I thought the Fiat looked really cool when I played GT2 as a kid - 6 is the only mainline game I've never played or owned, but I'll be getting to that one eventually! :)
something i missed during my first play-through is that all the race cars start off fitted with hard compound slicks, but have the super-soft available to fit. No need to spend any money, but still ending up with the better slicks :) Great video though.
25:46 Ironically, your Spoon S2000 probably was capable of winning this race. Despite the restriction being 394bhp, the AI opponents themselves are actually only around 290bhp in that race. While that's still more than the Spoon S2000 has, it should still be possible to beat them with good driving (the AI tends to take the final corner of Tahiti Road very wide, making for a very good opportunity to overtake them).
The Spoon is so well balanced and light. It really is a great tool. And Tahiti is one of the races where the AI is much slower than you. It's one of the few tracks on which the dirt doesn't slow you down, so to you it's much wider than for the AI. In the two uphill right left combinations you can win even more time, when you enter blindly on the dirt and hit the perfect moment for swinging the car. I instantly hated the track and then loved it, because getting these two corners right (and the last one as you said) lets you beat much faster opponents.
48:32 - the Pikes Peak course actually does exist, it's far from the full course but the specific section is/was factual in basis (the section between the 13-mile and 16-mile mark in particular is really familiar 😉)
Had no idea that's the section they pulled from. I need to actually go back and drive it in the game just to see what it's like. Kid me had no idea the significance of it haha
There was a trick I used and abused with automatic transmission: hold R1 after you downshift to the desired gear before a turn.This way you can accelerate to full revs without changing to a higher gear. Don't know if after GT2 the developers still did it . Might be worth to try it. Also, when doing the licence runs, try not to accelerate to full revs before the start. That will make the wheels to spin and lose precious time. Hope this will help you. Edit: Spelling and unfinished sentence.
I booted up Gran Turismo 1 to quickly check and it did have license demos too, but it's in a weird spot, you need to go out of simulation mode to the replay theater and it'll automatically have replays of all the licenses from the developers. They were amazing back when there was only dial-up internet. After the first game they realized it was a better idea to put demo replays in the license menu. I like how you show all the details in your videos that others skip and I like how you talk about the history of the cars. I don't mind your videos being long, I really like you telling your story and revisiting the career mode in GT2. I'm surprised the challenge got harder and harder at many points but you pulled through. Great work! I'm really looking forward to GT3.
Wow I had no idea those demos were in GT1, that's a great find! Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll be starting my playthrough of GT3 soon!
B8 is so fucking hard, I tried for hours and hours and I got 0.2 off gold. I can’t do it. 32:40 one of the few good things about later Gt games is that most race cars are locked away until you actually progress through the game, you don’t get them until hours in. Seems much more satisfying in progression.
yeah - I think they were kinda feeling themselves out for the first couple of games, there are some prize cars that were a little too powerful and too easily obtained, but as we've seen with GT7, their values aren't necessarily the same as someone who takes the game(s) super seriously I believe you can get gold on B8 - some of these tests were brutal, but my take is always "If you can get close to a time, you can get the time"!
I applaud you for being genuine with your thoughts,failures & ideas of playing this game. I love it. I have GT 1 & 2 with a PSX that still works plus a PS3 that serves backwards loading games.
A fun story losely attached? When I was in highschool, Ifell in love with that game, playing it at a friends house, but never owned a PS1. So, my best friend and I borrowed one over a weekend and also had to rent the game via videothek. Since we only had that one weekend, we played day and night, including endurances, and on Monday the school councelor took as both aside and gave us a long "I know teenage life can be hard, but drugs are no answer"-talk. That's what three days without sleep do to your outward appearance. But what a ride it was.
It's so great to see those license test again, because they teach you so much, which I wish the game would point out more prominently. The last one in B for instance, you learn how throwing FR cars into the first corner of an s-turn helps them stabilize, as they lean into the suspension. Find the right moment to swing and it perfectly leans in again. Thus, eliminating the d-pad-effect. Great fun to see that again.
Oh man, I didn't even get GT2 until like halfway through the PS2's lifecycle, as I just never got around to upgrading from GT1, but that menu sound is still so nostalgic for me from the very start of the video. Really cool to me to see challenge runs in this series!
I loved this game when it came out. Too bad you never got the Suzuki Escudo Pike's Peak Special. Twin turbo, 2.5L V6, 4WD, and 981 bhp at 1764 lbs. That car broke the game for me and I'll never forget how awesome that car was.
I came to make this exact comment. I remember getting that car when I was like 8 and just smoking everyone. The spoon civic was another one that broke a lot of the game.
The hours I spent as a kid grinding the Sunday Cup races and Grindelwald just to buy that car... and ram it into every opponent on Tahiti road hahaha. Good times!
I've enjoyed later playthroughs more because I have not abused the Suzuki Escudo like I did when the game came out. So many options in GT2, it's kind of a shame how that one hogged the spotlight as a kid (plus discouraged learning to drive in the game).
