🔈 Click or press a key for sound
RT / W speed up · LT / S slow down & reverse · Stick / A D steer · A (SNES) · B (Xbox) / Space mining laser · X (SNES) · Y (Xbox) / R radar
| RT / W | speed up · hold at Boost and watch the heat! |
| LT / S | slow down · keep holding to back up |
| Stick / A D | steer |
| East button / Space | mining laser (A on SNES, B on Xbox) · break rocks, grab the gems |
| North button / R | tap: no cockpit, cockpit, command cockpit (X on SNES, Y on Xbox) |
| Command cockpit | A (SNES) / Space: beacon card · tap B (SNES) / H: show the way home · tap North to close |
| Hold B (SNES) / A (Xbox) / H | near a station (the gold 🪙 lamp lights up): auto-dock, flying you into the sale box · let go to take over |
| Select (−) / Tab | ship status: every upgrade, its rank and what it does |
| Down (d-pad / stick / ↓) | hold over a planet to dive (needs atmospheric engines) |
| Hold North + tap laser / B | drop your beacon so everyone can find the spot (again to pick it up) |
| West button / Shift | blaster, once you buy it (X on Xbox, Y on SNES) |
| Shop pads | stop on a coloured pad beside a station to buy that upgrade |
| Station | stop in the green dashed box under the station to sell your gems for credits |
| Space Ranger dock | stop in the blue dashed box above a station to drop off rescued rangers for faction points ★ (and credits); hold still on the blue pad beside it to trade points for a bigger ship (upgrades start over) |
Steering always stays on the stick and d-pad. Escape closes this without saving.