Sega Rally

I know that most of the posts in here are about F1GP, indycar, nascar etc. but is there anyone that loves playing Sega Rally in the arcade?? I know I do it has to be the best game around. What is everybodies fastest times for the championship?? Mine is about 3:24 something. I know it can be done faster because I have seen high scores of 3:18. I was just wondering how on earth these people get these times. Eg. how do you get around corners, which car, is there any difference in the cars. I always use the Celica which I think is quicker on the straights than the Lancia but not as easy to get around the corners. Anybody with Kevin Annfield

I have to agree with you by saying that SEGA RALLY is the best arcade driving game. I see why Rally drivers are considered to be the best race car drivers. They need to have excellent control on both o and off-road surfaces. Amazingly the car feels like the real thing. Do you think SEGA RALLY is going to come out on PC? If it does, I'll buy it immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCOTT M.

Right on. Its amazing how real it feels. Especcially on asphalt when the body rolls and the tyres skip. When I get done with a session of rally I of course must drive home. I rip my 94 Probe GT around the tight turns and chicanes exiting the ramps at the Mall of America and I just say WOW! It feels just like the freakin game. Pretty jazzy

|> I have to agree with you by saying that SEGA RALLY is the best arcade |> driving game. I see why Rally drivers are considered to be the best race |> car drivers. They need to have excellent control on both o and off-road |> surfaces. Amazingly the car feels like the real thing. Do you think SEGA |> RALLY is going to come out on PC? If it does, I'll buy it immediately ************************************************* Me too !, I'm wait for a long time a very good rally simulation game. It's true that SEGA RALLY is a "must" but I only have a PC. Sometimes ago I heard that there was a project to design a 3D video card able to run SEGA playstation games under windows 95 ? Has someone more information on this ? Are there others (good enough) rally games for PC ? The last I tried was RAC Rally : really unplayable :-((. ./daniel

Check this out... http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b2506046/ It's a totally cool rally sim around a mountainside road track.

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>I know that most of the posts in here are about F1GP, indycar, nascar >etc. but is there anyone that loves playing Sega Rally in the arcade?? >I know I do it has to be the best game around. What is everybodies >fastest times for the championship?? Mine is about 3:24 something. I >know it can be done faster because I have seen high scores of 3:18. I >was just wondering how on earth these people get these times. Eg. how >do you get around corners, which car, is there any difference in the >cars. I always use the Celica which I think is quicker on the

straights >than the Lancia but not as easy to get around the corners. Anybody with >Kevin Annfield SEGA is concidered a four letter word here. SEGA SUCKS. Mike

Sega Rally is currently being converted to pc win 95 along with daytona according to information at the sega home page (already converted sonicCD from the MegaCD to PC). Apparently they are undertaking a massive arcade to win 95 conversion project to convert some big titles. Check out their home page if you don't belive me(once your there search for pc news or something similar). It sound's like bullshit to me but it's on there. UNbelievable. See ya, Mex

>Right on. Its amazing how real it feels. Especcially on asphalt >when the body rolls and the tyres skip. When I get done with a session of >rally I of course must drive home. I rip my 94 Probe GT around the tight >turns and chicanes exiting the ramps at the Mall of America and I just >say WOW! It feels just like the freakin game. Pretty jazzy I must say the game does not belong in the same realism league as INDYCAR or NASCAR. It belongs with more light Ridge Racer or Rage Racer. You ever notice no matter how hard you try you can't SPIN the car?!? Or how ON/OFF the acceleration is? Sure, the graphics are spectacular, and the car does behave the right way is several SPECIFIC situations, but I still consider it an arcade GAME, not simulator. The closest to a sim in the arcade was Race Drivin', the next being the current INDY 500. Daytona is close, but sufers from the same faults as Sega Rally. Just an opinion, but I think it's right (If that makes sense) Gregory Fung Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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>>Right on. Its amazing how real it feels. Especcially on asphalt >>when the body rolls and the tyres skip. When I get done with a session of >>rally I of course must drive home. I rip my 94 Probe GT around the tight >>turns and chicanes exiting the ramps at the Mall of America and I just >>say WOW! It feels just like the freakin game. Pretty jazzy >I must say the game does not belong in the same realism league as INDYCAR >or NASCAR. It belongs with more light Ridge Racer or Rage Racer. You ever >notice no matter how hard you try you can't SPIN the car?!? Or how ON/OFF >the acceleration is? Sure, the graphics are spectacular, and the car does >behave the right way is several SPECIFIC situations, but I still consider >it an arcade GAME, not simulator. The closest to a sim in the arcade was >Race Drivin', the next being the current INDY 500. Daytona is close, but >sufers from the same faults as Sega Rally. >Just an opinion, but I think it's right (If that makes sense) >Gregory Fung >Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Just out of curiosity, what would you guys consider to be essential features in a rally game that would make it a realistic sim as opposed to more of an arcade game? Jim

