GT4 Bugs

[Car-less]

Even the crappy cars act worse than they did before this symptom appeared.
if the game automatically does this after a certain "Time" or "day" to everyone I can under stand it is a "level" thing they programmed but this doesn't seem to be noticeable with anyone else so far so it might be my disc copy. I bought it some time ago but my PS2 wouldn't play it till we cleaned it so I can't take it back unless I do a wally mart trade.

Sounds to me like the problem is with your PS2, disc or controller as it seems to apply to all cars. I am approaching day 6000 in the game and can still get 200 A-spec points per race relatively easy so it is not some sort of 'difficulty level' programmed into the game.

 

[mself61]

we thought it was the controller at first, went and bought a new one and it did the same thing, restarted a whole new game, was kicking butt then all a sudden did the same thing again right out of the blue.

 

[SportWagon]

During pit stops ( pitstops ) when you are actually having your car refueled and tires changed, you cannot see any other cars in the pits where they should be. I know I've read that before, but couldn't find it in this thread. You do hear when the other cars finish ahead of you and drive off.

Further, the other day my B-spec driver happened to start out of the pits just after an opponent, and in the B-spec view you could see the opponent materialize in front of the B-spec driver at the exit of the pits. I actually happened to record that on video.

"Aye Cap'n. I'll beam down a Chaparral for you right away!"

 

[Turbo Lag]

Really cant be bothered reading 35 pages so sorry if someone already said it.
I drove backwards in my STi into the El Captain pits, and I braked to a full stop right under that bridge which is over the finish line. When the car went into the auto-drive thing, it got stuck and after about 10mins, the game finally got the car to turn around and drive out again

 

[MercuryCity]

Found a bug for GT4 (PAL).

I bought the Subaru WRX STI Prodrive Style ('02, I think) from the Late 90's Used Car Lot. I go to have the oil changed. And then something weird happened.

Normally, when you get an oil change, the guy rolls under your car to a certain point, your oil is changed, and then he rolls back out from underneath the front of the car. When he changed the oil on this occasion, he rolled under the front of the car, as he should, and he was still crawling under the car when the oil started getting replaced. He didn't stop. Then, at the end of the change, he gets out from under the car at the Back, not the front as usual.

Anyone else had this problem?

 

[SportWagon]

That's not a bug, that's a feature! Just like how your car faces into the garage when you lose a race or get less than a gold result on a license test. (What routine the oil change guy follows is determined by the drivetrain of the car).

During pit stops ( pitstops ) when you are actually having your car refueled and tires changed, you cannot see any other cars in the pits where they should be. I know I've read that before, but couldn't find it in this thread. You do hear when the other cars finish ahead of you and drive off.

Further, the other day my B-spec driver happened to start out of the pits just after an opponent, and in the B-spec view you could see the opponent materialize in front of the B-spec driver at the exit of the pits. I actually happened to record that on video.

"Aye Cap'n. I'll beam down a Chaparral for you right away!"

I reviewed the video again, and, in fact I was tracking the Chaparral up until my pitstop. So the ghosting appearance was actually fading from the enforced first-place tracking of my car back to the requested second place tracking of the Chaparral. Nonetheless, the Chaparral had not been visible when it did pass me and then leave just in front of my car.

 

[MercuryCity]

That's not a bug, that's a feature! Just like how your car faces into the garage when you lose a race or get less than a gold result on a license test. (What routine the oil change guy follows is determined by the drivetrain of the car).

Yes, but the thing is, my car had its front facing the guy, he crawls under the front, then gets out from underneath the back (not the front, the way he went under in the first place). He crawls right under the whole length of the car without stopping. And the fact that the WRX is a 4WD has nothing to do with it, as the engine is mounted in the front of the car, and only the oil was being changed, not the entire drivetrain (which is impossible to do at GT Auto, let alone in the entire game).

 

[Wolfe]

And the fact that the WRX is a 4WD has nothing to do with it, as the engine is mounted in the front of the car, and only the oil was being changed, not the entire drivetrain (which is impossible to do at GT Auto, let alone in the entire game).

