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Last updated : 7 April 2001 (Australian Time)
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DC's Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 Guide (PC)                        v1.11
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Revision History:

v1.1-Changed the guide to a PC-PSX differences guide.
v1.11-Name change!

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Contents
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1)Introduction
2)Controls
3)New Parks
4)Cheats
)Acknowledgements

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1)Introduction
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There are a few changes in the PC version of THPS2. So this lists
most of the changes; the ones that I have found out about anyway =)
So for a full gap checklist and walkthrough etc., just check out my
THPS2 guide for the PSX.

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2)Controls
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You can set these yourself by going to options and controls. I'm
using the default controls here.

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D-Pad
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Doesn't really need explaining. But down slows you down.

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Space
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Ollie :    Press space to ollie. If you hold down space, you'll
           crouch, and when you let go, you'll ollie. The longer
		   you hold down space, the higher you will ollie.
		   
Nollie:    Hit Num 1 and press Space. It's an ollie that gives you
           points.

Manual:    New to Tony Hawk 2 is the manual. Press Up, Down to do a 
           normal manual, or Down, Up to do a nose manual (I think 
           that's what it's called), but only when both of your 
           wheels are on solid ground. Manuals are extremely useful 
           as you can now chain a whole stack of moves together (e.g 
           manual to kickflip to grind to kickflip to grind to manual
           again). 
		   
No Comply: For those who have played Tony Hawk, this is a nollie.
           Press Up, then Space. Or you can hold Space, tap up, and
           let go of Space.
		   
Boneless:  For those who have played Tony Hawk, this is a Fastplant.
           Press Up, then Up + Space. Or you can hold Space, tap up
           twice, and let go of Space.
		   
Big Drop:  Whenever you get the message "Big Drop", press Space just
           as you hit the ground to prevent yourself from bailing.

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V
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Grind    : When near a rail, curb, edge, or whenever you're near 
           something you can grind, hold V to grind it. You
           can also hold a directional button and press V to
           perform different tricks. The longer you grind, the 
           weaker your balance gets. You'll notice your skater 
           swaying from side to side, so balance him/her by using
           the Left and Right directional buttons. You'll need 
           practice to get your balance right.

Grinds

Up + V         : FS Nosegrind
Up/Right + V   : FS Crooked   \ The position of your board 
Up/Right + V   : FS Overcrook / (normal or switch) depends on 
                                       which one is peformed
Right + V      : FS Tailslide \ The position of your board 
Right + V      : FS Noseslide / (normal or switch) depends on 
                                       which one is peformed
Down/Right + V : BS Feeble    \ The position of your board 
Down/Right + V : BS Smith     / (normal or switch) depends on
                                       which one is peformed
Down + V       : FS 5-0
Down/Left + V  : BS Feeble    \ The position of your board 
Down/Left + V  : BS Smith     / (normal or switch) depends on
                                       which one is peformed
Left + V       : FS Tailslide \ The position of your board 
Left + V       : FS Noseslide / (normal or switch) depends on 
                                       which one is peformed
Up/Left + V    : FS Crooked    \ The position of your board 
Up/Left + V    : FS Overcrook  / (normal or switch) depends on
                                        which one is peformed
Up, Up + V     : FS Bluntside
Down, Down + V : FS Nosebluntside

V                 : FS 50-50
V (at 90 degrees  : FS Boardslide
          to the object)
V (at 180 degrees : FS Lipside
          to the object)		   

Lip Trick: When ever you come up near a lip of any vert object,
           if you hold V and a directional button, your
           skater will perform a lip trick, which is where the
           skater will pause on the lip, performing a handstand, or
           something fancy. Just don't hold too long, otherwise
           you'll just end up falling off.

Wallride : When near a wall, and when you're airborne, hit V
           to perform a wallride. You have to be parallel to the wall
           (or close to parallel)
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C
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Flip Trick : When you hold a directional button and tap C, you
             will perform a flip trick. What's a flip? Where the
             skater will momentarily take his feet off the board
             perform some fancy trick, then land on the board again.
             The skaters most likely to use flip tricks are street
             skaters, as they are quick, but they don't give you
             as many points as you would get from a grab trick. I
             recommend using Flip Tricks only when on the street,
             to add some extra points to those grinds, in between
             manuals, and the like. You shouldn't waste Flip Tricks
             when you're on the halfpipes.
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B
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Grab Trick : When you hold a directional button and tap B, you
             will perform a grab trick. What's a grab? Where the
             skater will grab onto his board, and the longer he can
             keep up in the air whilst holding their board, the more
             points they will score. This is really suited to vert
             skaters, and you'd be a little wacky to think of using
             it on anything/anywhere else other than when you've got
             tons of air. This is great for vert ramps, halfpipes,
             and when you're falling from high surfaces (e.g the
             school roofs, the train tracks, and the insanely high
             half and quarterpipes in Ventura).
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Numpad 7
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Spin : Helpful when doing tricks, hold this to spin. Be careful, 
       overspin and you'll end up bailing.

