Daytona USA 2 Battle on the Edge & Power Edition - Arcade Review

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Published on December 16, 2020 1:49:23 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbGyiZS6mZY

Game:

Daytona USA 2 (1998)

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Review

Duration: 13:24

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I take a look at both releases of Daytona USA 2 that were for Sega's Model 3 arcade hardware.

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Opening 3D Logo By:
Jan Neves
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Opening 2D Animation By:
Kevin Bhall
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Episode Notes:

1. It was infuriating at times trying to set up the controller for this. I never got the sensitivities right and it shows in the gameplay. I was actually rather decent at this game in the arcade, but here, I never finished above 4th place in any of the tracks. The default controller settings in Supermodel are absolutely unplayable.

2. Despite the quality of this one, subsequent Daytona releases were all based on the first game. Daytona 2's assets was never reused in anything except the Xbox port of Outrun 2.

3. I honestly believe that Sega dropped the Dreamcast port of this because they couldn't do a close enough approximation of it. The DC was powerful for its time, but the Model 3 Step 2.1 was simply out of its league.

4. I do prefer the first Daytona's music, but I still find this one curiously enjoyable. It has to be Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, however. That dude can make the silliest lyrics passable.

5. If you want to play this I recommend really reading up on Supermodel. You can get it running pretty nice, but the process can be quite a bit of work for someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with it.

6. You may notice there is some hitching in the video, almost as if the emulator is struggling. This is a peculiar issue that isn't in my source capture. Between the original capture, the editing software, and YouTube's processing, this hitching showed up. I tried 3 different edits/uploads and they all did it. I have no clue why.

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