I still own the original Saturn version of Daytona USA to this day. Despite the visual downgrade, Sega AM2's initial Saturn port of their Model 2 arcade hit kept the fun gameplay, controls and soundtrack. Composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi singing for all three tracks always felt endearing...
I remember paying a hefty price for this for my Japanese Saturn on the day of release. When I got it, I couldn't help the feeling playing a game that was only 75% finished, huge amounts of pop-up, glitches everywhere. It was painful to look at, yet I still loved the game, and spent 100's of hours perfecting every course. In terms of gameplay, it's still one of the best arcade racers. ♥️
Nothing like owning a sega saturn in 1995. At 10 years old i literally felt like I owned an arcade and was living in the future. To this day its one of the best moments of my childhood. Having this game, virtua fighter, virtua cop with the gun and a few lesser known games in 95 was insane! Never played 3d games prior to this and was truly ground breaking!
Thanks for the Daytona videos; everything about this game puts a smile on my face. Back when I got this as a gift in 1996, I was so thrilled to have my favorite arcade machine on my TV I didn't care about the visual downgrade. Sega succeeded in retaining the essence of what makes Daytona special, and proved to me that graphics are far from the greatest factor in determining how much fun a game can be. Now, if they'd mangled the soundtrack... I might have to sing a different tune :p
Looked up this game today for the nostalgia. The first videos that show up are the arcade version, which is beautiful. As someone who only played this version, I don’t remember the game looking this bad on Saturn.
It's definitely a flawed version of the game but still very fun and playable. I especially like how you can drive the wrong way and still have laps counted and even get time bonuses.
@@superbroly64DS Correct. Graphics don't make the game. You can compare Daytona to FX Zero 64. FX Zero 64 doesn't look good, but like Daytona, its a very fluid and solid racer.
@@superbroly64DS That's what we're hear for. That's part of why we at Sega United are forming UNG and why our friends at Alethiea Games,LLC have been secretly developing "RAZOR" for 2 and half years. We are planning to bring SEGA back into the Home Consumer Business, so that they can show everyone HOW its down, knock some sense into Nintendo and so that Sony can finally pack it up and leave the Console business and take all the parasites that came in with them including Microsoft making Game Consoles instead of Investing in an Ecosystem for its Windows Gaming.
If this and VF1 were a lot more polished and not rushed I don’t think the Saturn would have got such a bad rep for 3D games. SEGA RALLY, VF2 proved it was a capable machine.
I bought a Saturn instead of the psx back in the day because I loved Sega arcade games, and also snk arcade titles... saturn had both ! They may not be as good as the arcade , but they were really fun! I had tons of fun with Sega games on the saturn ... I had the console for like 2 years only, maybe less, but played hell of it... I also had the psx, but didn't like it nearly as much... Sega has its magic back in those days, that I just can't explain ... :)
I had the same experience with the Nintendo wii U, another console that ended its run prematurely. Was the first console i bought with my own money and i only owned for maybe 2 years, but it brings back so many memories.
Even if sega sat. Is less powerfull than PS, I love this console. And even if Sony had GT2(Best racing game ever made), sega was still a king in arcade games, especially in racing games.
@@RubiaAndroidZ I own PS3 version of daytona, and it's the best port ever existed, but the minuses are: No split screen multiplayer, no sound test, no new cars, no new tracks, and new soundtrack are not the best remixes.
@@alexkubrat3868im really bad at Gran Turismo 2, it always makes me rage quit. maybe I’ll learn it someday, but for now I prefer arcade gameplay for racing.
@@admiralAlfonso9001 Yea, I agree. Over the years I actually changed my opinion and I think that arcade racers can be more fun over games that aim at realism. Daytona USA 2 for example.
What a throwback this is.. Maybe the first game I got for my Saturn... Which came in those cheap ass clear cases that had the joints that broke on day one
DSM The editor Daytona USA was the most technically advanced racing video game at the time, so porting it down to a new to market, $399 home console, which also proved to be hard to program on, it turned out ok.
