Virtua Racing (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@drdreezy42]

It is honestly amazing they got this game to run on a genesis

[@NintendoComplete]

Oh definitely. Even with the extra processor in the cartridge, this couldn't have been easy to do

[@initialvat4226]

drdreezy42 or a megadrive

[@beanmchocolate3900]

the SVP chip is a beast!

[@spaceonisorceress4406]

Guess it's true what all the old ads said. Genesis does what Nintendon't.

[@noneofyourbusiness1998]

@@spaceonisorceress4406 Yeah, have a game that costs $100. lol

[@IoIocaust]

this game blew my mind as a kid.. i remember it made my megadrive very hot tho :)

[@RWL2012]

interesting, I wonder if the same official capacitor mod that fixes earlier Mega Drive 1s with the 32X also benefits SVP / Virtua Racing on them...?

[@Juancho-talarga]

@@RWL2012 yes,of course.

[@NintendoComplete]

This really was a surprisingly close version of Virtua Racing for 16-bit hardware, but if you wanted the smoother, truer experience, the 32X port was a far better bet. The Genesis version was still fun, though, even if its presentation had to be heavily cut down.

[@Lightblue2222]

32X version is better, except for the drafting

[@greensun1334]

But this is the fastest version, it's still a masterpiece on 16bit!

[@thebunz7]

This game was way ahead of its time and made the genesis even more magical as a child.

[@KingStr0ng]

Fr

[@kjrehberg]

My favorite port that showed what was possible with the Sega Virtua Processor (SVP) on the original Genesis. Well worth the $100. I also own the 32X version (and the 32X) but my favorite port is this one. The replay feature is mind-blowing.

[@overnightdelivery]

What's super amazing is that you can have all the different camera views including blimp view DURING the race and it doesn't slow down at all.

[@kjrehberg]

Too bad they couldn't play all of the replays in this video. Weird.

[@GIR177]

Ehh, $100 in 1994 is nearly $200 in 2022, I don't think any game is worth that much, which is why they didn't make many games like this.

[@sleekflash16]

Wait, this is on the Genesis?! This is incredible!

[@romanemul1]

search for redline racing. For other 64 bit console from that time.

[@zippofcy]

It was with a custom 3D processor in the game cartridge. The game cost $100 in 1990 coz of it.

[@dekoldrick]

@@zippofcy Similar method to the FX chip in Starfox for the SNES.

[@zippofcy]

@@dekoldrick I saw Starfox only on KZbin but i do own this MD cartridge. Sega should have made this in a way to be a passthru cartridge so u could push another one into it and then it would use its 3D processor. This way they could do more polygon based games for the MD.

[@dekoldrick]

@@zippofcy That would have been a good idea. Probably cheaper too so they don't have to put an extra processor in every cartridge.

[@kimifur]

I have such vivid memories of playing this on the Sega Bus in the summer of 1994 at Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park! My brother and I were astounded at the 3D realism. Nothing like this had been seen before and it's incredible that they managed to get it to run on this system.

[@patrickholt8782]

I could endlessly race around the first track it’s so well made.

[@VERMISIMILITUDE]

I loved playing this on the MegaDrive & StarFox on the SNES!!!! Such amazing early 3D memories on the 16 bit consoles!!!!⭐️

[@frempy4426]

Holy fuck these graphics are pretty damn incredible

[@ValentinesEve1996]

I am excited to see this game on the Sega Mega Drive Mini 2.

[@IncredibleMan12308]

This looks so much better than star fox on snes, This means that the genesis was a bit more powerful is some ways.

[@greensun1334]

It's a bit faster than the arcade-version, great game! My most expensive Megadrive-game back then...

[@CalvinTennessee]

It’s crazy 100 bucks got you 16 mins with this game lol.

[@purwantiallan5089]

Very impressive to see Virtua Racing on Sega Genesis being equally impressive on Arcade original and PS2 REMASTER port.

[@OJW280483]

I used to play this thinking, “wow! This is the future of gaming!” 😂

[@zacatkinson3926]

I thought that too or FMV games

[@RetroHawk]

Nice video thanks for sharing :)

[@billgordon6489]

Seriously impressive driving … I can’t get anywhere on this game but I still love it 😂👍🏻

[@Nikku4211]

If only Sega just used the SVP instead of making the stupid 32X add-on.

[@alejandroschnettler1794]

The problem was the cost, the game was sold as $100 USD at the time, if was still better idea than the 32x, but still...

[@Bloodreign1]

At that point Sega began their tailspin to eventually getting out of the console business. Seems like games like Donkey Kong Country, and the games after got Sega in a panic, and they started making stupid mistakes to try and stay ahead.

[@Manhsterz]

Man I remember the little musics of this game, I found they were amazing !

[@NALTOdeluxe]

By far my favorite version of the game that I own (don’t have the 32X version. Yet. But I do have the arcade one via Switch, but I still love this more) The super low-poly models are so cool to me, and I’m even in the process of adapting these models to use for my channel graphics.

