Outrun 2 Chihiro Beta (CXBXR) - Fake 15 Stage Marathon

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Published on March 7, 2021 10:00:04 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXa4UFmT1a8

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OutRun 2 (2003)

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I uploaded a video recently that showed how far emulation of the arcade Chihiro version of the beta version of Outrun 2 has come in CXBXR, an OG Xbox Emulator. It's possible to play the game at (mostly) full speed now, and the invisible barriers that used to bring the car to a total standstill at the fork in the road checkpoints, making progress past the third stages impossible (as the timer would run out) are now a thing of the past.

Being able to play further into the game, it's possible to now see all the levels in the game, and it's interesting to note that the really bad graphical bugs that affect some levels don't affect some of the the others nearly as badly, to the point that some of the levels actually really don't look that bad at all. I had a play through each of the different goals when I got home from work on Friday and video captured them. I will upload those individual runs separately, but before that, I thought an interesting way to showcase how all the levels are looking at present would be to create a 'fake' 15 stage marathon run.

The 15 stage Marathon was a mode that got introduced into the later Outrun 2 variants (off the top of my head, I'm not sure if it was a feature in the Outrun 2 Chihiro original arcade game. The Xbox port featured a 15 stage continuous mission, in fact it also featured a gruelling 30 stage version where you raced all 15 stages from reverse to forwards back-to-back), but isn't present in the Beta. So, I've spliced the individual stages together from all my runs through from goals A to E to present a Chihiro beta 15 stage equivalent. You're welcome.

If you want to see what the 15 stage continuous course looks like normally, you can see me doing it here in the arcade Lindbergh version of Outrun 2 SPDX using Teknoparrot: https://youtu.be/DijBquZMNd0 if you want to see it in multiplayer, here's me and 2 of my mates trying it in the PC version via a 3 way LAN, which unexpectedly turns into just a 2 Player game after awhile... https://youtu.be/5zT2GlEdAfo

Another interesting thing about being able to play the actual Chihiro game, is the fact the Ferrari Testarossa (the original 1986 Outrun car) had a very different look in this version of the game compared to all the subsequent home ports and sequels. Apparently it was re-designed in the later games to appear more like the version from the 1986 super-scaler original, which has been the case from Outrun 2 on the Xbox and beyond. The only other place this original Chihiro Testrossa design featured was in the Xbox demo of Outrun 2, but only as a rival car (thanks once again to fellow Outrun 2 superfan Noobsaibot21 for making me aware of this in the first place). I'll be uploading some footage of this demo version of the game in the next day-or-two. Oddly, this version of the Testarossa was the one that featured on the back of the Xbox OR2 box. You can see it here on the back of my very own PAL copy of OR2: https://sta.sh/019w09shrhva

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