Regardless of the realism of it, AWD/4WD vehicles receive an "end to end" oil change in GT4, as you witnessed. SportWagon's point is that it's intentional -- it's goofy, but not a bug.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Oh, and the other bit? (You can see this with the old Pajero Rally car)

He doesn't crawl constantly. He disappears and then reappears under the car.

 

[MercuryCity]

He doesn't crawl constantly. He disappears and then reappears under the car.

You mean he crawls under the front of the car, stops, disappears, and then reappears when he starts to crawl back out from under the car? He stops and disapears in the middle?

 

[Megasoft Office]

Power and torque given at the settings screen are not consistent with the value given during the replay for most cars.

Tires can 'pierce' through the fender.

AYC device doesn't appear to have any affect on AWD cars with an active centre differential.

 

[Hyst]

This probably isn't a bug, but any pre-1970 car can enter 1000 Miles! in European events, which I think is rather stupid.

The only real bugs that I can think of off the top of my head are Suzuka West's info being 'CRSinfo_West' or something like that, and cars hitting the guardrail on the last turn of the Nurb in the rolling start pre-race.

 

[SportWagon]

Actually, only any pre-1970 Production Car can enter the 1000 Miles! No racing models or rally cars. Or at least, not any cars recognized as such.

 

[Megasoft Office]

The game will crash if you start any event (Practice, Track Meet, Race) with a Nissan Fairlady Z Version ST equipped with an Original turbine. The game will have a heart attack attempting to calculate the car's performance.

 

[C60 JUDD Man]

My game won't register Mission hall race #1 as a victory, which is the only thing preventing me from getting 100% completion. Whats really odd is that it gives me the prize car when I complete the first 10 missions or so...
Is it a glitch or a roblem with the disk?
If anyone else is experiencing this problem please state the conditions.
Thanks.

 

[Austin343]

Yup, you've got an unfortunate bug, caused by not doing mission 1 first. You can use the search button to find out more about it, but basically, you need to start again (and make sure to do mission 1 first!) if you want to officially have 100% completion.

 

[Fluke]

I didnt do mission 1 first, i completed mission 34 first!

But it still lets me complete mission 1, must be a selective thing.

 

[Famine]

No - it's a known bug with the NTSC-U/C version. I'd readily presume you played the PAL version primarily?

 

[Fluke]

Im in england, i think thats pal.

 

[Famine]

As am I, and it is.

NTSC-U/C = USA/Canada
NTSC-J = Japan
PAL = Rest of the World (excluding China, Korea, Hong Kong)

 

[bergauk]

This happened with EVERY car that could win them races, the Subaru is completely unmodified so it should not be any different unless ALL these cars are complete JUNK now because it has 50 more miles on it, I haven't applied a roll cage to ANY car I've got. and this was an immediate change, not a gradual thing that would happen in real life to a car. changed oil, got car wash, waxed and buffed the bugs off the front bumper myself
Even the crappy cars act worse than they did before this symptom appeared.
if the game automatically does this after a certain "Time" or "day" to everyone I can under stand it is a "level" thing they programmed but this doesn't seem to be noticeable with anyone else so far so it might be my disc copy. I bought it some time ago but my PS2 wouldn't play it till we cleaned it so I can't take it back unless I do a wally mart trade.

Sorry to drudge this post up. But I noticed no one ever answered it.

This post makes me laugh. What nobody seemed to point out to him was that he never applied chassi stiffening, OR a roll cage. Thus he drove each and every one of his cars into the ground. It's not his PS2, or the game. It was just him and his negligence to modify his cars and fix the simple problem.

 

[David48]

I don't know if this has been posted yet... or if its even a bug....
For some reason I can't beat one of the opel maufafacturer specific races. All of the ones for the speedster. No matter how many upgrades I get, it always stays a 200pt race. And if it could go higher, it would. Its impossibly hard. On a scale of 1-10 (1 is easy, 10 is hard) this race would be a 10. It always seems like I'm going to win, but when we get to straight sections of the track, they pull away as though they have 300 more hp. I can probably pass them on corners, although just by pure skill. (not trying to be boastful.)

 

[Austin343]

Search! It's not a bug, and you must be using the Turbo version. Get the regular Speedster, it has more or less the same horsepower when fully modified and is much lighter. Add all mods and R4 tires and you should walk over those races.

