Revisiting the "Rally Championship" trilogy by Magnetic Fields

[@Athanatoi]

I remember the RAC Rally Championship. It was the most realistic looking game of it's time.

[@RemcoHitman]

On the last stage shown (Moon and Star in RC2K), there is a tree on the apex of the first chicane. The modeler purposely put it there because he knew people would straight-line the chicane. It bought him much joy to see people crash into it without fault when the demo was first released, featuring this track.

[@Goodstone_5488]

Mobile 1 RC 2000 is still one of my favourite rally games ^^

[@Shepherd.1147]

The 1996 version had suspension, brakes, engines, a lot of setups, it was way ahead of it's time.

[@cousinmerl]

I still have nightmares assembling those tracks.

[@rolandnemeth3982]

I played a lot with the Mobile 1 Championship. LOVED it so much. - Especially the real stages, and the attemp to create photorealistic stages (well at that time it was pretty much that.)

[@Mtik333]

I personally spent most time with IRC, enjoyed the soundtrack and this quite simple level editor.

[@Loganberrybunny]

Network Q Rally Championship was the first PC game I ever bought, way back in 1997. Not a bad one to start with! Even at the time I thought the combination of uncompromising difficulty (the 36-mile Pundershaw stage at night!) and strangely arcade aspects (the Escort could hit 200mph downhill at Wauchope) was a bit strange, but I loved the game overall. I didn't like International Rally Championship much, but I played Mobil 1 to death. For some reason the maps being actual licensed Ordnance Survey maps was a massive thing for me. No other rally game had that, IIRC.

[@IWBeTheGuy]

I couldn't remember the one I had as a kid was the second one! Everywhere I just saw Network Q RAC

[@duouk2000]

I had no idea this was a trilogy. I love the first game to this day and recently picked up a copy to replay. I remember skipping Tommi Makinen Rally after it got absolutely buried by Colin McRae Rally and never paid much attention to Mobil 1 Rally (until now!) My only suggestion is voice commentary over text, other than that thanks for the video!

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

to be honest, lots of people suggested me to do voice commentary instead of writing text, but the thing is, I don't speak all that fluently (even on my native language) and I stutter often, nor I have the confidence to talk in front of a microphone for some reason

[@duouk2000]

@@cheesyeurotrance95 I really think it would be worth the effort (plus you can redo your lines until it sounds how you want it) but I understand the hesitation. Cheers anyway :)

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

Mobil 1 Rally Championship was also known as Rally Championship 2000 in some places like Australia. I don't know if Magnetic Fields did Network Q Rally Championship from 1993 or if it was someone else like this video seems to imply. Also, I've had so many problems getting Mobil 1 Rally Championship to work on my computer. I don't know where I can find a good workaround for it. Maybe I just have a faulty image file, since I can't rip my CDrom copy due to copy protection and where ever I got the image from wasn't the best place to obtain one.

[@Loganberrybunny]

@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 It's a notoriously difficult game to get working on modern hardware, or at least it was when I tried a few years ago. I gave up in the end. Would love a Steam release like GTR2 had, but I can't see it sadly.

[@undeadtotheend6420]

In its time, RAC Rally Championship was mind blowing...

[@Alexp37]

Didn't know it's the only series to feature full length stages. That's amazing! Good vidro.

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

thanks, actually there was a 23 km Poland stage in WRC 7 (2017) but I'm not sure if it's a real stage or made for the game

[@Alexp37]

@@cheesyeurotrance95 Good to know, thx.

[@AuToMaNiAk005]

​@@cheesyeurotrance95 The real Kruklanki stage has 19.58 km length.

[@RankAndFileGuy]

I'm a proud owner of the physical copy of Mobil 1 Championship. This game is awesome. It also has an arcade mode included which is a nice touch. I will say after a while the car engine noises can get a bit irritating, and the pilot isn't the greatest.

[@LilPolemistisXL]

good news: two weeks ago someone named Kevin Antelo posted a video of WRC 4 fully working on the recent 1.7.0 dev build of PCSX2, he posted a patch (i forgot who made said patch) for said game in his reply to my comment and that's how i got mine to work, i've beat pro driver challenge in my PCSX2 saves but i'm stuck on the Proton PERT level of my actual PS2 save . however thick fog ("peasouper" cheat, also available in one of the Pro Driver challenges) doesn't work in hardware mode, that's the only downside (if you don't count the FMV lines)

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

that's good news indeed, I'm watching that video now

[@qka-ow]

I am gonna cry, my Rally Championship 2000 is here bois

[@eIucidate]

International Rally Championship had really bad physics. You crash into something at 5mph and the whole car will flip over violently several times.

[@oldschoolracinggames5729]

Hi! Can’t run it via dosbox, get black screen. Could you give some clue please?

[@olafsiggurdson7483]

Hello! Is there any advice you can give to me to make network q rac rally working on windows 10? I really want to play it,its a part of my childhood,so thank you in advance!

[@SetsunaTheFandom]

Is the first game the only racing game with a Ford test livery, I wonder?

[@orkokts]

For me IRC was the best. The random map generator was awesome.

[@Nemesis-222]

Glad you enjoyed it ;)

[@MenkoDany]

The first two games honestly feel like tech demos for Mobil 1 Rally Championship. Like what Terep 2 is to 1nsane

[@Loganberrybunny]

I'd never heard of Terep 2 until reading that, so thanks for the info! Apparently Terep 2 was called Deformers in English (nothing to do with the brawler game on Steam) but I don't remember it at all. I don't know if it was even released in the UK. I *do* remember 1nsane, of course!

[@ryonagana]

i remind that i played Network Q RAC Rally Championship flawessly in my old Cyrix intel clone 5x86, but then i tried the International Rally Championship the game ran like shit. my neighbor PC could play using his Celeron 300mhz with 32mb RAM;

[@roodstachlea]

If only Mobil 1 rally championship was easier to get a hold of and running in the modern era...

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

glad I got my copy years ago

[@roodstachlea]

@@cheesyeurotrance95 its actually harder to download it then to just get a physical version(tho I havent found any here), myabandonware has a DL but it's in Italian, good job in "preserving gaming"

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

there's another DL at old-games but it's super slow, might be the english version though

[@roodstachlea]

@@cheesyeurotrance95 I'll look at it later, currently playing LA rush for no real reason

[@Mtik333]

@@roodstachlea Haven't you tried searching for it at Archive.org? There's definitely Polish version and another one which I didn't check (but likely standard, English one).

[@Xale007]

didn't knew there was 3 games

[@Retrobution]

the image at the start with the car on a beach, what game is that?

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

midtown madness 2

[@sakuraa2008]

Is there a way that I can play international rally championship on my android phone? I really want to play it for nostalgic reasons 😅

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

idk about the PC version, but you can play the PS1 version (called Tommi Makinen Rally)

[@rdza-korozja_sp.z.o.o.]

IRC was really good, you played it first time so you might not understand

[@sakuraa2008]

3:40 I still prefer the pc version of this game. they removed everything that makes the game fun for the psone version e.g the "pitstop" and the physics is crap.

[@cheesyeurotrance95]

true, although the PS1 version is OK too if you want to play it on a phone via PS1 emulator, but then again there are better rally games on the PS1 anyway (the first two Colin Mcrae Rally, WRC Arcade, V-Rally 2 etc.)

[@sakuraa2008]

@@cheesyeurotrance95 those are great games