/vr/ - Retro Games

Of that list, diddy kong racing for me.

Which were your favorite? Any hidden gems? Any Japanese exclusives you like?

>>6534874
>The N64 runs like a 16 bit machine doing anything intensive.

>>6456342
not a fan of the art style but definitely pushes them polys

>>6315607
Rare had a rival for wizardry

World Driver Championship

>>5770197

>>5679535
>there was nothing like Gran Turismo at the time
World Driver Championship is a pretty decent clone for N64 though

>>5456123
>1. Every PS1 game looks better than N64 game.

>>4946812
World Driver Championship by Boss Studios

World Driver Championship for N64. Almost a cliche at this point though.

>>4582919
>They evaluated it once and thought it looked and sounded like crap. They looked at it again and said the same thing.
They only looked at it once. And it was quite infamously a political decision rather than a technical one. SoA found no fault with what SGI were presenting. Not to mention it would have been foolish to dismiss the world's biggest 3D graphics technology company on the basis of hardware that was 2 years out from finished.

>Can't really fault them there.
SGI managed to fit into one chip the equivalent of what took Sega about 5 chips on Saturn. And it was significantly higher performance at that. SGI's chip has about 8 times the alpha blending performance of Sega's VDP1.

Wake me up when the Saturn could do this. Now imagine what it could do in Sega's hands with a CD drive and no gimped memory.

SoJ were quite frankly, idiots. And as long as they could have put fast enough RAM into the system in order to keep up with the graphics, Sega could have made a home Model 2 system with a few tweaks as specified here >>4582775

>>4569450
>Lol no, they aren't even close

>>4324350

>>4275631
People frequently underrate the N64 third party library. For example, nobody with taste can dismiss World Driver Championship as a very competent Gran Turismo clone that does a few of its own cool things.

Yes, this is by far the best "Gran Turismo-like" on the N64. The graphics are really good for a 5th gen game.

It does have some problems though. Like some version of GT, there's a horrendous difficulty wall at the start of the game since your cars are trash. The music is pretty mediocre as well. Other than that, it's a bloody fine game.