Daytona USA 2001 Vs Daytona USA Deluxe - Desert City
21I wanted to make a comparison between the additional bonus stages from Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition (or in this Case Daytona USA Deluxe on the PC) and the remade version of them that appear in Daytona USA 2001 on the Dreamcast. I’ve still got my Dreamcast version of Daytona USA 2001 (bought from a market seller in Bangkok about 12 years ago, it’s obviously a dodgy copied version, but it cost so little I didn’t mind taking a gamble with it and amazingly when I tried it out back home it worked), but I’m using DEMUL to play this as it means that a) I can get much better quality video capture straight from my PC and b) I can use my PC steering wheel to play it. I would not be able to get anywhere on the DC version of Daytona using a pad – it’s just too over-sensitive. With the wheel it’s actually pretty good. The video capture of Daytona Deluxe is from a different PC than my usual one. It’s a bit old, underpowered and crumbly and a couple of times the video capture causes the frame-rate to stutter a bit (really irritatingly on my final lap of the National Park Speedway track it happens causing me to crash into the wall – I couldn’t be arsed to re-record all the gameplay by that point, so I used the footage anyway – I was miles in front anyway by that point).
I was surprised that the Dreamcast version of Daytona USA actually seemed to have less trackside detail on the National Park Speedway track than Daytona USA Deluxe (and also the Saturn version of CCE). The animated rollercoaster is entirely absent. Odd, you’d think the DC would’ve had power to spare for that kind of stuff. I was also a bit surprised that Daytona USA Deluxe seems to run faster than Daytona USA 2001 (although the DC version is full 60 fps compared to the PC’s 30fps). I guess one reason for that though is that I’m using the ‘Daytona’ car in Deluxe, which looks like the Hornet from the arcade version, but is actually a secret car in this version with maxed out stats, unlocked by coming first in all the tracks on ‘Normal’ difficulty.
The DC version is also notably a lot harder. I just couldn’t get a first place in Desert City. The track itself is on the harder to moderately difficult side with some nasty hairpins, but it’s just trying to catch up to the top three cars that’s so difficult. If you make even the tiniest of mistakes the no 1 position car will just get so far ahead of you on the track that you’ve just got no chance of catching up.
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