Gran Turismo 4: The Ultimate Guide 

Thanks for watching! Video chapters are in the description. I've made two documents to accompany this video: a 'cheat sheet' the summarizes everything shown along with a few extras, and a 'tune list' that has 300+ tuning setups for a variety of cars. Cheat Sheet: docs.google.com/document/d/10mhPkPcvtET5pGUwy7YTL6pPjPqKUMwZm9MZ3CgnHKE/edit?usp=sharing Tune List: docs.google.com/document/d/1ClCpRVUgQrDWdh-e78sgTnxZbvdxWgrRWDcuYcg-U_8/edit?usp=sharing Some things I didn't mention in the video: - The '95 EA21R Cappuccino has slightly more torque and better acceleration than the '91 EA11R. If you can find the EA21R for 5,102 credits, go for that instead, but otherwise, the EA11R is better value. - The races at Tsukuba can be extremely difficult if there's a Cappuccino EA21R in pole, as it can build a huge lead. Exit and re-enter until it's further down the line-up, or buy a racing flywheel to make the race easier. - When buying a used Impreza, try to go for the Ver. V, Ver. VI, or the bug-eyes. The older Impreza's have much worse grip modifiers, on top of having less power. The Spec C from the Subaru dealership has the most grip by far of any Impreza, so it's worth saving up for. - There can be situations where you don't want to max out the downforce with the rear wing. For many MR's, especially lightweight ones, setting the front downforce to 30 can make the car feel very unbalanced when braking into corners at high speeds. If the car loses grip too easily and collapses while entering corners, try lowering it. Some rear-heavy cars like the Alpine A310 work best with 0 / 30 downforce. El Capitan is a good choice for testing downforce settings due to its many elevation changes. Meanwhile, many FF's and 4WD's will understeer less with reduced rear downforce. - My explanation of camber was very over-simplified. Front camber, on top of increasing front wheel grip, also increases the car's corner entry and braking stability. This is great for cars that feel unbalanced while entering corners. It creates understeer if set too high, however. Rear camber increases grip mid-corner, preventing loss of speed from skids. It can reduce corner exit traction in RWD's if set too high though. Generally, most cars work well between a range of 1.4 to 2.0. - On NTSC-U, when doing the B-spec training route shown in this guide, you need to buy the stage 4 turbo instead of the stage 3 for the 350Z Concept LM. The Fairlady Z LM in PAL and NTSC-J gets much more power from its turbo upgrades than NTSC-U's 350Z counterpart, and the stage 3 isn't enough to bump it from D1 to D2. - There are a lot of hidden variables contained in the car's chassis, downforce and tyre data that heavily affect how the car handles. For example, each car has grip modifiers for front and rear, and cars with wider tyres will also grip more and wear less. All cars also have a wind drag stat, and some can cut through air better than others (the GT-One Race Car is the second-most aerodynamic car in the game, while the Formula Gran Turismo and Esucdo are both tied for the least). If you're interested in learning more, I put together a spreadsheet by querying SpecDB, a car info database extracted from the game and included with Nenkai's GT4SaveEditor: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DtAPfe5YhuQ4p1mdoPcVAMF5NzzpZ7Jb0Q0gUpl1sEQ/edit?usp=sharing - I've also made a follow-up video that primarily focuses on tuning and how to reduce understeer. It goes into much more depth than this video's tuning section and explains many things that I didn't elaborate on here. Check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zydfobtVlWw.html - A lot of the setups I showed in this video were somewhat sub-optimal. The Corvette Z06 tune has way too much rear camber, and while it grips well mid-corner, it has less traction out of corners than it could have. I also realized that it's possible to tune LMP's with soft springs to make them easier to drive on Opera Paris. The cheat sheet has updated tips and tunes for most of the cars shown in this video. - I also added a tune for the Formula Gran Turismo to the cheat sheet, it's in the Other Tunes section. Like with my LMP tunes, it runs the softest springs and highest heights possible for the smoothest ride on bumpy tracks, with a lowered front downforce for better stability. Removing the toe-out and lengthening the gears with the gear trick will greatly reduce rear tyre wear. Also, it can't get rigidity or engine wear. - Hard sports tyres are almost never worth it, even in endurances. The grip decrease is so large and the durability increase is so small, that they end up wearing just as fast as mediums because the car skids and loses traction much more often. I suggest using mediums instead, particularly for the El Capitan 200 Miles endurance. - I added some 'endurance tunes' to the cheat sheet. These are basically optimised builds for B-spec'ing endurances. The Suzuki GSX-R/4 is one of the best cars to use in endurances, as it's extremely lightweight and has very high grip. The Motul Pitwork Z excels in most other endurances thanks to its 50 / 70 downforce, 51 : 49 weight distribution, wide tyres and high grip, while the Minolta 88C-V is ideal for Sarthe, Fuji and Super Speedway. - The Audi R8 has better grip and cornering ability than the Pescarolo's, and generally feels nicer to drive. However, the Pesca '04 wears its rear tyres less quickly, which makes it well-suited for the Sarthe endurances. - Qualifying (or "practice" as it's called in-game) will make many championships much easier, particularly the Hong Kong and Opera Paris races in GTWC. You can also exit before starting a championship race to either go to GT Auto for an oil change, or to the garage to save your game. - On some versions, the game's completion percentage can get messed up if you do the missions in a random order. It's believed that, in early versions of NTSC-U, Mission 1 always needs to be completed first to avoid this issue. Make sure to start with Mission 1 to be on the safe side. - GT4 Online (a rare version of GT4 that includes online play, and the preferred version in the modding scene) has unusual AI behaviour in many events, especially Mission 23. The AI cars are extremely random and will slow down or crash into walls unpredictably. There isn't much advice I can give for completing this mission, other than to persevere and get the lucky run where the AI co-operates.

