Crazy Taxi 2 (Dreamcast vs PSP) Side by Side Comparison

About the video: An audiovisual comparison of Crazy Taxi 2 between Sega Dreamcast and PSP (PlayStation Portable). The video shows a Dual Gameplay in the standard difficulty to compare the two games (side by side) whose purpose is of study and learn. Note: Please use earphone/ headphone, because the audio is binaural.
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- Technical data -
Full Game Name: Crazy Taxi 2
Alternative Name: Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
Developer(s): Sega
Publisher(s): Sega
Release: 2001 (Dreamcast) 2007 (PSP)
Comparative Region: 60 hz
Genre: Racing, action
Mode: Single-player
Format: Cartridge
Dual Gameplay by VCDECIDE

[@RussianBerserk]

Dreamcast vs PSP vs Piano

[@Leo-xh8pp]

Kkkkkkkk

[@eliasnicolasmiranda4940]

Is amazing how the PSP was in the time It was truly the most powerful handheld and it has a great library

[@adamphillip5305]

Never seen Crazy Taxi controlled with a piano before, impressive

[@andore_btt]

Crazy-Gameplay-Taxi

[@n64fan60]

Loved the MIDI piano rendition of "No Brakes" 😁

[@dougs408]

Esse eu jogava no Dramcast com o som no talo, The Offspring é o poder!!!

[@baronhausenpheffer]

Dreamcast is the clear winner overall, especially in terms of sharpness and framerate, but the PSP version still deserves major kudos as an excellent port to a system with lesser horsepower. It still looks and plays like a home-console Crazy Taxi, and that's an accomplishment given the era and the tech.

[@more7642]

Dude, actually, PSP has MORE horsepower. Check both consoles hardware on the Wiki, it would be the great surprise for you.

[@Mr.Atari2600]

@@more7642 PSP: 64-bit CPU at 333mhz, 32-bit GPU at 162mhz, 32MB Ram, 35 million polygon count, 480x272 resolution. Dreamcast: 128-bit CPU at 200mhz, 64-bit GPU at 100mhz, 16MB Ram, 3 million polygon count, 640x480 resolution. PS2: 128-bit CPU at 299mhz, 32-bit GPU at 150mhz, 32MB Ram, 75 million polygon count, 1920x1080 (yes, PS2 can do 1080i).

[@more7642]

@@Mr.Atari2600 exactly as I said earlier. Aside of 128-bit architecture, DC has less horsepower. Btw, modern PC's operating system is 64-bit technically, so it doesn't matter almost at all, is it 32, 64, or 128-bit system. The most important are RAM/VRAM volume, GPU and CPU frequency.

[@Mr.Atari2600]

@@more7642 It also depends what type of hardware it is too. The Dreamcast hardware was made to make 3D graphics better & easier + fixing the major problems from Sega's previous console The Sega Saturn which was tedious to work with. Despite the Dreamcast having MUCH inferior hardware than the PS2/PSP. The games however do look just as good if not better than their PS2 counterparts & I believe that's because the PS2's hardware was also hard to work with. Not as bad as the PS3, Saturn, or Jaguar's. but devs had complained & I think Sony did it on purpose to give developers a challenge. idk if PSP's hardware was any better but it was a beefy portable system for it's time.

[@granvillimus]

@@Mr.Atari2600 It should be noted that the high polygon counts Sony claimed for PS2 and PSP are an on paper number that you'd almost never come close to in a real game. It's only possible if you disable all textures, shading, lighting and any other effects. Jak 2 is a more realistic benchmark, some of the highest poly counts on the system but still only in the range of 8-10 million per second max. By comparison, Nintendo claimed the much more powerful Gamecube could do up to 12 million polys per second. This was a more realistic claim as it included textures and a full range of the GPU's effects applied. Factor 5 even got it to 20 mil with their Rogue Squadron games by offloading some of the rendering onto the Gekko CPU (which incidentally was only a 32bit cpu but beat the pants off of DC and PS2, even giving Xbox's a run for its money). PSP was stronger than DC but weaker than PS2, certainly a very powerful handheld for its time. I've never heard anyone say it was difficult to develop for. There's even a pretty large homebrew scene for it. Though like most systems, its best looking games weren't launch titles or ports. The God of War games are a good example of the visual PSP could push.

[@Monacomaverick]

Nice solution to the copyright dilemma! I think this game could have benefited from the Cruis'n World controls/physics where you could pop wheelies and drive on two wheels.

[@leandrofernandeslele295]

Dreamcast sem dúvida alguma! Console incrível até hoje!

