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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed |OT| Everybody's Super Sonic Racing
- Thread starter Tizoc
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They should've put her in the Virtua Racing car.Also, does Danica Patrick bug anyone else as much as she does me? I didn't really care when she was announced, but I can't help but think "WHY IS SHE HERE" whenever she over-takes me in a race. For a game as retro and nostalgic as this wants to be, seeing Danica Patrick in her stupid hot wheels car (or as I like to call it, the sell-out-mobile) really bugs me. Bah humbug and all that. Also, still getting All-Star moves in second place. That comment about not needing a blue shell style item is great, since I think this is far worse. I don't remember being this frustrated with the first game.
Which reminds me, if Sumo aren't working on a track based on V.R. Acropolis, I'll be disappointed. That game never gets enough love
Wait, there's an S-rank? Oh god. A ranks have been giving me enough trouble (just got enough stars to unlock Joe Mushashi).
Oh, and am I doing something wrong in the Ocean View Traffic Attack thing? I can do it okay until it drops you in the water about halfway through, at which point the cars decide to just keep on flying through the sky so you can't see where the checkpoints are.
Also, just did the Nights stage, and it was pretty crazy. Though for some reason coming out of the water section seemed to cause me to do a nosedive into the ground every time, which is weird.
Oh, and am I doing something wrong in the Ocean View Traffic Attack thing? I can do it okay until it drops you in the water about halfway through, at which point the cars decide to just keep on flying through the sky so you can't see where the checkpoints are.
Also, just did the Nights stage, and it was pretty crazy. Though for some reason coming out of the water section seemed to cause me to do a nosedive into the ground every time, which is weird.
You're going into the water on traffic attack? It's supposed to keep you locked to Lap 1/2 for that.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
232 stars gets you the final mod for the last unlockable character. That's also every star in the game, so you have to beat every challenge on Expert.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
On all difficulties, Shibuya has no items, Dragon Valley/Ocean View do, and the Samba De Amigo level has missiles.
Also, Dragon Valley/Ocean View have pre-determined items in boxes; they're not random. So you'll always know what you'll get. Obviously, Super Glove is the best item by far, as it makes you invincible for about 10 seconds.
Strange that the one with no items is first, as it's the hardest one.
Tizoc
Member
Dude this is 2012, WTF.
I own PS3 version and NEVER had framerate issues, the game's framerate is solid and fine.
Learn the stages and Drift opportunities and you can beat Medium. Really if you're having an offline session: Easy and Medium are the difficulties to play in for a fun time.
It's splitscreen, like the first game. Plus you can play World Tour mode, where you unlock characters and mods in, with up to 4 players.
Traffic Attack would be more tolerable if the final checkpoint weren't always an extra second away, leaving you with just enough time to fail a mere inch in front of it
Expert challenges damn near require perfection (and often do outright). I'm okay with that concept, but after days of going at some of these challenges to no avail or, worse in my eyes, having to settle for a lower difficulty/less stars, I've grown a bit weary of World Tour. I'm at 185 stars, but it's becoming quite the grind to get to 200.
Another unrelated complaint, some parts of tracks seem too narrow. Burning Depths and Chilly Castle come to mind.
Expert challenges damn near require perfection (and often do outright). I'm okay with that concept, but after days of going at some of these challenges to no avail or, worse in my eyes, having to settle for a lower difficulty/less stars, I've grown a bit weary of World Tour. I'm at 185 stars, but it's becoming quite the grind to get to 200.
Another unrelated complaint, some parts of tracks seem too narrow. Burning Depths and Chilly Castle come to mind.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
The Dreamcast logo on the Ages car is blue
I will not stand for this injustice
I will not stand for this injustice
Box of Bunnies
Banned
We have to put up with the announcer saying Genesis for the MD mod, you can deal with a blue swirl.
I played the PS3 demo and the framerate of this game is garbage. Rarely reaches 30fps.
Diablohead
Member
finally! orange swirl is bad.
Yes, the true* colour of the Dreamcast! Woo!
First thing I did when I got my DC (well after launch, mind you) was crack it open and replaced the orange LED with a blue one. Australians got the blue swirl but had an orange LED :/
*best looking
Ban Puncher
Member
What the hell is the big deal about blue LED's anyway?
I bought the new Halo 4 controller because it has a blue LED....
Diablohead
Member
all the remixes are amazing in this game, one of the best things is how each stage uses 2 or so different tracks but blends them together to keep things interesting, and dat drum! boom tish boom tish
it has a blue LED? brb buying one.
