just a short update on this.
been playing all 3 games this week, and daytona 2 is the battle on the edge edition.
well, i've been having trouble finishing any of the courses on any of the levels after a few hours.
i would come close, but never make the final lap.
it turns out somehow in the supermodel GUI that i was using, the controls were mapped to multiple actions.
as it turned out, the steering also turned out to brake everytime i turned. so i would always be losing speed.
yeah, i know, i should have noticed, but i thought i was just rusty, and out of practice in a new game.
so now i've been able to finish some of the courses, but have a long way to go to finishing in the top 10 of daytona.
scud race is a whole different story, and le mans, the cars fishtail like crazy.
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aesthetically, i don't like the daytona 2 scenery, it's very garish, overblown, with a crazy vivid color palette.
maybe i just like the somewhat natural scenery and palettes of the first one. all the extra stuff around the track is
just distracting.
as far as the music goes, it's ok, but the american vocalist is way too in your face, the japanese one is better, but
i've lowered the volume anyways.
i'm going to take a short break from these, because i'm almost finished with sega rally revo on the xbox 360, and
have poured about 80 hours into it, and since the driving controls are totally different, i don't want to get mixed
up with arcade controls.
i have some long posts and details about the sega rally series ready to go at some point.
[by the way, i have ONLY used gamepad controllers for home use, and never a steering wheel for some reason, because to me its easier on the hands
for multi hour play.. in arcades wheels are fine, because i've never really played racing games for several hours in a row]
later
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