Takes me back. I loved the Saturn version. The pop up never bothered me since I maybe only played it once on the arcade, bit hundreds of times on the Saturn. I hot the PS3 version and it's much harder almost impossible to place first, but I placed first on Saturn always.
Thanks! Daytona is one of my all-time favorites, so I know it like the back of my hand, heh. Anyway, if ya liked this video, check out my longplays of other versions of Daytona. :)
Some of my favorite gaming memories are from this game! Many hours spent on this back in 95, I only had this, Myst, Virtua Fighter and Sega Rally championship when I had my Saturn.
And how I loved this OST! Hahahaha. I was 11 years old And I just loved to put the Daytona or the Sega Rally in my CD player and listen to its songs all day long doing my ahome work ! Those were the days ...
Having never played the arcade before we got the Saturn I thought this was the greatest thing ever. My brothers and I spent countless hours just trying to best the fastest lap times all while enjoying the amazing soundtrack. After all these years it's still one of the best arcade racing games.
Man I loved my Saturn I got it for Christmas in 94 , that dude singing on the tracks was going hard especially on the ohhhhhhhh had ho hooooooo oh hoooooooo how ho ho !!!!!!
Despite the poor graphics, the game as a whole still plays decently where you still felt like you got full control on your car. The only problem is that the A.I can be annoying to get pass, they can even bump you into the wall when colliding with them
I had a Genesis back in the day, but never a Saturn unfortunately. I had a PS1 then and still do to this day, but I have always loved the games from Sega, including Daytona USA, from this era. All these years later, I have gained a love for the Saturn and its library of games for the longest time and although flawed, this port of Daytona USA still plays well and is fun.
I was obsessed with this in the arcade. I remember getting it for the Saturn and how excited I was until I played it. I remember being so disappointed in how it looked and played. I turned it off within half n hour and got my mum to take it back
This game at release blew me and my two friends away,we played it to death hooked up to a.sound system and got drunk many weekends racing each others laptimes This game rocked,its framerate was fine and the colours and sharpness were top quality .. pop up didnt bother us .. we were used to 32x virtua racing before this beast so anyone talking about framerate or pop up should shut up .. it was a new console in New territory and the playstation didnt hold a candle .. ridge racer didnt come close Nor did tekken 1 compare to virtua fighter either,the saturn has flaws but i truly feel the saturn was the much better console ..too expensive and released nearly a year too early
I feel AM2 did a great job porting this to the Sega Saturn. The gameplay was intact and the soundtrack was better than the Model 2 version. The graphics were not shabby at all. We have to remember that Model 2 was so ahead of anything that existed at the time. So with that being said AM2 did a good job porting this to our beloved Saturn. This was a great game and a classic on the greatest system of the 5th generation in my opinion the Sega Saturn it definitely brought the Sega Arcade action home for me.
i sold my Sega Saturn way back in 1999. to this day i regret selling my Saturn copy of Daytona USA because it was actually a present from my late grandfather when he was living in the US. :( i wish i could one day have a Saturn copy of this game in honor of my late grandfather :(
@@MyDiabolicoTwin Of course I did(hence the manly tears emoji). The game store I went to never had much in the Saturn section to begin with while almost half of the store was PS1 games and accessories. I made my fateful decision when I spoke to a clerk who told me that Sega stopped supporting the Saturn and they'll be no more games made. 😔 My first Playstation game was Final Fantasy VII.
@@briangriffin5701 In my case no-one I knew had a Saturn back then. The console itself were (little) more expensive and so the games. In fact the games were a lot more expensive and rare to find since the PS had cheap bootlegs and pirated copies being sold everywere. But the Saturn had a charm who has never being matched by any other console, in my opinion.
@@MyDiabolicoTwin I didn't know anyone who had a Saturn either. I bought my Saturn in January of 97'. The price was $249 and it came with Virtua-Cop, Virtua-Fighter and Daytona USA. It was a great deal consideting I got all that and 2 controllers. You don't get 2 controllers standard nowadays.
It’s better than people tend to remember. Ridge Raver on PS1 was better graphically, and the only other real challenger was Need for Speed/Overdrivin’ on 3DO.
