Arcade - Thrill Drive - Tournament Mode Gameplay (Europe)

Some gameplay of me playing the game's tournament mode activated by the operator's menu (aka. Test Mode). There are no videos of the game's tournament mode on KZbin so I decided to showcase it here for those who are curious. But essentially, there's really not that much difference between the regular game and tournament mode, other than that you are awarded points by the end based on your overall performance, with the amount of accidents you cause deducting some of your overall score. The tournament mode is essentially used for bragging rights, as the mode itself may probably used for real-life tournaments using the game, if there are any.
I'm playing the European version of the game with the initial thrillde. The reason for this is because this version of Thrill Drive allows you to choose if you want to use the handbrake and clutch, what type of shifter you want to use and if you have your shifting indicator either on the left or right, with the speed and rev counters being on their respective opposite sites. The intro to the game, while set in Europe, is similar to the intro seen in the Japanese version. The intro, the first course and car presented in the intro highlighted (Whether it's the Opel/Vauxall/Holden Corsa/Barina/Vita in all versions but the US, where the Ford Mustang is first) are what sets each regional version of Thrill Drive apart, having an intro set in the course tied to the region it is coded to.
It is played on the current version of MAME which suffers from less crashes than how it did in previous versions prior, including one video where I played it via the MAME core on RetroArch within EmuVR, which is currently outdated at version 0.251. The rear-view mirror still doesn't function as it should.
As MAME emulation of this game gradually improves, I would eventually do another video of the game where I'll be playing the game with the Logitech steering wheel and the gear shifter that I do have.

[@bettercallpaulladeeo]

Dat 90s Red Opel Corsa

[@BadGamer_31]

Hey, on which specs are you running this? The thing is that I tested this game before on a old version of MAME, which runned flawlessly on my GTX 1650 with a i5 10600k, but I don't know if is gonna have the same good performance on the last version of MAME with my specs. I liked that they fixed the music.

[@gaminggoose2329]

How have you configured the shifter for this game, it’s got a weird setup where it’s looking for a left and right input for moving the stick left and right and then up and down for changing into the gear, rather than individual gear buttons that could be mapped to each position on a shifter?

[@Razorblade1812]

DarthMarino has a video of how you configure the H-Gauge shifter in which he used Ridge Racer as an example.

[@gaminggoose2329]

@@Razorblade1812 I was just thinking about that today and remembered that you could map multiple inputs to the same output. I checked the video you mentioned and it said exactly what I was thinking