License test Hell

[Parnelli Bone]

1. First of all watch the demo. Notice the speed the Corvette is supposed to be travelling at. You'll need to be near this speed to make gold.

2. Switch to manual transmission. You don't have to switch forever, you can jsut do it for license tests if you like. This makes it easier to maintain your speed while not worrying about if the 'Vette will switch gears automatically--which will make you lose time.

3. Start the test in 2nd gear. Rev the engine near or past redline before the test starts. At the beginning of the test (3....2....1...BEEP!) slam the gas. This will get you going with minimal wheelspin (as opposed to with an automatic transmission which starts in 1st gear everytime and is therefore more prone towards wheelspin).

4. Work your way towards the inside of the skidpad. You don't necessarily need to be driving on the red & white grid the whole time, but you don't wanna be too far away from it either.

5. When you get to the optimum speed, you'll need to be drop off the gas a bit and start tapping it. You don't wanna be going too fast or too slow. The entire key to this test is consistency. You need to be consistent with your steering and your gas. You want to be right at the edge of understeer, but you (of course) don't wanna hit the gas too much and risk oversteer. That will mess up your cornering as well.

6. Typically, i like using analog steering (the mushroom stick) but for this particular test, i actually prefer the d-pad for steering. So as you're going around the circle, i find it easier to tap on the d-pad. Analog reacts quicker and is better for racing, but the d-pad is better for "fine tune" steering if you get what i mean.

7. You'll be going aroudn the track 3 times. Notice as you get towards the end of the first lap there's a billboard .....i believe it's a BP advertisement. Look for this billboard because the finish line is just a few meters after this billboard.

8. You'll go round once....twice...as you go aroud the third time, look for that BP billboard (or whatever it is) As soon as you see it, you can start HITTING THE GAS. It doesn't matter if you understeer. It doesn't matter if you head towards the outside of the track...all that matters is you're trying to save time so you can make gold. Once you see the finish line, you can even straighten out your steering and make a dash across the line! (your car will crash after the test is over, but who cares?)

HTH

 

[mattfeeder18]

1. First of all watch the demo. Notice the speed the Corvette is supposed to be travelling at. You'll need to be near this speed to make gold.

2. Switch to manual transmission. You don't have to switch forever, you can jsut do it for license tests if you like. This makes it easier to maintain your speed while not worrying about if the 'Vette will switch gears automatically--which will make you lose time.

3. Start the test in 2nd gear. Rev the engine near or past redline before the test starts. At the beginning of the test (3....2....1...BEEP!) slam the gas. This will get you going with minimal wheelspin (as opposed to with an automatic transmission which starts in 1st gear everytime and is therefore more prone towards wheelspin).

4. Work your way towards the inside of the skidpad. You don't necessarily need to be driving on the red & white grid the whole time, but you don't wanna be too far away from it either.

5. When you get to the optimum speed, you'll need to be drop off the gas a bit and start tapping it. You don't wanna be going too fast or too slow. The entire key to this test is consistency. You need to be consistent with your steering and your gas. You want to be right at the edge of understeer, but you (of course) don't wanna hit the gas too much and risk oversteer. That will mess up your cornering as well.

6. Typically, i like using analog steering (the mushroom stick) but for this particular test, i actually prefer the d-pad for steering. So as you're going around the circle, i find it easier to tap on the d-pad. Analog reacts quicker and is better for racing, but the d-pad is better for "fine tune" steering if you get what i mean.

7. You'll be going aroudn the track 3 times. Notice as you get towards the end of the first lap there's a billboard .....i believe it's a BP advertisement. Look for this billboard because the finish line is just a few meters after this billboard.

8. You'll go round once....twice...as you go aroud the third time, look for that BP billboard (or whatever it is) As soon as you see it, you can start HITTING THE GAS. It doesn't matter if you understeer. It doesn't matter if you head towards the outside of the track...all that matters is you're trying to save time so you can make gold. Once you see the finish line, you can even straighten out your steering and make a dash across the line! (your car will crash after the test is over, but who cares?)

HTH

basically thanks, Parnelli Bone. your advice was the basics to my success. i did add my own little 'thing' but your manual transmission, start in 2nd, and bp advert (you were right! 👍) advice were all great help, so i decided to do that reputation thing to your post. the thing i added in was weird. you need to stay at around 93kmh round the course. however if you start in 2nd, and work upto 93, then switch to third, you can literally hold the d-pad or analog stick to the right whilst tapping the x button. hehe . anyway thanks again, and now im in the ia licenses. only 21 left .

 

[Duke]

One thing that helped me gold these was to start in second gear. The 'Vette has plenty of torque and starting in second helps avoid wheelspin. You can make up a lot of time with a great launch.