I was a Sega kid back in the day and was dying for a Saturn and asked for one with MK3 and Daytona USA for Christmas 1995. I unwrapped a PlayStation with MK3 and Ridge Racer. My parents said no to Sega's $399 price tag, but said yes to Sony's $299 price tag. I was so angry and disappointed lol. It made me so mad that instead of playing Daytona on Christmas morning I was playing Ridge Racer. I of course grew to absolutely love PS1 and after a year or so I didn't even really want a Saturn anymore. Ironically, the reason why I was a Sega kid in the early 90's was because when it came time to upgrade from the NES my parents said no to SNES at $199, but yes to Genesis at $149.
Still play my sega satuen..i got virtue fight 1 and 2 i got daytona i got tomb raider virtua cop man i love all these games...plus i got road rash...a classic
OK, this doesn't seem nearly as bad as I've heard people moan about. It's obviously not a 1:1 arcade port but I would've loved this if I had a Saturn back in the day.
You’re a harsh critic/ sega presented a fantastic game here it still reeks of quality when it’s all added up. Imagine being a young kid waking up to this game as your first system 😏
I still remember sitting on my bedroom floor playing for hours just to unlock the "horse". Talk about a trip down memory lane. I still remember how I used to think the reflections of the clouds on the back window of the cars was so impressive.
If you use an emulator that lets you disable individual layers, you can see it's just a vertically scrolling background layer of clouds. You could program a shmup on top of it or something, heh.
It's dithering/mesh. You'll find it used in a lot of Saturn games in place of actual transparencies. With old analog video signals, the mesh sort of blended together in a way that produced what looked like a transparency, but really wasn't. On a digital display, you see it for what it actually is. Some emulators like SSF and Yabause can fake transparency. Mednafen currently cannot.
Pretty cool that you got to do this video! I would also ask about the PC version, but it's pretty much exactly the same as the Saturn, just that it (apparently) has a bit improved framerate, draw distance, and higher resolution, but it seems to be a bit of a pain to get working without some small issues (I got it working perfectly in w7, but I haven't uploaded the fixed version at all for that game yet), and I guess that we will only see CCE/Deluxe (preferably Deluxe, maybe) after you do DC/2001, since that is the answer you gave me the last time I asked you.
Your patched version of Deluxe seems to work okay. I just can't get my head around the handling. I might give it another shot after I wrap up Daytona 2001 though.
Now I can't get it working correctly on my recording rig. Game runs at probably around 10fps, with a green tint, and the top portion of the screen is covered with a black bar.
Alright, never mind. I remembered that I needed a DirectDraw patch for Windows 8 and up. The game still runs with a lot of flicker, but it doesn't seem to show up in the recordings. Unfortunately the framerate isn't a solid 30fps. It does seem to dip at times to 20fps.
The game version I uploaded should have a Direct3D versrion, that should function better in Windows 8. (Or in other terms, there should be a executable there that uses D3D instead of DirectDraw, but honestly I haven't tested it with Windows 8 at all)
Yeah, there are two executables. One that says "DAYTONA USA Deluxe.exe" and another that says "DAYTONA USA DeluxeNo3D.exe." Obviously I'm using the former and have the D3D and high-poly mode enabled in the menus. In Windows 8 (and possibly 10), you need a modified DirectDraw file in the directory to "fix" the frame rate. Unfortunately you get flicker. My laptop with Win8 gets less of it -- possibly because of it's older CPU. My desktop, which has a current-gen Kaby Lake CPU, gets a ton. None of the flicker shows up in the recordings, but the inconsistent framerate is present. It's nowhere near as bad as it was prepatch, but it still does drop here and there. I could try installing Win7 on a partition again. See how that goes...
Damned near every title like this suffered from pop-up, early on in the 32-bit era. This was obviously a more extreme example. But this nailed the FEEL of Daytona, lesser visuals and lower frame rate be damned. I had a blast playing this and played it a ton.
And I had the Australian pal 50 hertz version of the saturn daytona usa back in the day and man did it have huge pal borders haha even more so than normal it was like half a game there was that much of the screen missing.