I do not know about the JP version, but I think that in the European version this challenge is impossible to be done. In that version you need to use the appropriated vehicle for each race! Example: Station wagon in the Station Wagon races; Compact for the Compact car races; etc BTW: great job! :)
I had to drive 1 HR from town to town... I put your video as a background sound and it was pretty fun to listen... I played this game for so long when I was a kid that wasn't hard to go through the price cars and races just by hearing it. Made my trip a lot shorter Ohh, and I'm driving a yellow legacy GTB limited... That I used on that game too. Childhood dream car, and now I'm driving it every day haha
That's awesome! Thanks for the feedback - I do think it's important for me to keep in mind that some people might do what you do, put me on to listen as opposed to just watching. Very cool that you're driving your dream car now! :)
11:51 There is actually a solution to this problem while in manual transmission-you can BUFFER your inputs. Simply hold down the up-shift button while you're in the loading screen, and you should shift into 2nd gear on the very first frame when the license test starts.
@@djbrohawk Yeah, the game never actually tells you this. It's extremely useful to know about since some license tests are much easier to gold while in Manual since you can control when you shift. It's also really annoying that you can't view the stats of the car you're given in each license test. Being able to see exactly what the car's power band is would make it much easier to know when the optimal time to up-shift would be.
@2:28 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo, the fastest production Fiat ever made. 155 mph, stock. 😊 @6:23 It is a JDM Nissan Micra. It is a cheap city car. Ideal for those narrow city streets. @34:28 Yes, but the dragster cars are set up for straight line speed. You can pass them in the corner and cover some distance. @48:56 Ach, the kids these days have to improve their attention span.
Did not know that about the Fiat, very cool! I chuckled at the attention span comment, just wait until you see what I did in the GT3 video. Absolute attention span failure XD
I will be the first to admit I went flying through there with no abandon as a kid but it wouldn't be fair to the challenge if I cheesed it, unless I absolutely had to. Might come to that for one of these challenges, who knows XD
I like the content length. Nothing wrong with having a long video for people to have on in the background (me) or for some to cruise through. Great stuff here. I’m very much enjoying it. It doesn’t hurt that I have a huge passion for GT2, my childhood’s most played game by a MILE.
This challenge would be really hard if GT2 didn't have such weirdly lenient entry restrictions. 90's r390 into the 80's cup? sure, why not?! r30 silhouette in the sedan cup? yeah, go on then. When I played through back when it came out I couldn't believe it when I realised I didn't need to keep grinding credits to buy relevant cars.
Agreed, and I thought about whether cheesing it like that invalidates the "impossible" part of the challenge or not, but my rule is if the game allows it with no glitching, it's valid. Don't worry, Gran Turismo 3 takes care of that problem, as you will soon see haha
The real fun is seeing is you can beat it with half or ¾ of the hp limit. Super touring with 200-300hp cars is pretty fun. Max upgrading a total shitbox is where its at
Coming from your GT video and even in this one, it's weird seeing familiar tracks that look completely different than to what I'm used to in GT 4. Good job tackling these challenges 👍
I loved the video! I also love hearing your train of thought behind all your decisions to complete the challenge. I just subbed and I can't wait for the next vids.
Thank you! I feel like it makes the story a little more interesting - rather than just say, "here's the winning solution" I want folks to come along for the entire ride and see where their thinking might deviate from mine :)
Great video. I don't know about you but I love the way these old GT games were presented, with championships that felt like the main event rather than this menu book rubbish. Anyway great content, really enjoy the deep dives into the gift cars, entry requirements etc
Ok dude. Here's the trick me and my buddy figured out a long time ago when steering with the stick.......push forward on the steering stick while using your thumb left and right for the steering of the car . Think of it like holding an actual steering wheel at the top of the wheel and moving your hand left and right to turn the car. Bottom line, push forward on the stick, rotating it while holding it forward for steering.
I did enjoy the thought process going on at around the 25 minute mark, knowing where it was going to go and seeing the answer come together in real time 😁
I don't recall ever playing any GT but I did enjoy this video. It was the right amount of entertainment in the amount of time was used. Goodluck on future videos.
As you proved it's not too hard to knock out all of the GT League events in a challenge like this, but it might be hard to do this if you required yourself to do all of the Special Events as well. I think the Historic Car Cup and Lightweight K (which the Lupo would be your only option I could think of to use) would be the hardest in that case.
License Test times in GTs 1 through 4 vary based on if you have NTSC_J, NTSC-US, or PAL. In most cases PAL is the hardest version with US being the easiest, with the exception of GT2's Rally Time Trials where NTSC_J has much easier times. The Cutting Room Floor has great info about the "Regional Differences." (They are missing the differences for GT3's Time Trials. IIRC, GT1 also had license test demonstrations located in Replay Theater.
Relatively sure G# is the note the March makes at redline. That's pretty convenient, not sure if that was intentional. (btw, if you want to finesse the right control stick for throttle but you have fingers of butter like I do, what I do is PINCH the stick with my index and thumb (thumb at bottom and index at top), and use my index almost like a chock to stop my thumb from pushing the stick all the way up).
The term "bog standard" comes from the slang "bog wheel" which means Bicycle. So in motorbike sales, "bog standard" meant a motorbike that was so standard it might as well be a Bicycle. Obscure origin but in pretty common usage today.
I once watched a 4 hour video of some dude trying to beat the mainline games of Metal Gear Solid, before the End Dies of old age... so this is nothing. Keep it up, these are interesting videos.
