How to Reset Your Game

After competing a run, sometimes it is necessary to reset the game to do another run.  Here's how.

1) Navigate to your "*Need For Madness*" folder 

2) Open the folder labeled "*Data*" in the "*Need For Madness*" folder

3) Find the file "*user.data*"

4) Right-click the file, choose "*Open with...*" and choose *Notepad*

5) You should see a line that says "NFM1(x,y)."  The 'x' will be a number from 0-9, and the 'y' will be a number from 1-11. Change the line to "NFM1(1,1)" and save the file.  Your NFM1 game will be reset. 

**__Extra info:__**[spoiler]
The 'x' represents the car you have unlocked.  If 'x' = 0, then your car is Tornado Shark and you haven't unlocked any; if 'x' = 9, then your car is DR Monstaa and you have unlocked everyone.  The 'y' represents what stage you have unlocked.  If 'y' = 1, then you haven't unlocked any stages; if 'y' = 11, then you have unlocked all the stages.  You can change these values to practice certain stages without having to rerun the whole game.  For example, "NFM1(7,7)" lets you practice Stage 7 up to EL KING.  This can be useful, because if you complete the whole game and go back to practice, you will get strong cars in stages where they don't normally appear.[/spoiler]

How to use Aerial Bouncing to your advantage!

This guide is to discuss Aerial Boosting and Bouncing, and how you, the runner of this game, can use it to your advantage to get a better time on any stage you're on.

1. What is Aerial Boosting?
- Aerial Boosting is a trick used by the NFMM community to get the edge on their opponents that can be easily performed by holding both the up and down arrow keys after going off a ramp while holding the spacebar to give you some good air and consistent speed.

2. How can you effectively Bounce while Aerial Boosting?
- You can Bounce during Aerial Boosting if your car lands on all 4 wheels while Aerial Boosting.  Once you see the car get a small uplifting bounce, you can hit space again, causing your car to bounce up higher and Boost. If you time it right, doing the same inputs for the first Bounce, you can effectively keep bouncing in a nice long straight line.

3. How does Aerial Boosting and Bouncing help other than giving you a racing advantage?
- Aerial Boosting and Bouncing can easily help you by effectively keeping your power from depleting while in the air, which can save you a few ramps if you're really good at doing the trick in the first place.
- It can also allow you to trick if you're close to the next checkpoint where you can perform a trick and stay at max power. To trick at the end of the Bounce or while going into the next Bounce is nearly the same as if you were going to Bounce, but you just do a normal trick with space + any key (besides holding up and down at the same time). This gives you an edge on skipping ramps that aren't important in a race.

4. Is Aerial Boosting and Bouncing (AB for short) good for any car or are there limitations?
- AB has specific limitations especially if you want your Bounce to give you the most speed. When it comes to the limitations it all comes down to A) How fast is your car when you went off the ramp and B****) Are the stats of your car good for AB in general. 
- Stats are very important when it comes to AB because not only do you have to rely on how fast your car is to give you the fastest times possible for a track, but you also have to rely on your Stunt stat. In your experience with playing NFM you've noticed that Formula 7, the fastest car in the game, has a lower stunt value than Radical One, the second fastest in the game, with the highest Stunt value. With F7 it's a bit hard to constantly hit space after every bounce because you don't go very high up, while Radical One can easily Bounce, effectively allowing you to trick mid-Bounce. And, you don't have to Bounce so much because R1 has a lot of air time, which gives you room to quickly plan what the next move will be in a race, which makes it very competitive around the community.

5. Is Aerial Boosting and Bouncing useful with other strategies?
- Yes AB is super useful with other strategies, but I won't go into detail what those other strategies are until you have read the rest of the guides for this game that will help you become the top NFM speedrunner around the community but if you're curious just ask the pro players in the NFMM community.

Hope this helps you in your future NFM speedruns!

Recommended Strategy for Speedrunning NFM1

Stage 1 - *The Introductory Stage* - **Race (Formula 7)**

Stage 2 - *Contrary To Popular Belief* - **Race (Formula 7)**

Stage 3 - *Do The Snake Dance* - **Race (Formula 7)** - *or* - **Waste (MAX Revenge)**

Stage 4 - *Grapefruit Power* - **Race (Formula 7)**

Stage 5 - *He Is Coming For You Next* - **Race (Formula 7)** - *or* - **Waste (Lead Oxide)**

Stage 6 - *Paninaro| Caninaro| Let's fly!* - **Race (Formula 7)**

Stage 7 - *When In Danger Just Chill Out* - **Waste (EL KING)**

Stage 8 - *The Fast & The Furious + The Radical* - **Race (Formula 7)**

Stage 9 - *The Beach Arcade Dream* - **Race (Radical One)**

Stage 10 - *Confusion In An Illusion* - **Race (Radical One)** - *or* - **Waste (EL KING)**

Stage 11 - *The Mad Party* - **Waste (DR Monstaa)**

Name	Author
How to Reset Your Game	.Demise. 8 years ago
How to use Aerial Bouncing to your advantage!	SheppardKiller 7 years ago
Recommended Strategy for Speedrunning NFM1	.Demise. 8 years ago