[@greensun1334]

The Megadrive-Version is the fastest Virtua Racing

[@NALTOdeluxe]

@@greensun1334 it’s actually the slowest from a frame rate perspective at only 15 but considering how much distance is being traveled per frame you might actually be on to something.

[@casualwiifan]

@@NALTOdeluxe Agreed. This is the only version of VR that I get a rush from, which is why I love it so much.

[@TheRealHedgehogSonic]

Man, this game makes the Virtua chip run RINGS around the Super FX chip.

[@marhadiasak]

Mind blowing graphics.

[@iiiiii1449]

When you compare this to stunt race fx and star fox it is in a completely different league.

[@Bloodreign1]

But is quite a shallow experience with just 3 tracks, and a $100 price tag. If I had owned a Genesis before 1998, and saw this game at that price, it would've stayed in the store.

[@sebastiankulche]

@@Bloodreign1 You still should be proud to have a game like this in your Genesis that for the time it started to showing its age. 32 bits graphics in 16 bit machine isnt easy to make.

[@Overseer190]

@@sebastiankulche “32 bit graphics” I’m slightly concerned you’re calling it that. The Jaguar is a 64-bit console. Does that make the game Rayman have “64 bit graphics”? It looks just as good on the snes

[@sebastiankulche]

@@Overseer190 The Jaguar is not 64 bits, it only had two 32 bits cpus, and i was mostly referring to early 3d consoles like 3do.

[@greensun1334]

@@Bloodreign1 six tracks if you count the mirrored tracks. I bought it back then in '95 - and for me, it was worth the money. It was a unique game running on the Megadrive, something special back then!

[@shockz1715]

Shocking does not begin to describe this!

[@KingStr0ng]

Looks better than most racing games on the Saturn. 🔥

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Jajaja no

[@lonsterhimself5263]

The sega cd was out at the time this game was out so why didn't they put this on sega cd instead of genesis? The sega cd would've been able to handle this wouldn't it? Either way it's amazing how they got this game to run on the genesis

[@bitset3741]

The polygons were being rendered on the chip in the cartridge and then being transferred to video using DMA. The Sega CD wouldn't have added anything. The stock Genesis could render a couple thousand polygons per second (Kawasaki Superbike, Hard Drivin' Race Drivin' various flight sims etc. show that) The chip in Virtua Racing could render over 9000 per second - quite a bit faster. What WOULD have been interesting though is a Sega CD game, that could work with the Virtua Racing cart installed and load data from the cd while rendering stuff with the chip in the cart.... I never thought of that before, I need to check and see if it was possible (probably would had needed additional code in the cart. )

[@robloxgejminkit69gay19]

I love how the game says game over even if you have 1st place i own mega drive myself.

[@jamesmoss3424]

The genesis version of virtua racing is excellent. 😀👍🎮

[@RWL2012]

Virtua* Racing

[@jamesmoss3424]

@@RWL2012 thanks for the spelling correction.

[@jeanhenrique4665]

Now i can hear some V8s, V10s and V12s than F1 engines.

[@Requiemzone]

The skid sound like the mkds drift sound

[@ribenasquash]

This game is so hard. They must have practised for ages to complete it.

[@ribenasquash]

Fun fact. There is a horse on the hairpin turn of Acropolis track. It’s very difficult to get in view and it’s made of about 4 polygon triangles.

[@steveafanador6441]

Time boner 😂

[@darthvader8094]

It said it in the video the exact same time I read the comment lol

[@BAKU2K2]

"Gaaaaaaaaaaay bonaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

[@LITTLE1994]

For the Genesis, which is technically inferior to the SNES, this game is EXTREMELY impressive for the 16-bit hardware! This was Sega's answer to Nintendo's revolutionary Super FX chip, but sadly, because it was so expensive, this is the ONLY game to have this impressive SVP chip power.

[@matthewmiguel8108]

Genesis is superior than super nintendo. Nintendo's only advantage to genesis are can display more colors and emulate much cleaner sound samples. Genesis is better in anything else.

[@calibvr]

@@matthewmiguel8108 Yep. The SVP chip should have also been used in Doom, it could have ran on it

[@Bloodreign1]

@@matthewmiguel8108 Except you'd be dead wrong, the SNES is superior in every area but CPU, but makes up for it with a powerful GPU. It's always the countries outside of the world's 2 biggest gaming markets, the US and Japan, that always seem to believe the Sega was ultrapowerful while the areas Sega got killed in sales know the SNES had a 2 year technical advantage in hardware due to being released 2 years after the Genesis. You must be getting your numbers from Sega Retro, where it seems they made up every number in the Genesis' favor, when those numbers are present nowhere else. Face it, the only Sega console more powerful than the others for it's generation was the Saturn, and it was a nightmare to program for. Yeah, the SMS was more powerful than the NES, but the NES was also older hardware, and it STILL made no difference as the SMS was like tumbleweed in the wind here in the US. Lot of insecure Sega fanboys roaming KZbin these days. 16 bit wars are over buddy, and your console came out on the short end of the stick.

