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F-Zero GX (2003)

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Stay tuned after the races for a fun character interview and short film!

Here's a win at the Master Class in F-Zero GX. The game offers you little mercy, here! I first went in with a full top speed, but even with a near perfect go at the first level, I couldn't get out of the 20's in ranking. As soon as I switched to full acceleration, as in this video, I saw results! You can argue that acceleration wins out because you can recover from the speed lost on turns faster and so on, but... there's another aspect to it.

Equipping your machine with a high acceleration gives you a crazy weird speed boost when you take corners with tight turns, whereas you tend to lose speed if you set your machine to a higher top speed. You can see this effect at:
17:48
When The blue section is hit (which forces your vehicle to slip and lose traction) you can see my speed jump from the usual max of 1000 km/h to much higher! This happens all the time with tight turns as well. Experts will also "snake" in this game and reach high speeds on straightaways! Yes... it's much like the Mario Kart DS trick that everyone hated. (I don't use it in this video knowingly - too tricky on tricky tracks.)

Speaking of tricky tracks, the AX cup features the tracks from the Arcade version of this game! Consider yourself lucky if you ever see one in person! Anyhoo, you unlock this cup by beating all the GameCube cups on Master Mode, I believe... but that doesn't mean this cup is necessarily harder than the others! Considering it has what the arcade offers (barring one "practice" track of sorts), it's a pretty good mix of difficulty and fun!

Hope you enjoy this speed crazy dream extravaganza episode of F-Zero TV!

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Finally! Yes~! I can show F-Zero GX in all its glory! This game NEEDS to be played/seen in 60 frames per second to be believed! To do that here, you must select the 1080p60 or 720p60 options. If you don't see them, try using The Google Chrome browser! (It also appears Internet Explorer works BETTER, surprisingly!)

This video is one of the ultimate stress tests for YouTube, and it holds up pretty well! This game is INCREDIBLY fast, and on top of it, I had to upscale the video to qualify for higher bitrate allocation and 60 frames per second (The video was originally captured on a Nintendo Wii using Component cables - 480p 60fps). YouTube manages pretty well! There's still quite a bit of blocking even at 1080p, but it's to be expected for such a busy and fast video as this. Pretty much any other video will look just that much better!

If you're not entirely sure what the big deal about 60 fps per second is... basically it means that TWICE as many pictures as usual make up the video. This makes the video a lot smoother in animation, and is most noticeable in fast motion or panning actions.

Here, I'll link you to a 30 frames per second example video if you want to compare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZGWw8igvkU

If you watch these back to back, you'll be sure to notice a difference. If it isn't readily apparent, it's possible your computer/browser isn't playing the 60fps properly. You can test here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szmy96hnP3Y

So, yeah. Cool. Finally, YouTube is up to speed! (Literally.)

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