This annoys me to an unreasonable amount when the actual logo for the mod is MD too.
The point I was getting at was so the LED would match the swirl colour, both on startup and on the case itself. It looks great!
(that's not actually mine, but it's the same... blue PAL swirl, blue LED)
MD mod? Is that an in-game reference I'm not getting?
So I seem to have hit a pretty big glitch in the Ranger Rush stage in World Tour mode.
When the race starts I'm in a boat, but I'm supposed to be in a car. When I try to accelerate I just stay in place, then after a few seconds the game's logo flashes by like I fell off the track. It places me further on the track and then I can move, but I'm still in a boat so the controls are wrong. There's a door that is probably supposed to open, but it doesn't so all I can do is crash into it. Then after a little while the logo flashes again and it puts me in the air above the stage and I just slide around up there until I get stuck on something. I don't think I can even skip the stage because I can't fail unless I pass the finish line.
Is this a known bug?
edit: playing the Wii U version.
When the race starts I'm in a boat, but I'm supposed to be in a car. When I try to accelerate I just stay in place, then after a few seconds the game's logo flashes by like I fell off the track. It places me further on the track and then I can move, but I'm still in a boat so the controls are wrong. There's a door that is probably supposed to open, but it doesn't so all I can do is crash into it. Then after a little while the logo flashes again and it puts me in the air above the stage and I just slide around up there until I get stuck on something. I don't think I can even skip the stage because I can't fail unless I pass the finish line.
Is this a known bug?
edit: playing the Wii U version.
Ban Puncher
Member
The point I was getting at was so the LED would match the swirl colour, both on startup and on the case itself. It looks great!
(that's not actually mine, but it's the same... blue PAL swirl, blue LED)
You need not explain your actions to fellow PAL blue swirl brethren.
I spit on the name 'Genesis'.
Nocturnowl
Member
It was baffling me at first, it's just so wrong, well at least they met us halfway.
Tizoc
Member
That's the demo, not the full game/final build...which kinda makes me wonder if SEGA does a really bad job with demos for whatever reason...
If it seems too narrow, you might try a character with better handling. I wasn't doing well in Chilly Castle unless I played Tails.
Yes you can play off tv mode.
So far the only complains is the glitched challenges and Wii U minigames which will be patched
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Or the fact that it has been Thanksgiving and nobody is probably working at NoA.
wait. so after reading this page i went and googled the WiiU challenge bug. so there's no checkpoints on boost mode?! is that why it seems impossible?
"man, fuck this! it's impossible! i'm doing my best and i can't even SEE the first checkpoint! what kind of fucking robot do you have to be to do this shit?!" <------ me. every day since launch. damn i wish i would have read this thread earlier, it turned me off from playing world tour except for once a day to attempt that stupid challenge.
"man, fuck this! it's impossible! i'm doing my best and i can't even SEE the first checkpoint! what kind of fucking robot do you have to be to do this shit?!" <------ me. every day since launch. damn i wish i would have read this thread earlier, it turned me off from playing world tour except for once a day to attempt that stupid challenge.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
LOL--yep, that's the bug.
Plinko, you don't understand. i felt like i was taking CRAZY PILLS! i don't mind a challenge but my gaming self worth was knocked down so low because of that bug. "i can't even complete the first boost challenge. ON EASY! what the hell happened to me? am i just old and unresponsive?" kind of shitty but a relief that it's not me!
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
That really sucks--thankfully I was following the thread and people brought it up instantly. I can't imagine how frustrating that would have been.
Until that point, just fail it 4 times on C class and it will give you a "skip" option to move ahead. I just did that last night.
Red Arremer
Member
Anybody else got a chuckle out of the achievement "You Got The Horn"?
Tizoc
Member
Press Accelerate when the screen turns black before the announcer says the number. In the case of races where you start as a plane, just press Accel. before he says the number as well.
What is this MD mod that everyone is talking about ?
Some of the unlocks in the World Tour are console mods that can be used by each character who debuted on that console. The MD mod is the MegaDrive mod.
Red Arremer
Member
You can get up to level 3 boosts by pressing the accelerate button just a moment before the announcer says the respective numbers in the count down.
It changes based on the region you're in (or have your console set too). So it can be blue, red or orange
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S0L
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I suspect it's more likely they had Thanksgiving off! Hopefully it will go live tomorrow but I'll have a chat with SEGA to see if they've got an update.
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Seven Force
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Red Arremer
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The Mega Drive was called Mega Drive in every region but NA. =P