/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4055151
if you want stuff similar to Outrun, try:
>Outrun 2019 (Genesis -- got poor reviews in some places for shitty, trash reasons, only thing actually wrong with it is the awfully drab color palette, would be nice if someone made a palette hack for it; music's cool, there's track secrets and hidden paths and shit)
>Super Hang-On (Genesis version's eh because it runs slower even in NTSC regions but has a cool home mode, Wii and 3DS versions should be perfect, I've played the 3DS one the most)
>Gale Racer (Saturn, kind of naff port of Rad Mobile with ugly polygon cars replacing the arcade's sprites and a lower framerate, but the game's still cool)
>Rad Racer (NES -- it's actually pretty damn good)

if you just want good arcade racing stuff in general
>Sega Rally (Saturn, PS2 -- PS2 version is nearly perfect, but IIRC the graphics are a tad worse than arcade, Saturn version is excellent too)
>Ridge Racer and Ridge Racer Revolution also Rage Racer and Ridge Racer Type 4 (all on PS1, use a neGcon or a pre-DualShock racing wheel if you want analog control, Type 4 can use the cheap but ultimately useless otherwise JogCon but it also supports the dualshock so fuck that)
>Daytona USA (Saturn original release or Japanese CE, Dreamcast version has iffy, sensitive handling and US CCE botches the handling wildly)
>Virtua Racing (Genesis version is okay and dirt cheap if you aren't just emulating, but the 32X version is still the best other than the actual arcade release since Saturn and PS2 fuck up handling wildly (especially the PS2 one), get the JP 32X version since it saves best times and shit)

>>4055168
The scenery is some weird stretched polygon rendering system (no rotations, it molds itself to the outline of the track), and the road drawing is a fairly standard linescroller like in Outrun. Nifty stuff, and a great game.

Configure it to run in Turbo mode in the setup for a framerate that's actually fairly decent instead of just merely playable.
Webm related.

>>2637105
Shadow Dancer and Ranger-X are my favorite Genesis games.
Shadow Dancer's just a really solid methodical game that's like the original Shinobi instead of Revenge or 3. Better than the arcade game of the same name by far.
It's not too hard on default (major choke points are the bosses and stage 4). Final boss is kind of annoying.

Ranger-X is a graphical marvel, full of transparency effects and with cool wireframe 3D intermission scenes (that you can control with a cheat) and delivers satisfying mech action. Seems to have heavily inspired the similarly brilliant Bulk Slash on the Saturn (which is almost the same game but in 3D).
only thing is that it runs at 30fps

I also like the shit out of Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, if more for its graphics than anything else. Extremely smooth polygonal racer. Enable Turbo mode in the game's settings for best results (adjusts the FOV so that things are smaller so it has to draw less -- doesn't really hurt gameplay and probably should have been the default setting), although even with defaults, it's still the fastest officially released polygon game on the machine. Cheats like hell (road drawing is done OutRun style, so no 3D rotations need to be calculated), but all the scenery is polygonal and the other racers are 2D vectors. Really, really impressive.
Ton of tracks too.
There's an F-1 game using an earlier version of the same engine, which pushes more scaled sprites around than polygons. Didn't seem as fun of a game though.

Granada is a good runner up that I like. Cool soundtrack (if not amazing), okay visuals. The real meat is the actual game, you're controlling a strafing tank with a cannon that sends it flying back with the recoil (and you can use that to boost yourself). Also runs at 30fps, but puts a shit ton of stuff on screen sometimes.

Outrun 2019 gets a bad rap for some reason. It's no OutRun game, but it's fun. Gameplay-wise, it pretty much IS OutRun, but with a heavy futuristic styling.

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