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Numpad 1
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Nollie/Fakie : Basically an ollie that gives you points.

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Numpad 9
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Spin : Helpful when doing tricks, hold this to spin. Be careful, 
       overspin and you'll end up bailing.

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Numpad 3
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Switch : Switch stances. Check the stance of your skater. If you're
         on switch (the opposite to his/her preffered stance), 
         you'll get more points, but stability is a problem.

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Miscallaneous
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Quick Recovery: When you've just bailed, mash the keypad to get up
                faster.

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3)New Parks
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It really should be called Old parks, as they're from THPS1. To
unlock them, get gold medals in the competition events, and these
will be unlocked in modes other than Career Mode.

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Downhill Jam, Pheonix AZ
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Gaps

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Huge Water Hazard Gap : 1000 Points
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Skate down from the start of the level, and you'll soon see two rails
that are hanging over a river. You have to clear this gap, and land
in the other side of the river. Use the ramp to the left of the
rails to launch over the gap.

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25/50/75/100/125/150/175/200/225/250 Feet : Not Set
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Skate down from the start of the level, keep going forward, down
the halfpipe, and wait until you see a sign that's hanging off a
tall rock. Go up the hill, down onto the kicker ramp, and launch
to the top of the rock. Follow it down into the tunnel, and when it
goes back out again, launch out of it as far as you can. The further
you get, the more points (of course, 250 feet can be achieved by using
Moon Physics).

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Neversoft Elec Co Gap : Not Set
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Skate down from the start of the level, keep going forward, down
the halfpipe, past the sign that's hanging off a tall rock, down and
to the end. On your right you'll see a funbox area, and there's an
area on top of that, with a rail. Use the nearby quarterpipe to get
up there, grind the rail, all the way to the end, then drop off and
land in a grind on the rail near the finish.

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Skate Park, Chicago
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Gaps

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Over The Box : 100 Points
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Clear the funbox here, that's near the big quarterpipe.

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Wall Gap : 100 Points
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When you start the level, you'll see a wall in front of you. Ollie
over the high wall for this transfer.

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Transfer : 200 Points
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Take a look at the big halfpipe, its got a quarterpipe hanging at
the back of it. Air from the quarterpipe to the halfpipe.

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HP Transfer : 250 Points
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Next to the halfpipe is a small quarterpipe, go from that to the
halfpipe.

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Pool Hip : 500 Points
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Notice how the pool has a sort of platform in the middle of it?
Starting in the pool, air over that and land in the other side of 
the pool.

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Pool 2 Walkway : 700 Points
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Get into the pool, get some speed, and then launch onto the
walkway (the raised section that's next to the wall).

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Whoop Gap : 1000 Points
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From the start of the level, turn right, and use the kicker thing
to launch over the rails and landon the kicke ron the other side.

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Acid Drop : 1000 Points
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Get into the pool, get some speed, and then launch onto the
walkway (the raised section that's next to the wall). Then jump back
into the pool but land on one of the sloped sections.

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Light Grind : Not Set
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Use the big quarterpipe to launch up to the light that's hanging off
the rafters, and grind the light.

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Over The Pipe : Not Set
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Use the big quarterpipe to clear the halfpipe and land on the flat
section of it ont he other side.

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Over The Rafters : Not Set
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Use the big quarterpipe to clear the rafters at the top. You'll
need lots of speed.

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Pipe 2 Box Grind : Not Set
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Get into the halfpipe, and then ramp out in the direction of the
low wall(s) that are in fron of you when you start the level, you
have to land in a grind.

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Pool Rail Trans : Not Set
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Head into the pool, and take note of the quarterpipe that's to
the right, behind a set of rails. Go from the pool to the quarter
pipe.

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Rafter Rail : Not Set
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Use the big quarterpipe to launch yourself up to the rafters and
land in a grind.

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Walkway Rail Trans : Not Set
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From the start of the level, head right, past the rails, and use the
quarterpipe to get up to the walkway. From here, jump down to the
rails and land in a grind.

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Warehouse, Woodland Hills
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Kicker Gap : 100 points
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Find the two kickers on the left side of the level, and clear the
gap in between for this transfer.

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Kicker 2 Ledge : 200 Points
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Find the two kickers on the left side of the level, and use one to
get onto the ledge that's near the puddle of water.

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Channel Gap : 250 points
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Go down the rollin at the start of the level, and take note of the
quarterpipes that hang in between. Air from one, over the rollin,
and land on the other one.

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Over the Pipe : 300 points
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Go down the rollin, and clear the halfpipe.

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Taxi Gap : 600 points
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Go down the rollin, past the rail, and get some speed on the back
quarterpipe wall. Use the taxi funbox to launch into the halfpipe.

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Over the Pipe + Secret Room : 1200 points
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Go down the rollin, launch up from the halfpipe, smash through the
secret room, and land safely.

