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Originally Posted by parallaxscroll
Also just got Daytona USA (DC) in the mail on monday.....so smooth. I think by around 2001 they really perfected how to program software for the DC. In the beginning it must have been difficult to balance the graphics and preformance but around 2001 DC game quality got exponentially better.
I got the Japanese import Daytona USA 2001 for Dreamcast back in December 2000 as soon as it was released. Indeed it was extremely smooth, overall it had better graphics than the arcade version powered by the Martin Marietta designed Model 2 board, as far as resolution, pop-up/draw-in, polys, lighting, textures. Only a few details got jipped. The controls were overally sensitive, even in the American version which allowed you to reduce the sensitivity of the analog stick. It's the best home version of Daytona USA released, by far. I was a little down that they didn't include Daytona USA 2, but then that would've been more difficult to port over. I do wish Dreamcast's graphics chip had been made by Lockheed Martin Real3D, and used the Open GL API. Then Sega could just port of all Model 3 games with ease, on hardware that was binary compatible with Model 3, only more powerful.