11/06/04  A Pod Contest will come soon... For more details look at the Podcafe main menu under [Pod Contest].
 
11/03/04  A small crowd of podies are meeting more often since pod IP online racing is possible again.
                We meet via icq or in podcafe chat to announce the next ip racing details (date, time, IP number of host).
                Mostly these podies are participating the last races:
                AQUA, BANDIE, EINSTEIN, FREDDY, SEBBY, VALIS  (and we are getting more)   ...just visit us! Everyone is welcome!

11/01/04 With the following settings for dgVoodoo Glide Wrapper tool for Global and Glide I got pod running very well.
                To get the right Sync. for online racing I set the Monitor to 75Hz.
                And pod really need the 16bit color mode to run.

11/01/04   Added the cheat codes, because the possibility of online racing via IP brings back new life on IO ;)

CHEATS :

        Codes in red are useful for online racing especially.

• crash - Type this when you are in a race. You become transparent to the computer cars and pass right through them. Makes racing single player way easier.
• valay - Type this in the options menu. You will gain access to Medium/Off, Hard/Off and Hard/Global settings.
• map - Show the track map in place of the tacometer.
• map+F9 - Enhanced map, show cars as numbers 1 to 8.
• retro - Rear view mirror, neat but radar is better
• label - Show the players name above the car, name is even visible if the car isn't.
• garag - Fixes your car as well as your opponents, hard to type when going 200mph!
• holigan - Damages car! Great for figuring out how efficient the repair pits are at top speed. Also damages all the computer cars so type this in just before you hit the pits :).
• dural - Type this on the car settings window. It give your car 150/100/100/100/200 but you can't record ghosts or play on podnet with this (of course). It also overlays a chrome texture on your car so that you know that you are cheating.
• rocket - Type this on the car settings window. It gives you 400 points to distribute instead of the usual 300.
• mirror - Enables REVERSE button on Track selection, type this on main menu.
• scrshots - Then hit Alt-F12 to take a screenshot. Files in raw format appear in your Pod directory C:\UBISOFT\Pod2_0. You can then read these raw format files using Adobe Photoshop with Raw settings 640x480, 4channels, Interlaced, 8bits, 0 byte header. Paintshop Pro does not convert these files properly.
• CRTL-m - Toggle Sound On/Off. Some people say that this toggles the music off or on but for me it toggles the engine and other sounds instead of the music.
• night - Turn on Headlights for the PowerVR Version of POD. Fog effect (like on Downtown) is always on.
• raster - Is the FRAMERATE/BUILD code
• Hit SHIFT+CRTL+R (Broken as of Gameservice 1.8 patch) This will show you "second = XX.X" means that there are XX.X different pictures that are calculated in one second. When you see 60.0, it means that 60 different usr are calculated and displayed in one second.
• Then hit SHIFT+CRTL+R again. This will show you "Frames = XX.X" which is the ratio of the refresh rate of your monitor versus how many second you are getting. 1.0 = you are getting one image for every refresh of your screen display (good). > 1.0 means that your graphics card isn't fast enough to give you a unique image for every refresh of your screen (bad). < 1.0 means that your graphics cars is fast enough that some of the usr that it makes are actually wasted because it is faster than your screen refresh rate.
• Then hit + and - on your numeric keypad. To make your 3DFX display bigger and smaller. You should see the Frames and Image/second change.
• Then hit SHIFT+CRTL+S. This will show you "Version = x yyy", where x is the POD version number and yyy the build. Type shift-ctrl + R or S for the 3rd/2nd time to make the respective info disappear. Unlike "map" or "retro", "raster" stays active, once you have typed it, until you quit POD.

4/27/02   Pod Stock 2002 in Germany/Berlin:  A crowd of German podies met in Berlin.
         It was Alex, BANDIE, BJ, GROOVE and off course VIENNA :-)
               1st  day 26.4.02:  We met at Ku'Damm, entered a steak house and after that a bar for some nice drinks.
               2nd day 27.4.02: We met at a pizzeria to get strenght for an american football game of the NFL Europe League:
                                           Berlin Thunder vs. Rhein Fire (where Rhein Fire won in the last seconds).
                                           After that we went back to our pizzeria to eat&drink and chat again.
               It was a nice relaxed 2days meeting with lots of fun. Was a friendly atmosphere ... Will keep it well in mind ;)     ...cya next time guys!

10/14/01   Updated page of ZZTMANNI.

9/25/01   Updated page of BANDIE, deleted pageinfos of XAV. He asked for it.
                There's a cool new track to download at QBAll called ARCADE! Check'em out!

6/19/01   Added an old school PODhead from Canada.  Welcome to the Hall of Fame VORTEX  !

5/12/01   Pod Stock 2001 in Germany/Berlin:  A crowd of German podies met in Berlin for the first pod stock in 2001.
         It was BANDIE, BJ, KUEDDE and VIENNA. The party was on 2 days.
               1st day 11.5.01:  We met at 'Loretta am Wannsee' Beergarden to talk about everything we thought its important.
                                          There was Beer&Brause, Brezeln, Putenbrust & Brötchen, Rostbratwürschten, Crepes,...to keep alive.
               2nd day 12.5.01: We met at a pizzeria to get strenght for an american football game of the NFL Europe League:
                                           Berlin Thunder vs. Rhein Fire (where Thunder won).
               After that we went back to our pizzeria to drink and chat again.
               It was a nice relaxed 2days meeting with lots of fun. Was a friendly atmosphere ... Will keep it well in mind ;)     ...cya next time guys!

 11/7/99   Added a Forum to discuss pod items ... enter and write about the culty pod game.
               Added an award that this page won :o)

10/25/99 Removed the online counter and most of the www-chart rankings because of down servers and page performance.

8/7/99     Added some goodies to the page like:
                Online-counter -  shows how many visitors are right now in the pod cafe
                Sound features - are now switchable and adjustable
                Some homepage chart rankings has been added

7/28/99    A banner is now always on top of each pod cafe side. Each time you click on that banner there will be collected some
                coins for the next prizes for a comming pod contest ...not only for fun and glorry. In this Contest you race for real cool prizes.
                Maybe you remember where Ubisoft sponsored Games,Wheels,Graphic cards, T-Shirts,...  8-)
                So click on the banner as often as possible (after you click 1 time on it the next click of you is valid 1 hour later!).

7/22/99    Added a new main page to select between english and german language by clicking the national flags.

6/28/99    Added this page
                Info:   When looking to the pod cafe with MS IExplorer you get a sound at main page, QBall side, Bandie side.
                          Using Netscape these sounds are gone. Whoever knows these magic let me know ;)

                Nice: The POD Resurrection seams to push live into the cult game POD. Many Podies are meeting at GS and
                          have fun like in time around '97/'98. I like to see this!!

                Q&A: Some Podies have still problems using their voodoo3 cards. Pod crashes and never starts correct.
                          The Tips from PODTec doesn't fix it (temporary fake driver installations, 3dfx patch installation).
                          If someone has a solution let me know.

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