If you're feeling lazy don't even bother reading this review, as the intro tells you just about everything you need to know - and the score should pretty much underline it. If you insist on persevering, however, I suppose I've got to as well (although, to be honest, I'm tempted to leave the entire page blank as a kind of testimony to the game's smellyness).
Shortly after the arcade release of Daytona Championship USA, SEGA had accidentally leaked the entire game on their own website as part of an update patch for arcade vendors to download. The patch contained the full game, and with some modifications, could be played on a PC. Contributed By: ZeoKnight 1 1 « See More or Submit Your Own! A: The Default version is the normal music that the game has. The Original Saturn music pack haves the music from the original Saturn DAYTONA USA. Both work ingame. Q: How I change the music pack? A: In the installed game folder, you should find a file called SETMUSIC.exe which is used to change music packs. CoolROM.com's game information and ROM download page for Daytona USA (Japan, Revision A) (MAME).
It was a coin-op...
As you'll know, Daytona was a pretty fab arcade game in its time, and it engendered debates in pubs among sad people: I reckon Ridge Racer's the best, always said one. No, would say another, it's got to be Daytona - the tracks are more imaginative. And so on. Yawn. But these days Daytona has been relegated in status to the point where there's actually a stand-up cabinet of the thing in a chip shop on Worthing pier. No matter, there's nothing wrong with that.
There are, however, an alarming number of things wrong with the home conversions. The Saturn version (as mentioned in the intro) was virtually unplayable. Jerk-o-vision was the first little devil to raise its head, followed very soon after by the handling characteristics of your car - which drove pretty much like an anvil. But then, as if that wasn't enough, the music hit home bigtime... and it couldn't be turned off: I'm going to fly-y-y so hi-igh, I'm going to fly right into the sky-y, was the lyric, but luckily for you I can't explain the Ctune', which was even worse. It started to appear in my dreams, on the bus, in the supermarket, and on and on. I've only recently managed to repress the bugger, but now, thanks to this pc version, it's back with a vengeance, floating around in my head again. Round and round and round. I can hear it as I'm writing this. It won't go away. Aaaaargh! Stop it! Stop it! Help me someone, pleeeease!
Things get worse...
Download full Daytona USA: Download (374 MB) This PC version of Daytona USA is an almost-perfect conversion to the hit arcade racer of the same name. The graphics are crisp and, much like the rest of the game, represent a perfect conversion from the arcade game. Download full Daytona USA: Download (374 MB) This PC version of Daytona USA is an almost-perfect conversion to the hit arcade racer of the same name. The graphics are crisp and, much like the rest of the game, represent a perfect conversion from the arcade game.
Sega have very cleverly taken a shite Saturn game and made it worse for the pc. The cars handle almost exactly as uselessly, but as for the frame rate... well, let's just say forget about it. And that was on a P166, by the way. What you get is jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk, and then a long pause as scenery loads in (or something). Then it's back to jerk, jerk, jerk again. It gets to the point that when hacking down a long straight you actually encounter the Cwagon wheel effect' from cowboy movies: the dotted lines on the road appear to be going backwards, even though the scenery beyond is nearing. Bizarre. And, of course, very, very crap.
Can I sing the song to you again, please? I'm going to fly-y-y so hi-igh, I'm going to fly right into the sky-y. Bastards! Help! (etc).
Daytona USA Overview
Daytona USA Free Download for PC is a racing video game developed by Sega AM2 and released by Sega, with a limited release in 1993 followed by a full release in 1994.[1] Considered one of the highest grossing arcade games of all time,[2] Daytona USA was Sega's first title to debut on the Sega Model 2 arcade board, and, at the time of its release, was considered the most visually detailed 3D racing game. Compared to the flat-shaded polygons of its predecessor, Virtua Racing, Daytona's 3D-world was fully texture-mapped, giving it a more realistic appearance than the former. Daytona was one of the first video games to feature filtered, texture-mapped polygons, giving it the most detailed graphics yet seen in a video game up until that time.[1] In single-player mode, Daytona maintained a consistent 60fps refresh rate, even with multiple opponents on screen, surpassing the motion smoothness of the only other racing game in a comparable graphical arena, Namco's Ridge Racer.
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A slightly updated version of Daytona USA was re-released in arcades in 2010 as Sega Racing Classic.