Pilotwings 64 Cheats & Tips

Warps

From San Francisco to New York
Using the Rocket Belt, head to New York and look for the park with the Secret Star. Just to the west is a green building with a bottom level entrance. Go inside and you'll see an N64 logo on the wall. Fly out the opposite end and you'll end up in San Francisco. From then on, you can go from San Francisco to New York as well.

From Miami to Seattle
Head towards Miami and look for the open Airplane hangar near the space port. Fly straight inside and turn around and go right back out. You'll reemerge in Seattle. Like in the other warp, once you do this you'll be able to go from Seattle to Miami as well.

Refuel in Mini-States
To refuel any vehicle that requires fuel just go southeast until you're near Florida and you will notice that there are to roads intersecting with another road that is coming out of Florida. (Note that the map view is very helpful in the finding this area.) At this intersection there will be two gas stations very close to each other. If you go under or near the open roof at the pumps your fuel will automatically be refilled.

Caverns Shortcut
Enter the test "Dark Caverns" in Crescent Island with the rocket belt. After the first couple turns the tunnel will go through a small hole. Behind the torch after the small hole on the left there is a small tunnel going up. If you go through this tunnel it will leave you right before the large cavern.

Mt. Wario
Choose the human cannonball mode and go to the Mt. Rushmore level. Hit Mario's face and it changes to Wario's face.

Instant Birdman Suit
On the first level (the island), fly under the land bridge and touch the star that is there, then you will instantly be teleported above the island and you will be in the birdman suit.

Day Into Night
In the beginner course, you'll find a cave in front of a chapel on top of the hill. There should be water coming out of cave, and a sewer grate deep inside. Fly up to the sewer grate and the game will pause a little and make a weird sound. The cave should be darker, when you leave the cave you'll see that it is night time.

Refuel your Vehicles
There are two gas stations on the "Little States" island from which you can refuel. If you follow the road to the northwest from Cape Canaveral in Florida, you'll see a gas station on your left. Fly around in there until you hear the same noise you hear when you take off from a hopping pad; you need to be close to the ground. Also, near the nuclear power plant (in the Midwest) is a little town. If you fly into that town with either a rocketpack or the gyrocopter you can get a free refill of gas by going under a little gas station roof.

Positions of the Stars
Holiday Island -- On the Northeast side of the island, tucked away underneath a rock formation by the beach on the coast of the island.

Everfrost Island -- On the NorthEast side of the main island, follow the waterfalls to the right and the star will be inside of a cave.

Crescent Island -- On the north side of the island inside a small cave along the coast.

Little States -- In the middle of Central Park New York.