Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 FAQ and Walkthrough.
By Nick (Emperor)(hotvampire@hotmail.com)
And Kris (ex)(ex@jizz.org)
Version .00001
Last Updated 9/22/2000
If you want to come talk to us on irc, /server irc.dal.net then /join
#finalfantasy. (this is not a monitored channel, people can be assholes).
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Table of contents

1.	Updates
2.	Walkthrough
3.      100% on the competitions
4.	Tips & Tricks & secrets & easter eggs etc..
5.      Misc Crap
6.	Special thanks?

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Updates

Version .00001 (9/22/00)
I finally beat the game completely! weee!

Version .000001 (9/22/00)
I changed a bunch of errors and stuff, not much, plus i worked on the =====
part to make it look better, me and kris will add a lot tonight, hopefully.

Version .0000000001 (9/21/00)
I added the first 2 level's walkthroughs and the tips and tricks part, expect
this faq to be finished soon!

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The Hanger Mullet Falls MT:
By Kris
	Hanger Checklist			      Cash
	
        High score - 10,000                           $100
	Pro Score - 25,000                            $200			
	SICK Score! - 75,000                          $500		
	Collect S-K-A-T-E                             $150		
	Barrel Hunt                                   $150
	Collect 5 Pilot Wings                         $250
	Nosegrind Over The Pipe                       $150
	Hit 3 Hangtime Gaps                           $150
	Find the Secret Tape                          $150
	100% Goals and Cash                           $200

High Score - Not really that hard, just get use to the game and it will be very
very easy.
Pro Score -
Sick Score -

Collect S-K-A-T-E - Ok, this objective is pretty; here is how to go about it...
For the S, just hold down X and keep going straight, don't let go anywhere just
keep going. For the K, just go to the back wall and get it.  The A is just on
the crashed plane around the outside of the pipe.  The T is where you start off
coming down that little hill, go to your left when you get in the opening and
just and break the window, and finally, the E is in the room you came into to
get the T, just jump on the ramp and go get it.

Barrel Hunt - First go down the little hill at the beginning and go left,
there's a barrel there.  Next, head into the half pipe.  The next one is just
on the far side of the pipe by the back wall. Another barrel is where you get
the T, just land the ramp to ramp and you should hit it.  The last one is by
the E, just hold up and go over the ramp.

Collect 5 Pilot Wings - The first one is easy to get, just bypass the half pipe
to the left and jump through the window. The next one over there is near the
window, you have to take a jump off that ramp in front of the helicopter to get
it.  You should also hold up and jump through the window to get the next one
you should land around/near it.  The next one to get would be the one on the
far end of the half pipe, resting on the propellers on the wall, just skate
along the wall and grind it.  The last one is right over where you start, just
get some speed and jump the gap.

Nosegrind Over The Pipe - This is the easiest objective ever. When you start,
just hold up and triangle, that's it.  You will go right over the pipe while
nosegrinding.

Hit 3 Hangtime Gaps - The first one to get is just over the halfpipe.  The next
one is over that crashed airplane beside the half pipe.  The last one is in the
other room, just jump over the helicopter and land it, not hard.

Find the Secret Tape - This is also a very easy objective, just grind on the
helicopter's little wings or whatever you want to call them.  This will open a
"door" to the far end of the room which leads outside.  Just get some air on
the ramp outside and blam.

100% Goals and Cash - For this objective you just have to complete every
objective and get all the little cash bonuses in the level. There are 4 cash
bonuses in the secret room (when you grind on the propeller on the wall). 
There are 2 cash bonuses in the main room you start off in.  One is sort of a
secret, you have to go to the other side of the room (through the window) and
take that ramp in front of the helicopter where you get a pilot wing, jump
through the window (get tons of air) and grind the beam.  There's 1 in the left
room.

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School II Southern Cali:
By Nick
              Hangar checklist             Cash

              High score 45,000            $200
              Pro score 40,000             $350
              SICK score 100,000           $500
              Collect S-K-A-T-E            $400
              Wallride 5 Bells             $500
              Collect 5 Hall Passes        $400
              Kickflip TC's Roof Gap       $400
              Grind 3 Roll Call Rails      $500
              Find the Secret Tape         $500
              100% Goals and Cash          $500

High score, Pro score, and SICK score - This is kind if hard, if you don't know
where to go. I usually go for the grinds to rack up the massive multipliers,
plus get different gaps. A great place to start is in the big open area, the
center of the school, where there are lockers, and there are brick ledges. I
like to grind off those ledges, do kickflips, special grinds, and get a gap or
2. Once you get the hang of THPS2, you shouldn't have a problem getting 100,000
points here.