[@oamigo1216]

"...incrível até hoje!" 😂😂

[@thekenixkil]

@@oamigo1216 na coleção dele deve ser...

[@oamigo1216]

@@thekenixkil Sim, se a pessoa acha que o dream foi um console incrível, ok mano, opinião né?! Mas a realidade diz o contrário, un video game que foi lançado no final de 98 e morreu ali meados de 2001, vendeu tão pouco que se juntar as vendas do dream e do saturn nao chega nas vendas de um nintendo64, ou seja nem seguista deu muita importancia pro dreamcast, incrível onde? Tão incrível que fez a sega sair do mercado de consoles

[@andore_btt]

@@oamigo1216 falou bobagem amigo, pelo visto não sabe muito sobre o assunto, aconselho estudar 👍

[@oamigo1216]

@@andore_btt Incrível, mano, demorou... Vou ler sobre e voltar aqui e dizer Dreamcast incrível até hoje! Incrível, irmão, incrível... Tmj 👍

[@SEGASaturnLad]

DreMcast looks fantastic, sharp and colourful. PSP seems to have a lower FR and muddy textures, but an impressive port on a hand-held.

[@nicolasrendoram7712]

No! Psp looks better than dreamcast

[@pavy415]

@@nicolasrendoram7712 hell no look at it side by side psp is struggling to keep up while dream cast plays smoothly

[@marcelocok8114]

@@nicolasrendoram7712 what's???

[@tomianz-1242]

Yeah, there's no contest comparing the textures... Even PS2 has much better textures than PSP. Also lower res and 30fps. Still impressive for a handheld of that time tho...

[@Nobunaga1983]

Love the piano addition

[@MoonSarito]

Considerando que o PSP é um console portátil e mais fraco que o PS2 ( e acredito que ao Dreamcast também ), a versão ficou muito bem competente e fiel ao original, chega a ser incrivel. Super queria que tivessem feito um port para o 3DS também.

[@Oinc1914]

Esse foi um port bem feito do Dreamcast para o PSP. Impressionante para um console de 98 e impressionante ser praticamente a mesma coisa num console portátil de 2004.

[@JudgmentStorm]

Dreamcast wins, but PSP's CT2 is still very good. Kudos to Sniper Studios for a good portable version. While PSP has higher CPU speed and more main RAM, there is less VRAM (only 2 MB vs Dreamcast's 8).

[@jayt4533]

Love that the psp has both the crazy taxi bundle and the power stone bundle, some nice Dreamcast on the go.

[@sinister8739]

Dreamcast com texturas mais nitidas, no PSP é mais embaçado. Mas ambas muito fluidas e suaves. No console da Sega tem a trilha sonora do Offspring, ausente no PSP por direitos autorais, mas é possivel contornar isso simplesmente instalando as mesmas musicas no jogo do PSP. Basicamente a versão do PSP pode ter a trilha sonora que você quiser.

[@Spaghettaboutit]

4:32 THAT IS SOME DEVIL MAGIC! How the hell do you sync up your game play so damn well?!

[@Animated__Freak]

Both versions are very close. The Dreamcast version has an obvious advantage in texture resolution and in my eyes it runs better, but it's close. The PSP does have some modernized addition in two aspects. One being the draw distance is more of a fade in while on the Dreamcast it's a normal pop in. Another is that the car texture on PSP uses some tricks with the lightning to give it a more reflective look to emphasize the glossy look of the car surface. I also noticed that at 4:12 it seems like the physics are different between the two version in the way the boxes interact with the car. Despite this I think the Dreamcast version still comes out on top because the PSP version seems to be stretched which ruins a lot of the original visuals. I would hope there's a 4:3 setting in the options.

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

Sega needs to port this game more. We never got to see anything Crazy Taxi 2 related since seeing the CT2 characters in Crazy Taxi 3. By the way Im gonna stick with the Dreamcast version being the winner. EDIT: By the way i just noticed the music was off. Let me guess. To keep KZbin and anyone else from claiming this video right? Smart move VCD.

[@Spanemberg96]

Dreamcast superior em quase tudo, texturas, performance, melhor versão, mas o PSP que é um portátil não fez feio, a unica vantagem alem nde jogar em qualquer lugar é que pode colocar musicas aleatórias no jogo por causa do cartão SD do PSP.

[@HerbertKranz-nm6gc]

Everything has been said... Dreamcast wins since PSP has framerate- and aliasing-problems. But it is still nice to be able to play this on a handheld system, even if 6 years later. xD

[@sharpester7277]

Aside from a combo pack on the PSP with the first CrazyTaxi. This game is basically a Dreamcast exclusive. It would be cool if they would remake CrazyTaxi 1 and 2 with modern controls and graphics.

