Daytona USA - Model 2 Emulator network fun

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MrThunderwing

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Published on August 20, 2014 5:42:27 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3HRDD4uGs

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Daytona USA (1994)

Duration: 13:18

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While making my new YouTube trailer awhile back, I reused some of the old footage of the 8 player single system Daytona USA network I'd setup awhile back. I'd also figured out a way that I could overlay the videos of the panoramic multi-screen demo from all three courses (in 4 player networked mode) so that they would all fit on one screen. I got an idea in my head to edit the two seprate Daytona 8 player videos into one. Then I thought, why not just use some new footage - footage where I'm actually making an effort to try and get to the goal - and make a new video - so I did.

Ideally I would have liked to use Bandicam to record the 8 player link-up, but the extra power required for video capture on top of 8 emulators working simultaneously and linked up was just causing too much slow down and making the game unplayable as well as causing major lag between the emulators. I compromised in the end and used Hypercam, which always seems to make the recorded footage seem waaaay too fast and also doesn't do sound. I sort of got around this by using my phone to record the sound and then slowing the footage down after recording it. The downside to this though is it means the gameplay video is only playing back at about 20 fps. I do show a bit of footage recorded with an external camera (my phone's) at the end so you can see the speed it should be going at. Also, just for the hell of it, I demonstrate a LAN between two separate PCs both running multiple emulators, to simulate an 8 player network.

I've configured the controls on all 8 emulators to one joypad, a PS3 Dualshock 3 which I'm using as an emulated Xbox 360 pad. This in itself also caused a lot of issues as far as gameplay was concerned for me, as playing M2 Emu Daytona with anything other than a wheel is a very twitchy experience (I have got a wheel I could've set-up, but, meh... couldn't be arsed going back through the config settings of 8 emulators). Having all 8 cars on one pad also presented a bit of extra challenge as far as avoiding them all was also concerned...

It is possible to map individual joypads to the different emulators, so in theory you could have a true 8 player game, providing you've got enough USB ports.

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