1:27 I'll have to say about the demonstration videos, they may be useful for just completing the licenses, but once you try to gold all licenses then they aren't that helpful. I recently played and got gold on all licenses on EU region rom and there were a few tests that was very, very hard. After banging my head against the wall for a long time I was like, "alright, I'll take a look at the demonstration" and the demo time was barely silver. At that point you know that some tests are rough when the devs couldn't make a gold time demo.
59:44 Love the videos. I've got to point out that the guy from Polyphony Digital who made this game (and indeed the whole series) had a real soft spot for the Lotus Elise - apparently it was his favorite car. I think this race in particular highlights that but you did really well considering the size of your boat. Look forward to your next videos 🙂
Im just starting the video, but as a kid i remember the GT40 being a beast in this game. It got under a lot of the HP restrictions, and was actually a lot faster than the competition and had great cornering.
I played this game so much in my childhood to the point that I remembered which race had the Super Silhouette despite not having touched this game in years. As for the S2000, I've always wanted to own one, just was never in the cards for me (and especially not now as prices have exploded) - I agree this and GT4 are iconic racing games!
This is still my favourite car game of all time and it isn’t even close. By today’s standards the handling is arcade, the configurability, the variety … genuinely, it’s on a different level. I have never found another game that *really* does what this does, only prettier. Never had a PS2, would consider GT3, but didn’t click with GT4, felt the driving model had moved on and not in a good way. Realism in car games is … laughable and always will be. To my mind I’ll always accept something where gratuitous power sliding, or that sweet semi-slide is the fastest, funnest way around a corner, and this game does it better than anything else. My best friend and I played this for untold hours. No analog sticks, not required.
There's a fun challenge in GT2 that I did where you buy no cars, but you only get one license at a time (have to all gold B to get a car to start with). With that license, you do EVERY event that's possible to enter with it before moving on to the next license. The only exception being manufacturer races (its kind of impossible to do all of those without lots of money). I had fun with it, and there's some ways to trap yourself to grind hell if you run out of money lol
When it comes to the license tests, the slalom one might help your driving the most. Once you understand that pushing and lifting the throttle is an integral part of your steering, your driving improves a lot, especially when using digital steering. By lifting and then hitting the throttle to stabilize your line, the ride gets a lot smoother.
@@djbrohawk I recently played the game again, too. Via computer keyboard. And most of the licence tests are so much harder using digital steering. So, I really feel your pain.
That Silvia was one of my favorite cars to use. When they put the Gr4 Silvia in GT7 I bought it immediately. I got my first online race win ever in it :)
As to using the stick for steering keep in mind a few things. 1) the stick controller came out years after the system was released, the system was never built with it in mind. 2) While the stick controller did come out first it was about 2 years prior to GT2 release, that is not much time to incorporate it into the game, more so when you need to consider it's brand new, there is no general method developed as of yet so everything needs to be experimented on before choosing the best option and then trying to fine tune that method.
True - the sticks have never felt that great to me, even in GT7 where they've improved it MASSIVELY - I can actually use them in GT7 but it remains to be seen how much I'll use it before then :)
Thank you! I hope to have it out in the next couple of weeks, I haven't finished my attempt yet and editing takes a while since I do it all myself but I'll have it out soon!
Thank you - I feel you, I'm working on the GT3 run and that game came out in 2001. I got it on its release day, can't believe how long ago that was now
I always did the license gold stuff first, then did the free races and as much as possible with the S-2000 and moved on from there. Not exactly the same challenge you are doing here but a lot of fun to make it through the game without buying a car. The gift cars do go along way with that. You could have dine the free races in the Honda from what i remember as it just outs similar cars to your own in those races. You made it harder by waiting to do them. I enjoyed the walk through memory lane , might have to hook up the PlayStation and play some Gran Turismo 2 now. Fun video :-)
To clarify from what I remember Free isn't related to horse power in that game it just means there is no license requirement. It is kind of there just to allow people who want to jump straight in and race after buying a car then do the license stuff after the Sunday Cup and part of the Clubman's cup or whatever it's called.
Yeah, I could've tried it - it's just not the way I ended up going, I wanted to be absolutely certain I had a car that could handle it, but that's what makes this fun - my way isn't the only way :)
You can clown the Muscle Car races pretty easily. You had the weight and handling advantage for all those races. All the muscle cars are awful at handling and they also are pretty restricted for their top speed. That S2000 was a good car for it. To add you could do the Grand Touring races, it gives you the daisin silvia, the unisia jecs gtr, and castrol nsx. Those races are pretty easy and those cars can go into other races as well.
The cool thing about this is that there's definitely a number of ways to do it - I do like that folks have observed other ways, makes for a fun puzzle :)
Would like to mention if you use the thumb stick like and actual wheel and pick either up or down, then slowly move left or right, you can get the smoother steering. Little wonky feeling at first, but it saves on having to feather it a lot.
You can also use the spoon S2000 to beat the 345HP race of the wagon three series race in special event!! The limit for the horsepower is 392 and the car is well under that and will win !!
Did you know that the R390 GT1 Road Car was reverse engineered from the race car? Rules back in the day said you need to have at least one homologated car to be able to enter the Le Mans 24h GT1 ( hence the name of the car) class. So Nissan went to Tom Walkinshaw Racing and together they build the LM version ( the 1997) car. after that, they reverse-engineered the race car into the car and got it homologated. This red/bordeaux road car is the original road car. It was rebuilt for the 1998 Le Mans race, most notable is the long heck the car got and its now really nice blue colour.
