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Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies cheats, hints, guides

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X-02 Color Schemes
To get the first color scheme for the bonus aircraft, the X-02, get S Rankings on all missions on Hard difficulty, either in Story or Free Mission mode. For the second color, play through the game and get S Rankings on all missions on the Expert difficul
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Hidden planes
SR-71:In shattered skies it is the plane that you are targeting at the beggining. Also it is on the Southwest most corner in Whiskey Corridor.
XB-70:This is at the top left corner in breaking arrows.

Unlock All Aircraft
Complete the game on normal and get an S rank for every mission to unlock all the aircraft, including the X-02 Multirole fighter. This fighter is perfect for just bout any mission.

Secret Modes
You can get secret modes by defeating the game. Finish the game in any difficulty to aquire Special Continue, Trial missions, FMV sequences, 36 musics from the game, and be able to change the color of your aircraft
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SP. Continue:
Start over from mission one with all Aircraft, Weaponry and $$$ obtained previously.

Free mission mode:
Play any mission from the game.

New Mode:
By completing all 18 missions (finish the game) save and load. Now you new mode like

Trial mission mode:
A new mode which let you play Score Attack or Time Attack mode. Also, beat the game once and go to option screen, you'll now have new goodies like Scene Viewer> let you watch any scene from the game.
Music Player> listen to all 36 tracks.

Master Code
Press UP, DOWN, TRIANGLE, CROSS while holding R2 and L2.

Eject from plane
Hold L1 R1 L2 R2 all at the same time, there for letting you escape before you are shot down.

Scene Viewer> let you watch any scene from the game.

Music Player> listen to all 36 tracks.

Control view
Hold [Triangle] to zoom. Use the Right Analog-stick to pan around.

Aces
The following is a list of where each Ace can be found and shot down. Shooting them down will unlock an alternate color scheme for that plane. Ace's can only be shot down under the normal or higher difficulty setting. Each Ace is worth 240 points and will have the name of the pilot flying it:

Mission 1: F-5, North of Allied air base.
Mission 2: A-10, North of enemy air base.
Mission 3: F-16, South of second radar station.
Mission 4: Mirage 2000, Northwest of the westernmost radar jamming plane.
Mission 5: Mig-29, Sout of the far western pumping station on map.
Mission 6: F-14, North of northern-most group of enemies on map.
Mission 7: TND, North of solar tower.
Mission 8: F-18, After refueling during the mission, it will appear east of the sub-station.
Mission 9: F-15C, North of the center beach combat area.
Mission 10: RF-01 Multi Role, Far upper northwest corner of map, northwest of sub-station.
Mission 11: SU-35, Will appear with 90 seconds remainingin the mission.
Mission 12: F-2, North of Stonehenge.
Mission 13: F-15E, After balloons are destroyed, fighters will appear; head northeast.
Mission 14: F-22, Northeast of map .
Mission 15: EF-2000, Center of map when mission starts.
Mission 16: F-117 Attacker, Northwest of western-most combat area.
Mission 17: F-15 Active, Far northwestern corner of map.
Mission 18: S-37, North of Megalith.

Broken Arrows: See northern lights
Look up in the night sky and you can see the northern lights.

Destroying SAMs
Fly straight towards the SAM. Pitch the plane up and down when the SAM fires a missile. Once you get a lock on the SAM. fire a missile and continue doing the up and down maneuvers until the its missile loses track.
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Missile dodging
Under some difficulty settings, you can only be hit with a missile two or three times. This is different for the higher difficulty settings. In Ace mode, you will be shot down by one missile. Immediately when someone locks onto you and fires a missile, look at your radar. The moment when the missile is about to hit you, barrel roll. This is a difficult feat to perform but is quite impressive. This move only happens very rarely. If one of the planes lock on and manages to fire a missile and it is on your tail, you can blow a plane right out of the sky with the enemy's missle. Rush towards an enemy that is coming at you. In the split second it is about there, try your best to dodge it. if done correctly, the enemy missile will hit the enemy. Another way of missile dodging happens when you have a missile on your tail. Dive down, come to about six to seven thousand feet, then rise up. The missile should deflect and hit the ground. This is also successful when
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Losing tough enemies
Use the following tricks when you have a group of enemies on you, or just one that will not give up. Find a very mountainous area and try to lose your enemy in there at full speed. Zigzag in and out until the enemy cannot find you. They will not follow you into this mountain area. If dealing with multiple enemies, disengage, climb to 40,000 feet at full throttle, take a breather, then re-engage and destroy the enemy. Use this technique against the Yellow Squadron in the second part of the Siege Of Farbanti mission.