 

[willis555]

i have seen a weird thing cause i dont think its really a glitch...in some of the dealerships in gt4 there will be the 'blah blah type R' and just the regular 'blah blah'...the 'type R' costs like 5,000 more than the regular 'blah blah' but they both have the same horsepower, torque and everything else
can anyone explain?

 

[I-ROC]

i have seen a weird thing cause i dont think its really a glitch...in some of the dealerships in gt4 there will be the 'blah blah type R' and just the regular 'blah blah'...the 'type R' costs like 5,000 more than the regular 'blah blah' but they both have the same horsepower, torque and everything else
can anyone explain?

It's just a fancy name. People would actually pay more though to get a different add-on to a car name.

 

[Austin343]

Not quite. I think that the Type R will sometimes be lighter, and usually have a stock suspension setup that is more track-ready, versus street-ready for the "normal" version, making it faster if you take it out to the track unmodified. Maybe someone can correct me, though?

 

[Smallhorses]

For a lot of the Japanese "Gentlemen's Agreement" Cars, they'll all show 276HP in the dealer because that's what the Manufacturers agreed not to exceed. However, if you take a new R34 Skyline home, (buy it, in other words!) the you'll find that suddenly it has 330HP.

The other thing to note, is that though many models have the same motor, and therefore HP & Torque figures, the "R" or "Type R" or whichever fancy badge car you're looking at actually weighs less. 💡

Getting more performance out of a vehicle isn't always about increasing power and torque.
Losing some weight is an equally good way to go about it.
Try it. Go rip all the unnecessary interior bits out of your car.
Back seats - gone. Passenger seat - gone. Carpets - gone. etc., etc.
Now you've done nothing to your motor, but your car goes much better!
Alternatively, take a look at a racecar next time you're around a track, see all those creature comforts like fancy electric leather seats? Connolly leather roof lining? Bose speaker system? Nope. All gone to save weight!!!

Your performance model will generally be more expensive because it has e.g. the lighter alloy wheels, the lighter cylinder heads, possibly a carbon fibre bonnet (hood) and other weight saving devices, which cost more to produce than the standard steel parts, and thus the cost is passed on to you in the asking price.

 

[DGXR]

The Honda S2000 LM Race Car has the number 33 on the hood, but the number on the door panels/fenders is 30. No big deal but kinda interesting.

GT4 just removed all the cars from my garage after winning the speedway 150 miles endurance race. And, most unfortunately, I saved the game right away because I don't want to drive that race again. This means, again most unfortunately, that I did not look into my garage before saving to be sure that my cars are still there because I've never had this problem before. Is this a known glitch? If so, can someone point me to the thread?

Finally, who thinks this game is worth playing through again from the very start? I am somewhat concerned that my garage will be "emptied" again and I'll end up smashing my PS2 to itty bitty pieces with a ball-peen.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

The Honda S2000 LM Race Car has the number 33 on the hood, but the number on the door panels/fenders is 30. No big deal but kinda interesting.

GT4 just removed all the cars from my garage after winning the speedway 150 miles endurance race. And, most unfortunately, I saved the game right away because I don't want to drive that race again. This means, again most unfortunately, that I did not look into my garage before saving to be sure that my cars are still there because I've never had this problem before. Is this a known glitch? If so, can someone point me to the thread?

Finally, who thinks this game is worth playing through again from the very start? I am somewhat concerned that my garage will be "emptied" again and I'll end up smashing my PS2 to itty bitty pieces with a ball-peen.

That glitch you're talking about sounds like the same one from GT2, except in GT2, it would wipe out your garage after doing Max Speed tests. No, I never heard of anything happening like this in GT4.

As far as your second question. Yes, it is worth playing thru again, especially if you're a car-lover. My opinion of course.

 

[Lucas]

I'm amazed that, even though I used the search button "Ford Model T", there were no references to the car in this thread.
One of the most known bugs in GT4 is the track breakout you can do with the Ford Model T. Of course, you can break out of tracks using other, yet powerful cars. The ford Model T, which speed tops out at an amazing 82km under normal circumstances, can break out of barriers just by "slamming" into them. One of the main reasons I got 80 golds was this bug: I couldn't wait to test it myself