RAY TRACERS
Official Title  Ray Tracers
Common Title  Ray Tracers
Serial Number(s)  SCES-00741
Region  PAL
Genre / Style  Racing 

Developer  Taito Corporation.
Publisher  Sony Computer Entertainment.
Date Released  10 September 1997
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SCES-00741
Serial Number In Disc SCES-00741
Media Disc ID N / A
Number Of Tracks 1
( 1 Data Track )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
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( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc 538 MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
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( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
Barcode Number(s)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
  •  711719669029  - 
     

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English
Menus and gameplay are in English.

Ray Tracers is an arcade styled combat racer that runs through checkpoint courses. The game features three large, distinctly themed levels. Points are awarded for destroying nearly any on-screen object, including scenery as well as other cars. Powerful end bosses pose the greatest challenges in each level. Players can select from four high-performance vehicles. The storyline and art style have a strong anime influence.

Ray Tracers is an arcade racing game where you have crash into others cars to destroy them. It is a spiritual successor to Chase H.Q. with some differences like a nitro boost system, four cars to choose from and more variety in end bosses.

You can choose Chase or Time Attack mode:
- Chase is arcade mode, where you have to go through several missions, ram into other traffic for extra points and fight end bosses. The bosses include high speed dual tanks, a helicopter and other military vehicles.
- In Time Attack mode you try to set the best lap time on one of four selectable courses, with or without a computer controlled rival.

You can choose from 4 cars, Spanker, Buffalo, Lynx, Hawk. Each of the cars vary in attack power, top speed, acceleration and steering agility.

In "Ray Tracers," players speed through six courses, including sewers, underground tunnels, treacherous canyons and grassy retreats, crashing into any vehicle that gets in their way. While building up points, gamers must also race through tricky courses, saving enough time to beat clever bosses waiting at every turn.

STORY:
At the end of the century in a coastal town in a great country was built a futuristic city that operated under perfect control system. The first phase of city development should be completed to coincide with the completion of Vestal, a biocomputer in the middle of it.

However, the day he completed the creation of Vestal, a mysterious explosion occurred in the city, destroying everything. A few years later, the city was rebuilt and renamed the Rain City. We used the best technology for the reconstruction of the new city, which then came to represent a role model for other futuristic cities. The fate of the city, as had been originally planned, was about to come true ... until they came.

They called themself Black Kaiser a band of armed riders equipped with six cars, whose leader is Kaiser.And proclamed themself the new rulers and devastated the city. All their machines were engraved the name of Vestal in the body.

The story focuses on Cindy Gibson. His father was one of the scientists of the project in the city, and she is sure that the explosion in the research center of the futuristic city was a betrayal by one of the companions of his father. This fellow sold Vestal to Heldin a criminal organization as a military weapon.

Cindy was adopted by the Gibson family, and during all these years only expected one thing: the opportunity to avenge the death of his father. The legacy that he left to her was four racing cars.

Now Cindy has created the Tracer, with the top four drivers who managed to find. You are about to begin the real battle for the truth.

CHARACTERS:
- Cindy Gibson: Cindy is the leader of the Tracer team and the voice you hear on the radio.
- Jalta Lang: The driver of the Spanker he race agains Sleoteel Raze on a mountain race.He destroy his car and agree to join the Tracer team
- Sleoteel Raze: The Black Kaiser's kidnapped his girlfriend Maki Saitoh and agree to join the Tracer to rescue her.He is the driver of the Hawk.
- Asuka Saitok: He is a race driver and the brother of Maki Saitoh and agree to join the Tracer team because Cindy saves his cat Shin when The Black Kaiser's tried to kill him.
- Raymond Bloody: The only ting that he knows is fight.He spent most of his life enter and exiting jail.Cindy gets him out of the jail and now he works for her.He drives the Buffalo.
- Maki Saitoh: She is the sister of Asuka and a race driver. She drives the Vestal.
- Kaiser: The leader of the Black Kaiser.He drives the B-Vestal

  Manufacturer's description:

DEFENSIVE DRIVERS NEED NOT APPLY...

The Tracer Team is looking for a few good drivers. Don't get the wrong idea, though. In Ray Tracers a "good driver" always exceeds 150 mph, crashes into everything possible and uses up nitro boosters like they're going out of style. so, have you got what it takes?

* A Blistering Frame Rate for 100% Pure Adrenaline Action
* A Garage Full of the Hottest Hot-Rods to Choose From
* Menacing Mechanized Foes Who Will Stop At Nothing to Destroy You

A futuristic city is terrorised by Black Kaiser, an armed racer gang. Cindy Gibson believes the gang were responsible for her father's death and she wants revenge. Inheriting her father's awesome racing cars, Cindy creates Ray Tracers and recruits the best racers she can find. Now the real battle begins in a search for the truth! Created in the best anime traditions, Ray Tracers is instantly addictive and immensly playable. Varied scenery, tunnels, dips, sudden drops and obstuctions just begging for you to decimate! The monster-fast, explosive arcade smash from Taito - Ray Tracers.

  Features:
  • Third or First person perspectives.
  • 3D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • SCI-FI & Futuristic themes.
Number Of Players  1 Player
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  1 Block
Compatible Controllers Tested
( Official Gamepads Only )
 Standard Controller ( Digital Controller compatible only )
Compatible Light Guns
( Official Light Guns Only )
 None
Other Compatible Controllers
( Official Controllers Only )
 Namco NeGcon [SLEH-0003]
Special Controllers Included Or
Supported ( Official Only )
 None
Vibration Function Compatible  No
Multi-Tap Function Compatible  No
Link Cable Function Compatibile  No
Emulator  ePSXe v.1.7.0
Video Plugin  Pete's OpenGL Driver v2.9 ( internal X & Internal Y= Very High, Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size, render Mode: 2 (Use framebuffer object) text filt = 2 FPS limit= 53, Compatibility=2,3,2; Shader effects= 1 (Fullscreen smoothin))
Audio Plugin  ePSXe SPU Core v.1.7.0
CD-ROM Plugin  ePSXe Cdrom plugin
Game Pad Plugin  N / A
Vibration Compatible  The game doesn't have it (Digital only).
Console Bios Used  SCPH7502

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
  Steer:  D-Pad
  Nitro:  Circle Button
  Accelerate:  X Button
  Brake:  Square Button
  Change view:  Triangle Button
  Shift Down:  L1 Button
  Shift Up:  R1 Button
  Rear view mirror on/off:  R2 Button
  Pause game:  Start Button
 

GAMESHARK CODES:
  Infinite Time -  
80058378 05DC
 
  Infinite Nitro -  
80057F3C 03B6
 
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 NTSC-J:
  • Ray Tracers [SCPS-45010]  - 
     
  • Ray Tracers [SLPS-00098]  - 
     
 NTSC-U:
  • Ray Tracers [SLUS-00534]  - 
     

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