Cool Boarders 2: Killing Session Cheats and Tips

Okay, when you make a spin when performing a trick, you can spin much faster if you continue holding down the D-Pad in the direction you are spinning in and press Sqaure. You should spin a lot faster. This little trick is great at boosting your overall points for the trick - just know when and how long to use it in order to obtain a perfect 150 points score in Landing.

This also works for misties and flips.

When turning, hold down the D-Pad in the direction you want to turn in, and without removing it, move your thumb so that it's also pushing 'down' on the D-Pad. You'll appear to glide, in a way, around the turning, whilst maintain a speed similar to that which you reach when crouching.

You can't do this when utilising a sharp turn, though. It won't work, and you'll either just lose the speed anyway or not turn quickly and far enough, meaning you hit the wall or fall off the cliff.

Although Jicchi cannot be unlocked, you can change Jin's clothes into a combination that looks similar to the clothes that Jicchi wears. When selecting Jin's jacked, press right once, and select that jacket. Then, when selecting Jin's trousers/pants, press right once and select those. He will now look very similar to Jicchi. Use an Alpine Type 1 board to complete the combination.

Pity Jin sucks, though.

For the record, no characters have clothes that can make them look like Nick or Kelly.

Hard mode on Competition is, as you may have already guessed, much harder. However, there are other notable differences. I will overview everything in this Hint. Here are the differences:

1. Stage 1 - Big Air. Early on, it's not too difficult to score the highest or second-highest amount of total points and start the race in first (or second) place. Provided you manage to do so, you should easily shake off any pursuers and win the following race. Take advantage of this, as later on (from around Round 5 and onwards), there's little chance of you scoring the highest amount of trick points. Boss, Kelly and Irin (and also Yaggi, if, for some reason, you're not playing as him) will be scoring exceptionally high points that you will be hard pressed to score more than. Ice Fang is the easiest Big Air course to score enough points to elevate to first place starting position.

2. Stage 2 - Downhill. You'll need a board at least as fast as All-Around Type 1 to perform well here. Freestyle boards are just too slow. Jin, Irin and Kelly also seem to travel at unnaturally fast speeds (fastest in the aforementioned order) when they're around you, so watch out. If you're not playing as him, Yaggi also does this. In courses such as Take It Easy and Pipeline Canyon, I strongly recommend you use the shortcuts, as they're quite easy to access and really help out a lot.

3. The other boarders are a lot faster in Hard mode and, instead of progressing in the rather robotic fashion that they did in regular Competition, they race more realistically and there's a lot more overtaking. Cindy, and to a slightly lesser extent Jin, often overtake boarders like Irin and Kelly in a race, despite starting in much lower positions due to poorer total trick scores, due to them being much faster. Nick and Jicchi can also accomplish this, and the two are definitely not going to finish 7th and 8th in every course like they do on the normal difficulty. Everyone seems to have no trouble in knocking you over, either. Additionally, in some courses, one particular boarder will always seem to race slightly faster than everyone else (such as Jicchi on Sunset Downhill, and Nick on Winding River).

4. Dive Into The Cave is the final course, so there are ten races overall. Therefore, unlike normal mode where you can get a point total no higher than 81, in Hard mode you can get a total of up to 90 points, although have fun trying to get that many.

The Boarders:

I'll list the boarders and what they are like if you are boarding as them (if you can) or boarding against them.

(1) Yaggi:

Boarding as Yaggi - Yaggi is easily the best of the four boarders you can choose from. He's fast enough, handles perfectly and is excellent at performing tricks. Use an All-Around Type 1 board. He should have no problem landing spins easily with it, so it's great for both tricks and racing.

Boarding against Yaggi - If you want to go for some variety and use one of the other boarders (which is about the only reason why you'd use them over Yaggi), Yaggi is the toughest CPU boarder after Boss, alway scoring a high amount of tricks and usually racing well. He will place in the top three (probably third) by the end of the competition, more often than not. He also races a little faster than he should if you're around him.

(2) Jin:

Boarding as Jin - Jin is the worst of the four characters you can choose from. He's the worst at tricks, but has the highest racing speed. However, he's also terrible at handling, so you'll be bumping into cliffsides and trees more often than with everyone else. Just use an Alpine Type 1 board and try and take over as many people as possible (it's easy to take over everyone with Jin on some of the easier courses), as later on in the competition Jin won't be beating anyone else in terms of trick scores anyway, unless they miss.

Boarding against Jin..