Cheats

**Cheats** are key combinations that the player can perform during a race or during the main menu to activate various effects.

## Cheats

### ROCKET

This code allows you to obtain 400 points instead of the 300 initially allocated. In the Game Service days, this code couldn't be used.

To use, type ROCKET when adjusting your car's parameters, leave the parameters screen and come back to it to see the result.

### DURAL

Drive any car with the following settings: 150 100 100 100 200.

To use, type DURAL when setting your car parameters.

### CRASH

The effect of the CRASH cheat disables the collision of your car. If on a Multiplayer session, every player has to enable CRASH in order to disable their collision.

To use, type CRASH during the race.

### VALAY

You are able to select the difficulty and damage settings freely.

To use, type VALAY in the options menu, then set the level and damage.

### MAP

To get off to a good start in a race, it's handy to have a map. Type MAP during the race to activate it.

To see your opponents on the map, press F9 (after typing MAP)

### LABEL

See the names of your opponents above each car.

To use, type LABEL during the race.

### RETRO

Activate a rear-view mirror.

To use, type RETRO during the race.

### GARAG

Fixes every car in the race. Doesn't work online.

To use, type GARAG during the race.

### MIROR

Enable Reverse Mode for all tracks.

To use, in POD's main menu, type MIROR. You'll then see the red button pop up.

You can also unlock Reverse Mode by winning a Championship.

### SCRSHOTS

Enable the ability to take screenshots of the game.

To use, type SCRSHOTS at the start of the race, then press Alt + F12 to capture screenshots in "raw format". You can read these files using Adobe Photoshop with raw settings at 640x480, 4 channels, interlaced, 8-bits, 0 byte header. (3DFX only)

### HOLIGAN

Damages every car in the race.

To use, type HOLIGAN during the race.

### CRTL+M

Toggles sound on/off.

To use, press CTRL + M during the race.

### FOX

Turn on headlights on car #

To use, press Backspace, then Tab, then type FOX and enter the number of the opponent you want to enable headlights on (for example <backspace><tab>FOX1).

### NIGHT

Turn on headlights for the PowerVR Version of POD. Fog effect (like on DownTown) is always on.

To use, type NIGHT during the race.

### RASTER / BONZAI

Enables the showing of framerate and the build of the game.

To use, type RASTER (POD 1.0) or BONZAI (POD 2.0), then:

* Hit SHIFT + CRTL + R - This will show you "Images/second = XX.X" means that there are XX.X different pictures that are calculated in one second. When you see 60.0, it means that 60 different images are calculated and displayed in one second.
* Then hit SHIFT + CRTL + R again. This will show you "Frames = XX.X" which is the ratio of the refresh rate of your monitor versus how many images/second you are getting. 1.0 = you are getting one image for every refresh of your screen display (good). > 1.0 means that your graphics card isn't fast enough to give you a unique image for every refresh of your screen (bad). < 1.0 means that your graphics cars is fast enough that some of the images that it makes are actually wasted because it is faster than your screen refresh rate.
* Then hit + and - on your numeric keypad. To make your 3DFX display bigger and smaller. You should see the Frames and Image/second change.
* Then hit SHIFT + CRTL + S. This will show you "Version = x yyy", where x is the POD version number and yyy the build.
* Type SHIFT + CTRL + R or S for the 3rd/2nd time to make the respective info disappear. Unlike "MAP" or "RETRO", "RASTER" stays active, once you have typed it, until you quit POD.

### BROAD

Allows the player to change camera target in Multiplayer, using the 1 through 8 keys.

To use, type BROAD during a Multiplayer race.

### RACE

Allows the player to skip the race and choose their placement on it.

To use, after crossing the starting line, type RACE and the number of the placement you want to be in (for example, RACE1).

## Trivia

* The VALAY cheat references Fabrice Valay, POD's manager. According to UbiSoft's website, this cheat was made for him as he would encounter difficulties in some of the tracks from the game.

## References

1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19971010184459/http://www.ubisoft.fr/pod/FRENCH/

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