Back in the good old days, there was a walkthrough printed in one of the playstation magazines, covering exactly what your challenge attempt did. They proposed a series of races, based on the price cars, to make this challenge work out.
"Bog standard" is actually a simple corruption of the term"Box Standard" no idea when it happened or why, but we brits (especially northerners like me) tend do that a lot 😂
I also just the other day got gold on the first Subaru test going around the circle on my first try also, some of the test are drastically easier while some of them are devastatingly difficult!!
Thank you for the feedback - the impossible challenge ones will all be pretty long, I think. Once I'm done with these, maybe I'll continue the long form videos with another subject :)
@@djbrohawkwhatever it may be, I just love the editing and the attention to detail + it’s GT1/2 content and you said there will be some more GT3 and I’m guessing maybe 4 as well I love watching the vids to sleep so maybe a super cut version ? 😂 I love long form content
Good video, I give you compliments on that it takes skill, but I consider beating gran turismo 2 winning first place in ALL races including the manufacturer races at the dealership, but like I said excellent job
Totally fair - I don't know if that's possible, maybe worth revisiting some day :) I work full time and have another hobby that takes a lot of time so I try to maximize my time, that's one of those things that felt like overkill at the time
Think of the car sliding while showing 0 MPH like real life. A cars calculates it's speed by wheel spin, it's possible to lock up a cars wheels meaning no spin but the momentum will still cause the car to slide. If you live in an area with a good snow season you will experience this when still learning to drive.
I ran the Fiat Coupè in GT6, and confused a ton of people in FF race lobbies. The veterans knew though.
I thought the Fiat looked really cool when I played GT2 as a kid - 6 is the only mainline game I've never played or owned, but I'll be getting to that one eventually! :)
@@djbrohawkGRAN TURISMO 6, 10 years on its still a great game despite it lacked prize cars significantly.
Can we just appreciate how this game still stands up to this day, as a decent racer? The physics are astoundingly good for such an early game.
Better than decent!!!
I would argue that it’s better than half of the stuff out there that isn’t, Gran Turismo or Corsa ?!
Glad this was somehow my first racing game on console. ❤
something i missed during my first play-through is that all the race cars start off fitted with hard compound slicks, but have the super-soft available to fit. No need to spend any money, but still ending up with the better slicks :)
Great video though.
25:46 Ironically, your Spoon S2000 probably was capable of winning this race. Despite the restriction being 394bhp, the AI opponents themselves are actually only around 290bhp in that race. While that's still more than the Spoon S2000 has, it should still be possible to beat them with good driving (the AI tends to take the final corner of Tahiti Road very wide, making for a very good opportunity to overtake them).
It is indeed doable, I have done it
@@ice44567i ever completed 33.3 percent of GRAN TURISMO 2 using only Spoon S2000.
The Spoon is so well balanced and light. It really is a great tool. And Tahiti is one of the races where the AI is much slower than you. It's one of the few tracks on which the dirt doesn't slow you down, so to you it's much wider than for the AI. In the two uphill right left combinations you can win even more time, when you enter blindly on the dirt and hit the perfect moment for swinging the car. I instantly hated the track and then loved it, because getting these two corners right (and the last one as you said) lets you beat much faster opponents.
48:32 - the Pikes Peak course actually does exist, it's far from the full course but the specific section is/was factual in basis (the section between the 13-mile and 16-mile mark in particular is really familiar 😉)
Had no idea that's the section they pulled from. I need to actually go back and drive it in the game just to see what it's like. Kid me had no idea the significance of it haha
There was a trick I used and abused with automatic transmission: hold R1 after you downshift to the desired gear before a turn.This way you can accelerate to full revs without changing to a higher gear. Don't know if after GT2 the developers still did it . Might be worth to try it. Also, when doing the licence runs, try not to accelerate to full revs before the start. That will make the wheels to spin and lose precious time. Hope this will help you.
Edit: Spelling and unfinished sentence.
Revving halfway to full is also doable.
You can do it in GT4, if you hold R2 the car won't shift into a higher gear
I booted up Gran Turismo 1 to quickly check and it did have license demos too, but it's in a weird spot, you need to go out of simulation mode to the replay theater and it'll automatically have replays of all the licenses from the developers. They were amazing back when there was only dial-up internet. After the first game they realized it was a better idea to put demo replays in the license menu. I like how you show all the details in your videos that others skip and I like how you talk about the history of the cars. I don't mind your videos being long, I really like you telling your story and revisiting the career mode in GT2. I'm surprised the challenge got harder and harder at many points but you pulled through. Great work! I'm really looking forward to GT3.
Wow I had no idea those demos were in GT1, that's a great find! Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll be starting my playthrough of GT3 soon!
Wow great information. Thanks for sharing!
B8 is so fucking hard, I tried for hours and hours and I got 0.2 off gold. I can’t do it.
32:40 one of the few good things about later Gt games is that most race cars are locked away until you actually progress through the game, you don’t get them until hours in. Seems much more satisfying in progression.
yeah - I think they were kinda feeling themselves out for the first couple of games, there are some prize cars that were a little too powerful and too easily obtained, but as we've seen with GT7, their values aren't necessarily the same as someone who takes the game(s) super seriously
I believe you can get gold on B8 - some of these tests were brutal, but my take is always "If you can get close to a time, you can get the time"!
