Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew how to perform the gear gacha on Genesis. It's pretty easy to do on the Arcade version but I tried yesterday while streaming on Twitch and I can't pull it off on the Genesis version.

I know @takojaki seems to know how.

Thanks guys!

MS Marceau.

The execution is extremely simple on this version. Just quickly switch from the high gear to low and back to high (and repeat this every second or so). This way you won't lose any speed when driving off-road.

Unfortunately, the technique is quite inconsistent on this version because the game frequently fails to read the inputs, possibly due to lag frames.

I don't know man, I tried exactly that over and over, couldn't pull it off. You can see here where I tried: On the Arcade it works no problem. Kudos to you for being able to! You might have a permanent WR! :-D

Looks like you just have to start doing it before going off the road.

Like this:

I tried this last night and I can't really do it using the buttons. Switching to using up and down to shift made it easier to do on my controller because I can quickly slide from up to down faster than mashing a button.

I realized what's happening is that whenever you shift from low to high while accelerating and the tachometer is in the red the car does the skid animation and stays at the same speed for a second. For instance at the very start if you wait too long to shift it does this. So for Gear Gacha it seems you have to shift down and up so fast that you don't lose any speed and you have to be going fast enough that the tach is in the red when you shift low.

Oddly enough when we do the downshift on the big turns this doesn't happen even though the tach is in the red. I'm not sure if that's just because we're not accelerating or if there's a window of time in there that allows shifting back to high while in the red and immediately start accelerating again. Maybe both.