After that, just try to keep the car near the inside curb, and really finesse the throttle. You want to hold the steering constant, and speed up or slow down gently to adjust the car's position. Also, when you get to the last quarter circle or so and you can see the finsh line coming up, accelerate and let the car ease wider - once you cross the line, it won't matter if you go off the outside.

Good luck, and thanks for searching up an old thread instead of starting a new one.

[D'oh! Treed by 8 hours!]

 

[mattfeeder18]

thanks Duke. i see you were beaten by Parnelli Bone, but its good advice all the same. + rep also. 👍

 

[Parnelli Bone]

basically thanks, Parnelli Bone. your advice was the basics to my success. i did add my own little 'thing' but your manual transmission, start in 2nd, and bp advert (you were right! 👍) advice were all great help, so i decided to do that reputation thing to your post. the thing i added in was weird. you need to stay at around 93kmh round the course. however if you start in 2nd, and work upto 93, then switch to third, you can literally hold the d-pad or analog stick to the right whilst tapping the x button. hehe . anyway thanks again, and now im in the ia licenses. only 21 left .

Yeah, i was trying to remember if you switch up to 3rd or not. Since i wasn't in front of my PS2, i decided to just let you figure that part out.

One thing that helped me gold these was to start in second gear. The 'Vette has plenty of torque and starting in second helps avoid wheelspin. You can make up a lot of time with a great launch.

After that, just try to keep the car near the inside curb, and really finesse the throttle. You want to hold the steering constant, and speed up or slow down gently to adjust the car's position. Also, when you get to the last quarter circle or so and you can see the finsh line coming up, accelerate and let the car ease wider - once you cross the line, it won't matter if you go off the outside.

Good luck, and thanks for searching up an old thread instead of starting a new one.

[D'oh! Treed by 8 hours!]

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Gotcha!

 

[mattfeeder18]

right. after a few weeks break from the 'test hell' that is gran turismo 3, i decided to continue with my quest.

anyway. guess what. im stuck on the dreaded S-8 test. you all know the one. that stupid wheelspinning toyota gt-one round the course known to many people as 'cote d'azur'. obviously. anyway. and my time is at least 5 seconds or more off the gold time most efforts!

arghhhhh!!!! well just a reminder. i own a PAL version of GT3 and play using a dualshock ps2 controller. none of these steeering wheels. not for me...

any tips or hints? cheers. once ive completed this one last super test i can enter the rally tests, which i have done before so i know i can do them and then the main races on GT3. which i cant wait to get onto. anyway.

cheers.👍

 

[KAMKA-Z]

right. after a few weeks break from the 'test hell' that is gran turismo 3, i decided to continue with my quest.

anyway. guess what. im stuck on the dreaded S-8 test. you all know the one. that stupid wheelspinning toyota gt-one round the course known to many people as 'cote d'azur'. obviously. anyway. and my time is at least 5 seconds or more off the gold time most efforts!

arghhhhh!!!! well just a reminder. i own a PAL version of GT3 and play using a dualshock ps2 controller. none of these steeering wheels. not for me...

any tips or hints? cheers. once ive completed this one last super test i can enter the rally tests, which i have done before so i know i can do them and then the main races on GT3. which i cant wait to get onto. anyway.

cheers.👍

Man, I had a tough time with that one too. Somehow I managed one "Fluke" clean lap that was good enough for bronze and I never looked back. The guys here reccommend using the manual transmission and not dropping below 2nd gear. So the PAL version doesn't have a seperate Rally License?

 

[mattfeeder18]

Man, I had a tough time with that one too. Somehow I managed one "Fluke" clean lap that was good enough for bronze and I never looked back. The guys here reccommend using the manual transmission and not dropping below 2nd gear. So the PAL version doesn't have a seperate Rally License?

nah. in the PAL version they are separate maybe i didnt make it clear. sorry anyway. erm im lookin for gold aswell. anyone actually got gold like with some helpful hints on how to do it.

i mean no offence KAMKA-Z, but you description aint like great. but thanks anyway.👍

cheers

 

[Parnelli Bone]

right. after a few weeks break from the 'test hell' that is gran turismo 3, i decided to continue with my quest.

anyway. guess what. im stuck on the dreaded S-8 test. you all know the one. that stupid wheelspinning toyota gt-one round the course known to many people as 'cote d'azur'. obviously. anyway. and my time is at least 5 seconds or more off the gold time most efforts!

arghhhhh!!!! well just a reminder. i own a PAL version of GT3 and play using a dualshock ps2 controller. none of these steeering wheels. not for me...

any tips or hints? cheers. once ive completed this one last super test i can enter the rally tests, which i have done before so i know i can do them and then the main races on GT3. which i cant wait to get onto. anyway.

cheers.👍

I never tried for gold on this test, but i also remember reading somewhere what KAMKA-Z said..that you should use a manual tranny and don't go below 2nd. Other than this, watch the demo and get the racing lines (the path you take thru the turns) down pat. DON'T FLOOR THE GAS out of turns...instead gradually give it some gas as you leave those tighter turns.