I applaud you for being genuine with your thoughts,failures & ideas of playing this game. I love it. I have GT 1 & 2 with a PSX that still works plus a PS3 that serves backwards loading games.
All PS3 models are backward compatible with PS1 games, not just the early models. Those were the only PS2 backward compatible ones though.
A fun story losely attached?
When I was in highschool, Ifell in love with that game, playing it at a friends house, but never owned a PS1. So, my best friend and I borrowed one over a weekend and also had to rent the game via videothek. Since we only had that one weekend, we played day and night, including endurances, and on Monday the school councelor took as both aside and gave us a long "I know teenage life can be hard, but drugs are no answer"-talk. That's what three days without sleep do to your outward appearance. But what a ride it was.
It's so great to see those license test again, because they teach you so much, which I wish the game would point out more prominently. The last one in B for instance, you learn how throwing FR cars into the first corner of an s-turn helps them stabilize, as they lean into the suspension. Find the right moment to swing and it perfectly leans in again. Thus, eliminating the d-pad-effect. Great fun to see that again.
Oh man, I didn't even get GT2 until like halfway through the PS2's lifecycle, as I just never got around to upgrading from GT1, but that menu sound is still so nostalgic for me from the very start of the video. Really cool to me to see challenge runs in this series!
I ever beaten GRAN TURISMO 2 using only very few cars.
I loved this game when it came out. Too bad you never got the Suzuki Escudo Pike's Peak Special. Twin turbo, 2.5L V6, 4WD, and 981 bhp at 1764 lbs. That car broke the game for me and I'll never forget how awesome that car was.
I came to make this exact comment. I remember getting that car when I was like 8 and just smoking everyone. The spoon civic was another one that broke a lot of the game.
@@Basmith5958 Good times 👍
The hours I spent as a kid grinding the Sunday Cup races and Grindelwald just to buy that car... and ram it into every opponent on Tahiti road hahaha. Good times!
I've enjoyed later playthroughs more because I have not abused the Suzuki Escudo like I did when the game came out. So many options in GT2, it's kind of a shame how that one hogged the spotlight as a kid (plus discouraged learning to drive in the game).
They brought it back in 3, didn't have it in 4, so I'm guessing fan outcry was why it was back in 5 and 6.
The cougar was also mercury in canada, i had one of these in 2011 with the 2.5 V6, it was always broken.
I do not know about the JP version, but I think that in the European version this challenge is impossible to be done. In that version you need to use the appropriated vehicle for each race! Example: Station wagon in the Station Wagon races; Compact for the Compact car races; etc
BTW: great job! :)
I've been feeling nostalgic for GT2 and GT4 lately, I'm definitely gonna try this challenge for myself :D
Absolutely! It's a lot of fun and it's not too hard :) It's a nice way to relive the game without it just being a total picnic
I pulled my ps2 out last week only have gt3, nostalgic!
@@christopherpoucher483i beaten the GRAN TURISMO 2 and 3 very easily. Using the Silvia GT300 to easily beaten 50 percent of the game.
I had to drive 1 HR from town to town... I put your video as a background sound and it was pretty fun to listen... I played this game for so long when I was a kid that wasn't hard to go through the price cars and races just by hearing it.
Made my trip a lot shorter
Ohh, and I'm driving a yellow legacy GTB limited... That I used on that game too. Childhood dream car, and now I'm driving it every day haha
That's awesome! Thanks for the feedback - I do think it's important for me to keep in mind that some people might do what you do, put me on to listen as opposed to just watching. Very cool that you're driving your dream car now! :)
11:51 There is actually a solution to this problem while in manual transmission-you can BUFFER your inputs. Simply hold down the up-shift button while you're in the loading screen, and you should shift into 2nd gear on the very first frame when the license test starts.
No way, did not know that! That's a neat trick
@@djbrohawk Yeah, the game never actually tells you this. It's extremely useful to know about since some license tests are much easier to gold while in Manual since you can control when you shift.
It's also really annoying that you can't view the stats of the car you're given in each license test. Being able to see exactly what the car's power band is would make it much easier to know when the optimal time to up-shift would be.
@2:28 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo, the fastest production Fiat ever made. 155 mph, stock. 😊
@6:23 It is a JDM Nissan Micra. It is a cheap city car. Ideal for those narrow city streets.
@34:28 Yes, but the dragster cars are set up for straight line speed. You can pass them in the corner and cover some distance.
@48:56 Ach, the kids these days have to improve their attention span.
Did not know that about the Fiat, very cool!
I chuckled at the attention span comment, just wait until you see what I did in the GT3 video. Absolute attention span failure XD
Great job completing this challenge! That Daishin Silvia brought up a lot trophy memories.
Me too. I use that Daishin Silvia for 50 percent of the game progressions.
You can tell from the lines that you don't know the game and the tracks all that well, but the narration is pretty fluid and fun. Thanks a lot!
I don't generally play the game beforehand, so I kinda learn the tracks and physics as I'm playing - thanks for the comment :)
in trail mountain you have to cheese at the end and just cut through the grass on the chicane bro. we all did it as kids lol
I will be the first to admit I went flying through there with no abandon as a kid but it wouldn't be fair to the challenge if I cheesed it, unless I absolutely had to. Might come to that for one of these challenges, who knows XD
On the "when to break" demonstration videos, you could just check the speedmeter to see when to break :) So beautiful childhood memories...