I remember playing this fondly back in 1996. Yeah it’s a visual downgrade and the frame rate isn’t great, but the gameplay was fun. I still felt that great sense of speed and the excitement from surviving sharp turns. The soundtrack is excellent even to this day. Sadly, once I’d beaten all of the courses, replay value is non-existent. Playing the game as horses was cool and all, but no 2 player mode and no additional exclusive courses kinda made it a bland port. Still a great game though.
Sega Saturn should have been a way more popular system. Yes it released too early, but it still had some great games and Gamestop may not be as in much trouble if they had some old Sega Saturn used games for sale.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a great port in a technical sense. But gameplay wise it's still solid as a rock, and ultimately that is all that matters.
I think so. I think the bulk of launch 3D games were using the VDP1 only. Don't hold me to this but I think it wasn't until AM2 introduced the Sega Graphics Library that they started using both VDP's
LOL That soundtrack is... unapologetic. Kind of silly, but good stuff. Looks like a fun game. Bit past my time as I was an NES kid, but cool to see. Cheers.
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the music is legendary
I still own the original Saturn version of Daytona USA to this day. Despite the visual downgrade, Sega AM2's initial Saturn port of their Model 2 arcade hit kept the fun gameplay, controls and soundtrack. Composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi singing for all three tracks always felt endearing...
I remember paying a hefty price for this for my Japanese Saturn on the day of release. When I got it, I couldn't help the feeling playing a game that was only 75% finished, huge amounts of pop-up, glitches everywhere. It was painful to look at, yet I still loved the game, and spent 100's of hours perfecting every course. In terms of gameplay, it's still one of the best arcade racers. ♥️
Nothing like owning a sega saturn in 1995. At 10 years old i literally felt like I owned an arcade and was living in the future. To this day its one of the best moments of my childhood. Having this game, virtua fighter, virtua cop with the gun and a few lesser known games in 95 was insane! Never played 3d games prior to this and was truly ground breaking!
Thanks for the Daytona videos; everything about this game puts a smile on my face. Back when I got this as a gift in 1996, I was so thrilled to have my favorite arcade machine on my TV I didn't care about the visual downgrade.
Sega succeeded in retaining the essence of what makes Daytona special, and proved to me that graphics are far from the greatest factor in determining how much fun a game can be. Now, if they'd mangled the soundtrack... I might have to sing a different tune :p
This game never gets old such great memories ❤️😀🙂
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi did a great job on this OST, his vocals are on point!
Agreed
Looked up this game today for the nostalgia.
The first videos that show up are the arcade version, which is beautiful.
As someone who only played this version, I don’t remember the game looking this bad on Saturn.
NightinXgale
Playing on modern TV's dont do retro 3D games any favours.
Ikr Jesus
That's because the Saturn port was rushed for launch date. It'll never be as good as the arcade release.
You might have played the Championship Circuit Edition, which was a significant visual upgrade, albeit with worse controls.
Probably will look better on a CRT
It's definitely a flawed version of the game but still very fun and playable. I especially like how you can drive the wrong way and still have laps counted and even get time bonuses.
Louis The SEGA Nerd the music is so slow and off beat
That proves that gameplay is more important than graphics
@@superbroly64DS Correct. Graphics don't make the game. You can compare Daytona to FX Zero 64. FX Zero 64 doesn't look good, but like Daytona, its a very fluid and solid racer.
@@segaunited3855 I wish Sega came back and humiliated Sony and Nintendo
@@superbroly64DS That's what we're hear for. That's part of why we at Sega United are forming UNG and why our friends at Alethiea Games,LLC have been secretly developing "RAZOR" for 2 and half years. We are planning to bring SEGA back into the Home Consumer Business, so that they can show everyone HOW its down, knock some sense into Nintendo and so that Sony can finally pack it up and leave the Console business and take all the parasites that came in with them including Microsoft making Game Consoles instead of Investing in an Ecosystem for its Windows Gaming.
If this and VF1 were a lot more polished and not rushed I don’t think the Saturn would have got such a bad rep for 3D games.
SEGA RALLY, VF2 proved it was a capable machine.
I loved the music in this game as a kid. Almost shed a tear.
