Ridge Racer Glitches and Secrets (PSP)

Ridge Racer is a series of arcade racing games developed and published by Namco for both the arcade and various consoles. Ridge Racer uses tracks which take place in the fictional city of Ridge City. The location contains varied landscapes such as cities, beaches, woods and mountains. In some of the earlier games, all of the tracks share the same starting line and finish line, but open or close off different parts of the track to yield a different course. The soundtrack predominantly features fairly up-beat techno music composed by Namco in-house artists.

In the original games for the PlayStation, the opponent racers - except one car, designated as a "rival" driver and displayed on the map as a yellow marker - did not have any 'intelligent' artificial intelligence, but rather, were set to race on a line in a particular track and not break from that line. Different opponents were assigned different waypoints around the track and only deviated from the waypoint when the player interacted with them and forced them off of the waypoint.

Glitches

Playing multiplayer with one game
If you want to play Ridge Racer with other PSP players around you but you only have one copy of Ridge Racer, here's how you can do it:

1.Load up Ridge Racer on PSP number 1.

2.Create a game on Ad Hoc mode and wait in the lobby.

3.Take out the disk and put the game in another PSP, load the game and join the already created game.

4.Then start the game.

5.The PSP screens should now go into a black screen, after 2 or 3 seconds when the PSP stops reading the disk, take it out and put it back in the other PSP.

6.Now it should start to load up the game and after his loading is done and the track is loaded, take out the disk and put it into the other PSP and just wait till it's done loading.

Now you both will be able to play the game in multiplayer mode. This trick can work for more than two players and as the music in the game is read off the disk, only the player with the game inside their PSP will get the music playing in the background.

Secrets

Mirror Mode
When you choose a course in single race or time attack mode, hold Select to play the level in Mirror Mode.

Unlimited Nitrous (Single Race and Time Attack only)

Hold Select and press OK on the Request Confirmation page.

Check out the following video for some gameplay footage: