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First off I must stress to you
that the Japanese version of Daytona Circuit Edition is far superior to
the Western version in terms of car handling.
The Original Daytona USA for Saturn played like a dream but
unfortunately suffered from a lack of Saturn programming knowledge
resulting in a low frame rate, low resolution textures and horrendous
pop-up. Thankfully Sega remade Daytona USA but made a terrible mistake
with the Western release. First up they had completely destroyed the
classic handling of the original Saturn version plus they had replaced
the classic Daytona music with bastardized versions along with that
crappy opening theme by Eric Martin. Thankfully the Japanese version was
released a few months after the Western version and for a good reason.
Still there was that awful Eric Martin opening and all those bastardized
versions of the original music but also all the original tunes were back
in !!! Not only did Sega add all the original music back in to the game
but also the original control method that was featured in the original
release of Daytona USA. So if you've only ever played the Western
version of Daytona Circuit Edition and thought it was crap then you were
absolutely right. Get yourself the Japanese version. It's far superior.
So what's new in this version of Daytona USA for Saturn? Well there are
now 2 extra tracks as well as the original 3 plus a choice of 8
different cars as standard plus secrets. The textures used are of a far
higher resolution than the original plus far less pop-up, too. So all in
all a much more improved version of Daytona. You could even play
On-line at one point but now that's just another part of Sega's first to
the starting line a little too early history.
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