Splash Wave Beats the music is slow and off beat
Same bro 😢😢
I bought a Saturn instead of the psx back in the day because I loved Sega arcade games, and also snk arcade titles... saturn had both ! They may not be as good as the arcade , but they were really fun! I had tons of fun with Sega games on the saturn ... I had the console for like 2 years only, maybe less, but played hell of it... I also had the psx, but didn't like it nearly as much... Sega has its magic back in those days, that I just can't explain ... :)
I had the same experience with the Nintendo wii U, another console that ended its run prematurely. Was the first console i bought with my own money and i only owned for maybe 2 years, but it brings back so many memories.
Even if sega sat. Is less powerfull than PS, I love this console. And even if Sony had GT2(Best racing game ever made), sega was still a king in arcade games, especially in racing games.
@@RubiaAndroidZ I own PS3 version of daytona, and it's the best port ever existed, but the minuses are: No split screen multiplayer, no sound test, no new cars, no new tracks, and new soundtrack are not the best remixes.
@@alexkubrat3868im really bad at Gran Turismo 2, it always makes me rage quit. maybe I’ll learn it someday, but for now I prefer arcade gameplay for racing.
@@admiralAlfonso9001 Yea, I agree. Over the years I actually changed my opinion and I think that arcade racers can be more fun over games that aim at realism. Daytona USA 2 for example.
While it had its issues...was still amazing to be able to play my favorite arcade game at home.
What a throwback this is.. Maybe the first game I got for my Saturn... Which came in those cheap ass clear cases that had the joints that broke on day one
One of my all time favourites, played it to death, and back in the day i could beat the time set here, pretty much every play without fail.
"How much draw distance do you want?"
"None"
DSM The editor
Daytona USA was the most technically advanced racing video game at the time, so porting it down to a new to market, $399 home console, which also proved to be hard to program on, it turned out ok.
The instant rush of memories to the song was overwhelming, thanks for posting this.
That opening theme, once it kicks in, won't get out of your head for a long, long time.
Takes me back. I loved the Saturn version. The pop up never bothered me since I maybe only played it once on the arcade, bit hundreds of times on the Saturn. I hot the PS3 version and it's much harder almost impossible to place first, but I placed first on Saturn always.
You are a freaking boss! Was fun watching, it brought back fond memories!
Thanks! Daytona is one of my all-time favorites, so I know it like the back of my hand, heh. Anyway, if ya liked this video, check out my longplays of other versions of Daytona. :)
Oh the memories. It’s just something about that rolling start that makes you want to pass everything on the course 😂
Some of my favorite gaming memories are from this game! Many hours spent on this back in 95, I only had this, Myst, Virtua Fighter and Sega Rally championship when I had my Saturn.
And how I loved this OST! Hahahaha. I was 11 years old And I just loved to put the Daytona or the Sega Rally in my CD player and listen to its songs all day long doing my ahome work ! Those were the days ...
It`s true man, i`m listen soundtracks game super street fighter II in my diskman while going to university
Having never played the arcade before we got the Saturn I thought this was the greatest thing ever. My brothers and I spent countless hours just trying to best the fastest lap times all while enjoying the amazing soundtrack. After all these years it's still one of the best arcade racing games.
Still the most fun Saturn based Daytona USA experience
The beginning of every race is golden. Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!
so hard to make a perfect run over and over again in this game. you did well.
Man I loved my Saturn I got it for Christmas in 94 , that dude singing on the tracks was going hard especially on the ohhhhhhhh had ho hooooooo oh hoooooooo how ho ho !!!!!!
R Woods
That must of cost you an arm and a leg!
Oh the nostalgia, we had the steering wheel..thanks 😍😍
Despite the poor graphics, the game as a whole still plays decently where you still felt like you got full control on your car. The only problem is that the A.I can be annoying to get pass, they can even bump you into the wall when colliding with them
You've gotta take a really bad line to get pulverized by the AI.
Advanced Course.
6:15
I had a Genesis back in the day, but never a Saturn unfortunately. I had a PS1 then and still do to this day, but I have always loved the games from Sega, including Daytona USA, from this era. All these years later, I have gained a love for the Saturn and its library of games for the longest time and although flawed, this port of Daytona USA still plays well and is fun.
