[zombieman000]

Anyone have the Japan-only PS2 "OutRun 2 SP Special Tours" and is it worth paying ridiculous ebay reseller prices if I already have 2006? Prob answered my own question :/ From what I've read all it really has over 2006 is better steering wheel support and some older Sega racing game-themed levels included in the first Xbox port and later arcade versions but was just curious/looking for reasons to get further into debt

[Rud31]

that isn't crazy ebay prices. It goes for 8000 yen or more in Japan too.
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[zombieman000]

Ah ok, will just settle with what I have now then

[1CC]

I bought it for 20 bucks at playasia a few years ago lol.

[notbov]

I thought Online Arcade only had the SP courses, whereas C2C/2006 has both 2 and 2SP courses

I could be wrong, I didn't grab Online Arcade since I had C2C on my PC
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[1CC]

I like drafting and the things that fly by in-between stages to indicate your performance, but playing 2 in C2C or SP still kinda sucks because they cut the ending movies and name entry and just award you some stupid in-game currency instead.

This is what sucks about C2C and SP in general: no name entry at the end, no intro movie and demo and high score display at the beginning. The original OutRun2 on Xbox was the better arcade conversion by far, I don't care about all the crap they added, because they forgot all the important details.

This is why I'd really like to try Online Arcade at some point and see if it actually is closer to the arcade version.

PS: I just remembered another thing OutRun2SP on PS2 has over OutRun2006: the first option selected after starting the game is the arcade mode and not that stupid tacked on Coast 2 Coast mode.

[allensmithee]

you can play the arcade version in the c2c
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[Jigsaw]

The XBLA version has 720p and online support, looks gorgeous and all that, but aside from what was mentioned it has no local MP (unsure if any other versions did), and it has less music than even the original OutRun2 Xbox port. I'd be very hard pressed to consider it the 'definitive' home version.

[1CC]

Can't you include your own MP3s?

Also local MP? Well, the original Xbox versions have system link (and PS2 may have it too), but as it is the case with all home conversions, it's pretty forgettable because there's no traffic. Or do you mean that hot-seat multiplayer mode in OutRun2 (and maybe 2006?), that one was kinda neat but no replacement for the butchered system link.

[Jigsaw]

Either or is more than the XBLA version has, which is zilch.

The 360's custom soundtrack feature is amazingly stupidly implemented in that you can't actually copy files over to your 360 HDD in any way, you can only rip audio CDs. So no, you can't use your own MP3's. Regardless it's a moot point because it would be no more a replacement for the original port's various remixes etc than, I dunno, listening to whatever music on your PC while playing the game on your Xbox.

[Persona mobile]

Fantasy Zone OST (3 volume) on JP iTunes for 1200 yen each!
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id839993911
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id839331808
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id839329670
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[boojiboy7]

I hate the 360's bastardization of the OG Xbox's awesome soundtrack feature.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

COMPANY RUINED



I wanna make a Devil Busters reference but I'm sure whoever had any assets (Sega, Sims, or in a very unlikely occurrence Atlus) threw them out/wrote over them long ago.

[Rud31]

That's a bad font.
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[Kappuru]

Crazy Taxi is free on iOS and is a really, really faithful port. It even has Crazy Box!
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[BenoitRen]

[Takashi]

It's a much better logo, but yeah, RIP quirky 80s Blade Runner feel of the former.

And SEGA jumped on the 3D googles bandwagon in style:



http://sega.jp/sns/201404/aprilfool/
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[Gironika]

This font-art really is an odd choice. 4/1-joke?
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[Loki Laufeyson]

whenever any company changes it's logo, it's always to make it more bland
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[Gironika]

not necessarily so, see e.g.

or

or
[img]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3444/3356302623_7419a4a9a3_z.jpg?zz=1[/img]
or

are good examples for approaches from different angles that manage to find an identity that is kept for ages (-literally-).
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[Pijaibros]

In news I expected to materialize a decade ago, this little device exists! http://gdemu.wordpress.com/



I want to believe again!

[zombieman000]

Made my day

[Persona mobile]

That's awesome! Totally going to tweet about it!
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[shnozlak]

GODDAMNIT I just threw out a broken DC I had been holding onto for like 8 years
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Mixtapes galore ~ VG MUSIC
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[Persona mobile]

Why would you throw out a Dreamcast, broken or not? ;_;
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[Loki Laufeyson]

from a show that just started on crunchyroll, hero bank
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[BenoitRen]

Hero Bank? Isn't that a 3DS game? It's already got an anime?
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[Loki Laufeyson]

i guess it's one of those cross-media promotion things where they do everything all at once
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[Persona mobile]

[Persona mobile]

YOOOOOOOOO



God, do I have to watch an unsubbed kid's anime just for this now?
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[Loki Laufeyson]

no, it's subbed and on crunchyroll
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[Takashi]

PSA: According to Jeff Minter, the "The Rise And Fall Of Service Games" book has some pretty bad research in it (so far - wrong images, poor technical knowledge).
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[Jigsaw]

Um, er, good thing I was never able to receive my digital copy for backing it on Kickstarter then I suppose??

[Persona mobile]

FUCKING WHY http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/10/segas-hardware-girls-getting-anime-series/
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[notbov]

why is Genesis-ko a distinct, separate entity from MD-chan

that raises a bunch of questions re: territorial system girls

this is some deep, rabbit-hole type shit
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[dementia]

http://archives.sega.jp/3d/outrun/

New Outrun 3D details:

2 new music tracks (Manabu Namiki and Chibitech)
No Testarossa
Color select for the generic car

[Rud31]

hawt.
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