Great vid! Love the nostalgia
Thank you! I love this game so much, I'll be playing it again I'm sure
The Gran Turismo 3 challenge is gonna be hell
Spoiler alert: Yes, yes it is LOL
You actually are forced to either be a goat or to spend money.
I like the content length. Nothing wrong with having a long video for people to have on in the background (me) or for some to cruise through.
Great stuff here. I’m very much enjoying it. It doesn’t hurt that I have a huge passion for GT2, my childhood’s most played game by a MILE.
Thanks so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I will keep that in mind going forward :)
Great vid bud, love a long form video.
As for feedback I like the train of thought style structuring, will definitely be checking out more
This challenge would be really hard if GT2 didn't have such weirdly lenient entry restrictions. 90's r390 into the 80's cup? sure, why not?! r30 silhouette in the sedan cup? yeah, go on then.
When I played through back when it came out I couldn't believe it when I realised I didn't need to keep grinding credits to buy relevant cars.
Agreed, and I thought about whether cheesing it like that invalidates the "impossible" part of the challenge or not, but my rule is if the game allows it with no glitching, it's valid.
Don't worry, Gran Turismo 3 takes care of that problem, as you will soon see haha
The real fun is seeing is you can beat it with half or ¾ of the hp limit. Super touring with 200-300hp cars is pretty fun. Max upgrading a total shitbox is where its at
Coming from your GT video and even in this one, it's weird seeing familiar tracks that look completely different than to what I'm used to in GT 4. Good job tackling these challenges 👍
I loved the video! I also love hearing your train of thought behind all your decisions to complete the challenge. I just subbed and I can't wait for the next vids.
Thank you! I feel like it makes the story a little more interesting - rather than just say, "here's the winning solution" I want folks to come along for the entire ride and see where their thinking might deviate from mine :)
Nice video bro. Great idea
loved watching the thought process while menuing. Great video man
Great video. I don't know about you but I love the way these old GT games were presented, with championships that felt like the main event rather than this menu book rubbish. Anyway great content, really enjoy the deep dives into the gift cars, entry requirements etc
enjoying these videos - informative and fun, subbed
When you win a car change oil first before you dive it. You will gain a couple HP in doing so. Just wanted to tell you that. Great video took me back.
The problem with this is that changing oil costs credits, which the challenge forbids using. So that’s out of the question sadly :/
And the fact that this feature appeared first in GT3
Great job! You may have made it tough on yourself but maybe not. I watched the whole thing!
Thanks for the support :)
I never knew that Gran Turismo had a proper ending 😅
Ok dude. Here's the trick me and my buddy figured out a long time ago when steering with the stick.......push forward on the steering stick while using your thumb left and right for the steering of the car . Think of it like holding an actual steering wheel at the top of the wheel and moving your hand left and right to turn the car. Bottom line, push forward on the stick, rotating it while holding it forward for steering.
I did enjoy the thought process going on at around the 25 minute mark, knowing where it was going to go and seeing the answer come together in real time 😁
I appreciate the feedback on that, thank you! :)
had a blast watching it! Good content!
I don't recall ever playing any GT but I did enjoy this video. It was the right amount of entertainment in the amount of time was used. Goodluck on future videos.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it! :)
As you proved it's not too hard to knock out all of the GT League events in a challenge like this, but it might be hard to do this if you required yourself to do all of the Special Events as well. I think the Historic Car Cup and Lightweight K (which the Lupo would be your only option I could think of to use) would be the hardest in that case.
That was strangely satisfying... and aw... the memories. Dusting off my PS1 now :D
License Test times in GTs 1 through 4 vary based on if you have NTSC_J, NTSC-US, or PAL. In most cases PAL is the hardest version with US being the easiest, with the exception of GT2's Rally Time Trials where NTSC_J has much easier times. The Cutting Room Floor has great info about the "Regional Differences." (They are missing the differences for GT3's Time Trials. IIRC, GT1 also had license test demonstrations located in Replay Theater.
love your commentating on the races!
Glad you like it - thanks for the support!
Bog standard ❤ you've mastered English my friend 😂
My UK friends would be so happy to hear this LOL
This was the game that introduced me to my dream car. and while I've owned the worse variations of it, I still haven't bought a 3000gt vr4 yet.
Those are sweet cars - believe those had at or near 300 HP stock back in the day with that huge spoiler on it!
Relatively sure G# is the note the March makes at redline. That's pretty convenient, not sure if that was intentional.
(btw, if you want to finesse the right control stick for throttle but you have fingers of butter like I do, what I do is PINCH the stick with my index and thumb (thumb at bottom and index at top), and use my index almost like a chock to stop my thumb from pushing the stick all the way up).
The term "bog standard" comes from the slang "bog wheel" which means Bicycle. So in motorbike sales, "bog standard" meant a motorbike that was so standard it might as well be a Bicycle. Obscure origin but in pretty common usage today.
I once watched a 4 hour video of some dude trying to beat the mainline games of Metal Gear Solid, before the End Dies of old age... so this is nothing. Keep it up, these are interesting videos.