I did like a million laps in this game on my Saturn back in the day.
Beginner Course.
1:53
Simply a immortal classic.. saturn version its the law!
As rough around the edges as the game looked , playing it in the 90s on a big tv it still felt like Daytona ! They captured the feel well
Oh i miss playing this game its so many great times, war craft 2 , dracula x and mortal kombat trilogy on saturn so much fun
I was obsessed with this in the arcade. I remember getting it for the Saturn and how excited I was until I played it. I remember being so disappointed in how it looked and played. I turned it off within half n hour and got my mum to take it back
I never saw the original arcade so even though ppl were critical of Saturn version it still blew me away.
This game at release blew me and my two friends away,we played it to death hooked up to a.sound system and got drunk many weekends racing each others laptimes
This game rocked,its framerate was fine and the colours and sharpness were top quality .. pop up didnt bother us .. we were used to 32x virtua racing before this beast so anyone talking about framerate or pop up should shut up .. it was a new console in New territory and the playstation didnt hold a candle .. ridge racer didnt come close
Nor did tekken 1 compare to virtua fighter either,the saturn has flaws but i truly feel the saturn was the much better console ..too expensive and released nearly a year too early
*ridge racer type 4 would like a word...
12:19 I wanna fly Sky High! let's goooo togethaaaa.... - blue blue skies~~~~~
I feel AM2 did a great job porting this to the Sega Saturn. The gameplay was intact and the soundtrack was better than the Model 2 version. The graphics were not shabby at all. We have to remember that Model 2 was so ahead of anything that existed at the time. So with that being said AM2 did a good job porting this to our beloved Saturn. This was a great game and a classic on the greatest system of the 5th generation in my opinion the Sega Saturn it definitely brought the Sega Arcade action home for me.
I actually prefer the Saturn’s rendition of the soundtrack instead of the original arcade version.
how???????
I remember getting a Sega Saturn for my 15th bday in 95 and this and xmen children of the atom were my first games on this
So many memories of playing this on Christmas when my siblings and I get the console to playing it after school
i sold my Sega Saturn way back in 1999. to this day i regret selling my Saturn copy of Daytona USA because it was actually a present from my late grandfather when he was living in the US. :( i wish i could one day have a Saturn copy of this game in honor of my late grandfather :(
You can probably get it on ebay
Get a japan saturn and a japan copy pf the game and a few others and relive those days,your granda would be proud
@@patrickhawthorneLS thanks Pat. though my copy was a US copy, not a Japanese one
I remember hearing that song at an arcade. I thought it went eddyyyyyyyummmmmmbaaaaaaa 🤣
Expert Course.
11:14
Love Daytona USA 😎
This and SEGA rally were my favourite Saturn games
oh nice driving skill
Careful, Ull melt the tires! 🔥
The lyrics that are different here:
Arcade: TUH!
Saturn: DUUGH duugh DUUGH duugh DUUGH duugh DUUGH duugh DUUUUEGH Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
So many great memories playing this game
Back then it was the ultimate feeling to play a actual arcade game, At home
Never forgive myself for choosing the cheaper PS1 over the Saturn back in the 90's
I traded my Saturn and games in for a PS1. 😢
@@briangriffin5701 Didn't regret it later on?
@@MyDiabolicoTwin
Of course I did(hence the manly tears emoji). The game store I went to never had much in the Saturn section to begin with while almost half of the store was PS1 games and accessories. I made my fateful decision when I spoke to a clerk who told me that Sega stopped supporting the Saturn and they'll be no more games made. 😔
My first Playstation game was Final Fantasy VII.
@@briangriffin5701 In my case no-one I knew had a Saturn back then. The console itself were (little) more expensive and so the games. In fact the games were a lot more expensive and rare to find since the PS had cheap bootlegs and pirated copies being sold everywere. But the Saturn had a charm who has never being matched by any other console, in my opinion.
@@MyDiabolicoTwin
I didn't know anyone who had a Saturn either. I bought my Saturn in January of 97'. The price was $249 and it came with Virtua-Cop, Virtua-Fighter and Daytona USA. It was a great deal consideting I got all that and 2 controllers. You don't get 2 controllers standard nowadays.