Collect S-K-A-T-E - To get the S, turn right and go down the rail as soon as
you start. The K is located in the center part of the school, where it's like a
park, and there's a ramp there with it, just jump off the ramp to get it. The A
is on a rail, which goes down, from the center part of the school to the lower
part by the buildings. After you get the A going down the rail, turn right and
keep heading that way till you see a ramp that's on the side of a big wall. Go
off that ramp to get the T. After you get the T, turn right as you come off the
ramp you were just on to get the T and follow the side of the building till you
get to the E, which is off of a small ramp. This was a very easy 400 bux eh?

Wallride 5 bells - This one is kind of hard, if you don't know where the bells
are. The first bell is immediately to your right when you first start, to
Wallride, use triangle while you bank off the wall. After you hit the first
bell, go straight, down the rail and after you ride a bit, there's a bell on
your right. After you hit that one, keep going straight and follow the bike
racks to the next bell on the wall. After you hit that one, follow the wall to
your left and keep going till you see a light post, and after that there's a
trashcan, and behind the trashcan is the next bell. To get to the final bell,
go back to where the bike racks were and follow them to some stairs. Go up the
stairs and follow the wall on your left, and at the end of that stretch is the
final bell!

Collect 5 hall passes - This one is so easy. The first hall pass you can see as
soon as you start, go down that ramp and go to your left. Jump to get the next
hall pass. Keep following the wall to your left and there are some rails. Grind
up the rails and jump off them to get the 3rd hall pass. The 4th one is to your
left as soon as you get off the rails, to get it just ramp off one the ramp on
your left that has the hall pass on it. The last one you see as soon as you
ramp off the ramp that you just came off of. Jump up on the ledge to get it.
Damn that was hard.

Kickflip TC's roof gap - The gap is located in between 2 small buildings. To
get to them, just keep going straight from where you start, down the stairs,
and the 2 buildings are there that you have to ramp onto, and from one of the
roofs to the other, kickflip! Much skill needed to do this one.

Grind 3 Roll Call Rails - The first roll call rail is right ahead of you when
you start, you have to go completely down it. Keep going straight and kind of
to the left to find the next one. It starts up high, and goes down from there.
It's in a corner, and there are stairs by it. Go back by the bike rack to find
the 3rd one, which is the one that leads to the center of the school.

Find the Secret Tape - This tape was really hard for me to get the first time.
To get it, go to the center of the school where there is a ramp and some rails
on a platform. Ramp off the ramp to build up your specials, and then grind on
the rail to your immediate right. Do a kickflip, and a special grind on the
next rail to get the gap that is right there called the "stage rail to rail"
then right after you do that trick, look for black skid marks on the ground.
Follow them to a very small flower ramp that gets you up on the roof. Jump to
get the secret tape! (You also get 50 bux by doing this because there's a bill
on the way up to the roof) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

100% Goals and Cash - There is a ton of cash all over this level, so I'm not
going to go into detail on each and every one, but I'll tell you how to get the
hard ones. When you first start, go to your right where you did a wallride to
get the bell. Do a wallride up to the ledge and jump off the ledge to your
right. Then go straight and jump out the window, and make sure you have enough
speed to get across from this building to the next one! Another place to go is
by where you got the secret tape. Get up on that building and jump from there
onto the flagpole and grind to a secret part of the level where there is a
bunch of cash. If you have any other problems finding cash, email me (nick) and
I'll help.

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NY City:
By Kris


        NY City Checklist              Cash

        High score - 20,000            $750
        Pro score - 50,000             $1000
        SICK score - 150,000           $1250
        Collect S-K-A-T-E              $800
        Ollie the Hydrants             $700
        5 Subway Tokens                $800
        50-50 Joey's Sculpture         $900
        Grind the Subway Rails         $1100
        Find the Secret Tape           $1200
        100% Goals and Cash            $500

High, Pro, SICK score - Just get huge multipliers and grind and kickflip grind
and kickflip.  For the SICK score you may have to use manuals (up down before
you hit the ground).  These allow you to continue a grind while on the ground
and you can search for another place to grind.