[@SK91NO]

Nope, Crazy Taxi got ported a lot It originated in the arcades on the NAOMI (this is pretty much a Dreamcast with more ram) then it got the DC release and after came Gamecube, PC, PS2, PS3, 360, and mobile ports 2 didn't get that much love and 3 was always an Xbox/PC exclusive

[@LeandroMartinscg]

There is a game called Taxi Chaos, he's basically a spiritual sucess for the Crazy Taxi franchise

[@morenoreno3389]

@@SK91NO he was talkin about crazy taxi 2, that only came out on Dreamcast and psp.

[@mauriciomascarenhas8458]

Melhor no dreamcast grafico e rendimento. Psp tem a vantagem por ser portatil e corre bem o game, otima versão

[@luckyluke95]

Dreamcast version is better, better anti-aliasing, better texture, better framerate (60fps on Dreamcast and 30fps on PSP). System NAOMI Forever !!!

[@ebacalobato]

Realmente, o Dreamcast foi o mais injustiçado entre os consoles

[@Ryuujin1078]

I didn’t know they put Guy Fieri as Slash lol

[@jeovanylima381]

Um solução genial pra evitar complicações jurídicas

[@AWISECROW]

So the PSP version is very faithful to the original, that's awesome. I noticed the lighting is a little better on the dreamcast.

[@ignacioalfonzo7210]

Falto aplicarle el super acelerador y el super frenado para acelerar las cosas, excelente la compartíva siga asi..

[@raitoningusutoreto9851]

How many tracks audio in this video? VCDECIDE: Yes.

[@marciocosta1542]

Dreamcast best console of ever!!

[@TheRealCSH]

Could you maybe do a comparison of the PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions of Rugrats: Royal Ransom?

[@more7642]

Slightly better textures, less detail popping, higher resolution, and the most important - 60 fps vs 30 fps. DC wins, BUT let's don't forget about hardware of both consoles. PSP is more powerful than DC, but still DC deliver more consistent framerate and visuals.

[@sloppynyuszi]

It’s also a port. The game was optimised for Dreamcast software, so a lot gets missed when they re jigged the game for this hardware. Why early PS2 games looked slightly worse than the DC ones that were on both consoles. You saw that with Mega Drive games that got ported to SNES like earth worm Jim missing animation frames and some effects, same with Mickey Mania, and on a technical level the SNES is more capable overall.

[@hayleywaalen2612]

In the Simpsons Road Rage, You can't pick up two people up at the same time.

[@juarezmiranda]

Tenho q falar a dona do video aí a Ecchii girl aí esperta em, colocou um som de piano no lugar das musicas originais.

[@Crystallums]

Es increíble como la pequeña negrita se Sony podía competir cara a cara con la Gran Dreamcast... aunque claro, se notan las diferencias pero aún así es bastante equiparable.

[@Kill_Binho]

Crazy Taxi tem pra android também e super fiel ao original. Seria legal um side by side. Eu amo esse game, tive no Dreamcast, tive PSP também e infelizmente não é a mesma trilha sonora, mas da pra adaptar de forma custom colocando musicas na pasta.

[@pires7spc]

A versão mobile é fiel ao console porém em HD, assim como a versão de Bully e Max Payne do Playstation 2 que foi portado para smartphones, só isso já faz ser uma comparação inútil e covarde!

[@Gabrielpo]

@@pires7spc a versão do bully n seria um comparação inútil pois a mobile é um tipo de remaster

[@demonology2629]

DREAM CAST looks sharper more palette colors. PSP look impressive even without a goofy fan inside the portable Simple design is best. Winner PSP 🕹🤩🕹

[@billystink4611]

Awesome game. You should do a comparison on the game GODS if you haven’t already. I think they have a remastered version that might be fun to mess around with.

[@ExplicandoEnglish]

Aside from the windows (on the buildings) textures being weaker on the PSP, and the relfetions on the car being better on the PSP, the rest looks pretty much the same.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

I just mentioned it (succinctly and jokingly) on some other comment, but you really can't just ignore the egregious framerate differences, really...

[@brettdamkroger1371]

why is Piano there but I like it tho

[@rhyswalker6706]

I have the dreamcast version and the picture is alot more clearer compared to the one you video.

[@TiagoxInside]

A versão Dreamcast tem resolução e framerate muito maior que a do PSP.

[@firavusbey1486]

Very similar graphin and sound.

