GTI Club+ Rally Côte d'Azur - Beginner with Lancia (PS3)

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Published on September 20, 2018 5:08:38 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP86wlYzg00

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GTI Club (1996)

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Gettin' ma' Sega Rally groove on with the Lancia Delta in GTI Club+ Rally Côte d'Azur on the PS3.

OK, so here's another 4K upload experiment using the PS3 version of GTI Club+ Rally Côte d'Azur. By total coincidence, I found out after I'd obtained this footage (at the same time I'd captured the WipEout Omega collection and Hydro Thunder Hurricane footage I've recently uploaded) that a GTI Club game is now playable in Teknoparrot. This isn't that version though... (I've got as far as getting that version to boot, but haven't tried setting up any of the control in it yet).

Although I used to see a lot of the cabinets around when I was younger, GTI club was one of those games I never played in the arcade because I was a poor student back then and I always saved my one pound coins to play arcade games like Scud Race, because why would I want to race as a Renault 5 when I could be using a Mclaren F1 or Ferrari F40? Plus, much as I liked Konami, they were no Sega. It is a fun little arcade racer though. Man, that first place AI car is a bitch to catch up if it gets in front of you though, although that's probably more to do with my general shitness at the game. The game itself is an HD port of the original 1996 Konami arcade game GTI Club.

The port was by British studio Sumo Digital which meant that when it got released on PS3 I was immediately interested due to the fact that these were the same guys who were responsible for the brilliant ports of Outrun 2, Coast 2 Coast and Outrun Online Arcade (and then later went on to do the rather good Sonic and All Star Racing and the even better Sonic and All Star Transformed). The game looks really nice and runs at 60fps, but is unfortunately somewhat lacking in content with just the one area that all the stages are based around (although I do love the very Monaco-esque setting). It handles well though and certainly delivers the right sort of arcade-y experience at home. For whatever reason though, I didn't really sink much play time into it back then. There was a DLC pack with some alternative cars available which, regrettably, I never purchased and due to licensing issues it's now no longer available (the curse of digital gaming media!)

After being so impressed with Sumo's ports of Outrun Online Arcade and GTI Club back then, I started a Facebook petition to try and persuade Sega to let Sumo Digital port Scud Race and Daytona USA 2 to PS3 and 360. It never really took off with the intended plan of being a petition, but the page is still active with over 300+ member that like chatting about old skool Sega games and arcade racers and the like. If you like stuff like that, why not check it out?

https://www.facebook.com/ScudRace/

I've explained recently in some of my other video descriptions that over the last year or so, all my YouTube uploads have been coming out looking horribly pixelated and blocky, despite the original video's looking fine (Read the description here for more info: https://youtu.be/yYGozUJ2W4k).

Sometimes, when obtaining external HD video capture, I've needed to compromise the quality of the capture a smidge. This is because if the quality is set to maximum in the Elgato HD software settings and I record for a long period of time, the video file has a nasty habit of often becoming corrupted, leaving me with a load of unusable video garbage. As you can no doubt imagine, if I've just spent the last 6 hours trying to complete a particularly taxing challenge in a game and when I review the footage the fucking thing hasn't captured it properly, it can be just a tad annoying. The last time it did that I fucked up a Dualshock 3 pad by hurling it across the room when I realised I'd wasted all that time for nothing... As a result of that I've tended to keep the quality settings on the lower side. I should probably point out here, that by low I don't mean bad. The video still looks fine.

The original video of this looks pristine. It was captured at 720p (as the Elgato can't do 60fps at 1080p) with the quality at maximum and then rendered into 1080p with the highest bitrate available (60,000kbs) - this too looks crystal clear and perfect. This was then further rendered into 4K with the same bitrate. This isn't going to be a particularly practical way for me to upload stuff though, as I've ended up with a 2.5 GB file to upload for 5 minutes of gameplay. As I say though, this is an experiment...

So far, the upscaled videos of WipEout Omega Collection on PS4 and Hydro Thunder Hurricane on Xbox 360 I've uploaded have come out pretty nicely. Not perfect, but a fuck of a lot better than the way a lot of my 1080p uploads have, so I'm hoping the same will be the case here.

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