1:27 I'll have to say about the demonstration videos, they may be useful for just completing the licenses, but once you try to gold all licenses then they aren't that helpful. I recently played and got gold on all licenses on EU region rom and there were a few tests that was very, very hard. After banging my head against the wall for a long time I was like, "alright, I'll take a look at the demonstration" and the demo time was barely silver. At that point you know that some tests are rough when the devs couldn't make a gold time demo.
I really enjoyed this. Thanks!
Excited to see you possibly do this with Gran Turismo 3!!
I just wrapped up the playing portion of it - video to come soon!
59:44 Love the videos. I've got to point out that the guy from Polyphony Digital who made this game (and indeed the whole series) had a real soft spot for the Lotus Elise - apparently it was his favorite car. I think this race in particular highlights that but you did really well considering the size of your boat. Look forward to your next videos 🙂
Im just starting the video, but as a kid i remember the GT40 being a beast in this game. It got under a lot of the HP restrictions, and was actually a lot faster than the competition and had great cornering.
Best racing game of all time in my opinion, it have all the best cars of that time, also it was released on the same year as S2000 ❤
I played this game so much in my childhood to the point that I remembered which race had the Super Silhouette despite not having touched this game in years. As for the S2000, I've always wanted to own one, just was never in the cards for me (and especially not now as prices have exploded) - I agree this and GT4 are iconic racing games!
You’ve just cost me €100. I had to go buy a PS2 and GT2. I hope your happy with yourself 😂😂😂 great video. Subscribed
Hey at least you bought a PS2 so you can get GT3 and GT4 too! XD thanks for the support!
This is still my favourite car game of all time and it isn’t even close. By today’s standards the handling is arcade, the configurability, the variety … genuinely, it’s on a different level.
I have never found another game that *really* does what this does, only prettier. Never had a PS2, would consider GT3, but didn’t click with GT4, felt the driving model had moved on and not in a good way. Realism in car games is … laughable and always will be. To my mind I’ll always accept something where gratuitous power sliding, or that sweet semi-slide is the fastest, funnest way around a corner, and this game does it better than anything else.
My best friend and I played this for untold hours. No analog sticks, not required.
Played GT1 trough as a kid with an Mitsubishi 95 GTO. I loved the design
Didn't knew no credit is possible. GT2 has nice sounds
There's a fun challenge in GT2 that I did where you buy no cars, but you only get one license at a time (have to all gold B to get a car to start with). With that license, you do EVERY event that's possible to enter with it before moving on to the next license. The only exception being manufacturer races (its kind of impossible to do all of those without lots of money). I had fun with it, and there's some ways to trap yourself to grind hell if you run out of money lol
Just discovered your channel today! Amazing content! I love the old GT games. GT2 was my first real racing game.
Thanks for the support, I'm glad you like it :)
When it comes to the license tests, the slalom one might help your driving the most. Once you understand that pushing and lifting the throttle is an integral part of your steering, your driving improves a lot, especially when using digital steering. By lifting and then hitting the throttle to stabilize your line, the ride gets a lot smoother.
I drive like a gorilla on pad, it's bad haha
@@djbrohawk I recently played the game again, too. Via computer keyboard. And most of the licence tests are so much harder using digital steering. So, I really feel your pain.
I waited an entire hour for that Silvia to make an appearance. One of my favourites of GT2.
The Silvia race car in GT1 is also really fun to drive.
That Silvia was one of my favorite cars to use. When they put the Gr4 Silvia in GT7 I bought it immediately. I got my first online race win ever in it :)
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That lineup really showed how fast the elise 190's were going.
When I rolled up in the station wagon and saw those Elises, I knew I was going to be in trouble XD - I brought a pontoon to a jet ski race
@@djbrohawk I absolutely laughed out loud when I read that! But you aren't wrong.
As to using the stick for steering keep in mind a few things.
1) the stick controller came out years after the system was released, the system was never built with it in mind.
2) While the stick controller did come out first it was about 2 years prior to GT2 release, that is not much time to incorporate it into the game, more so when you need to consider it's brand new, there is no general method developed as of yet so everything needs to be experimented on before choosing the best option and then trying to fine tune that method.
True - the sticks have never felt that great to me, even in GT7 where they've improved it MASSIVELY - I can actually use them in GT7 but it remains to be seen how much I'll use it before then :)
great video chief!
Thank you! :)
Fantastic vid! Can’t wait for GT3!
Thank you! I hope to have it out in the next couple of weeks, I haven't finished my attempt yet and editing takes a while since I do it all myself but I'll have it out soon!
I clearly remember that when this game came out, the word "photorealistic" was thrown about a fair bit 😂
Great stuff. I can't believe i was playing this game 20 years ago
Thank you - I feel you, I'm working on the GT3 run and that game came out in 2001. I got it on its release day, can't believe how long ago that was now
You've got me heading back to GT2.
I always did the license gold stuff first, then did the free races and as much as possible with the S-2000 and moved on from there. Not exactly the same challenge you are doing here but a lot of fun to make it through the game without buying a car. The gift cars do go along way with that. You could have dine the free races in the Honda from what i remember as it just outs similar cars to your own in those races. You made it harder by waiting to do them. I enjoyed the walk through memory lane , might have to hook up the PlayStation and play some Gran Turismo 2 now. Fun video :-)
To clarify from what I remember Free isn't related to horse power in that game it just means there is no license requirement. It is kind of there just to allow people who want to jump straight in and race after buying a car then do the license stuff after the Sunday Cup and part of the Clubman's cup or whatever it's called.