Collect S-K-A-T-E - The S is just right when you start, just make sure
you have some speed attributes and you should have no problem grinding
that wall.  The K is pretty close to where the S is, just keep grinding (or you
can get off and just skate there. Jump down near that statue and just take the
ramp and get the K.  The A may take a couple tries to get, it's also down where
the K is.  Get some speed off the jump where the K is, go up (out that little
bridge hole), turn around and jump up when you see that ledge.  Remember, this
may take a couple tries.  After this, just leave this area by going under the
bridge.  When you get out, go left, grind the fence, get the T and you should
see the E in front of you (when grinding).

Ollie the Hydrants - The first hydrant is easy to get too, just go straight
from where you start, turn left at the end of the street and you will see the
hydrant to your right.  The next one is just down the street (you have to cross
the intersection) at the end.  The last one is behind where you start, just
head back to where you start and keep following the road.  It's to your left.

5 Subway Tokens - Three tokens are around where the 1st hydrant was (read
above).  One of them is high in the air, just get some speed off the little
ramp on the building and take the jump over that little wall. The next one is
just on the bridge.  The last one is near the water (where the T and E were). 
Get some speed off that ramp on the building and take a jump off that big rock.

50-50 Joey's Sculpture -  I thought this was that statue where the A is for the
longest time, heh, it's not.  Right when you start, goto your left, you'll see
a small railing blocking off a big drop, theres a rail in the middle of this
little section, 50-50 that.

Grind the Subway Rails - To open up that cage, you need to get the 5 subway
tokens first.  Go up that escalater, jump on the tracks, get some speed going
down, hold triangle, move slowly to one side of the narrow track and grind for
a bit.

Find the Secret Tape - Go up to where you grind the subway rails, skate/grind
down them. Jump off before you get to the end and go up that little road.  When
you get up there you will see 3 rails, grind the middle one (it's more to the
right).  Around the middle jump off and grind on that other rail to your left. 
At the end, jump off and snag the tape.

100% Cash and Goals - Uhm, there's a lot of cash in this level.  If you have
any problems finding any specific one, email Nick, he likes people asking him
questions :o.

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Venice Beach, Cali:
by Nick

       Venice Beach checklist                 Cash
       High score 40,000                      $1500
       Pro score 100,000                      $1750
       SICK score 200,000                     $2000
       Collect S-K-A-T-E                      $1250
       Ollie Over The Magic Bum 5 times       $1500
       Collect 5 spray cans                   $1250
       Tailslide the Venice Ledge             $1000
       Hit 4 VB Transfers                     $1500
       Find the Hidden Tape                   $1250
       100% Goals and Cash                    $500

High, Pro, and SICK score - Right when you start, use the ledge on the right to
rack up massive grind points. Just keep grinding, jumping, kickflipping,
specail grinding, etc..

Collect S-K-A-T-E - Right when you start, grind on the fence to your left up to
the top of the building to get the S. Turn left, and keep going until you get
to a gap where you have to jump to get the K. Keep going around the building
and jump the next gap to get the A. Right by where you got the A, there should
be a ramp to get up to the higher roof, where there is a ramp to get the T.
Turn right and go down to the lower roof straight ahead and ramp off the ramp
to get the E.

Ollie Over The Magic Bum 5 Times - Turn left when you first start and keep
going straight till you find the first bum behind the wall. To find the next
bum, turn around out of the place where the first bum was, and keep going
straight and on the right there should be some stairs and a rail, the bum is
down in that area. Go back to where you first start and go all the way down
that straightaway until you see the next bum on your left. The 4th bum is below
the banner thing thats right by the 3rd bum. The 5th bum is right by where you
first start in the level.

Collect 5 spray cans - The first spray can is right behind where you start in
the back part, behind the buildings. The next one is on the other side of the
fence you see when you first start. The next one is down where you found the
2nd bum, off that ramp. The next one is back in the opposite corner from where
you start, in between 2 ramps that you have to ramp from one to the other to
get. The 5th can is at the end of the straightaway right when you first start
the level.

