DAYTONA USA2 POWER EDITION BEGINNER COURSE by MBK-JKR

Three years after DAYTONA USA, a prototype of DAYTONA USA 2 was suddenly tested, and the players went wild at its appearance. It was totally unexpected after the release of SCUDRACE (a.k.a SEGA SUPER-GT), and time attackers rushed into the test location and indulged themselves in developing the racing techniques. Meanwhile it did not satisfy some of the players for its actions and reactions which are totally unlike the previous title and very much like SCUDRACE. Although it did not succeed toomuch in Japan since the driving game using texture-mapped polygons became very common, it had its high popularity outdside Japan, and the title has still been in active transaction amongst American dealers at high prices.

Considering the opinions from SEGA USA at the release in US about the beginner course atmosphere not being like stockcar racing, a new "Power Edition" DAYTONA USA 2 was released. The differences from the old version were; the change from indoor dome in the beginner course to open air circuit with blue sky (though the course layout was the same), some modification in advanced course, timing measurement to one thousandth of a second, an addition of MIX course where all the beginner, advanced andexpert courses are put in one, spec improvement in some of the machines, an addition of new machine HORNET, (in the same spec as in the previous "my car") which in fact already appeared in the old version as a secret machine with a command during course selection. HORNET in the old version was the fastest car fine-tunable in top speed, acceleration and handling. The reason HORNET was not known was Power Edition release before its announcement, the opportunity of which was lost for good due to the Power Edition release. It was also due to the intentional "seal" avopiding the confusion amongst the time attackers, because HORNET was the fastest despite being a product of a joyride. Beware that currently HORNET is recognised as unofficial machine, because the time attack with HORNET was not recorded in the old version. (Please excuse us not being able to answer the questions regarding the command to appear HORNET in the old version)

Now the highlight of the movies; The movies for DAYTONA USA 2 is the one in the Power Edition. It is because the techniques are more sophisticated in the Power Edition,and also because the techniques in Power Edition is applicable to the old version, but not vice versa. The beginner course is played by MBK-JKR, and advanced and expert by "Captain" MBK-GIL. The beginner course is recorded in the race mode because it needs to utilise the slip stream of other cars to improve the time lap. When it comes to the extreme,you can tell which other car appears on which corner in which lap. Check out how the players run upon their programmed driving, despite their rather rough driving in its appearances. For the advanced, watch how it goes from the Black Hole Corner to Western Hairpin, as well as toward the last corner in the advanced course. It is amazing to see the machine goes absolutely in 90 degrees to the driving direction. In the expert course, see how grip driving and drift driving are applied. You will not see at a glance that you can keep the grip by going on the pedestrian in the downtown alleys. The wall hit turn right after the Vortex Tunnel is also a very important technique. The wall hit to the right corner after passing the underpass is also an intentional technique.

You can learn many more techniques including basic recordline and standard driving by referring to our own supervised "DAYTONA USA 2 Official Guidebook" published by Softbank Publishing. (although it was already discontinued)

The movies were recorded 1999.