[@WILKOF-GAMEPLAYS]

Versão do PSP é boa, a do Dreamcast é melhor frame rate maior e mais agradável de jogar.

[@mauriciomascarenhas8458]

Vdd

[@historiarevista]

O piano funcionou pra contornar os direitos autorais?

[@pires7spc]

Sim!

[@johncargnin1275]

Belo jeito de não tomar flag 😆

[@thekenixkil]

PSP,pq posso jogar em qualquer lugar,inclusive no Vita,com menos loadings e mais filtros

[@conemedemelee20]

why midi instead of the original OST ?

[@megaigor]

copywriting

[@rooseveltfirmo3981]

Psp e Dreamcast praticamente iguais

[@pedroaugusto6743]

E mesmo

[@megaigor]

no DC é bem melhor... no PSP roda em resolução menor, fps bem mais baixo e texturas piores

[@cyberpc1333]

A única vantagem do PSP é a imagem widescreen 16:9, mesmo assim o Hud ficou esticado e borrado.

[@EduardoSilva-ze8tp]

Dreamcast 60 fps e PSP esta a 30 me parece

[@rgbcrafts]

Não havia como a versão de PSP superar a de Dreamcast.

[@mauriciomascarenhas8458]

Bastante superior no dreamcast

[@TheRightToFilmPolice]

Someone in here was commenting on framerates, I'm not sure about those. But what I do know with just my eyes is that the psp port isn't in true wide-screen, its being stretched. Which gives its characters a squashed fatter look and gives the whole environment a distorted luke and slightly muted colors less crisp look. If you play the ps 3 version(available in ps store for 9.99) it looks really good. I'd imagine its in the cmxbox marketplace too but idk. I have played it recently in playstation now, through streaming ps3 and it looks and plays great and is I believe a true wide-screen conversion. Also playsgation now streams much better now and they have a download list, but I might still buy this for ps3 in the store if its even still in there. Also there is another taxi game of a different name that just came out in Feb of this year 2021, for 29.99 so I might pick that up if it ever goes kn sale for say 10 bucks. Anyways, love the dreamcast and still hope they make a dreamcast 2 of some kind or a least a saturn mini and a dreamcast mini. And I'm excited about the possible PS5G.

[@TheRightToFilmPolice]

Also, if the ps3 version is not true wide-screen conversion inthink t eh let you switch to the original 4:3 which looks great and is what I do if thats the case.

[@reymundomercado1737]

Me gustó más la versión del Dreamcast , aunque el PSP es más nuevo ,no logra lo que el Dreamcast hace con este juego , mala idea haber metido el piano, saludos

[@danielcunha1909]

Dreamcast

[@The_Fat_Fury]

PSP is far more impressive given it's a handheld

[@Malheirods]

A PS3 generation handheld. Being as powerful as former generation home consoles is something common. It was the case for the first Game boy (even if it had a b&w screen), the Game Gear, the Lynx was even more powerful and the PC Engins GT was on par with its current gen. The PSP was like a game Gear. On the other hand the Dreamcast is extremly impressive for a 1998 console. It was far better than any PC game of its era when it came out. It has never been done again.

[@nguyengamer7906]

​​​​​​@@MalheirodsPSP released 2 years before PS3, one year before X360, one month after DS while Game Gear Released 2 years after Mega Drive, same time with Snes, almost two years after Gameboy, it almost 1 generation apart, so it doesn't count anything

[@ubuntutotal6350]

4:3vs16:9

[@SomeOrangeCat]

PSP had a lot going for it, unfortunately it had Sony itself going against it!

[@bassram3337]

lol no PSP had many 1st party games

[@SomeOrangeCat]

@@bassram3337 Not what I meant.

[@bassram3337]

@@SomeOrangeCat i don't know.. it has 8 years life span. first party and 3rd party support. it sold as much as 3DS. so I can't find anything wrong with it

[@KakaCampolongo]

Ótimo Port pro PSP, mas DC wins!!!

[@nicolasrendoram7712]

a versão psp parece um pouco melhor em qualidade gráfica do que dreamcast, mas com uma resolução mais baixa, pois é um console portátil

[@dorbei]

PSP version = 1/2 the frame rate and resolution of DC

[@vanchuvega3696]

Dreamcast is running at 60 fps

[@finalcombo]

Legal

[@bryanxd9976]

Tiene miedo el compiray

[@user-pz4ct8mz6c]

Shenmue тоже мог бы быть на PSP ...