I've been playing Gran Turismo 4 since it came out, yet you managed to cover stuff that I was unaware of such as the impact of mileage and rigidity on the car's performance, thank you!

the peak of gaming, send me back, beam me up stop this modern madness I want to go back

Gosh man that intro gave me goosebumps. Reminded me on why this is still my favorite racing game of all time. Thank you for this guide. Makes me like the game a ton more.

My nine year old myself is crying for happiness. Thank you for make this masterpiece. When I was young i don't understand english, and doesn't understand what to do, so i only play arcade mode. (i'm from Hungary). Nowadays I try GT4 again but it's still hard for me. With this guide i try to finish the game first time on my life!

This was the pinnacle of gaming for those back in the day, utterly brilliant game and well beyond its years at the time. I’m 32 now this had me dreaming of owning some of these cars and many years later I have owned some of the cars I wished I had back then , incredible nostalgia here

little tidbit for automatic trans users. holding the upshift button (r2) if i remember correctly will hold the gear

This guide is like a gold mine. Like you learn for real how to play this masterpiece of a game. Thanks!

Fantastic guide as always. You got me into GT and racing as a whole. Cheers

these guides are so god damn good it is worth watching again, thank you very much for compiling all the info in a very handy and easy to access video! :) hope the algorithm gives you a well deserved boost

I just managed to buy a computer monitor, buy an HDMI AV convertor, dig up the PS2 and started a new GT4 save. Been years since I last played. The best game of all time for me, and watching this guide brought back many memories, but also learned a few new things along the way. Best game guide I've ever seen. Very detailed and easy to understand at the same time. Well done my friend :)

The intro made me cry. I've been playing GT games for pretty much my entire life, starting with GT2 and playing every main GT title up until GT7 (except GT1 and GT3) so hearing the remixed Moon Over The Castle and the mashup of replays during the intro got me feeling really emotional. The intro is about as perfect as the guide itself. Absolutely spectacular work 11/10. Would recommend this guide to anyone looking to pick up GT4.

Really nice to have cohesive tuning info on this game without having to dig through old forums. Thank you!

This video has single-handedly improved nearly everything for me about Gran Turismo 4. An absolute must-watch if you want to get better at this game!