[@chadkennedy7855]

@@calibvr Do you know the price of this game? $100!!!

[@calibvr]

@@chadkennedy7855 I know!

[@franciscobatalla7876]

Bueno el juego de vr muy distinto a 32x a la génesis también yo jugaba pero en versión ps2 aunque era muy complicado bastante difícil creo mucho más arcade de los 90

[@calibvr]

True

[@KenRising1996]

Take a shot everytime the announcer says Time Bonus

[@discofishing]

This looks better than Starfox on SNES!

[@SonicAdventureX]

Yo the Genesis CAN Render 3D games.. Wooow.. I bet in the 90's these people where like "SINCE WHEN THIS CAN GO 3-D JUST BY USING A CARTRIDGE?!"

[@dalaxdercrisper957]

You should be surprised this and the only game on Genesis cost $100.

[@SonicAdventureX]

@@dalaxdercrisper957 BRO WHAT!? $100 Bucks for a game?? We can barely afford PS5 Games & they start off 70..!

[@drivingnowherecomic]

@@SonicAdventureX Gaming was just a lot more expensive back in the day. It's actually kind of fascinating how games are *only* $70 each these days when that was a standard price when I was a kid, and games in the 16-bit era had maybe 5-6 people working on em. Even the N64/PS1 era had comparably tiny teams. The difference is most people just rented games and you'd only own a game if you really really liked it. That structure doesn't really exist anymore... RIP blockbuster lol. I'm not advocating for higher prices, but I think services like Game Pass are a nice workaround if they do. Games these days require massive teams, and unless you sell an absolute crapload of games it ends up being a financial loss. It's probably a big factor to all the layoffs we've been seeing in the industry lately...

[@666WolfWere]

The fps are impressive

[@slyguythreeonetwonine3172]

*GET GOAL!*

[@higashi_keiko]

is there in Genesis version a pitstop?

[@beanmchocolate3900]

FAST!!! YAY!!! WEEEEHEHEEEE!!!

[@beanmchocolate3900]

What? How am I supposed to do what you did? I can't first place it!

[@calibvr]

@@beanmchocolate3900 becauss its hard

[@beanmchocolate3900]

@@calibvr that’s so true that it hurts…

[@calibvr]

@@beanmchocolate3900 yea

[@ingridmagymejia730]

Yes

[@lolkiu64]

Has anyone beat this game on hard? Iv'e beaten Big Forest on Normal, but hard seems impossible I'm wondering if you get a second cup or something

[@Lightblue2222]

So far iv'e only beat Big Forest on hard, and it gave me an ending! :) The car in the ending is more detailed than the car on the track, it actually has rims.

[@Lightblue2222]

its possible, the race just has to be perfect. angle the corners just right before the ferris wheel and you wont have to slow down

[@lolkiu64]

Are you saying you get rewarded for beating it on hard? wow now I really want to try again. I just got a device that records Sega genesis gameplay, so I hope I can show youtube all 3 tracks being beaten on hard. I'll mention you of course ;) Thanks for the tips.

[@Lightblue2222]

coolio, and yep, all you have to do is beat any one of the three tracks on hard and you'l get a little ending show.

[@Tekknorg]

Better and more fun than Starwing

[@twitchsopamanxx]

Its insane that the Genesis was pulling this shit instead of the SNES that came out later.

[@OscarknightSFM]

How do I catch up with the other racers??

[@bifftannen1598]

For a Genesis, this is awesome. Beats several of the Super FX games on the SNES in performance. Would've been cool to see a 32X/Genesis Neptune with this processor incorporated. Who knows what kind of development could've happened if the 32X, this processor & the Genesis could work together to create software. May not have needed the Saturn & could've focused on this until the Dreamcast was ready. I don't think we ever saw anything close to the full potential of the 32X. So sad

[@ulysses2162]

A Neptune with this SVP chip, the 32X, Sega Mega Drive, and Mega-CD all combined would have been interesting.

[@ribenasquash]

If Sega put in a career mode it would make so much more sense. The pit stops are functional but literally pointless. It would be great to have a career mode with tyres wearing out and tuning. But the fact is, this game is too difficult. It has an easy mode but the normal mode should be easier.

[@mustardkrisame281]

Its kinda like a tech demo more than a Game

[@franklinclinton2560]

Time Boner!

[@CSIG1001]

This game didnt even compare to the PC game called Stunts that was released in 1990.

[@cesarbarcenarojas6553]

Prefiero stunt race fx de supernintendo

[@Pitch1065paohfbf]

TIME BONER

[@lucauva6576]

I broke Your Record!!! 38"53 😊 On a Real Megadrive NTSC Jap