[@user-nx1qd7wf6z]

Нет

[@user-pz4ct8mz6c]

@@user-nx1qd7wf6z да потянула бы спокойно ( как и другие игры с DC )

[@user-nx1qd7wf6z]

@@user-pz4ct8mz6c другие игры с дримкаст не такие графонистые и не такие требовательные и опять же почему то игры на дримкасте выглядят лучше чем на пс2

[@user-pz4ct8mz6c]

@@user-nx1qd7wf6z да Shenmue 1&2 PSP потянулa бы ( странно почему Sega не издала эту игру на PSP, да и Virtua Vighter 3-4, Fighting Vipers 2 )

[@user-nx1qd7wf6z]

@@user-pz4ct8mz6c ПСП не тянула обрезки ГТА типо вай сити сториз и Либерти Сити куда ей до шенму

[@juarezmiranda]

Não vou criticar o PSP, tanto que ja tive 2 PSP, a versão PSP 1000, q apesar de ser muito criticado e complicado, até tem jogos que roda alguns slow comparado a versão 2000 q mal existe slow, ja vi nego falando que PSP é mais forte que o Dreamcast, pois é estou vendo mesmo, é tão forte que roda o mesmo jogo numa resolução menor e com Framerate pela metade.

[@thekenixkil]

em alguns aspectos de hardware o psp é mesmo,principalmente processador e ram,só comparar os números;tem a questão do port ser ou não bem feito tbm,o jogo foi feito pro console da Sega,óbvio q será melhor lá;a resolução do psp é 480x272,lógico q seria menor do q a 640x480 do Dreamcast

[@juarezmiranda]

@@thekenixkil Números não significa nada, do que adianta o Hardware ter mais MHZ e Mais ram, q o processador em temos de arquitetura é inferior. Exemplo pra vc meu amigo, a ram do PSP tem bastante ram, porem a memoria de video só tem 2MB pra descomprimir textura, quanto o Dreamcast tem 8MB. A vantagem do PSP em cima do Dreamcast só é nos emuladores, que a ram principal do PSP é maior, isso facilita os emuladores que rodam praticamente via Soft. Isso que eu falei vale também para o Xbox 360 vs PS3.

[@Gabrielpo]

O psp é mais forte a questão é que a versão do psp é pior porem isso n e questão de hardware é a empresa q faz

[@Gabrielpo]

@@juarezmiranda o psp é mais forte o dreamcast e muito bom pra epoca porem nunca q iria rodar um jogo tipo god of war

[@juarezmiranda]

@@Gabrielpo Mano, pela amor bicho, Mini game chubeca desse, roda jogos quase perdendo, vc acha q é mais forte que o Dreamzão, cheira cola não lek, pega PS2, ports de Dream vs PS2, Dream da um pão em tudo.

[@Steven-ph6pp]

They did a good port of the game, runs just as smooth and as the as the DC version. If you put the PSP in 4:3 screen ratio then it might look just like the DC version, but as they are, DC version all the way.

[@Jigsaw2383]

Smooth?

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@Jigsaw2383 Yeah, aspect ratio aside, I love the PSP version - with a modified soundtrack hack - but the Dreamcast version's a lot smoother. Anyone who doubts it should slow the video to quarter speed. The Dreamcast version looks like a slow motion Matrix scene. The PSP version becomes a slide show. Edit: Still better than the GBA version.

[@No-vq1iv]

I think there might be something wrong with your display dude, the Dreamcast version is way smoother than the PSP version. Also way less pixelated.

[@Steven-ph6pp]

It holds the frame rate, the graphics aren't anywhere close, but I guess you didn't read it the way I wrote it. Smooth doesn't mean graphics, smooth means frame rate, guess I gotta spell it out

[@No-vq1iv]

Don't be a smartass, there was no miscommunication here you just seem to have a hard time accepting reality. The PSP version is nowhere near as smooth as the DC version. They're so far apart it feels almost like the DC version is running at 60 FPS whereas the PSP version is running at 30 FPS, are you watching the video in 480p or something?

[@pavy415]

Yup dream cast will always looks feel and play a lot better than psp

[@joaogabrielgama4925]

Dreamcast is better but the PSP had or better ligth efects or more colours. Can't tell.

[@sergioq.6976]

Dreamcast version is way better: textures more detailed, colours, fxaa, resolution vga native, light and 60fps.

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

I have to say the Dreamcast still won but the PSP did put up a quite a fight in my opinion just that the framerate to the PSP is awful.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

Dat framerate, yo!!!

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

@@oscarjimenezgarrido7591 Right?! Is pretty bad for the PSP users o_o