Tailslide the Venice Ledge - The Venice Ledge is located right behind the first
building on your immediate left when you start, to get there, you have many
difffernt choices. Just go by where the 2nd bum is located and jump over that
ramp. The ledge has grafitti on it that says "THE LEDGE" so its kind of hard to
miss, if you still can't find it, its by the rails that go down. Use right +
triangle to tailslide, or use a special tailslide.

Hit 4 VB transfers - This one is kind of hard to do, because one of the VB
transfers is difficult to hit. Go down the first straightaway you see when you
start, and you should see 3 different ramps. You have to hit the one on the
right, go completely over the one in the middle, and land on the one on the
left for the first VB transfer. If you hit this, you will have no problems with
the other VB transfers. After you hit that one, keep following the wall on your
right to 2 ramps facing you and 1 ramp not facing you. Hit the one not facing
you and go over the wall to another ramp. 2 VB transfers down. The third VB
transfer is by the first bum, just go over the real skinny wall. The 4th VB
transfer is right by the Venice Ledge. One ramp is on a higher platform than
the other one, once you hit that transfer, you are done!

Find the Hidden Tape - Get to the roof of the highest building, and go off the
ramp that is opposite the tape, do a trick to build up speed, then right after
you come off the ramp, theres a ramp that will launch you up to get the secret
tape!

100% Goals and Cash - All the cash in this level isn't terribly difficult, just
use your eyes to find it, and its easily gotten, if you can't find one, email
me!
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A guy by the name of replicant sent me this big email on how to get 100% on the
competitions and ill post it here

"Contest 1: Marseille, France
80% = Win the contest with 1st place
20% = Cash Icons (8 of them to get.)
Park Area: (2 Icons)
1. Look on the crossbar with the "Bienvenue Le Marseille" on it.
2. To the left of start on top of the Building. You need alot of speed
to grind the rail on top of the building and get it. Launch off of one
of the boxes
below it.
Hidden Area: (6 Icons)
***Go straight from the beginning and get up on the large planter area
and look for the
blue tree with a board leaning against it. Run into the board and break
it. The tree will fall
and crash into the fence and a hole will open it. Drop in it.
3. After dropping into the hole grind the rail in front of you and get
this icon.
4. Immediately launch over the fountain and get the icon above it.
5. Directly after is a 1/4 pipe with an icon floating over it.
6-7: Look left and right from the 1/4 pipe and you will see an icon
floating over each rail on
either side.
8. Ride back up the rampway you came down from in the hidden area and
you will see the
last icon on the end of the path,

You now have France at 100%

Contest 2: Skatepark Ventura
80% = Get 1st place in the contest
20% = Cash Icons (8 icons to get)
Park Area:
1. Go left at start and ride up 1/4 pipe to get first icon.
2. Ride back up the hump you came down and get the icon that is on the
half-circle rail to your right.
***This open Hidden area #2 which is on the far back right corner from
where you start at.***
3. Ride from the rail slightly to the right and jump ove the pathway
rail to get the 3rd icon.
4. Go to the BIG Wave ramp directly across from where you start the
level at and cruise up the right
side to get the icon floating there.
5. Now grind across the left side of the ramp and transfer to the rail
hanging from the ceiling. The icon
is inbetween the transfer and when you grind the hanging rail you will
open Hidden Area #1.
6. After landing from the rail turn right and go through where the fence
was and look for 2 1/4 pipes
on the back wall. In between them and high in the air is icon 6. You
need alot of speed to reach this one.
This is hidden Area # 1.
7. Go back to the starting area and ride to the bacl left side of the
park. You will see a large hump ramp
in the corner with an icon floating over it. Launch up and get the icon.

8. Directly beside the hump area is a now open doorway leading to
another outside area. Go outside into
Hidden Area #2 and jump from the ramp facing the van over it and get the
icon floating above it.

You now have Ventura 100%.

