Daytona USA returns...sorta'

[ThirdMarioBro]

Today is a sad day. My Dreamcast finally died. :(

But this kinda' makes up for it.

http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=13661

http://www.kombo.com/images/content/news/blurb_segaracingclassic_20090929.jpg


Yeah, they lost the name to licensing, but whatever. Doesn't matter. Too bad that knowing the franchise, it'll never make it to consoles, and thus never make it over here. I've missed that car so much.

[oldmanwinters]

Today is a sad day. My Dreamcast finally died. :(


My sincere condolences.:cry:

[ThirdMarioBro]

Daytona USA was/is one of the greatest racing games ever made (Back me up Krang!). The majority of today's racers (with the exceptions like WipeOut and such) are sims. Forza bores me. Project Gotham bores me. GT bores me. I don't want to tweak my engine. I want to drive really fast on intelligently designed and interesting to look at tracks. That's it. Blue skies baby. Nothin' but blue skies I see.

Good to see that car again. Really good. I don't need the branding. Frankly, the Daytona branding would get NASCAR involved, and they would probably want something more "American" oriented. Redneck sports can bite. Daytona USA 2 was a great game, but the US version was retooled to be more redneck friendly. Then NASCAR racing (http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=724&page=1#2188) arcade was basically sterlized. Now AM2 can make the Daytona game we all really wanted. Which would you rather have?


This....
http://www.system16.com/screens/nascar_b.jpg

or this...
http://www.system16.com/screens/daytona_c.jpg

Ahhh......happy days. Can't wait to see that in HD.

[ThirdMarioBro]

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3176738&sec=PREVIEWS

Okay, so that was a HUGE letdown. Apparently SRC is merely an upscaled port of Daytona USA. Nothing new has been added. I literally can't see anything graphically that's been touched up. Even the pop-up is still there. That's sad. You could just use the Nubula Model 2 emulator to do everything this port does.

They stripped ALL non-Sega logos from the game. That was to be expected, but while most of the soundtrack is intact (I can hear snippets in the 1up videos), they chopped the theme song, if not outright replaced it. Anybody who frequented arcades in the 90s had that burned into their heads.

Long story short, I'll just keep my Dreamcast Daytona 2001 hooked up to the VGA box.