I have spun in the Hairpin a few times. Sorry to burst that bubble. But you are rightit is an arcade racer not a true sim. Gene

\ Have you seen a PC product called Network G Rally? Published by Europress, I think. Box says it's got 24 stages, and you can drive "a choice" of cars .... but that's about it. The shop won't let me look inside the shrink-wrap, and have an awful feeling that it's really an arcade game without the good bits of Sega Rally. Has anyone actually tried playing this? Kurt Sanders

> Just out of curiosity, what would you guys consider to be >essential features in a rally game that would make it a realistic sim as >opposed to more of an arcade game? for one, gradual transistions as situation dictates like in real life. More penalty for damage, perhaps in a different selectable mode. Sega rally was close in some parts, miles off in car handling. Gregory Fung Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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>\ >> Just out of curiosity, what would you guys consider to be >>essential features in a rally game that would make it a realistic sim as >>opposed to more of an arcade game? >> Jim

IT SUCKS very 2D graphics. Save your money. Anthony.

Obviously u are missing something or dont drive a car cause the handling char. are pretty damn good. Go rip your car around the street once you'll see

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>> Just out of curiosity, what would you guys consider to be >>essential features in a rally game that would make it a realistic sim as >>opposed to more of an arcade game? >for one, gradual transistions as situation dictates like in real life. >More penalty for damage, perhaps in a different selectable mode. Sega >rally was close in some parts, miles off in car handling. >Gregory Fung >Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Hmm... that's interesting. I haven't really played Sega Rally, except for at E3, and it wasn't too bad. I found that I didn't like how limited it was - relatively flat tracks, and borders that are much too restrictive. Do you think that a game that was more 'liberal' in track design ability and non-restrictive borders would be good or bad for a decent driving? Jim

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> \ > > Just out of curiosity, what would you guys consider to be > >essential features in a rally game that would make it a realistic sim as > >opposed to more of an arcade game? > > Jim > Have you seen a PC product called Network G Rally? Published by > Europress, I think. Box says it's got 24 stages, and you can drive "a > choice" of cars .... but that's about it. > The shop won't let me look inside the shrink-wrap, and have an awful > feeling that it's really an arcade game without the good bits of Sega > Rally. > Has anyone actually tried playing this? > Kurt Sanders

Yep, it's crap. The MS-DOS DIR command is more playable ! It doesn't even come close to Sega-Rally, come to think of it, not much does. -- ------------- | /"""\ MATT!| | | | | W | | | \_/ | | | Any resemblence of this picture to | \___/ / | any persons, fictional or not, is | | / | purely coincidental. -------------

SS> Have you seen a PC product called Network G Rally? Published by SS> Europress, I think. Box says it's got 24 stages, and you can drive SS> "a choice" of cars .... but that's about it. I think this is the "Network Q RAC Rally" game. SS> The shop won't let me look inside the shrink-wrap, and have an awful SS> feeling that it's really an arcade game without the good bits of SS> Sega Rally. SS> Has anyone actually tried playing this? It's trying not to be an arcade game - but I wasn't impressed! The driving model is poor - the control is dire - the graphics average for 1994, but nothing special......and rain going upwards if you roll a car is pathetic!!! FIGP was older and looking dated but FAR better when RALLY came out - nowardays, I shouldn't bother! Cheers! --- * RM 1.3 U0414 * Include this in your CONFIG.SYS File: BUGS=OFF

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>> Have you seen a PC product called Network G Rally? Published by >> Europress, I think. Box says it's got 24 stages, and you can drive "a >> choice" of cars .... but that's about it. >> The shop won't let me look inside the shrink-wrap, and have an awful >> feeling that it's really an arcade game without the good bits of Sega >> Rally. >> Has anyone actually tried playing this? >> Kurt Sanders >Yep, it's crap. The MS-DOS DIR command is more playable ! >It doesn't even come close to Sega-Rally, come to think of it, not much does.

What is it about Sega Rally that makes it hard to beat? (Not as in winning, but as in making a comparable game. :) ) Jim