Cannonball - The Enhanced OutRun Engine

Quick playthrough by me on Cannonball - The Enhanced OutRun Engine. it is "a program which allows you to play an enhanced version of Yu Suzuki's seminal arcade racer, OutRun, on a variety of systems.Cannonball is not an emulator; it is a complete rewrite of the original game into portable C++." It features a whole host of enhancements over the arcade original including:
60 fps gameplay (smoother than the original game)
True widescreen mode (extend the play area by 25%)
High Resolution mode (improves sprite scaling)
Time Trial Mode
Cheats
Customisable Music
High Score Saving
Western, Japanese & prototype track support
Analog & Digital controllers supported
Force Feedback / Haptic support (Windows only)
Fixes bugs present in the original game
It's pretty darn awesome! This is at 60fps, in widescreen high-res mode. I'm playing this with my Thrustmasters Ferrari GT experience wheel. It doesn't support force feedback, but it does rumble nicely in all the right places.
You can download it from here:
reassembler.blo...
You'll need to find your own Outrun rev B ROMs though.

[@MrThunderwing]

*Alternative Cannonball video (better quality) with added live cam:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH27o3t7j7d3hLc *Like this? Then check out my retro review of Sonic and All-Star Racing Transformed:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZu1ipZ9atd7aM0

[@markbaker594]

Just got this working on my i7 laptop gen 8 machine with nvidia 1gb gfx and hell this is superb. I would have loved the 16 bit Amiga's and Atari's to be better than what they were!

[@michaelmoya7157]

Man, finding the PCB board to Outrun Revision B is gonna be hell...

[@northsouthy74]

Man I could never finish route a, was hoping you did LOL

[@MrThunderwing]

Well, it's not route A, but I do mange to reach the goal in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH27o3t7j7d3hLc

[@northsouthy74]

Not route A? how else do you get to ending A then? What other route do you follow? The only route to A is left, left, left and then left. as far as I know?

[@MrThunderwing]

I think you misunderstood me - I was referring to the other video I linked to where I finish Route C by going left, left, right, right, not this one where I kept going left and would've finished Route A if I'd got to the end.

[@MrThunderwing]

The only thing I can think of is that maybe you're not using the right ROM? It's been awhile since I set this up so I'm probably not the best person to ask TBH. I just followed the instructions in the manual (from the link in my video description) and it all worked without having to do anything fancy.

[@therrock2587]

with A G27 i cant map the shifter to the G27 shifter

[@DavidBeattty]

looks like the saturn port to me

[@MrThunderwing]

This has got additional visual enhancements the Saturn version doesn't, like the fact you can play in wide-screen or first person mode.

[@MichaelOddish]

MrThunderwing, I am having a problem. Maybe you can solve it. Ok, I have Cannonball all set up, and I have the ROM in the ROM directory and the program is not reading it! And then, I patched all the needed files and installed it to the ROM, still nothing! Cannonball keeps saying it's not opening the rom files, when really, the ROM is in the right directory. Solution?

"Customisable Music" but how?

[@plowking813]

any way to continue a game once the timer stops? In mame the game just ends without option to continue

[@MrThunderwing]

C T Nope, once it's Game Over, it's game over, I'm afraid.

[@plowking813]

MrThunderwing darn

[@Tiamat583]

Will this ever include a feature where you can add your own cars to this game, that is something I ever wanted to do with an outrun game ever since.

[@catm4403]

The car aims slightly to the left when my gamepad or wheel is centered and there doesn't seem to be any way of setting the steering axis.

[@MrThunderwing]

I've not had any issues like that myself. If you need assistance I'd check over at the forum for the game (you can find it using the link in the description).

[@retrogenius8397]

What is the difference between running this and running MAME with the same ROM? Is there any new features incorporated into the game or just a different way of running the original 68k + custom hardware version of the game in Windows app today? Features = new levels/sfx/source graphics or improvements to existing audio and video etc btw not scanlines or widescreen format.

[@MrThunderwing]

RETRO GENIUS have a read of the info I put in the description.

[@twilightzone7824]

This is a enthusiastic/fan grade thing, the difference is in the sheer notion of the technology it was made with (rewritten on an advanced version of the original Amiga) not the gaming experience.