I think this has to be my all time favourite game ever. There was something so addictive about it. The Atari ST version always felt a bit faster to me than the Amiga version. The 8 bit versions are so great fun.
Just wanted to say this channel is awesome and I love how it covers both historical details about the games and the creators behind them, but also technical aspects about the games’ functioning like physics and object behavior and differences between ports. Also, you rock those wolf ears!
This game is probably my first gaming love. I saw some newer games before that. Most vividly Wolfenstein 3d christmas special, which my uncle gleefully showed me when I was 4 or 5. But a bit after that, I actually got his old Amiga with all of the software he owned for it. When I came upon Stunt Car Racer, it instantly had its hooks in me. Racing games in general fascinated me and even to my completely inexperienced brain, SCR was an absolutely wild concept, executed in a brilliant way. Maybe I should add to the list of unreleased SCR inspired Unity projects!
This brings back memories from my Atari STE playing that game and also F1 GP2 on PC. If I remember correctly I saw one track of that game in Grand Prix Legends.
Wonderful coverage of games that performed the seemingly impossible on low-spec systems. Stunt Track Racer (Yes, I'm in the USA) was a favorite for years on my 8086 clone. One suggestion for future videos; you may want to turn the scanline emulation down a bit. I was amazed to see Crammond had implemented anti-aliased line drawing -- until I also saw it on the ZX Spectrum port and realized that was impossible given the Spectrum's color palette. So your scanline emulation settings are not insignificantly changing the picture content.
That's a good point; because I'm (naturally) so familiar with the games I forget other people may want to see a slightly less stylised version of how they look. It's an easy change in the shader so should be able to get things a bit more accurate in future.
I mellowed quite a bit on it playing all of the other versions - what we got was a very nice port of the C64 version, with possibly the best frame rate out of all the variants if you run it on a fast 386 or better. It's hard to see from the screen but while it doesn't look or sound so great, it's the best version in terms of control and responsiveness in my opinion. (Apparently the ST version can be very nice if run on a Mega STE at 16MHz or Falcon)
Looks like the BBC micro has the best frame rate of all of them. I think it is a port of the c64 version, but has to work a lot harder to fill the screen without attribute mode for fast fills of sky and ground!
This was a nice overview! Interestingly, the opponents are built the opposite way with two rear wheels and one in the front, at least as far as the simulation is concerned. Have you tried my 50 FPS enhancement of the C64 version of SCR? Video demonstration here (and link in the description): th-cam.com/video/xaCca4zCimc/w-d-xo.html
That's interesting, I didn't delve into the opponent source code but I guess it makes sense when the main time you see an opponent is from behind. I did see that there was a SuperCPU version! Nice to hear from the author :) Didn't end up with a nice place to put it in the script. Looks cool, a bit like running the PC version on a fast CPU but even smoother.
I think this has to be my all time favourite game ever. There was something so addictive about it. The Atari ST version always felt a bit faster to me than the Amiga version. The 8 bit versions are so great fun.
As much as I'd love to see a proper remake, I'd even settle for a version of the game that could run at 60fps; even 30fps would be a huge step up
Just wanted to say this channel is awesome and I love how it covers both historical details about the games and the creators behind them, but also technical aspects about the games’ functioning like physics and object behavior and differences between ports. Also, you rock those wolf ears!
This game is probably my first gaming love. I saw some newer games before that. Most vividly Wolfenstein 3d christmas special, which my uncle gleefully showed me when I was 4 or 5. But a bit after that, I actually got his old Amiga with all of the software he owned for it. When I came upon Stunt Car Racer, it instantly had its hooks in me. Racing games in general fascinated me and even to my completely inexperienced brain, SCR was an absolutely wild concept, executed in a brilliant way. Maybe I should add to the list of unreleased SCR inspired Unity projects!
This was excellent. Thanks
This brings back memories from my Atari STE playing that game and also F1 GP2 on PC.
If I remember correctly I saw one track of that game in Grand Prix Legends.
There's now an Apple II version of the game... I wonder if it means it's been decompiled at some point, or did they just tweak c64 code?
Brilliant episode about one of my fave games
Wonderful coverage of games that performed the seemingly impossible on low-spec systems. Stunt Track Racer (Yes, I'm in the USA) was a favorite for years on my 8086 clone.
One suggestion for future videos; you may want to turn the scanline emulation down a bit. I was amazed to see Crammond had implemented anti-aliased line drawing -- until I also saw it on the ZX Spectrum port and realized that was impossible given the Spectrum's color palette. So your scanline emulation settings are not insignificantly changing the picture content.
That's a good point; because I'm (naturally) so familiar with the games I forget other people may want to see a slightly less stylised version of how they look. It's an easy change in the shader so should be able to get things a bit more accurate in future.
Oooh! Tim Ansell! He's a very clever man! That's lovely that... and PC gamers got SCREWED!
Fascinating stuff.
I mellowed quite a bit on it playing all of the other versions - what we got was a very nice port of the C64 version, with possibly the best frame rate out of all the variants if you run it on a fast 386 or better. It's hard to see from the screen but while it doesn't look or sound so great, it's the best version in terms of control and responsiveness in my opinion.
(Apparently the ST version can be very nice if run on a Mega STE at 16MHz or Falcon)
Gamers were oppressed from the start. :DDD
Is Nvidia Ansell super-screenshot named after this Ansell?
I think (although I haven't checked!) it's named after Ansel Adams, a famous landscape photographer of the mid 20th century.
@@woldemunster9244 No, it's named after Ansel Adams.
@@TimberwolfK I believe Ansel Adams wrote a sequel to F-Zero for the N64 but it was never released.
Looks like the BBC micro has the best frame rate of all of them. I think it is a port of the c64 version, but has to work a lot harder to fill the screen without attribute mode for fast fills of sky and ground!
This was a nice overview! Interestingly, the opponents are built the opposite way with two rear wheels and one in the front, at least as far as the simulation is concerned. Have you tried my 50 FPS enhancement of the C64 version of SCR? Video demonstration here (and link in the description): th-cam.com/video/xaCca4zCimc/w-d-xo.html
That's interesting, I didn't delve into the opponent source code but I guess it makes sense when the main time you see an opponent is from behind.
I did see that there was a SuperCPU version! Nice to hear from the author :) Didn't end up with a nice place to put it in the script. Looks cool, a bit like running the PC version on a fast CPU but even smoother.
Great video!
There is a good port to Commodore Plus 4, slightly faster than original c64 version