Ape Escape Gameplay Hints (PSX)

A boisterous band of baboons carry out a daring zoo escape. It's ape anarchy and it's like up to you to stop the chimps before they make chumps out of the human race! The game takes full advantage of the DUAL SHOCK analog controller! Use both analog sticks - rotate, sling and push them down for unequal an revolutionary controller action! Hunt down over 200 unruly apes. Operate great gadgets!. A Tank, a remote control car, a stun club and time net, a sky flyer, a slingshot, a monkey radar and more!. Bonus rounds, mind-twisting mini-games and clock racing time attacks for unbelievable fun.

Ape Escape was the first PlayStation game to fully require the use of both control sticks to play (one needed to purchase a DualShock controller to play this game, as the original PlayStation controller would not work). The right stick is used in many different ways, such as aiming and swinging weapons. Players can have four items equipped at once, on the X, Square, Circle and Triangle face buttons. Unlike some platformers, Ape Escape uses the R buttons to jump. (Wikipedia)

GAMEPLAY HINTS

Keep current lives:
Press Start and select the "Exit" option after falling. The game will resume at Time Station with the same amount of lives.

Rear-view in ski mini-game:
Press L1 + R1 to get a rear-view mirror during the ski mini-game.

Crumbling Castle - Get the gold
Have the magic punch and right when it starts go to magic punch, head left. Jump over the fence, hit the monkey with the punch and catch it. Go over to the monkey to the right before going to the water and get it. Go to the water and enter the passageway. Go to the super hope and get the triangles -- hit the flashing part with the magic punch. Hit the flashing part where you see the monkey and grab it.

Dark Ruins: Secret tunnel
Locate the stop sign in the second stage of the Dark Ruins level. Push it out of the way to find a secret tunnel.

Gladiator Attack - Shortcut
Go to the location where there are the two thin columns. Fall off the right one and keep going forward. Use the Sky Flier and fly across the corner, instead of going the long way.

When at the part where the narrow beams fall into the pit, go to the right and use the Sky Flier to fly over the abyss. From there, jump out of the pit and continue the race. You should now be way ahead of Jake.

Spector's ship
Jump on any pole on the edge, then when he drops a blue bomb and bounces up, swing with Stun Club. Hit him and it get two hits worth.

TV Station
When you fight against Specter's flying thing, wait until he starts dropping the blue bombs. If you stand right next to it, you will not get hurt when it explodes.

Control net
When you cannot quite control your net, get close to a monkey and rotate the Right Analog-stick just like the stun club.

Turbo boost underwater
Go to a level with water. Go into the water and hold R2 to get a turbo boost while underwater.

Double jump
Jump into the air by tapping X. While in the air, tap X again and you will perform a double jump.

Sneaking up on apes
It is easy to sneak up on an ape if you hold L3. Then, use the Right Analog-stick to catch it.


Ape Escape Million Monkeys gameplay below (a more recent game in the series):