Loved this game! My friend introduced it to me. We spent hours exploiting the bugs in the game, and even managed to get a sub-1-minute time on the desert track via handbrake launching across the entire thing! Glad to see it wasn't lost to time 😊
I always thought Sunset Sands was fun based solely on all of the bizarre secret passages and little quirks. The "good things come to those who wait" secret passage blew my mind as a child
i just found out about this the other day and it’s insane to me. other than my distain for desert stages, sunset sands is really fun and it makes up for it
I love racing games and recently discovered adventure racing. I'm hyped about this game - screw the graphics of newer games, all I wanna have is fun driving my yellow beetle :D
I've always loved Beetle Adventure Racing - I particularly loved a rather hilarious bug when you had unlocked the "handbrake" cheat. By timing it correctly with the handbrake power set to extreme, if you did a handbrake turn just as your car went airborne from a ramp or a bump, you'd suddenly shoot off into the distance at insane speeds. When I played a lot of Beetle Battle with some friends back then I could pull it off about 60% of the time - but as I've not played it as much recently, I just can't seem to get the right timing any more.
@@josephq773 The trick is to be just "starting" the handbrake turn as your back wheels are leaving the jump if memory serves me correctly. You know you're close to the timing if you get a crazy spin out of it , so just keep attempting with a similar timing - get it right and you'll shoot off into the distance. On the Beetle Battle arenas you're likely to fly right out the arena doing this. Just remember though, the handbrake power needs to be set to "Extreme" for this to work, however.
@@gunbladelad7772 I came into the comments to see if anyone was talking about this! My friend and I that played this back in the day often had races to see who could leave the map first 😂 The best place that I recall the handbrake bug being used was actually in the desert battle map. Driving up the pyramid structures in the middle, when you hit the peak of the pyramid you can get some insane launches and we could often get our minimap markers to the complete opposite corners of the screen! Another bug we found was the ability to drive up vertical walls. It wasn't easy to get it to happen, but you could literally fenagle your car into a vertical position by driving into a wall. Once you had all four wheels on the wall, with some snaking back and forth you could get it to drive UP the wall! 😆 I remember my friend was much better at this one than I was
It's the second greatest racing game of all time. The greatest racing game of all time is HSV Adventure Racing. Both were in fact available in Australia.
If you haven't already, you should try San Francisco Rush 2049. Available on Dreamcast and N64, or as part of the Midway Arcade Treasures 3 for PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. Similar gameplay, more variety, has plenty of alternate paths and coins to hunt and collect for unlockables. A couple extra modes, like stunt and battle as well.
Not sure if I'm getting this mixed up with Beetle Crazy Cup/Beetle Bugging or whatever that game was called in the US or not, for some reason I thought this one, the Adventure Racing got a PC port but that may be the other game I'm thinking of. Beetles showed up in a ton of games but a dedicated Beetle game, that's rare. HSV game is even rarer, outside of dedicated Aussie V8 content, has HSV shown up in its own game aside from that one time? I don't mean like i Forza, I mean no, its own game like this one, yes I am counting it as its own game so there
@@jacekatalakis8316 That’s very interesting, i never heard of a pc port of this game, but i’ll have to look into it. I have a video on the HSV Version of this game coming out in 12 minutes actually. i’ll have to look into the Pc port if there is one and i’ll probably make a video on that as well, since that’s really interesting
Anybody know what would be the best emulator to play this game? Would it be RMG, Parallel or some other N64 emulator, since Project 64 isn't supported anymore and is no longer recommended?
@@josephq773 I think from the sounds of it, it might be getting new support as of recently. Which would be good, because there were reports that Project 64 had become malicious software at one stage.
Loved this game! My friend introduced it to me. We spent hours exploiting the bugs in the game, and even managed to get a sub-1-minute time on the desert track via handbrake launching across the entire thing!
Glad to see it wasn't lost to time 😊
@@Plystire i am going to need to try this hand break launching, idk how i never heard of it before. it’s such an amazing game
I always thought Sunset Sands was fun based solely on all of the bizarre secret passages and little quirks. The "good things come to those who wait" secret passage blew my mind as a child
i just found out about this the other day and it’s insane to me. other than my distain for desert stages, sunset sands is really fun and it makes up for it
Beetle Adventure Racing, along with Destruction Derby 64, were my favorite arcade racings in the N64
Never played deconstruction derby, but i may have to check it out
I love racing games and recently discovered adventure racing. I'm hyped about this game - screw the graphics of newer games, all I wanna have is fun driving my yellow beetle :D
I've always loved Beetle Adventure Racing - I particularly loved a rather hilarious bug when you had unlocked the "handbrake" cheat. By timing it correctly with the handbrake power set to extreme, if you did a handbrake turn just as your car went airborne from a ramp or a bump, you'd suddenly shoot off into the distance at insane speeds.
