Outrun 2 Vs Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (Original Xbox)

I was asked by another YouTuber recently if I could upload a comparison between the Original Xbox version of Outrun 2 and Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast. These are both being played on Xbox 360 which upscales them into HD. I've always thought that Outrun 2K6 looked a tiny bit grainier than Outrun 2 when playing the original Xbox on my old CRT TV in the past, but here upscaled it doesn't seem quite so obvious (I'm sure I read somewhere once that the anti-aliasing in Outrun 2K6 wasn't as good due to the extra memory requirements of the additional courses compared to Outrun 2). One little odd side-effect of using the Xbox 360 though, is that in OR2 sometimes when you move from stage to stage the stage can just suddenly appear and 'grow' around the checkpoint as you go through it - something that didn't happen in the original Xbox. Sometime the frame-rate can seem to go a bit weird as well, although that doesn't seem quite so apparent in the finished video as it was when actually playing. As far as I can tell, OR 2K6 doesn't seem to suffer any ill effect of being played on 360. Obviously , because I'm using my unmoded 360 for this rather than one of my soft-modded original Xboxs, I'm unable to do capture from the Japanese version of Outrun 2 I've used in other videos.

After the main comparison, I do a side-by-side comparison of the palm beach stage from OR2 running next to the Palm Beach Stage at dusk option you can do in OR2K6's time attack mode. I then segue from that into another race from Outrun 2. Why? Because I think the 360 Spider car model looks cool and my initial game footage I captured was with that - but it was a fairly mediocre run. The 288 GTO is my go to car generally because it's fast, got great acceleration and handles well and this is what I did the 'main' gameplay run with. And although I like the design of the GTO, I just think the 360 Spider looks a lot nicer. But I generally always seem to get slower times with it (not that I'm trying to set any records or anything, but it's always nice to upload some at least semi-competent gameplay).