I own the original version and the championship edition on the saturn love this game
Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
This was AMAZING home console graphics when it came out.
It’s better than people tend to remember. Ridge Raver on PS1 was better graphically, and the only other real challenger was Need for Speed/Overdrivin’ on 3DO.
At least the music was arcade perfect.
Mathew it's actually not. It's arranged version but I don't think it sounds all that great
Unfortunately not, but it's hard to screw up Daytona's music, so these arrangements were still good quality :)
ItsASquid its basically the same, just the vocals aren't samples like in the the arcade.
...sort of
0:33 Daytonaaaaaa *LET* go awaaay ( *LET* go away) daytonaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I was a Sega kid back in the day and was dying for a Saturn and asked for one with MK3 and Daytona USA for Christmas 1995. I unwrapped a PlayStation with MK3 and Ridge Racer. My parents said no to Sega's $399 price tag, but said yes to Sony's $299 price tag. I was so angry and disappointed lol. It made me so mad that instead of playing Daytona on Christmas morning I was playing Ridge Racer. I of course grew to absolutely love PS1 and after a year or so I didn't even really want a Saturn anymore. Ironically, the reason why I was a Sega kid in the early 90's was because when it came time to upgrade from the NES my parents said no to SNES at $199, but yes to Genesis at $149.
Acrade = Better graphics / Saturn = Better music
4:37 welcome to victory lane you’ve made it
Still play my sega satuen..i got virtue fight 1 and 2 i got daytona i got tomb raider virtua cop man i love all these games...plus i got road rash...a classic
OK, this doesn't seem nearly as bad as I've heard people moan about. It's obviously not a 1:1 arcade port but I would've loved this if I had a Saturn back in the day.
there was no getting away from it, i remember thinking this looked terrible even when it was first released..
You’re a harsh critic/ sega presented a fantastic game here it still reeks of quality when it’s all added up. Imagine being a young kid waking up to this game as your first system 😏
I still remember sitting on my bedroom floor playing for hours just to unlock the "horse". Talk about a trip down memory lane. I still remember how I used to think the reflections of the clouds on the back window of the cars was so impressive.
If you use an emulator that lets you disable individual layers, you can see it's just a vertically scrolling background layer of clouds. You could program a shmup on top of it or something, heh.
I remember thinking those reflections looked great too
That damn theme song still haunts me 25 years later
that's odd, in my emulator the shadows appear to be transparent, but here the shadows are a grid of some sort
It's dithering/mesh. You'll find it used in a lot of Saturn games in place of actual transparencies. With old analog video signals, the mesh sort of blended together in a way that produced what looked like a transparency, but really wasn't. On a digital display, you see it for what it actually is. Some emulators like SSF and Yabause can fake transparency. Mednafen currently cannot.
Saturn Memories doesn't the SNES also use mesh?
The same trick works on any old system. Saturn is notorious for it because it was used so often compared to its rivals at the time.
Saturn Memories I guess since people had those old CRT televisions, they did not notice the dithering/mesh
Pretty cool that you got to do this video! I would also ask about the PC version, but it's pretty much exactly the same as the Saturn, just that it (apparently) has a bit improved framerate, draw distance, and higher resolution, but it seems to be a bit of a pain to get working without some small issues (I got it working perfectly in w7, but I haven't uploaded the fixed version at all for that game yet), and I guess that we will only see CCE/Deluxe (preferably Deluxe, maybe) after you do DC/2001, since that is the answer you gave me the last time I asked you.
Your patched version of Deluxe seems to work okay. I just can't get my head around the handling. I might give it another shot after I wrap up Daytona 2001 though.
Now I can't get it working correctly on my recording rig. Game runs at probably around 10fps, with a green tint, and the top portion of the screen is covered with a black bar.
Alright, never mind. I remembered that I needed a DirectDraw patch for Windows 8 and up. The game still runs with a lot of flicker, but it doesn't seem to show up in the recordings. Unfortunately the framerate isn't a solid 30fps. It does seem to dip at times to 20fps.