Coming from your GT3 guide, just wanna say was very surprised by the depth of it and learnt quite a lot. Looking forward to this one.

This was masterful work. You have my undivided respect for this work of art in video form.

Please continue with gt 5 6 and 7, your guides are a major help really detailed. Loved the video

This is a really, REALLY good and comprehensive guide. You give tips that I didn't even know after playing this a lot every year for 18 years

I play GT4 since 2006 (I was 4 years old, playing with my dad) now, after hundreds of hours and 17 years later, i'm on a quest to achieve 100%. GT4 was a huge part of my life and it's my favourite game, i love watching these guides and the community keeping the game alive. Thanks!

Incredible work. Never knew this game was so complete and detailed

This single-handedly made me pick up the game again. This is an incredible guide and thank you for putting such a huge amount of effort into it!

For mission 34, I tend not to do the in race cheesing like cutting grass and wall riding. If you're playing on an emulator and you're desperate for the win just save state after every successful section. Basicslly turns the whole thing into a giant series of license tests. Not as satisfying and you're still cheating but at least you technically did the entire thing without looking "dirty" (not that it matters)

I've never played this game, but the chill tunes, excellent explanations, thorough details, and nice editing had me enraptured all the way through. Definitely need to pick it up eventually.

This is top-tier content. Appreciate the time you spent to make this!

*hey cant thank you enough for this guide. this game is so timeless many ppl will appreciate this video you made.*

Man, you are beyond amazing!!! Wow. This must've taken an insane effort and time to make. On behalf of the community, HUGE THANK YOU.

you're an absolute legend for making this

I only recently got into Gran Turismo, last March that is, but your guides on GT2 and GT3 made the games so much more enjoyable and helped me get through a difficult time. Got GT4 running yesterday and I'll be watching this again for help. Highly appreciate the effort which you put into these guides and thank you for making me experience happiness again ❤

In the opening scenes, the shot of the Ford GT going down the long straight is just amazing. Can’t imagine the amount of effort that went into this video. Incredible work

Very good guide👏🏻♥️

I've been playing this game almost since it came out and im still learning new things about it Thanks!

i love your guides. I wish you could remake this guide but with your voice it so I can listen to it like a podcast. keep up the great work!

OMG!! This is brutal !! You. Know all about the game!! Best guide that I see in Life!!! Nice Job

This is top tier! Been playing gt4 since its release and i learned many things still!

fantastic guide that might finally make me want to play gran turismo 4 to the end

Really good guide. I used to play this game a long time ago for fun. I never knew how deep the customization of the car goes. I learn a few new things from this guide.

This looks really great. You did a good job!

Thank you so much for the amount of love and work put into this

Just wanted to say that I was struggling with my International-A license and bought the Mercedes they give you to get a feeling of the car. Then, I kind of liked the Nurburgring race. Yesterday, I was refining suspension of my favorite cars with it, today I recognized almost every part of the intro you made. Great job!

Thanks for this. We talked at GT Planet a few years back.

This was great to watch thank you

incredible video

I never played this game, only played other racing games. Because of this video it motivates me to try this game.

Thats amazing you just wrote down the the lore of the GT4!! Thank you!

Great guide

great video

Pretty nice video mate.

God tier guide.

Great ideas. Thank you 👏

Thank you so much for this video! My dad and I used to play this game when I was 8 in our home country (he was the only who actually played while I sat watching him play) and got the game to 40%ish done. We left our country when I was 11. Fast forward 6 years I was able to ship my ps2 with the memory card to the states! Not too long ago I bought a GT4 copy and I’m at 70% done. For me this game brings good childhood memories of those late nights my father and I used to share. Thank you so much for this guide! My goal is to finish 100% while my dad watches me finish what he started

After years of absence this game alone was responsible for sparking my interest in racing games again. For a long time the only game I played on my used PS2.

this is very helpfull thanks for the guide bro 👍

tysm love this game

Thank you for this video

Knew a thing here and there but never knew that the used cars looped, or that the customizable parts gave such huge differences to handling, thanks for the guide

Good job on this one! Thanks to you, I was finally able to win the GT championship.. but still, really well made guide on basically every important thing! Keep it up my dude :)

Very good!!