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Big Rail : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and then grind the rail that's in the middle of
the park, all the way.

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Deck 2 Rail : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and when you hit the floor, go left and launch
up to the deck. Get some speed on the quarterpipe that's at the
back of the deck, and then launch from the deck onto a grind on the
rail.

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Face Plant : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and when you hit the floor, go left and launch
yourself all the way up the deck, and smash into the wall at the
back.

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High Rail : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and to the back quarterpipe wall. Get up to the
top and grind the whole rail that's up there.

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Holy Shi... : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and grind the whole of the quarterpipe that's
at the back of the level. Made easier by Perfect Balance =)

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Monster Grind : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and to the back quarterpipe wall. Get up to the
top and grind the whole rail that's up there. Drop down into a grind
on the quarterpipe, then land in a grind on the rail in the middle
of the level.

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Taxi 2 Rail : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and use the taxi funbox to launch yourself onto
a grind on the rail that runs through the middle of the stage.

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Transition Grind : Not Set
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Go down the rollin, and when you hit the floor, go left and launch
yourself all the way up the deck. Then launch yourself onto the ramp
near the wall, and grind it.


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10)Cheats
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THEY ALL INVOLVE PAUSING THE GAME AND HOLDING NUM7. GOT THAT? PAUSE
THE GAME, AND THEN HOLD NUM7 BEFORE ENTERING THE CHEAT. ONCE YOU'RE
DONE, LET GO OF NUM7 AND IF THE SCREEN SHAKES, THE CHEAT WILL WORK.
*********************************************************************

To turn a cheat off, just enter it in again.

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$5000?
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Space Down Left Right Down Left Right

Instant $5000 cash.

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Skip Heats
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C B Right C B Right C B Right

When in competition, enter this to win the heat.

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Moon Physics
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Space C Left Up Down Up C V

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Double Moon Physics
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Left Up Left Up Down Up C V Left Up Left Up Down Up C V

Note : This works in conjunction with the normal Moon Physics cheat,
so if you enter both of them you'll have "Triple Moon Physics".

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Jetpack Mode
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Up Up Up Up Space C Up Up Up Up Space C Up Up Up Up

Space is to float.
V is to hover.
Whenever you ollie up into the air you'll go a VERY high distance
and by holding V you can stay there. It's fun as you can go
out of the park and glitch up the game to the maSpace. Oh yeah you
can also get scores of 800000000 or more with this cheat.

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Stats at 5
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Up C V Up Down

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Stats at 6
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Down C V Up Down

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Stats at 7
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Left C V Up Down

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Stats at 8
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Right C V Up Down

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Stats at 9
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B C V Up Down

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Stats at 10
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Space V B C V Up Down

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Stats at 13
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Space V B Space Space Space C V Up Down

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Get Private Carrera
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Down Up Left Left B Left Up V V Up Right C C Up Space

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Skip to Restart
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C V Right Up Down Up Left C V Right Up Down Up Left B Up Left V

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Kid Mode
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B Up Up Left Left B Up Down C

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Perfect Balance
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Right Up Left C Right Up C V

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Infinite Special
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Space V B B Up Left V C

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90% Unlock
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Space Space Space C V Up Down Left Up C V Space V B Space V B

All movies, skate parks, cheats are unlocked. But Private Carrera is 
still locked.

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Big Head Mode
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C B Up Left Left C Right Up Left

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Wireframe Mode
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Down B Right Up C V

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Slow-Nic
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B Up V C Space V B

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Big Head
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C B Up Left Left C Right Up Left

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Sim Mode
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B Right Up Left V B Right Up Down

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Level Flip
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Up Down Left Right V Space C B Up Down Left Right V Space C B

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Disco Mode
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Down Up C B Up Left Up Space

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Fat Skater
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Space Space Space Space Left Space Space Space Space Left Space Space 
Space Space Left

The more you enter the code, the fatter your skater will get.

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Thin Skater
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Space Space Space Space C Space Space Space Space C Space Space
Space Space C

The more you enter the code, the thinner your skater will get.

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Blood?
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Right Up C V

Turns blood on/off.

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25% Speed Boost
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Down C V Right Up B Down C V Right Up B

Speeds the game up by 25%.

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Finish Career Mode
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B Left Up Right B Left Up Right Space B Left Up Right B Left Up 
Right

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Instant 100000 Competition Points
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C B Right C B Right C B Right

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All Gaps
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Down Up Left Left B Left Up V V Up Right C C Up Space

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All Characters
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C B Right V B Right B V Right C Right Up Up Left Up C

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All Levels
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Up V Right Up C V Right Up Left C C Up B B Up Right

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11)Acknowledgements
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Neversoft- For creating one of the best games ever.

Millencolin - For recording one of the best albums ever.

IGN.com - For the cheats.

THayes - For a WONDERFUL FAQ. Check it out now!

MTruitt - For an innovative FAQ that gave me something to do after
          I got all gaps =)

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