Watch missile or bomb when fired
While flying any jet, lock on to a target (ground or air) and hold [Circle]. This will allow you to watch your missile or bomb from the time it leaves the jet until it hits the target. Note: You have to be careful or your jet may crash.

Fly with missile
Play in free flight mode with a fast jet. Flip on the afterburners and fly up at a 45 degree angle. Get up to about 47,000 ft. When you get up to 1120 mph, do a vertical nose dive with the afterburners still on. Continue in the dive until you get down to 15,000 feet and level off. If you got your speed up to at least 1375 mph, switch the view to behind the plane and fire a missile. If you are flying fast enough, you should see the missile flying along side your plane.

Easy kills
The best way to kill is to get in the cockpit view and go to work. When done correctly the kill will happen much faster and you will save missiles. If done in the HUD view or where you can see the entire plane, then chances are you will waste several missiles trying to kill enemies. Also use your bullets wisely to cut off paths of escape; this will assist you further. When on a mission and are "dog-fighting" in air-to-air combat, press [Circle](2 ). When you do this, you will fire two missiles at the same time. This destroys your target immediately with two shots, rather than hitting it only once and still having the risk of it shooting you and your allies. While dogfighting in air-to-air combat, switch to the cockpit view. Lock on to your nearest enemy and fire a missile. Immediately after you fire the missile, shoot your guns. However, instead of hitting the enemy fighter, aim for the air in front and around it. The enemy fighter will try to dodge the bullets, thus steering into the missile's path.
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Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies

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New Mode

By completing all 18 missions (finish the game)save and load. Now you new mode like

Eject from plane

Hold L1 R1 L2 R2 all at the same time, there for letting you escape before you are shot down.

SP. CONTINUE

Start over from mission one with all Aircraft, Weaponry and $$$ obtained previously.

FREE MISSION MODE

Play any mission from the game.

TRIAL MISSION MODE

A new mode which let you play Score Attack or Time Attack mode.

Also, beat the game once and go to option screen, you'll now have new goodies like
Scene Viewer> let you watch any scene from the game. Music Player> listen to all 36 tracks.

Unlock  X-02 MULTIROLE

Get S-RANKING on all 18 mission on normal mode.

How to Sneak Up on the Yellows on Level 17 Without Being Detected

message: After you get all of your points, fly around until your time runs out. The yellows will come in from the north at 28,000 feet. Go up as high as you can and pass over them. Wait 10 seconds. Dive down and come up behind them. THEY WILL DETECT YOU AFTER YOUR FIRST SHOT! Engage!

How to Destroy Stonehenge Cannons Without Taking Out Jammers

This is how u do it. when u start the mission drop below 2k feet unless u want to risk getting killed. when u get to the guns just pop 2 missiles while u flying toward the rear half of the Stonehenge cannon (the rear part of the cannon the one thats easiest to hit without jammer) and fire ur guns also. Do it right and the cannon will be taken out. Repeat process. Also if u got a plane equipped with Large Bombs just drop one on the cannon.

Level 18 hint

When you are flying your aircraft down the corridors on megalith, it's easier to have the view of the outside of your aircraft and reduce your speed to the second line of your speedometer, and to add shoot down all the aircraft on the level because you get much more points and you have all the time in the world!

More Special Planes

If you can, get a plane with QAAMs.

