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Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« on: August 20, 2008, 02:31:08 am »
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 Crazy Taxi the PC version is an awesomely cabinet friendly PC game. I got the idea when my son and I went to California Extreme '08. They had a Sega Crazy taxi arcade cabinet that I spent a lot of time playing because it was extremely fun.



 Because I couldn't find the emulated version I tried the PC version because it has the actual arcade game as an option. I run it using the Maximus Arcade batch file option. You can set it up to use keyboard buttons or a gamepad. Anyway give it a shot. It is a lot of fun.



I also have the PC version of Star Wars Episode I Racer on my cabinet for the same reason.



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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2008, 09:09:37 am »
I played Crazy taxi at the movie theater a few times.  Fun stuff.  It was the reason I got a dreamcast.  I agree that episode racer is fun.

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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2008, 11:25:48 am »
Hi,

I love crazy taxi too, I used to play it a lot on my dreamcast.

But the PC version doesn't provide the true arcade or true DC feeling for 2reasons :

- The animations are not smooth (even by forcing vsync on thenvidia driver)
- The offspring songs are not the same and less fun.

Although, I'll put it on my mame cab when it will bel done. (And Virtua Tennis 3)
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2008, 11:35:34 am »
Just use NullDC, then
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2008, 11:43:02 am »
Yeah but the DC emulation is not really 100% accurate till now, and second, I think Crazy Taxi iso image dumped by kalisto team is a .bin and .cue, and null DC only support .cdi images as I remember, isn't it ?
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2008, 11:52:33 am »
make it selfboot (CDI). It's not that hard
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2008, 11:57:18 am »
No It's OK I found a 72 meg .cdi file (megaupload)

But, is that game well emulated ?
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2008, 12:11:39 pm »
I haven't tried it, but this says it's VERY PLAYABLE
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58442
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2008, 01:29:19 pm »
 I've tried Crazy Taxi on the Demul emulator and it is playable but the game runs at too low of a resolution for my taste. Other then the resolution it is a very nice port. I have a 6300 nvidia geforce card on my cabinet and I can run the PC version at full graphic capability. I just wish the actual arcade game was emulated. Well maybe one day. :blah:
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Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2008, 04:50:49 pm »
Just dusted off my copy and gave it a go - works well with keys.  May not be perfect (pc version) but all-in-all still a good addition to any mame arcade machine and runs pretty well on a decent graphics card as previously stated.
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