Worried about missing out on the pre-order bonus cars offered with Gran Turismo PSP? Don’t fret – you can still play this fun little mini-game to claim a free Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren! It’s simple: work your way through 8 different GT-themed challenges, score enough points along the way to earn the car, enter your email address, and wait for a PSN voucher code to hit your Inbox. A few caveats and unknowns:
- The United States is not shown in the country selection screen. Although it is unlikely these generated codes (and yes, they are unique for each email address) will be tied to a specific region, there is no way to know for sure until the game is released. For now, I recommend U.S. visitors select the United Kingdom as an alternative.
- The email address form has trouble with international keyboard layouts – if it’s giving you trouble, type in your address somewhere else, then copy/paste it into the game.
Thanks to CaptCalvin for digging this up! Remember, the game hits store shelves this Thursday, October 1st. When you get your hands on a copy, head over to GTPlanet’s Gran Turismo PSP forum to share your thoughts and impressions!
it never asks me for my e-mail even though i get 3600 points. can anyone help
I got the code, but it says that the code is no longer valid. What’s up with that?
ever time it ask for my email it says it cant connect to a server
error not in the game in my memory stick’s game part only not in the game
Hello all
i win the car, receive the code, download the car from PSN.
Then i got in my PSP in the game. But cannot use it ?
How can i do please ?
thx, ab
The car given away is the same that is part of Qore Episode 17 in the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if the code is region locked. You may have to redeem the code with a EU Store account on your PS3 and download it. Then login to the US account for the PSP transfer to make it work. Note this may or may not work, but just a theory to get the car code activated for those in the states.
nope not working. tried 3 diff codes. all says same thing.. -_-
Anyone in the US able to use the code provided?
I alway get Server cannot be contacted if I choose Australia, so I chose the UK as the country, went through first time, code works fine.
my code don’t seem to work, prob cause i’m running US account/game. Here it is for anyone one in EU:
BCA2-PRB7-67F8
GT PSP is awesome, best couple of bus trips I’ve had in a long time… probably wouldn’t sit down at home to play, but I’m going to hook it up to my TV just out of curiosity.
I can’t get the car as I get the “can’t connect to server” error message as well.
I have blitzed the tests every time… the car sounds are the hardest for me, followed by the reflex test.
Just won of the SLR’s in that game it took me 3 attempts but the questions seem to repeat themself’s alot just in different orders so I was able to remember the questions
Correction Please:
You start out with 100,000 Cr.
I already got the game yesterday night September 30th 2009.
Thoughts?
Controls: You will forget that your playing a PSP.
Grapgics: Not bad at all, especially when you remember you are playing on a PSP.
Soundz: Now that’s a different story. PSP sound… No base… all trebel.
Game Play: I currently have more than 350 thousand Credits as you start of with 100 Cr.
you can buy any car you want depending on current dealership of 4 companies every 2 days interval. Meaning the dealership changes every 2 days. One day means one race. 2 races means 2 days. Havent seen Ferrari yet Lamborgini appeared around day 3-6, but you can’t buy it anyway. Currently I’m listing the days on what dealers appeared. I made an experiment, I put the game on Manual Save. I bought a car then race with it then quit the game (Turned it off) without saving. Then came back started the game the dealership appearede on the same corresponding days. As of this early stage of the game, I can temporarily conclude that the dealership is NOT Random. And it is a cycle i believe.
PS. Customization wise, it’s the same with Prologue. You can change wheels,but not the rim. You can change the color of the car but No. Vinyl upgrade. You can Tweak but no engine parts upgrade. This game is more suitable for when you’re just killing time on a bus to the office. We’ll get the “Proper Game” when GT5 comes out I hope.
Expectations: Reached, but that’s not it… looking forward to buyin’ the Ferrari.
Thanks for reading.
Region: Taiwan Sept. 30th, 2009
~Team Viper
hi you guys i got GranTurismo PSP this morning not bad at all the driver experience is like gt5p it simulator so yeah but anything to special about it i give it 7/10
Cool
wicked it works good, got the redeem code just waitin till the shops open to get my new PSP GO gt mobile and a SLR..
http://eu.gran-turismo.com/au/products/gtpsp/skills/
try this if your screens moving sorted mine out
GTPSP in8.5 hours
I got one but I think it will end up like the Ferrari Challenge or whatever their new game is beta code from before. And since I don’t have a EU PSN I don’t think it’s going to work.
