroughs
Practice Mode
At the title screen, press UP,BUTTON2,DOWN,BUTTON2,BUTTON2,LEFT,BUTTON2,BUTTON2,BUTTON2. You can select any course to race, but after finishing it, you will go back to the title screen.
Hard mode
At the title screen, press UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT,BUTTON2,UP to activate Hard mode, in which your car skids more.
Rock hard mode
At the title screen, press UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT,BUTTON2,UP,UP,BUTTON2,UP to activate Rock hard mode, which causes your car to skid a lot more.
Super skid
Go to the honey puddle in the centre of the table on the "The Breakfast Bends" track and press BUTTON1+BUTTON2. A sound will confirm the code. This will cause your car to skid more (similar to hard mode).
Faster vehicles
On the qualifying race, get well ahead of the pack and then stop just before the finishing line, turn around, and hold BUTTON2 to reverse over the finishing line in first place. A sound will play if you do it right. Now all your vehicles will be faster.
Explosive opponents
On the first race ("The Breakfast Bends") stop your car at the top left corner of the table and press BUTTON1+BUTTON2. A sound will play if you do it right. This makes your opponents explode when they touch you.
Infinite lives
On the first race ("The Breakfast Bends"), drive off the bottom right corner of the table forwards. A sound will play if you do it right. This gives you infinite lives - although they don't show they are infinite if you lose that race.
Easier opponents
On the first race ("The Breakfast Bends"), drive off the top right corner of the table backwards. A sound will play if you do it right. This makes your opponents' cars slower.
Always finish in first place
Start the Breakfast Bends level as usual. When the round starts, turn around and race the lap backwards (ie. anticlockwise, not in reverse). When you cross the finish line you will hear a sound to indicate the code has worked. Whatever happens, you will now finish every race in first place.
Micro Machines Trivia
Hardware Trivia
This and a few other CodeMaster games are some of the only titles for the Sega Master System that feature a 256x224 resolution instead of the normal 256x192 resolution. The downside to this increased resolution is that it was only supported on the Sega Master System 2 console and didn't work on most of the original ones. Also due to the internal tables increasing to accommodate the bigger resolution, less space was available for graphics data meaning less unique tiles could be displayed at once.
Cartridge Trivia
Many of the CodeMaster games used a different onboard mapper instead of the usual Sega one. Whether this was to save costs or for other reasons is unknown.
Interesting bug
In two-player mode, on the pool table tracks, try reversing, or being pushed by a collision, into some of the pockets. Sometimes you can get weird effects, including removing the speed limiter on your car - you just keep accelerating until the game crashes - but in one-player-mode the effect is generally bad.
Are emulators like RetroCopy breaking the law?
No! The cold hard facts are there are numerous laws in place that make emulators 100% legal - as they should be! In the past a few companies have unsuccessfully threatened and taken other companies that have made emulators to court , trying to bully them out of their way. They have always lost because it is illegal to force a monopoly.
The only gray area in regards to emulators are when people pirate the games to use in emulators.
However in this day and age you can cheaply and easily buy the original games online (EBAY) or at markets and legally use them in emulators.
Not only that but there are also plenty of 100% free software/games (homebrew) available.
Some companies may want you to believe you have to keep buying the same game over and over again to legally play it but this is not true. These companies are laughing all the way to the bank as they slug their loyal fans multiple times for the exact same product.
How do I play this game in RetroCopy?
If you already own the original cartridge/disk/etc then you can look to Download Micro Machines
If you purchase it on Wii Virtual Console (VC) or XBOX Live Arcade (XBLA) you can still legally download it. The reason for this is due to laws which allow you to backup software that you purchase.
Is this game available on Wii Virtual Console?
If you want to play classic games you should choose the most accurate emulator available to ensure you get an authentic experience.
In this case RetroCopy is a lot more accurate than Virtual Console so we recommend using RetroCopy when you can.