F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

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F-Zero: Maximum Velocity North American Boxart

Development Developer(s) ND Cube Publisher(s) Nintendo Director(s) Isshin Shimizu Producer(s) Hiroshi Yamauchi Takehiro Izushi Hitoshi Yamagami Platform Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS*, Virtual Console Genre Racing Modes Single player, multiplayer

Release date(s) Japan GBA: March 21, 2001 Wii U VC: April 3, 2014 North America GBA: June 11, 2001 Wii U VC: April 17, 2014 Europe GBA: June 22, 2001 Wii U VC: April 17, 2014

Rating(s) ACB G CERO A ESRB E

Installments Previous Game F-Zero X Next Game F-Zero GX

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (F-Zero for Game Boy Advance in Japan) is a futuristic racing game for Game Boy Advance. It allows for competition against simulated opponents or human opponents. The game was released as a launch game for the system, on March 21, 2001 in Japan, June 10, 2001 in North America and across Europe on June 22, 2001. Every Race consists of 5 laps around a race track. The race will end prematurely if the player land outside of the track after a jump, destroys their car by depleting its energy, or completes a race in too low of a rank; all of these conditions necessitate the player using an extra life (if available in the Grand Prix) to try again.

Boost

At the the end of every lap the player is giving one boost. This boost may be used at any time during a game by pressing both shoulder buttons at the same time. A boost will dramatically increase a players speed, but will decrease their ability to turn. A boost used before a jump will make the player jump farther, allowing the player to use a shortcut.

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix is the main single player component of Maximum Velocity. It consists of 4 (1 hidden) series each containing 5 races. The player needs to be in the top 3 at the end of the last lap in order to continue to the next race. If the player is unable to continue, the player will lose a life and can try the race again. If the player runs out of lives, then the game ends, and the player has to start the series from the beginning.

The Grand Prix are as followed:

#	Pawn League	Knight League	Bishop League	Queen League
1	Bianca City - Stretch Circuit	Tenth Zone East - Snake Circuit	Bianca City - Tightrope Circuit	Crater Land - Loop Circuit
2	Stark Farm - First Circuit	Beacon Port - Crossroad Circuit	Ancient Mesa - Skating Circuit	Tenth Zone East - Plummet Circuit
3	Empyrean Colony - Dash Circuit	Synobazz - Explosive Circuit	Crater Land - Skid Zone Circuit	Empyrean Colony - Twist Circuit
4	Stark Farm - Second Circuit	Ancient Mesa - Split Circuit	Cloud Carpet - Icarus Circuit	Fire Field - Land Mine Circuit
5	Cloud Carpet - Long Jump Circuit	Stark Farm - Third Circuit	Bianca City - Ultimate Circuit	Fire Field - Warrior Circuit

Championship

Championship is another single player component. Player runs special course and compete total time. This special course is not selectable at Multi Cart vs., but can compete with other player by link each player.

Multiplayer

MV can be played in 2 multiplayer modes using the Game Boy Advanced link cable, with one cart, or one cart per player. 2-4 Players can play in both modes.

Characters

This game features new characters and it is the only game without Captain Falcon, Dr. Stewart, Pico, and Samurai Goroh. However, there is a pilot named Kent Akechi, who claims to be the son of Captain Falcon, and his vehicle is the Blue Falcon MK2, which resembles the original. In addition, a vehicle known as the Silver Thunder is built by Dr. Stewart.

Pilots & Vehicles

Pilot	Vehicle
Megan	Hot Violet
Mickey Marcus	Fire Ball
Jane B. Christie	J. B. Crystal
Nichi	Wind Walker
Lord Cyber	Sly Joker
Alexander O'Neil	The Stingray
Blitz Wagner	Silver Thunder
Kent Akechi	Falcon MK-2
Kumiko	Fighting Comet
Professor Yazoo Jr.	Jet Vermilion

Single Cart

In single cart, only one player needs to have a cartridge. The other players will boot off of the link cable network from the player with the cart using the GBA's netboot capability. All players drive a generic car, and the game can only be played on one level, Silence.

Multi Cart

In multi cart, each player needs to have a cartridge to play. This has many advantages over single cart:

• All players can use any machine in this game unlocked by anyone.
• Select any course in this game.
• After race finish, all player's ranking data are mixed and shared ("Mixed ranking" stored each carts).

Re-release

In December 2011, Maximum Velocity was re-released on Nintendo 3DS. This exact port of the game could be downloaded for free if one was a member of the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Programme. This release went alongside 9 other Game Boy Advance games, and 10 NES games. Unlike the NES games, this title will not be made available outside of the Ambassador Programme, making the re-release exclusive to 3DS Ambassadors.

On April 3rd, 2014, Maximum Velocity was re-released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan, while on April 17th, it was re-released internationally.