I'm looking to play for Retro Racers, but I'm not sure where to begin outside of the major mainstays of the genre. What racing games would you guys suggest good or awful?

take model 2 emulator and play indy 500. unknown sega goodness

>>11861774 (OP)
Check out Bug Riders on PS1.

Does Rally shit count?
This one and SEGA Rally are a must play if you're into it

>>11861848
Dirt Dash too. Basically Sega Rally expanded

Road Trip Adventure. Thank me later

>>11861774 (OP)
The Monster Jam games on PS2 are pretty cool, I think they have racing modes as well as different destruction modes where you just break shit.

V rally 2, ps1. surprisingly decent, also has a track editor.
Also Burning Road, obscure Daytona ripoff but the handling seemed strange, couldnt tell if it was an emulation issue

>>11861848
Literally any game that has driving as it's focus. Be it car, bug, spaceship, etc etc

>>11861774 (OP)
didnt this used to be called /vrrom/ or am I thinking of something else

>>11861774 (OP)
I had fun with ChoroQ.

I can't remember if I got pissed off at /vr/ with how my taste in racing games was treated.

>>11862150
I always found it funny how one Anon in particular got absolutely upset at the /vroom/ tagline.

>>11862130
yes but newbies abound the board post-hack and don't even know old generals

>>11861780
I started this earlier tonight and thought it was just weird till I got the hang of it. I adored it by the end.

>>11861895
I tried this. I like ChoroQ, but I guess I didn't like how slow it was at the start.

>>11861895

>Thank me later

cringe

>>11864286
didn't ask

>>11863905
>>11861895
For me it's the PSX trilogy and Choro Q Park on Saturn. With all the Saturn translations popping up lately I hope it gets one too

I enjoy California Speed. I'm sorry.

>>11864340
This looks sick

>>11861774 (OP)
Whiplash aka Fatal Racing is my favorite racing game ever made. There's nothing else quite like it. It's got crazy stunts like trackmania, loops and corkscrews and more, but it's also a combat endurance racer where you are encouraged to wreck the other cars. Car manufacturers run a team of two cars just like le mans or f1 and the AI does crazy shit I have only seen players do like drive through the pits at top speed to try and wreck people trying to repair or if one car on a team is doing particularly poorly the AI might decide that the best thing for the team is to turn around and drive the track backwards just to wreck people. There is zero rubber banding, cars will be on completely different laps by the end of the race, pit strategy is very important to win on the hardest difficulties. Supports 2 player split screen and 16 player network multiplayer, in 1995!
https://wiki.get-good.net/index.php?title=Fatal_Racing

I am also working on decompiling it so it can run natively on modern machines without DOSbox. Currently I have keyboard input, sound and midi, and a software rendering pipeline in place. Doesn't go past the main menu yet but I do have an untextured 3D software rendered rotating car on screen.
>>>/o/28508005
https://github.com/Zizin13/Roller

>>11865106
FAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL
RAAAAAAAAAACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNG

>>11865106
sadly i will never play this because it's not 60 fps, like most of this thread

>>11864340
>>11864683
That's the 3rd Chase HQ game, it's not as well known because it only got a bad port on SNES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJlYbG5Gulk

>>11865106
I somehow missed out on playing Fatal Racing despite it being a game I would completely love. I don't know how that happened.

>>11865489
Lot's of competition on PC at the time for racing games

>>11865490
That's probably it. Also the fact I was 4 when it was released.

>>11864294
I started PSX ChoroQ after your post, the one that was released as Penny Racers in Europe. The starter car barely turns, it's not even understeer, it's more like nosteer. Until you just spin out that is. Am I missing some tuning options, or is it just how things are?

>>11865681
I think that's just the way it is until you upgrade your car; but first you need to get the manual transmission upgrade (the game teaches you early on that you have a better top speed with it and that it's much easier to win with manual). It gets better after that; though I think each sequel improves on the last. Also iirc fyi beating the championship once isn't the end of things, if you go at it again you'll get new tracks eventually.

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>>11865694
Huh, I started with Practice and it didn't tell me anything. And I had AT, no manuka option at a glance at least. I'll give it another go later, it looks pretty fun.

>>11865343
What, a silky 35Hz is not good enough for you? It actually can also run at 50 and 70Hz but these are cheat modes that make the entire game run faster. All the logic is based on a 35Hz refresh rate. Once I finish the decomp I will fork the repo and work on things like proper game clock delta time. That should be a very easy update.

i really like the midnight club games because you can upgrade your car's performance and cosmetics. what other racing games are like that?