When I played a lot of Beetle Battle with some friends back then I could pull it off about 60% of the time - but as I've not played it as much recently, I just can't seem to get the right timing any more.
I never knew about that bug, that sounds hilarious !
@@josephq773 The trick is to be just "starting" the handbrake turn as your back wheels are leaving the jump if memory serves me correctly. You know you're close to the timing if you get a crazy spin out of it , so just keep attempting with a similar timing - get it right and you'll shoot off into the distance. On the Beetle Battle arenas you're likely to fly right out the arena doing this.
Just remember though, the handbrake power needs to be set to "Extreme" for this to work, however.
I’ll have to try it one day, i’ll probably make another video on this game just about the bugs and other cool stuff i can find
@@gunbladelad7772 I came into the comments to see if anyone was talking about this! My friend and I that played this back in the day often had races to see who could leave the map first 😂
The best place that I recall the handbrake bug being used was actually in the desert battle map. Driving up the pyramid structures in the middle, when you hit the peak of the pyramid you can get some insane launches and we could often get our minimap markers to the complete opposite corners of the screen!
Another bug we found was the ability to drive up vertical walls. It wasn't easy to get it to happen, but you could literally fenagle your car into a vertical position by driving into a wall. Once you had all four wheels on the wall, with some snaking back and forth you could get it to drive UP the wall! 😆 I remember my friend was much better at this one than I was
Great video. I loved this game growing up. Work on your cadence and your annunciation a bit, and you'll be right up there with the best of them.
@@jurassicpork765 Thanks boss!
It's the second greatest racing game of all time.
The greatest racing game of all time is HSV Adventure Racing.
Both were in fact available in Australia.
i may do a smaller episode on just HSV for next week, pretty curious to how different it is overall
oh my god, you've unlocked some memories of freshman year in college
If you haven't already, you should try San Francisco Rush 2049. Available on Dreamcast and N64, or as part of the Midway Arcade Treasures 3 for PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. Similar gameplay, more variety, has plenty of alternate paths and coins to hunt and collect for unlockables. A couple extra modes, like stunt and battle as well.
@@The_Nametag I’ll have to look into it, sounds really cool
We didn't get HSV Adventure Rancing in place of of Beetle Adventure Racing in Australia, we got both.
@@LorchVHS What did you choose to play?
ive got 2 carts of this game, its my wifes fave n64 game
@@TWIGBOOm Your wife has good taste in games
thanks for the review blud, i like this game
Thanks Blud
Not sure if I'm getting this mixed up with Beetle Crazy Cup/Beetle Bugging or whatever that game was called in the US or not, for some reason I thought this one, the Adventure Racing got a PC port but that may be the other game I'm thinking of. Beetles showed up in a ton of games but a dedicated Beetle game, that's rare.
HSV game is even rarer, outside of dedicated Aussie V8 content, has HSV shown up in its own game aside from that one time? I don't mean like i Forza, I mean no, its own game like this one, yes I am counting it as its own game so there
@@jacekatalakis8316 That’s very interesting, i never heard of a pc port of this game, but i’ll have to look into it. I have a video on the HSV Version of this game coming out in 12 minutes actually. i’ll have to look into the Pc port if there is one and i’ll probably make a video on that as well, since that’s really interesting
Sounds like I am watching this video on 2x speed.
Next few videos, and the ones after this should be me taking a bit slower.
Probably not but its still quite fun
Please talk more slowly. Your talking too fast which means its far less effective in creating the story you are telling in the video.
Will do
@@josephq773i like the fast talking its a unique tone
@@jknifgijdfui the timbre of my voice put armies to sleep
More slowly?😂 that’s like saying better good. You don’t use both
Anybody know what would be the best emulator to play this game? Would it be RMG, Parallel or some other N64 emulator, since Project 64 isn't supported anymore and is no longer recommended?
i’m not sure, i thought p64 was still getting updates. For what i was doing, p64 worked just fine
@@josephq773 I think from the sounds of it, it might be getting new support as of recently. Which would be good, because there were reports that Project 64 had become malicious software at one stage.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 oh well that’s something i wasn’t aware of, thanks for bringing that to my attention
try road trip adventure and make new video thank me later
@@ingi6034 i’ll look into it