Ridge Racer 2 MAME 2 Player Link-Up (Game 3)

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Published on December 3, 2021 8:00:02 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3rdI84OYs

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Ridge Racer 2 (1994)

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So, whilst I had my mate Mark over recently to play some 2 Player Sega Rally 2 in Supermodel (as it's only just been made playable in multiplayer), I decided to try another link-up game in a different emulator for the first time with an actual human opponent - Ridge Racer 2 in MAME. This is game 3 where I finally decided to boot Mark off the Joypad and use it myself and stick him on the Keyboard, so I'm now right screen he's left (the Global Inputs option in MAME only allows for one Joypad on the emulator that's 'in focus' and the other player(s) have to use the keyboard).

I mentioned in the description for my first Ridge Racer 2 link-up video that I thought I was just playing shit because of the keyboard in the first two games and that It wasn't until the third game (this one), when we swapped over screens and controls, that I realised just how much faster P1's version of MAME was running than P2, something I then confirmed afterwards when reviewing the gameplay and seeing how much slower the countdown was on the P2 machine. I think this was also having a screwy affect on the timer.

Now, for some cockamamie reason something seemed to fuck up in my automatic gears around the 02:00 mark and my car suddenly wouldn't go higher than 5th gear and seemed to keep flickering back and forth between 4th and 5th. No idea why that happened. I only noticed it when I was reviewing the gameplay footage after recording it.

Despite the fact that Sega Rally 2 is a far more technologically advanced game than Ridge Racer 2, because of the difference in the way MAME emulates games to Supermodel, my PC actually has a harder time running Ridge Racer 2.

I've actually managed to successfully do a full speed 3 player game of Virtua Racing this way.
   • Virtua Racing - 3 Player game, MAME 170b  

Despite not seeming much more advanced than VR though, my PC was struggling running two versions of RR2 as you can tell by the stuttery music (in these 2nd and 3rd uploads I've edited the crap audio out and replaced it with a new soundtrack - taken from previous Ridge Racer games of course).

Really crazy that both games were able to keep running in sync despite the difference in speed between them and that this translated on the P1 machine as P2 just going really slowly.

Anyway, fun little experiment. Anyway, fun little experiment. You can download this version of MAME yourself from here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=165638.0
It's a non-official special build. There's instructions in the thread on how to get the link-up working.

#RidgeRacer #MAME #ArcadeRacer

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