The Spoon S2000 is helpful also on the 1st 25 percent of GRAN TURISMO 2 especially on all National races.
A whole bunch of people did not like that I abandoned that car as early as I did XD
80s ports car Thahiti, it's not difficult for a S2000. this prize car can win the final race easily
Yeah, I could've tried it - it's just not the way I ended up going, I wanted to be absolutely certain I had a car that could handle it, but that's what makes this fun - my way isn't the only way :)
You can clown the Muscle Car races pretty easily. You had the weight and handling advantage for all those races. All the muscle cars are awful at handling and they also are pretty restricted for their top speed. That S2000 was a good car for it.
To add you could do the Grand Touring races, it gives you the daisin silvia, the unisia jecs gtr, and castrol nsx. Those races are pretty easy and those cars can go into other races as well.
The cool thing about this is that there's definitely a number of ways to do it - I do like that folks have observed other ways, makes for a fun puzzle :)
Would like to mention if you use the thumb stick like and actual wheel and pick either up or down, then slowly move left or right, you can get the smoother steering. Little wonky feeling at first, but it saves on having to feather it a lot.
You can just hold down the upshift button before tests start. I know it's annoying but it will immediately shift the gear.
Lol hearing those menu sounds reminds me of me falling asleep trying to complete the maps were you have to make 70 rounds or something 😂
The lotus elise 190 vs the sport those 190s were notoriously fast in that cup
You can also use the spoon S2000 to beat the 345HP race of the wagon three series race in special event!!
The limit for the horsepower is 392 and the car is well under that and will win !!
Evo well able to win Super Touring. Don't worry about horsepower limits. The ai won't necessarily reach the target.
Hey friend - super challenged Love it, just one question, what emulator are you using. Best Regards!
Thanks for the support! I used Duckstation. It's by far the best
Perfect video!
Thank you! :)
As for real tracks, technically Super Speedway was a snowclone of Twin Ring Motegi Super Speedway. They would credit it starting in GT4.
Did you know that the R390 GT1 Road Car was reverse engineered from the race car? Rules back in the day said you need to have at least one homologated car to be able to enter the Le Mans 24h GT1 ( hence the name of the car) class. So Nissan went to Tom Walkinshaw Racing and together they build the LM version ( the 1997) car. after that, they reverse-engineered the race car into the car and got it homologated.
This red/bordeaux road car is the original road car. It was rebuilt for the 1998 Le Mans race, most notable is the long heck the car got and its now really nice blue colour.
That's really cool! Thanks for the info :)
Back in the good old days, there was a walkthrough printed in one of the playstation magazines, covering exactly what your challenge attempt did. They proposed a series of races, based on the price cars, to make this challenge work out.
No way! I'd love to see that walk through - that's really cool
maybe i missed due the longevity of the video but what car did you used for the lightweight K cup with 98hp restriction?
I think I used the Mini - I'd have to go back and watch it
Counting the amount of lines in the demo video worked well for me in regards to start and stop
True, that's a solid strategy - better than some of the strategies I used LOL
"Bog standard" is actually a simple corruption of the term"Box Standard"
no idea when it happened or why, but we brits (especially northerners like me) tend do that a lot 😂
On that GT-R Trial Mnt. 2nd place finish, I would cut through the grass and it might have got you 1st place.
I also just the other day got gold on the first Subaru test going around the circle on my first try also, some of the test are drastically easier while some of them are devastatingly difficult!!
I love these long videos
Thank you for the feedback - the impossible challenge ones will all be pretty long, I think. Once I'm done with these, maybe I'll continue the long form videos with another subject :)
@@djbrohawkwhatever it may be, I just love the editing and the attention to detail + it’s GT1/2 content and you said there will be some more GT3 and I’m guessing maybe 4 as well
I love watching the vids to sleep so maybe a super cut version ? 😂 I love long form content
On my memory card lies a save of granturismo 2 stuck @ 99.9 % of progress. Missing one cup of japan smol cars , car never apears on sale .
Oh noooooo! That's brutal
One minute in I think, come on, easy as pie. That Mugen S2000 is cooking half the game on it's own. Curious to see how it's going to turn out.
Thanks so much, I appreciate that :)
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Thanks for the support!
Really cool
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Did you not try the super license?
The Pikes Peak car (Evo?) is pretty good for a lot of races. It cant run them all, of course. But it won a lot of races for me back in the day.
I would spam that hks skyline over and over just for the cash from selling it. I needed cash to build my rally car. Good times with GT2
I remember doing that as well - it was so easy to get that drag skyline!
Good video, I give you compliments on that it takes skill, but I consider beating gran turismo 2 winning first place in ALL races including the manufacturer races at the dealership, but like I said excellent job
Totally fair - I don't know if that's possible, maybe worth revisiting some day :) I work full time and have another hobby that takes a lot of time so I try to maximize my time, that's one of those things that felt like overkill at the time
Think of the car sliding while showing 0 MPH like real life. A cars calculates it's speed by wheel spin, it's possible to lock up a cars wheels meaning no spin but the momentum will still cause the car to slide.
If you live in an area with a good snow season you will experience this when still learning to drive.
I've never experienced that in GT before, I get what you mean though, I wonder if that's what happened there