Once on "SHATTERED SKIES", fly over the rocket. there is a road to your right that goes to several islands. Follow it & goas fast as you can. Once you pass over the closest island, wait 3 seconds, then go in to a 85 degree climb. Level off at 30,000 ft. Continue flying, & when you level off,stall. you should be above & behind, in complete advantage. Shoot him down w/regular missiles. Go back to the main isle,& engage the Yellows. Shoot them w/QAAMs.Once one is hit, they all run. Go to 10,000 ft, & shoot down the AWACS{GUNS} anddecend to 8,000 ft, shoot down the MiG, then shoot down the KC-10{GUNS}. continue to dogfight. When the B-2s come, use up your missles(wisley), then RTB.once back ,quicky destroy the bombers,& then shoot down as many fighters as you can. Try to shoot down at least 2 of all aircraft. that way you get their planes(usually).Dont forget you have 20 seconds after the launch, so dont just stop at the launch. As long as you are unfortunately directly over the rocket, you'll be ok.Dont forget, Blue on Blue & air collisions are a factor, so dont do no "scissors" or victory rolls during the game.

Extra 440 points

On the mission where you shoot down missles you can get 440 points.  First, you must be on at least normal mode.  Second, put your radar map on largest.  They will appear after a few seconds.  They are in the back.  Third, get those two.

Special F-5E Tiger II/Enemy`s F-5

First mission.accelerate forwards on full afterburner, and fly 2 grid blocks beyond the airfeild.shoot1 missle headon to kill the special. You've unlocked his air craft, and have made 2 additional F4s take off. You should get the bombers as their bombing or as they fly over anderson crater. leave 1 bomber untill youve shot down all 4 enemy fighters, then kill it.Yet another "S",& 3 extra fighters.Ill keep them coming...

F-22B(Special)

"breaking arrows"
Shoot Down 2 salvos of missles, & then the 2 F-22A's. When the last missle comes,the special willguard the missle.when in missle range,break left& shoot him down. Youll get him with the first 2 missles you shoot at him.Then shoot down the missle.Youll have an "A" unless you shoot down a XB-20 at th e top of the map.Then youll have"S" & 2 BONUS F-22s

Plane

Your on the mission where you liberate the city("Emancipation"). in between Old Towne, New City, and the airport there is a single unoccupied block. Make a pass over new city, then turn for that block. Fighters & AAA have popped up in that block. Turn on your radar & lock on to each target & look at it. One of the special planes is there. If your qu ick, you can then complete the mission with # bagged Yellows, A special EF2000, & About 9500 points. Thats $500,000 & an "S" rating.

New aircraft paint

On normal level and above, shoot down aircraft with that aircraft's pilot's name on it. On radar it will show up as red symbol and it is harder to shoot down. Should appear away from the main combat zone.

Expert mode

To get expert mode complete all missions on Very Easy, Easy, Normal and Hard.

Ace mission mode

To unlock ace mission mode, beat expert mode. It's very hard, as one hit from a missile will kill you.

Extra points

How to get an extra 200 points in level 8! To get these points you must have at least two missiles and a fairly fast airplane. During your mission breif when your in the cockpit you should see a small arrow in the top right hand corner of your screen. As soon as you gain control of your aircraft accelerate as fast as you can and follow the arrow. ( It may disappear but continue to fly in that direction). On your radar in will be a fast moving dot heading toward the incoming "Yellows." If you shoot it down you will get 200 points for it. It is called something like an "SR-71" but im not sure what it is.

