#DAYTONA USA ROM MODEL 2 ROM PC#

Vids of arcade-only Daytona USA 2 (Battle On The Edge and Power Edition)Īlso, an absolutely beautiful vid of an early version of the original Daytona from 1993. That shouldn't be a problem for Wii because it's got 88 MB RAM, more than Model 3's RAM + ROM.īesides Super Mario Galaxy looks like a super duper Model 3++ game (play Loop-De-Loop Galaxy (Ray Surfing) to see what I mean. Daytona USA 2 used lots of texture swapping. The thing with Model 3 boards that could not be matched by Dreamcast, was in addition to the small amount of RAM (8 MB) it had 64 MB of texture ROM. That's with all features on, which should include AA. (if that even, as theoriginal Model 3 was only 60M pixels/sec) and 1M rectangle polygons/sec or 2M triangles/sec with some kind of AA on.īut Wii, why not? Well over 900M pixels/sec, and if we take GameCube's lowest polygon spec, 6M triangles/sec (remember 6-12M in game) add 50%. Model 3 Step 2.1 board specs max out at 200M pixels/sec Even the Xbox1 version of the Daytona 2 and Scud Race tracks looked downgraded in textures and everything. Whereas the Dreamcast &PS2 certainly could not. I'm sure even the Wii could handle a 100% port of Daytona 2. Will you be able to wait for the game's projected early 2001 release in the States? Not I and we'll be sure to hook you up with the import review long before the final US version ships. (Those of us who hate the soundtrack can just cross our fingers and pray that SoA includes Richard Jacques' remixes for the American version).ĭaytona looks on-track for a December release in Japan, and should include on-line network racing modes to let you go head to head over.

And though it was hard to hear the soundtrack, I could swear I heard Takenobu 'Singing Daytona Man' Mitsuyoshi busting out the familiar lyrics of 'Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, Daytooooona' in the background. The game played exceptionally through both the steering wheel and the standard DC pad, reminding me why I had spent the bulk of my college career in my dorm room playing Saturn Daytona. As for me, I've always preferred Daytona over Daytona 2 - and now that all the tracks have been revamped to look like a Model 3 game, I ain't complainin'.įortunately, the control remains just as juicy - Daytona DC is all about pulling off powerslides and surviving massive end-over-end crashes. This will come as a disappointment to anyone who was expecting extra tracks from Sega's other arcade racers our designer friend flatly stated that Daytona 2 tracks would not be in the game.

#DAYTONA USA ROM MODEL 2 ROM PC#

It's possible that the bonus track from Daytona Deluxe on the PC will be in the game as well. And the split-screen mode is just as flawless, leading us to speculate that this game is running on the F355 engine.Īnd now to the bad news: when questioned at geek-point, one of the game's designers revealed that the game will feature the three courses from the arcade Daytona, two bonus tracks from Daytona CCE on the Saturn, and two bonus, never-seen-before courses. Remember when you'd come through the second corner in the arcade version, and the giant rock with the Sonic relief sculpture would pop in? Not here, baby - my eyes probed the horizon for any trace of draw-in at all times, and I couldn't find a snitch of it. And the scourge of every Daytona game, the visual blemish known as pop-in, has been eliminated.

Vibrant colors, ultra-detailed textures, shiny car models, per-pixel volumetric car lighting, and up to twenty vehicles on-screen at once - all running at 60fps with no slowdown. Put the arcade and the Dreamcast version head-to-head, and that little $150 console slaughters it.Īnd damn, does it ever look incredible. But wait! Sega wasn't content to just port over the geometry data from the arcade version and leave it at that - each course has been painstakingly rebuilt, retextured, and loaded up with more details than ever before. The game's redone interface gave us access to three courses: the Three Sevens Speedway from the arcade version, the Desert City track from Championship Circuit Edition, and an entirely new course called the 'Rin Rin Rink' (a-hem). Boys and girls, this ain't no four-week port this is a choice contender for arcade racer of the year. This afternoon, IGNDC got to sit down with a near-complete version of Daytona DC, and what we played made us want to burst out into a rousing chorus of Blue, Blue Skies. While the screens were too tiny to make out much detail, we were kinda concerned - all that we could see were the original arcade tracks, and some skeptics insinuated that the game would be a straight port of the arcade version with no frills, not at all unlike the nasty, nasty conversion of Dynamite Cop.įortunately, this has turned out to be completely false. Last week, preliminary screenshots surfaced of Sega's Dreamcast conversion of Daytona USA.

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