>>11861774 (OP)
Need for speed Porsche unleashed.

>>11865956

that would probably explain why it always ran shit for me. I thought it was my pc, then tried again after an upgrade and it was still chuggy. IIRC it was in that wierd period where some stuff didnt get 3dfx ports/patches so I assumed my cpu wasnt good enough.

>>11866069
There is a 3dfx version too, it seems slightly incomplete though. The menus are unchanged, the same software rendered ones, and the overlay in-game is incredibly simplified, just some text and bars. It's also kind of ugly.

>>11865983
This.

>>11865697
Proof that a racing game can live, die, and live again based entirely off its OST.

help me bros, Im trying to play colin mcrae rally and my gearshift is fucked for some reason

>plug in wheel(logitech gt)
>wheel turns to center itself, detected in the game, I barely have to adjsut anything in settings
>I have a gearshift on this wheel, it detects when Im shifting up or down on it, hence shifter back/forwards being read in button assignments
>startying rally school I can shift up jsut fine, always registers
>I cannot downshift at all
>I can go into settings, input how to register downshift everytime with the lever, no errors ever pop up
>the second I start a course, it never reads the input again, even though its still assigned in settings

what do?

>>11865832
Gave it another go and it's just too frustrating. I can't get a grip on handling, one second I can't make a mildest turn, the next one I'm spinning out on a straight.
Spent an hour in the GameCube one and had fun, even despite Mario Kart items bullshit.

I'm playing nascar thunder 2003 and 2004 on pcsx2
Are there more nascar games with such advanced carrer mode? I would love to play something like that on pc, but I cannot get into pc versions of these games because of controls and lack of any manual for them.

Not strictly /vr/, but certainly /vr/-adjacent. High recommendation, only gets better once you clear the main game and begin exploring the steam workshop tracks.

>>11869450
i'll buy that

What arcade racer has the most legacy appeal? Are there any games with high skill-expression that people still play for score/times today?

>>11867190
>>11867190
Dri/vr/s pls

>>11861774 (OP)
Ridge Racer R4 is peak for me

>>11869259
I would definitely say Dirt to Daytona.

Just to shoehorn this in because I love it, but a lot of the game was recycled for Test Drive: Eve Of Destruction / Driven To Destruction.

>>11868070
The snow track is absolutely deranged, there's no way one could enjoy it. School one also isn't great with all the random sharp turns. Reminds me of M&Ms Kart Racing.
But on the other hand I unlocked the 787B body and it makes me very happy.

>>11861774 (OP)
Midtown Madness (PC)
Rage Racer (PS1)
Porcha Challenge (PS1)
Checkered Flag (ZX Spectrum)
VRally(PS1)
Pole Position (arcade)
Out Run (arcade)
Gran turismos on the PS1 and 2s
Colin McCrae
smugglers run ps2
The old need for speeds on the ps2
F1 2000 on the PS1
Super Trucks (PS2)

>>11870541
>What arcade racer has the most legacy appeal?
Pole position or Outrun

Carmageddon

moto racer series on psx is kino either 1, 2 or world tour.

Just play a normal racing game like Porsche Unleashed

If you haven't before or properly

NOT THE CRAPPY PSX VERSION which is a completely different game (of course )

>>11871930
Absolutely awful gameplay wise

>>11871930
If people are actually tryharding these games as you suggest it's surely only because they are popular games that fit well into established arcade high score attack template.
All these scanline effect sprite scaler racers offer delightful show but the mechanics are frustrating and have no substance.
>>11870541
Good question, funnily enough I mostly know of people doing that in Mario Kart 64 and Crash Team Racing.

>>11870541
Oh, I know. People are super hardcore into Multi Theft Auto San Andreas and Trackmania. These are huge communities with tournaments and such.

TDU Platinum
>>11871823
Dirt to Daytona, TD Eve of Destruction and TDU all share the same unlockable "Hardcore Mode" physics, which bump them up to a deeper simcade level.

What's the difference between each racing game? Like for someone who has never played one besides kart games what's the difference between Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo, Burnout, Daytona, Need for Speed and such? Just the cars and the tracks or there's more differences?

trackmania!

>>11874409
Ridge Racer is arcade fun with fast driving and constant drifting. Gran Turismo is boring simulation gameplay where you constantly have to slow the fuck down to take corners.

>>11861774 (OP)
Super Hang-On
Wipeout 3

>Nobody said Scud / Sega Super GT

>>11865983
>>11866172
Make sure it is the pc version.

>>11874409
More. It's like the difference between Crash Bandicoot and Metal Gear Solid.