If you have enough money or have won the Toyota, go ahead and take it to Cote d'Azur on cheap tires (i'm not sure what the test car is on) and keep doing laps around Cote.

Like i said, i never did this test for gold, but that's where i'd start if i was serious about it...

 

[Craig_92]

Ahhh B8..........one hell of a test
I just past it at gold this morning.......42.736
Mazda for me

Just keep at it....at the last turn you have to let off the gas on the outside of the tunnel and turn in blindly...but don't hit the inside wall....then just floor it, keeping inside the yellow lines on the road...then curve in a gentle arc to the outside of the 3rd tunnel. You'll get there (I used a wheel and pedals btw)

 

[Super Jamie]

God I hate B-8 so much, I can get awesome times in separate sections, just piecing it all together into one consistent run is so difficult. I missed out on PAL gold by .013 last night!

I'm launching by holding steady at 5-7000rpm, then mashing the accelerator a split second before the buzzer goes. The revs climb but don't hit the limiter, and I grab traction somewhere between 4-6000rpm, which I find is getting me my fastest launches.

I shift up at 8000rpm (not 7500rpm redline) and smoothly turn inside the blue line for the first tunnel. I sometimes drag two wheels over the ripple strip, which can help with turning, depending on my angle of attack, then shift into 3rd once I crest the hill and revs are bouncing near the limiter.

Hard onto brakes and turning for the right-hander, a previous comment about staying in 3rd can be quite helpful, the Skyline has enough torque to pull you out of the corner well, and it helps keep the revs down so you don't spin the wheels too easily. Catch the right angle and there is not even a peep from the tyres. When I turn, I aim for the middle of the inside ripple strip, the idea being to apex the turn on the strip, without going two far inside that the car "hops" on the little hilly part of the road edge.

If all goes well, I am at least one carlength in front of the the demo by this point, sometimes more.

I follow the blue line through the rocks, and make sure I'm turning to the right before reaching the white part. This shifts weight so my off-then-on acceleration through the white doesn't turn a fast-grip turn into a tyre-squealer. This is a deceptively hard corner to get right, and matters so much for the one that follows.

The next big sweeper I'm not so good at. I haven't figured out any specific tips, sometimes I can ace it but I've stuffed up a turn earlier, sometimes I mess up completely and nudge the wall. I can see the line, I just can't drive to it all the time.

As I speed down the last straight, I again shift at 8000rpm, and follow the blue line to the left, which the summary at the start claims is faster than just sticking to the right side of the road.

Maybe I'll get it sometime in the next week. I :censored:ing hate B-8.

 

[Super Jamie]

I got it! 42.795 but I got it. A nice blue MX5 is mine.

Expanding on the above, I ended up switching back to 2nd gear for the first right-hander, using 3rd loses me too much acceleration. The lift-off right-hander I got by pre-empting, and trying to cut inside the blue line, perhaps my reaction time just sucks but that helped me straighten out and accelerate in preparation for max top speed on the next corner.

The last sweeper I have gotten by staying ever-so-slightly to the outside on the white part, which allows you to just miss clipping the end of the tunnel, then just quickly lift off and get back on it to stop any wheelspin and settle you down. Turn left, cross the tunnel, and get ready to receive an MX5!

 

[Thiele]

I'm stuck on B-7 too. I think there is a common denominator here with the jump in difficulty on B-6 to B-7.

I skipped it and tried B-8 but that was too hard too.

 

[QSpec]

I applaud anyone who can get all golds on the freaking licenses on GT3. I had enough and got a gameshark. Problem solved lol.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I applaud anyone who can get all golds on the freaking licenses on GT3. I had enough and got a gameshark. Problem solved lol.

Not really. You've short-cut your way to all golds, perhaps, but haven't solved anything, no offense. Those golds are tough (they're supposed be) but once you get one it becomes a passion to get more. In the process, it makes you a better driver, tho you'll rarely need to drive as ridiculously hard in an actual race as you will for the licenses.

 

[tizocspeed8]

I've gto 27 Golds, and I'm 82.8% complete. I bought GT3 after GT4 because its the only one I hadn't finished yet. I'm actually collecting A-Spec points on GT4 as well, but when that gets too frsutrating I turn to GT3 and the licences, which needless to say can be just as frustrating! Anyhow, I've got all golds on B and A, struggling with the other licneces at the moment, and I foresee a lot of frustration with the Complex String tests

 

[Open Addict]

Better than starting another topic.

DIG

I too have been in hell with the licence's. After Golding B test's. Spending 1 & 1/2 hours doing this. I have not really bothered going for anything other than bronze for the rest. All I have now to do in the licence hall is S1 - S8. I think I'm a little scared from what i have been reading about some of these.