Contest 3: The Bullring
80% = You need 1st place in the contest
20% = Cash Icons (10 Icons)

A walkthrough for these would be tough to describe, so I will tell you
where they are and some ways to get them.
*In the ring area where the bull is running you see piles of shit. Look
for the bright green ones and run over them
and money will pop up into the air about head level with you. Jump up
and get it.(4 Down)
**From the start look back and to the left and forward to the right. You
will see large Red, White, and Green
banners hanging over the stands. In the very center of each banner is a
floating icon. You need a full special meter
and alot of speed to reach them, They are very high. You can launch up
the orange 1/4 pipe walls at the base of the
bullring to get to the bars. You will then need to grind the bars and
jump up to get the icons. It is a little tough, until
you get the hang of this. (2 Down - 6 Total)
***From the start look left, right, back, and in front of you and you
will see on the second level of the bullring stands
4 ramps. Directly above these ramps connecting left to right and front
to back are 2 long cables. You have to grind
each of these cables by launching from either ramp and grinding all the
way across collecting the icons attached to them.
Each of the 2 cables has 2 icons on it. A full special meter and some
speed help alot in reaching the wires. Get to 2nd
level of the stands and ride up the 1/4 pipe that is in front of the
prospective ramp you want to launch off of to the cables.
This takes practice and timing, so good luck. Some ramps seem short and
require you to Boneless up to the cable. Get
these 4 icons.

You now have The Bullring 100%."
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Tips and tricks..secrets and easter eggs

1. When you first click level select, it says "not available in demo" for a
split second, try it! (kris found this one)
2. Read down to the email from Cameltoe for more.

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Misc Crap

Put points into speed first, then air and hangtime since you need those to get
the tapes, and make the gaps etc...then, if you want big points, put them into
the grind specials.
To get tons of multipliers with grinds, get your special up then grind off
something, jump, kick flip, then do a special grind and repeat that until you
get massive multipliers. By that time you will have enough speed to probably
hit a gap of some kind, almost every level has a great spot to grind and get
tons of multipliers.
I don't think its possible to get 100% in any of the competitions, because I
have all the money from each competition and I don't have 100%, email me if you
have 100% and tell me how you did it!

Ok I've gotten like 15 emails since I went to sleep. I DO KNOW HOW TO GET THE
100% IN FRANCE THANKS FOR ALL YOUR EMAILS! :)
I'm going to add a couple things people sent me about this game that might help
you out.

ok i feel dumb i got 100% in everything without manuals, now with manuals, its
a lot more fun. To do a manual, hit up down before you land and you will do a
manual
i never knew this before today, when i actually did one, and i asked kris and
he's like "yeah you did a manual" and i got an email about manuals or
something...DO MANUALS FOR TONS OF MULTIPLIERS!
and no, i dont know any of the secret codes, or secret characters yet...i think
you get officer dick after you get 100% in everything, but i only need 100% in
the bullring then i think i get him...i don't know for sure though

OK i just beat the game 100% everything, you get officer dick and you unlock
cheat mode for extra characters! i think one of the characters is spider man
because of cameltoe (although he uses game enhancer! :o!
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This is part of an email from Cameltoe (you can find him on the messageboard)
"cheats so far:

1st charactor you beat it as: get Officer Dick
then skip to restart
kid mode
perfect balance
always special
stud
(others have said  :
weight
wireframe
slow
big head

Also i've gotten
beat as Officer Dick - Moon Physics
beat as custom charactor  - Spiderman
beat as Tony Hawk 80s tony hawk style
beat as Spiderman - level flip.


there are gonna have to be one more secret charactor and 2 hidden levels 'cause
of the way the cheat menu is layed out and because i have seen the 2 movies for
the hidden stages using my game enhancer..."
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some guy by the name of drew squire somehow got 2 million from a bug in the
game? he emailed me this information...
"the hanger
i did the usual jump over the gap land with a manual and grind the right
side of the rail and i jumped off and and a kickflip and it added 13,000
points to my score for some reason and i landed with a manual and did
some more kickflips. weird huh?"
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Special Thanks

We have done this all by ourselves, but I (nick) would like to thank neversoft
for making another great skating game and putting good music on it! (ska sux)
And thank Tony Hawk for being the cause of this great game. Replicant, Erik
Ferris (aka cameltoe), and all the other people that emailed me with some
information about the game. Most people emailed me about the France level, now
after school I'll get 100% in the competitions!
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Copyright 2000 (Nick C. and Kris K.) don't copy this faq or reproduce it or put
it in a magazine, or on a cd, or sell it to the idiot at your school that can't
afford a computer without our permission or we will kill you kthx! (just email
kris or nick to get permisssion, we're notassholes.. much)
