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          Are you in need of any help, either legitimate or cheating? Then you have come to the right place.
Located here is the SECRETS section that features:
  1. Location of secret parts
  2. Obtaining Human Plus Enhancements
  3. Cheesing your way through the arena

~The SECRETS section~

Limiter Release
This trick is used to give you infinite energy temporarily. After that you are left with none for just as long. The actual time varies with each core. Check the OB Limit stat, higher numbers equal longer times. It is performed by pressing the default OB and both Look buttons at the same time. You'll know if you did it right as an alarm will sound and your energy won't go down when using it. The longest core gets over a minute of unlimited energy. Nice and cheezy if you are playing a 2 minute Vs match. It can also be used to save you from death at the Orbital Ring should you start to fall.
***Warning: The following section contains spoilers.***
Secret Part Locations:
  1. Mission: Escort Train
    Where: Blow up the second to last car of the train, press circle to grab the part. *Note: This causes you to fail the mission.*
  2. Mission: Guard Secret Information
    Where: You will reach a hallway with two doors, one in front of you and one to the left. Grab the head with the highest hacking function (ZHD-8008/S) and take the door to the left. Inside this room there are boxes. Slash up the boxes in the center along the other side. This exposes a grate on the ground. Blow this up and drop down into the small room. Bingo! there's the part.
  3. Mission: Ground Based Attack
    Where: Overboost all the way to the other side of the bridge. Just before it connects to the ground. Drop off the side and fly on the underside of the bridge. There is a secret alcove here in the ground with the part sitting in it.
  4. Mission: Rescue Research Team
    Where: Proceed to the point with the elevator disk and long shaft. Fly over the disk into the shaft. Spaced down the shaft on the floor are colored circles. Find the one about midway down that is a different color. Shoot that one and drop down to claim the new part. **Note: The mission is timed so you might want to boost by the enemies straight to the elevator shaft.
  5. Mission: Infiltrate Radar Base
    Where: At the end of the mission when you reach the radar dishes on the surface. Leave them alone for now and turn to the right instead. Near the end you will see storage sheds with doors (6 total) destroy the doors until you find the one with the part inside.
  6. Mission: Destroy Radar Base
    Where: Same storage shed as before only you start the mission near the part. Grab the part first, then worry about killing the enemies near by.
  7. Mission: Stop the Surface Weapon
    Where: This is a hard timed mission so you must be fast. To make matters worse failure results in a game over. To get the part you must turn right about 45 degrees, jump up and boost over the two giant armed trains. You will barely see the part sitting on the outskirts of the mission area. Grab it(careful not to let the missiles knock you out of the mission, counts as a failure), then turn around and blast the train quickly. Trust me this part is definitely worth the hassle.
  8. Mission: Destroy Containers
    Where: Use your map (press select with certain heads equipped). See that crevass in the ground to the right of where you start. Jump into it and you will see the part sitting behind a big piece of wreckage. Blast it open and the part is yours.
  9. Mission: Underground Railway
    Where: After going down the opening in the railway system wall you will eventually come to a room where you must blast the floor panel to proceed. Instead of going down look up to that blastable panel. You know what to do. Blast the panel and fly up to find the part.
  10. Mission: Zio City Suppression
    Where: All around the outside of this level there are different clumps of buildings that form mini mazes. Boost across the level and look to the right clump of buildings. It is in here that you will find this "out-in-the-open" part. **Note: Make sure to keep moving as the flying enemies will be trying to shoot you the whole time.
  11. Mission: Eliminate Leos Kline
    Where: You will need that head with the highest hacking function (ZHD-8008/S) again. As you go through mined halls you will reach one with two doors. Take the door to the left and grab the final part.
Human Plus Enhancements:

You can get hidden attributes for your mech when you start the game, here is how to do it:
You should first beat the initiation (highway). Then go to the first mission (MT Suppression) and lose on purpose. Continue to do this until you fall below 50,000 credits. At this point you should see an animation with your pilot being experimented on. You can do this several times over to get additional attributes. Please note that once you proceed to a certain point you wont be able to get this cheat anymore for that save file. You also can't get 100% completion if you proceed into the game. That is why I suggest doing this first thing.

Here is what you get each time:
  1. Built in radar with missile display
  2. Throw any laser sword (press O then quickly press X)
  3. Heat Impact Reduction (hits to you only raise your heat by half)
  4. Fire cannon back weapons while moving with any leg type
  5. Half energy drain for boosters and weapons
Arena Cheese:

There are several different ways to cheese your way through the arena.
  • First and foremost is by using either the EAW-DC10 grenade launcher arms or the EWX-VLS241 dual vertical missile launcher. These two weapons are the quickest ways to beating your opponents. They have low ammo, only 18 shots combined, but each shot from either one does an average of 2000 damage.
  • The other way is to go to the Abandoned Highway stage. From where you start turn around and proceed to the corner of the building by the corner of the boundaries. Your alarm should be sounding to let you know you are close to stepping out of bounds. Now position yourself so that your back is facing the out of bounds mark. The computer AC should try to boost around behind you and step out of bounds. Some patience is required.
  • Then there was the way I beat Matthias in my infantile AC2 days. For this method of cheese you must go to Etal Base. You must also adjust your AC's equipment to contain the following parts: FCS should be DOX-ELENA, Right Arm Weapon should be the ZWG-SRF/8, equip the SP-BCNDR capacity increaser. With these items equipped you must use the Hang Gliding technique to fly between the two isolated towers. Let your opponent approach then go to the other tower. In front of one of the towers is a series of "U" shaped bunkers. At long range the enemy will get stuck on these and stop moving. Now safely at your other tower, at a range of about 900 or so, empty the entire 80 shots into the enemy. This should kill almost anyone. If not then use some rockets to finish them off.

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