How to beat Megalith (last level)

Engage the fighters if you want but I fly high (20,000+feet) so they don't engage me anyways when you get to megalith you can fly north and destroy the levels ace if you're normal difficulty or higher, when you're in front of megalith descend like you would if there was a Stonehenge attack fly into the left tunnel don't crash but look to your left and after a little bit and the tunnel will split into two tuunels follow the left tunnel and you'll get a lock on a generator the end of the tunnel is small so you have to be good to get out after that go in front of megalith again and take the right tunnel. this one's pretty easy discluding the fact that your flying below 100feet after a while the tunnel will rise BE SURE THE TUNNEL RISES BEFORE YOU DO OR YOU WILL SMASH INTO THE CEILING!!!!!!!! the generator is right in front of you so blow it up.  once you get out turn left and fly until the little green lines that mark megalith entrance paths disappear. then turn left 18!
0 degrees when they appear fly on the entrance path you will see a valley below you fly into it the generator will be in front of you on the left. blow it up fly out of the valley once you've destroyed the 3rd generator the ground people will open one door fly in front of mega lith and head for the middle. there will be one tunnel fly into it and there will be a giant missile when you enter the room doors above the missile will slowly open destroy the missile and fly out of the opening doors, if you make it there will be a special cut scene and you will unlock 3 new multiplayer levels an a screen where you can play songs from the game and where you can watch the cartoon cut scenes and some other options on the main menu.



How to beat first level

At the beginning you are behind a group of aircrafts.  Do not shoot them it is a waste of bullets.  Let them be they will soon be out of site.  You will have to move (never put it on auto pilot you will go in the same way as you started.)  Just find the other air crafts do not use bullets just your missiles (you have pratily unlimited bullets are not.)If you run out of missiles it's ok just get more by using auto pilot you will get to an air craft carer.  Fly to it and land you will get to fly off you will have ALMOST ALMOST unlimited missile and bullets.  Take off and beat the mission. 

Best way to shoot down Yellow squadron

In most levels there is yellow squadron engagements. The best way to shoot one down is to get right on it's tail about 200ft.or less away from it. Then either use your guns to damage it a little first and then shoot 2-4 missiles at it or jut shoot it with he missiles. The key is to wait till it is moving in forward motion though not when it is doing loops or becoming inverted. The best plains to use for these missions are the SU-37, F-14, F-22, or S-37 and the most advanced missiles for each.

HOW TO GET AN EXTRA 200 POINTS ON LEVEL 16

WHEN you start this level you are heading towards the battle closest to the left boundry line. Also when you start you are in the first line of boxes going from left to right.Stay in that line of boxes and climb to an altitude of 20000 ft.Travel to the last box in the first row on the left and when you get a quarter of the way through you will see a dark orange dot or triangle appear at th e boundry line.The name of the plane is SR-71 but in real life it is called the SR-71 BLACKBIRD.It is worth 200 points if you shoot it down. 

To beat level 6

To beat level 6 you must go directly to the power plant with out involvement with other plains) and don't destroy anything except 4 the things that have a red "tgt" over it. go strait to the back first and destroy the two in the back first then do the one you saw first near the crevice. that way when the mission update comes to fly in the crevices you will make it two them faster.

All aircraft

Use the following steps to unlock all aircraft, including special colors. First, acquire an aircraft by destroying it in battle. You can acquire three different paint schemes for each aircraft. Two of the paint schemes can be acquired by destroying that color aircraft in battle. To acquire the special brightly colored third aircraft, you must find and kill the pilot flying it. On each level of the game there is a single hidden aircraft (eighteen total hidden aircraft). Each one of these aircraft has a specific pilot. When you see the aircraft in front of you and lock on, it will display the pilot's name next to the aircraft name and lock on square. For example, "S-37A SMIRNOVA". The hidden aircraft will not show up on radar until you get nearby. On radar, the aircraft will be marked with a red triangle instead of yellow. Each hidden aircraft is always in the same place on their specific level. This is always in an empty spot on the map away from the main combat zone!
. The aircraft can usually be found directly behind the main combat zone. Last but not least are the three remaining aircraft. To acquire the Yellow Squadron fighter (SU-37) of your nemesis Yellow-13, you must kill all of the pilots with names flying the special colored aircraft (eighteen total). The method used to unlock the F-4E with tiger stripes is unknown at this time. To unlock the X-02 Stealth, get an "S" rank on all 18 missions on normal mode

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