A masterpiece of gaming from a time before DLC, microtransactions, day1 patch, multi GB patches, live service etc.

thanks for the video. never had the stuff to get into gran turismo as a kid.

Wonderful guide! Sadly I don't have a controller for my PS2 but when I buy one (and some games) I'll be using this.

This is incredible. I don't even have the game installed anywhere lol i just saw it came today nearly 20 years ago on the ps2 and i always wanted to play it. Maybe i will soon. Thank you for the guide, it is incredibly detailed, like those game guide magazines lol

This man did a PhD thesis on GT4. I fucking love it.

Nice !

thanks!!

I got gold on everything three times (besides the endurance races) when this first came out. I do not need a guide, but i am here for it! The switch has no good racing games (physical, i don't do digital games) so i have been itching for a game like this, and the others in the series don't compare.

There's a new thing I discovered about Lineup Re-Rolling in GT4 (and GT3 and 5 as well). The lineup isn't entirely random. If you boot up your PS2/Emulator, and go to an event like, say GTWC, as the very first thing, it will be the exact same lineup every time. And the same goes for every following re-roll. If however, the first event you choose is different, and then go to GTWC, it will either be a brand new lineup or the same as before just with the initial one skipped. Sorry if the wording is confusing, there are a whole lot of intricacies with this mechanic and even with my testing I'm still not fully aware of how it all works,. However, there's one important trick you can do with this knowledge can massively reduce the number of times re-rolling to get an easier lineup. This works on NTSC-U. I don't know if it'll work on PAL/NTSC-J because all versions have different car lineups. Regardless, It goes like this: -Buy a car you want that's competitive, make sure to equip sports tires and all other upgrades. Let's use the Viper GTS-R as an example (could you imagine how I got this idea?) -Tune the car to your liking and then save the game. Reset the console. -Go to El Capitan 200 Miles, and exit. -Go to GTWC and enter and exit 2 times. Once you enter it for a 3rd time, you'll find a lineup that consists of the Gillet, R390 GT1,Toyota 7, Camaro LM and CLK GTR. This is very doable for the Viper and more. If you don't have Endurance races unlocked by this point, you can instead go to Sunday Cup first and you just have to re roll 2 more times.

Everytime i hear "Panama" remembers me the US intro with the tagline: "The drive of your life" and boy, this makes me a bit emotional.. This game taught me a little about tuning cars, making them faster and driving real hard on a game. i got so many memories from GT4 that if i say to someone that doesn't know games thinks i'm a real racing car driver. One of the coolest memories i saved on a replay: i did an entire lap in Sonoma raceway drifting in an used '91 Lexus (just for fun). Someday i will post all my good memories (replays) on my RU-vid channel!

I always buy increase rigidity. Thank tou for this guide.

That opening music reminds me of first launching GT4 with my grandma next to me in 2009 and watching the cinematic before racing her, she went for Citroen C5 because all cars shes ever had were Citroens. Miss her. Thank you for the video. And now lets watch everything after the intro.......

that's some good content! thank you!

thanks, help me out a lot, i've play this game when i was young and i didin't understand anything at all, but thanks to the video i'm playing the game again and enjoying, i hope someone in the community make a portuguese version of the video, because there a lot of information on tunning that i can't understand

I wish racing sims have setup guides like yours, this is amazing!

I didn’t like gt as a young kid a preferred more arcade racers(underground 2 was and still is my fav). I kept my ps2 till now when I’m 22 and I remembered I have gt3 and gave it another chance and I’m blown away. Your guide on gt3 was immensely helpful and now i found gt4 for 12$ and this guide is even better, Thank you.

