Cool Riders is currently getting star treatment at MAMEdev. It's been out-of-action for years, but has recently hit "working" status
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Cool Riders is the "spiritual" "pseudo-sequel" to OutRunners. It's was the last "super scaler" arcade game to be released by Sega and arrived well into the Model 2 era, making it a relatively obscure release. The hardware powering Cool Riders is exclusive to Cool Riders - it's a really strange game that until last week, wouldn't even boot. Supposedly it's still quite slow and there are still obvious emulation issues, but it's quite nifty all the same
anyway just thought you'd like to know. This is the final form of Turbo/Hang-On/OutRun before 3D took over
haha wow, never heard of this one and it looks crazy awesome. There are cute little Sonic and Tails icons you can select at the name entry screen. They also licensed "born to be wild" for this.
For using digitized graphics it isn't very realistic. I noticed those guys that push the woman driver to get her started don't let her go till she is over 200 MPH. That means they were running over 200 MPH.
Also, the emulation is slow? I can't imagine how fast that game is at full speed. Looks pretty fast as it is now.
Also, the emulation is slow? I can't imagine how fast that game is at full speed. Looks pretty fast as it is now.
I think that's running on a reasonably high-end computer, and is only rendering one screen - for ultra realism there'd be a second, as Cool Riders only came in twin cabinets.
I figured as much, although whether it saw a release outside the various SegaWorlds is another story. I distinctly remember SegaSonic Arcade being playable at SegaWorld London back in the day, but it never looked like the game set for widespread distribution (I don't think that one even has its own cabinet, instead falling back on the various whatever-City no-frills ones).
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