 

[Eric Demory]

I finally got all gold in license B the other day. Last test pissed me off. HA HA, I think what helped me was by listening to "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf over and over again. Winning the prize car would make me happy and I know it was a Mazda Miata but I didn't care. But, when I got the car... I felt depressed. All those hours for NOTHING. GGGRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mm, at least I cleaned out my PS2 today, especially the laser thing, so I can play GT4 again. It works again, I'm...happy

 

[player2]

Better than starting another topic.

DIG

I too have been in hell with the licence's. After Golding B test's. Spending 1 & 1/2 hours doing this. I have not really bothered going for anything other than bronze for the rest. All I have now to do in the licence hall is S1 - S8. I think I'm a little scared from what i have been reading about some of these.

Not to be scared of. The bronze targets are very slack compared to the silver and gold. Make sure to save your best run to memory card so you can load it up at the start of your next session - you can learn a lot from yourself by racing against your own ghost. Tbh, anyone not getting bronze after a few complete runs probably needs this discipline to tighten up their skills. Also, watch the demo with your ghost loaded, to see which corners are hurting you (your ghost appears in the demo run).

Good drivers can beat all of the S-License golds by seconds, and even a driver of modest ability can aspire to all golds. (I should know.)

By not attempting the gold runs, you are denying yourself the second most intense experience and fulfilling sense of satisfaction which GT3 has to offer! (jmho)

 

[COOLfiat]

I get golds in the first tries sometimes.

 

[diehardskier]

All right -- It seems that I've finally found the little corner of the Internet where the GT greats reside. Well, o wise sages, riddle me this --

The most-distributed piece of advice about the license tests is "WATCH THE DEMOS, WATCH THE DEMOS, WATCH THE DEMOS." Well, I've watched the demos--and they don't tell me ANYthing.

Because they all fail the tests. Yeah, the DEMOS.

I watch the actual demo video, and the car goes skidding off the road into the grass, or slams into a wall, or something. In short, the demos are nothing more than a demonstration on how to fail. They never even complete the tests, much less earn Golds on them.

Can someone please explain to me why this is happening? and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Greycap]

Are you by any chance playing GT3 on a PS3? Very similar behaviour can be experienced when GT4 is run on the PS3, apparently something happens a very tiny bit faster or slower and the pre-made inputs go out of sync with the track as the car isn't where it should be at the time of input X. Other than that, no idea.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

All right -- It seems that I've finally found the little corner of the Internet where the GT greats reside. Well, o wise sages, riddle me this --

The most-distributed piece of advice about the license tests is "WATCH THE DEMOS, WATCH THE DEMOS, WATCH THE DEMOS." Well, I've watched the demos--and they don't tell me ANYthing.

Because they all fail the tests. Yeah, the DEMOS.

I watch the actual demo video, and the car goes skidding off the road into the grass, or slams into a wall, or something. In short, the demos are nothing more than a demonstration on how to fail. They never even complete the tests, much less earn Golds on them.

Can someone please explain to me why this is happening? and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, honestly. I don't remember the demo cars ever screwing up like that, which tests specifically do you mean?

You aren't by chance watching your own videos after you've screwed up, are you?

 

[Duke]

You aren't by chance watching your own videos after you've screwed up, are you?

By george, I think he's got it...

 

[Rdp616]

I'm stuck one the B licesense #7 i think, where you go up the hill on Seattle then you make the right at the top of the hill. I just can't get it...

 

[GT_Prologue5]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, honestly. I don't remember the demo cars ever screwing up like that, which tests specifically do you mean?

You aren't by chance watching your own videos after you've screwed up, are you?

That would be very funny...

 

[player2]

I'm stuck one the B licesense #7 i think, where you go up the hill on Seattle then you make the right at the top of the hill. I just can't get it...

Er, sorry rdp616, I think it is one you just have to try and try and try again. When you get it, you won't know what you did differently from the ones where you missed it.

Are you driving with ghost car on? Manual or Auto transmission? I've golded it on both, but never without hundreds of attempts. In manual you can get a little advantage by varying the changeup. If memory serves, it is a little early changeup at one of the jumps up the hill which gets you a few inches ahead.

Anyway, stick at it. Try to be smooth and tight in the right-hander and controlledly wild in the exit. Erm. Yeah. at least it's not as bad as B-8

 

[GT_Prologue5]

Try to be smooth and tight in the right-hander and controlledly wild in the exit.

"Controlledly wild?" Sounds like a hard thing to do

 

[Mike1027]

Seems like after not wining by tenths of seconds you get one that beats it by 1 second!💡💡💡

 

[Pyle_PMG]

I can't get test I-8, the part of the complex string with the circular corners that get smaller and smaller...Tried it 200 times, I had to stop playing and relax.