Battle Mode Health Code | Updated 02 Jul |
| In Mount Mahyem, drive untill you first reach the snow. Jump off the first ramp then follow the path straight. When you get to the jump to go down to the normal route, turn left off it and try to land on the big snow area. Turn around and drive up, look for a box and hit it. |
Cheat Menu | Updated 02 Jul |
| Go to 1 player mode and select "Championship". Race on Coventry Cove and find the shortcut with the barn and 2 haypiles. Run straight into the the haypile closest to the road and you should hit a box. You will here someone say "Groovy!" if you hit it. Finish the race and go to "Options". There will be an option called "Cheats" now. |
Get A Jump Start | Updated 02 Jul |
| To get a jump start, wait until the race is about to start. When it says "GO" imediately press L (the one at the top of the controller) to transport you to the same spot and you'll already be going 40-50 M.P.H.! This can be very helpful when trying to get ahead right away. Pressing L when racing is very useful too. Use it when you fall off a ledge before you blow up to save a lot of time or, when grabbing something way out of the way. |
Get The Alien Beetle | Updated 02 Jul |
| To get the "I come in peace" Alien Beetle, beat the Expert Championship. Once you have completed Metro Madness, you will receive the super-fast rainbow-colored beetle. |
Get The Police Beetle | Updated 02 Jul |
| In a nod to the Need for Speed franchise, EA has included a hidden Police Beetle in Beetle Adventure Racing -- but you'll have to work hard to get it. After beating the standard Championships, a new "Bonus" mode will open up. Beat this tough challenge (including Wicked Woods) to get the fastest car in the game, the Police Beetle. |
Handicap Mode | Updated 02 Jul |
| In Coventry Cove, go over the small wooden drawbridge towards the beginning of the course. Just after the drawbridge and before the crane is a white stone fence on the left. Follow the fence until you see a hole in it. Go through the hole in Championship mode to find a flower crate. This crate unlocks "Handicap - Two Player" on the cheat menu, allowing you to adjust the handicap to Off, Slow, Normal, Fast, or Insane. |
Ladybug Color Change | Updated 02 Jul |
| In Inferno Isle, if you go to the first shortcut on the right you will go into a cave. When you get to the open part of the cave where the bridge is, go off the bridge and land on the house, smashing it. Immediately slam on your brakes and stop. Look aroung on the platform and you will see a flower box that will open up a new cheat that will change the pace at which the ladybugs change color in beetle battle. |
Major Shortcut In Sunset Sands | Updated 02 Jul |
For a HUGE shortcut in the sunset sands track, follow the instructions below. In the sunset sands track, drive untill you can see the first sets of vertical pillars, (they are not the natural rock ones in the canyon, they appear when out on the open desert) SLOW DOWN, there will be a path off to the left. Drive down this path and follow it making sure you make it across all the jumps. You will now be in a greenish room, go through the set of round stone "gates" and this will open up a HUGE jump in the room with "glassy" floors.
Follow the road you are on untill you reach this room, then hit a nitro box and hit the jump STRAIGHT on. You will jump onto a platform and there will be another jump in front of you, hit this then when you land, HIT THE BRAKES!! Continue on slowly and when you are on top of a red circle stop, and honk your horn. This will act as an elevator and wil breing you down to an underground track and it will bring you way out in front. |
Make Cars Pull Over | Updated 02 Jul |
| Beetle Adventure Racing's computer drivers may take shortcuts and crash into you, but they're still law-abiding drivers. Once you have unlocked the Police Beetle, hold down the left C Button to sound your siren. If you get close, the other drivers will pull over to the side and stop their cars. |
Music Test | Updated 02 Jul |
| To unlock the music test cheat, race in championship mode in Mount Mayhem. After driving for a while you come up to a big cave where there are passageways on either side of a hill leading up to another cave. Go up one of these paths and accelerate to over 115mph to fly through the tunnel. You should land in another tunnel which later forks into two ways. Take the right one and after the bridge make a stop and turn left. The daisy box is in the snow. |
No Map In Battle Mode | Updated 02 Jul |
| On the Conventry Cove stage, the area where you there are arrows pointing right. Hang a quick left and you will jump and grab a box worth five points. Your car will then land on an island with stone fixtures. Up ahead you can see a ramp with a box worth two points. Behind the fixture on the left,(if you're going too fast you will miss it)you will find a flower box. Crash through the flower box and make your way to the end of the stage to unlock the code to turn off the map in battle mode. |
Open Up Battle Stages | Updated 02 Jul |
Most of the game's Beetle Battle stages are hidden and have to be unlocked before you can square off against your friends.
In order to get them, you need to enter the Championship mode and try to smash all the bonus boxes on the respective tracks. You have to collect all 100 points to unlock a new battle stage. All the battle stages are directly based on their track counterparts. Note that it is not necessary that you come in first in the races, but your points are not counted if you are disqualified.
Tip: Use the Police Beetle to get the tracks. It's fast -- and you can force cars to pull over and take your time to collect the boxes. |
Time Limits In Beetle Battle | Updated 02 Jul |
| To activate the Time limits cheat in the Beetle Battle cheat menu, race on Inferno Isle until you get to the burning village, right in front of the finish line is a small path leading to the left. Ram the house on that path and grab the crate, and you'll add another cheat to the cheat menu. |
Unlock New Cars | Updated 02 Jul |
| To unlock variations of the New Beetle, such as the Racing Beetle, 4x4 Beetle and "Number 8," simply beat the Championship Mode on Novice and Advanced. Beat the following two difficulty modes for the two bonus cars. |
View Mode | Updated 02 Jul |
| To activate the "VIEW MODE" cheat on the cheat menu, go to Inferno Isle. in the area that looks like a village, on the right side of the road is a house with a flat-looking roof. jump your beetle at an angle and land on the roof. then go into reverse and break the Daisy Crate hidden there to activate the View Mode cheat under options. you will be able to select Normal, Fisheye and Tunnel view modes. |
Daisy Boxes In Sunset Sands | Updated 02 Jul |
Box #1: At the start line drive to along the right side of course and up a small hill to find box 1.
Box #2: After the first jump across river, take the first short-cut on the left side of road after passing the right-hand turn sign, and at the first stone pillar to the right. Follow shortcut across the two jumps and as soon as you land inside area with the ramp that leads into temple, drive to the far right hand corner to find the box.
Box #3: Drive along road until you come to the first village, take the shortcut on the right side and drive to the crossroad section and turn to the left you will see some boxes under an overhang; the daisey box is just behind the wooden crates. |
Unlock Boxes | Updated 05 Sep |
| This tip unlocks the ? options box on 2 Player Battle Mode (use cheat mode to access). Head round the coventry cove course, just past one of the bridges, is a jump to the left, jump over in to a look-a-like-stonehenge, next to one of the big stones, is another 'groovy' box, this will unlock the ? box in player 2 battle mode. |
Fisheye Mist And Flip | Updated 13 Jul |
| In Coventry Cove there is a jump in the game just before you reach the mine shortcut and after you come out of the tunnel and start going around the turn. Jump off this ramp to an island that has stonehenge like structures on it. There is a cheat crate behind on of the back structures. Hit it and you will be able to choose between fisheye, mist, or flip using the cheat menu! |
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