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[edit] GameCube

• Items in inventory are not listed each time you warp to a level, activate and deactive them to see what items you have, turbo's will be lost this way. (use up/down to (de)activate and left/right to change)
• Items in inventory dissapear witout using them, using the shop is suspected to be the problem of this
• Purchased attributes are lost when a new character is started, a workaround is to start all characters so you have all at level 1 and none at new.