Secrets


When you boot up the game and find out that you only begin with 4 out of 41 pilots, you begin to understand that there's a whole lot to unlock in this game. Everything from additional cups, small movies, extra parts, you name it.

Remember that most of the unlocables have to be purchased in the F-Zero Shop once you've unlocked them!

Machines

26 Classic F-Zero X Machines
- Already unlocked. Buy them in the F-Zero Shop.

9 AX Pilots
- Clear the Story Mode Chapters on Very Hard.
Chapter 1: Rainbow Phoenix
Chapter 2: Spark Moon
Chapter 3: Rolling Turtle
Chapter 4: Fat Shark
Chapter 5: Cosmic Dolphin
Chapter 6: Silver Rat
Chapter 7: Pink Spider
Chapter 8: Bunny Flash
Chapter 9: Groovy Taxi
- Finish a race with the character in F-Zero AX(no matter if you come out 1st or last).

Magic Seagul
- Clear all Story Mode Chapters on Hard.

Dark Schneider
- Clear Story Mode.

Special Machine Bahamut
- Use the License card when you play F-Zero AX and save it to your memory card.

Cups and tracks

Diamond Cup
- Clear Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald cups on Standard.

Master Difficulty
- Clear Ruby, Sapphires and Emerald cups on Expert.

AX Tracks
- Beat all GPs on Master.
- Get first place on F-Zero AX tracks.

AX Mute City - Sonic Oval
- Beat AX Cup (any difficulty).

Parts and misc.

GX Machine Parts
- Clear the cups on different difficulties

AX Machine Parts
- Clear Story Mode Chapters on Hard:
Chapter 1: Silver Sword, Rave Drifter and Jupitor-Q.
Chapter 2: Optical Wing, Cyber Fox and Comet-V
Chapter 3: Megalo Cruiser, Heat Snake and Impulse-220
Chapter 4: Giant Planet, Dark Chaser and Extreme-ZZ
Chapter 5: Holy Spider, Red Rex and Bluster-X
Chapter 6: Space Cancer, Spark Bird and Punisher-4X
Chapter 7: Wild Chariot, Combat Cannon and Triangle-GT
Chapter 8: Dread Hammer, Crystal Egg and Meteor-RR
Chapter 9: Splash Whale, Sonic Soldier and Devilfish-RX
- Clear Diamond Cup Expert: Brave Eagle, Wonder Worm and Euros-01
- Unlock via F-Zero AX(goes for all AX parts mentioned above)

Story Mode Chapters
- Clear the previous chapter in order to unlock the next chapter.

Alternative endings
- Clear a cup on different difficulties and the third question you will be able to ask as Mr. Zero will be different.

Profile Movies
- Clear a Master Grand Prix and you will be able to watch a movie in the pilot's profile (wont work with custom machines).
- Unkown.

Sounds of Big Blue (Activate by pressing Z before playing any Big Blue track)
- Clear all cups on Master.
- Enter Z, D-Left, D-Right, D-Left, Z, Y, X, Z, D-Left, D-Right, D-Left, D-Right, Z, X, Z, X, Z, in the F-Zero Shop

Sounds of Mute City (Active by pressing Z before playing any Mute City track)
- Enter X, X, X, Y, X, X, X, Y, Z, Z, left, right, left, right, left, right.

Show subtitles (In both F-Zero TV and Story Mode)
- Press Z during the cut-scenes

Staff Ghosts
- Get a record that's max 10 seconds worse than the Staff Ghost's on each track. Here's a complete list:

RUBY CUP
Mute City: Twist Road - 1'09"964 (Death Anchor)
Vegas Palace: Split Oval - 1'06"691 (Black Bull)
Sand Ocean: Surface Slide - 2'06"743 (Big Fang)
Lightning: Loop Cross - 2'09"907 (Wild Boar)
Aeropolis: Multiplex - 2'25"297 (Fire Stingray)

SAPPHIRE CUP
Big Blue: Drift Highway - 1'17"331 (Night Thunder)
Port Town: Aero Dive - 2'35"689 (Black Bull)
Green Plant: Mobius Ring - 1'45"169 (Death Anchor)
Port Town: Long Pipe - 2'36"802 (Wild Boar)
Mute City: Serial Gaps - 1'36"549 (Night Thunder)

EMERALD CUP
Fire Field: Cylinder Knot - 2'50"909 (Black Bull)
Green Plant: Intersection - 2'34"897 (Mighty Hurricane)
Vegas Palace: Double Branches - 3'09"117 (Fire Stingray)
Lightning: Half Pipe - 3'00"296 (Sonic Phantom)
Big Blue: Ordeal - 3'00"808 (Fire Stingray)

DIAMOND CUP
Cosmo Terminal: Trident - 3'08"650 (Black Bull)
Sand Ocean: Lateral Shift - 2'19"849 (Huper Speeder)
Fire Field: Undulation - 2'16"916 (Twin Noritta)
Aeropolis: Dragon Slope - 3'09"076 (Death Anchor)
Phantom Road: Slim-Line Slits - 3'08"650 (Queen Meteor)

AX CUP
Mute City: Sonic Oval - 0'56"893 (Fat Shark)
Aeropolis: Screwdrive - 1'16"690 (Rolling Turtle)
Outer Space: Meteor Storm - 1'48"178 (Wild Goose)
Port Town: Cylinder Wave - 2'16"837 (Fat Shark)
Lightning: Thunder Road - 3'28"272 (Fire Stingray)
Green Plant: Spiral - 4'00"740 (Rainbow Phoenix)

(Note: These are times to unlock the Ghosts, not beating them)