The "manual" is junk. It doesn't explain hardly anything other than how to put the disc i the PS2 and not to play too long. Couple that with the basic controls and the little article on the pricipals of driving near the end and that's 75% of the manual. Hell the copyrights in the back are like 5 pages. The manual the Japanese received was so big they had to make a bigger sleave for it. It was larger (thickness) than the DVD case.