YES i got 2 :-) Gonna keep one and sell the other when gt5 somes out for some extra $$$
well, I tried it 4 times, got it 4 times on 4 different email-accounts and I got 4 different e-mails that are INCOMPLETE . I got not one code . what the hell is this? . wndwlckr
im not going to worry about that challenge because i ready pre-order from EBgames and im going to get a special code to unlock the ferrari enzo going to get GranTurismo PSP nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww can’t wait to get it today is 8.18am in the morning for australia haaaaaaaaaaa
I assume the European online ads give you a voucher that works with the European version of the game. The games are region coded, so I doubt it will work with US versions of the game
The red SLR McLaren is available in the US as well:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/09/qore-episode-17-featuring-ratchet-clank-future-a-crack-in-time-eyepet-blur-and-borderlands/
That was hyper lame. I’m glad it doesn’t matter to me.
@viejaloca
With the pre-order code you get the car right away, no need to save up enough credits, and you get a special color that is otherwise not available in the game. So if you want one of those cars right away, or just have to have a Lambo that matches the color of your shag carpet, you should pre-order.
@david
I figured out its my computer thats the problem.
So simple… Not unless your computer hates you.
This game is the only one giving me problems on my computer, when I press the arrow keys on the first challenge, THE WHOLE WINDOW MOVES, and I can’t see didles*it! Then the timer goes as normal, but everything else in the flash runs slow (WHO THE HELL CAME UP WITH THAT REACTION TEST, WHAT’S THE HIGH SCORE AREA?!?!). Then I needed that last 100 points to just touch that blue line, and when I was just about to press Japan (had 3 secs left), my mouse moves to the corner of the screen and freezes!!! AAAARRRRGGGHH!
At least I’ll still get my Bugatti for pre-order :D
So let me get this straight: The Citroen GT, GTR, Lambo and Buggatti are only available if you preorder?
Minigames were fun…
Got a code – it expires in just over a month though…
C.
YES i WIN THE CAR !!!!!!!!!
I only needed PSP and game !!!
I don’t think that it will work for any US PSN ID’s. I played it, got my code, and when I was going to redeem it, it said that the code was invalid. Oh well,
i beat the game but after 30 mins i still don’t have a code!?!
@david
Yep, me too. Seems I can’t redeem the code on my US PSN account.
Yay, picked up a code.. now will I pick up the game?
yaaay nice
My biggest problem was with matching the engine sounds with the cars, 0 points! I got the code, I hope it works in the US. I wonder if you get this, and a code for pre-ordering if they both will work?
I ended up going directly to the EU GT site and got it to work just fine.
I’ll have my shiny new SLR (on my shiny new PSP Go running shiny new GT PSP) tomorrow. Thanks as always for the post!
@Sam, its not that hard it only took 2/3 tries for me
and does anyone else from the us have problem getting the car?
cause i tired and it said either entered incorrectly(which it isn’t)
or it may no longer be valid.
When I try to submit my e-mail address it keeps telling me “Sorry. There was a problem with connecting to the server. Please try again”
Has the game been over loaded?
Has anyone else had this problem?
better but when you do the first race the cursor keys make the page move so you can see.
Ahh my Red SLR is waiting for me, i can;t wait until tomorrow :) After a few tries i’m sure anyone can get it.
Why is there Luxemburg twice?
If your not getting GT PSP, don’t play that game! It’s the most frustrating thing i’ve ever done!
How do you stop your browser from moving the webpage up and down? When I press the arrows keys the page moves up and down so I can’t see the game.
wth, problem with connecting sever?
just using the arrows of your keyboard.
Yes, I won one…
hope the game is available tomorrow in belgium too.
can’t even do the first one….how do you accelerate??????
Those of you who had trouble retrieving the code, try again – the issue with the white text is fixed now.
i won but was unable to retrive the code???????????????????????
did you get a code?
Shit seems kinda broken though, last page when you win has white text on a white background, can’t see shit. And most of the trivia questions cannot be read for the same reason… then no instructions on half the games… took three tries to realize I needed to hit spacebar to shift gears on the gear shift test.
i did it and won but could not retrive the code.
:P I got two codes for myself just in case :P
Car has been redeemed and I’ll have the game tomorrow – w00t!!
It comes out tommorow!!!!!!
There doesn’t appear to be any limit, JohnC.
How many free codes are there?
Is there a limit to the amount of people who can play to get a free car?
o rly?
Cool.