Man i love this game, started playing again after years and its just so good, im not even a car guy, I enjoy this game because its such a great 'rpg' esque game lol

this game is a masterpiece

When I was 7y/io and first played this game when it came out, I was truly fascinated. Now it's the same thing

This is my childhood game, thanks for bringing me back some memories that im grateful for.

🙂hello TeaKanji I think this great and beautiful tribute to a game as fantastic as gt4 is really wonderful. It is a great video and a great recommendation that they have made me to be here and see it, so congratulations for such a good job and so much effort, my friend.🤗

This slowjazz makes me feel like im back home in Son Deago😊

Back in the days i'd play gt4 too with my friends for fun,but i've never know this actually complex and realistic simulation racing games damn it

27:09 I literally gasped :O Ty for telling me where I can get this car

Impressive the amount of details in a game that's almost 2 decades old.

In an emulator, you can map the L2 and R2 triggers on your controller to Right Thumbstick Down and Up respectively, to have built in analog gas and brake functionality with the triggers on newer controllers.

wow thanks

just got the steam deck and GT4 is the 1st ps2 game i installed thx this is mad useful !!

You are my hero and my curiosity for the Gran Turismo saga Just skyrocket after I see your videos! Just one little question maybe in the future can you make a little video to understand how in 2023 a noob can install GT6 on a PS3 without losing is mind and soul. I know that the process of updating is a mess but it's the 4th time that I uninstall the game data and repeat everything. Thanks and keep with the good work!!

Very good guide my friend! one of the most complete I have seen. will there be a guide for gran turismo 5?

i'm so impressive for the video quality!

In any of these games the cobra R is such an investment as well as the 89 Mazda MX-5 Miata. The things you can do to them both and keep progressing.

awesome guide man, really great in-depth explanation of this game. Out of curiosity was wondering what would be a good tune for either the Chevy Camaro z28 coupe ‘97 or camaro ss ‘00. this game made me love those (probably because of the lm car lol) and was thinking about going through as much of the game with all the upgrades on one to relive my childhood lol. anyways thank you for the great work on your gt guide series, me and others really appreciate it

I played the game when i was like 12 years old i think and it took me like 7 years to beat the game (of course with big gaps of not playing it specially since my -pirated- disc got scratched and couldn't play anymore until i bought a new game after years, also my english skills weren't that good as today so couldn't understand too much besides some basic stuff like car restrictions and other things) and i have never been that deep into tunning and or with almost no knowledge in cars in general and still could beat the game without any of this, that's what i love about the game, is fun to both experienced and very hard fans of cars and to casual players, the game really encourage to choose any path you want depending in your skills, i actually started a new file some months ago with my new skills in driving but i'm still very ignorant in tunning except for some basics but i'm taking my time and i find funny how easy for me are licenses now unlike when i first played the game, i really love this game and these kind of guides are very useful to not only beginners but for those who wants to play the game again after many years.

GOAT

I like how when I first tried gt2 I picked a car based on looks and I thought the supra looked good and it was op of course and I also somehow pick the Chevy z28 before learning anything about gt4. I seem to have a good record with early random car buys as I have literally no idea what I'm doing, I'm a Sega arcade racer person lol.

This video right here should have been a pack in DVD special when the game shipped and ALL simcades that include turning need this type of video to get people more into their game. After 18 years + of playing GT4 casually (yet never even finishing the game, 2% completion everytime ) a video like this actually let's you appreciate the full scope of what the game is doing especially cause without tuning enjoying the GT physics engine is a crapshoot between enjoying your favourite car vs enjoying the physics model for that car, but tuning and understanding it can make the game way more enjoyable

OH GOD THE INTRO

Thank you so much for putting all of this together. I've been having a blast playing GT3 and 4 using your tips. Will you be making a handbook for GT4 like you did with GT3? Thanks!

thanks for this guide i check one secret theory and this guide help upgrade 100% b specs 10,000 points

Awesome, now I can barely be able to drive competently in this game in style. I do love this game, but it is extremely unforgiving and I've never been good at precision steering with a controller.

Awesome! Wish u many views)

It's like reading War & Peace.