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Title: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: 9innail on August 20, 2008, 02:31:08 am

 :applaud:
 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.

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/434947124_bf466ef5eb.jpg)

 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.

(http://almadonegocio.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/crazy-taxi.jpg)

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

(http://www.thg.ru/game/20050720/images/episode_i_racer_2.jpg)

 :soapbox:

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: Generic Eric 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.

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: EvilDindon 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)

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: Ginsu Victim on August 20, 2008, 11:35:34 am

Just use NullDC, then

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: EvilDindon 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 ?

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: Ginsu Victim on August 20, 2008, 11:52:33 am

make it selfboot (CDI). It's not that hard

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: EvilDindon 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 ?

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: Ginsu Victim 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

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: 9innail 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:

Title: Re: Sega Crazy Taxi Cabinet Friendly PC game
Post by: HairyDVD 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.