SEGA went for a soundtrack that would please the West, and though they had every reason to do so, it lost its soul. He of Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic R, Metropolis Street Racer fame/infamy is one of the all-time greats as far as I’m concerned, but I wasn’t too enamoured with the lack of vocals in the remixes, let alone the loss of that signature Daytona USA sound. SEGA also took the (ridiculous – quote me on it) criticisms of the original soundtrack to heart, and saw fit to replace the tunes, at least in the West, entirely with remixed instrumental versions by Richard Jacques. Though it featured big, bold colours, much nicer textures and an improved draw distance, CCE bore only a passing resemblance to the Daytona USA we were all familiar with. The new graphics were indeed an improvement – technically, the game targeted 30fps and held it, most of the time. Better, smoother graphics coupled with more tracks and vehicles – what could go wrong? Built using the impeccable SEGA Rally Championship engine that SEGA used for the Saturn version of that game, CCE was almost entirely a guaranteed winner. Their underwhelming port of Virtua Fighter received a Remix version, and around the time of that games release, there were rumours that Daytona USA was going to get the same treatment.Īnd so Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition (CCE) came to pass. So SEGA set out to right a couple of wrongs. We all know the story – the Saturn had Daytona USA, the PSX had Ridge Racer, and when comparing the two, Ridge Racer came out on top. I had a game that played great, featured the killer soundtrack on CD and yeah, it looked close enough to the arcade for me, at least when viewed through my fuzzy RF connection in 1996, that’s for sure. The sub 20fps we received in PAL land didn’t matter to THIS 13-year-old. I felt, at the time, that SEGA did a fantastic job porting the core Daytona USA experience to the home console. It could also be games that I’ve never liked that all of a sudden, just work for me. A retro gamer’s life can be strange sometimes.ĭaytona USA was one of the first games that I bought for my Saturn, and as messy as that original Saturn port was, it was among my favourite games. These could be games that I wanted to like, but couldn’t latch on to, or games that I hyped up to ridiculous levels as a youngster, that inevitably failed to meet expectation.
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Learning To Love is a series that I’m going to start throwing at you every now and then – a series about games that I am giving a second, third or in Daytona USA (C)CE’s case, hundredth chance.
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