The game version I uploaded should have a Direct3D versrion, that should function better in Windows 8. (Or in other terms, there should be a executable there that uses D3D instead of DirectDraw, but honestly I haven't tested it with Windows 8 at all)
Yeah, there are two executables. One that says "DAYTONA USA Deluxe.exe" and another that says "DAYTONA USA DeluxeNo3D.exe." Obviously I'm using the former and have the D3D and high-poly mode enabled in the menus. In Windows 8 (and possibly 10), you need a modified DirectDraw file in the directory to "fix" the frame rate. Unfortunately you get flicker. My laptop with Win8 gets less of it -- possibly because of it's older CPU. My desktop, which has a current-gen Kaby Lake CPU, gets a ton. None of the flicker shows up in the recordings, but the inconsistent framerate is present. It's nowhere near as bad as it was prepatch, but it still does drop here and there.
I could try installing Win7 on a partition again. See how that goes...
Damned near every title like this suffered from pop-up, early on in the 32-bit era. This was obviously a more extreme example.
But this nailed the FEEL of Daytona, lesser visuals and lower frame rate be damned. I had a blast playing this and played it a ton.
Arcade: "Daytooonaa!!! Let's go away!!!"
Saturn: "Day ona!!! Le go away!!!"
This game is timeless.
I was playing this back in '97!
この曲を聴きたかったかっこいいよな
And I had the Australian pal 50 hertz version of the saturn daytona usa back in the day and man did it have huge pal borders haha even more so than normal it was like half a game there was that much of the screen missing.
🎶 Daytona! Let's go away! 🎶
I remember playing this fondly back in 1996. Yeah it’s a visual downgrade and the frame rate isn’t great, but the gameplay was fun. I still felt that great sense of speed and the excitement from surviving sharp turns. The soundtrack is excellent even to this day. Sadly, once I’d beaten all of the courses, replay value is non-existent. Playing the game as horses was cool and all, but no 2 player mode and no additional exclusive courses kinda made it a bland port. Still a great game though.
That still look better than cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and Xbox one
Childhood...Music
engraved in my mind
Good memories
I had the demo disk of this, used to play it all the time
I'm here for that DAYtoooooNaaAaa at 0:29
gay-BONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Daytona looked really pixelated and incomplete to a middle school kid like me back in 1994. Sega Saturn was just all about VF1 and VF2...
Saudades desse Game
This is NASCAR on steroids
i swear i dont remember daytona usa being THIS pixelated on the saturn
Sega Saturn should have been a way more popular system. Yes it released too early, but it still had some great games and Gamestop may not be as in much trouble if they had some old Sega Saturn used games for sale.
The main issue is the frame rate. The dodgy pop up would have been acceptable at a steady 30FPS.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a great port in a technical sense. But gameplay wise it's still solid as a rock, and ultimately that is all that matters.
This version has 10 fps on Saturn. CCE has 30 fps.
It runs at 20. And yeah, CCE runs at 30, but the car physics and handling are garbage.
Saturn Memories 20 fps in ntsc and 10 fps in Pal.
CCE plays more like a bad Daytona/Sega Rally hybrid
Graphics really weren’t bad for that era, once they actually were on screen. The crazy pop-up obviously hurt plenty.
175-190mph powerslides,
Memories.x
Did they only use the VDP1 for this port?
I think so. I think the bulk of launch 3D games were using the VDP1 only. Don't hold me to this but I think it wasn't until AM2 introduced the Sega Graphics Library that they started using both VDP's
blue bluuueee skies....I see... blue, bluuuueee sskiiiiiiiiiiies!
15:93 la vuelta!!
JFC.Impressed.
15:09 Hornet High-Class saves #1 car!
So.. many… memories…😍
LOL That soundtrack is... unapologetic. Kind of silly, but good stuff. Looks like a fun game. Bit past my time as I was an NES kid, but cool to see. Cheers.
Damn I wish we got to see the light of day of the 32x version... Would love a mostly playable 2player alpha build AT least....
I don't think they got very far with either the 32X version or the Mega Drive SVP one either.