Fun fact- this was actually listed as a “Squeakuel” at the time, and nobody understood until years later when the second Alvin and the Chipmunks movie came out. Truly Sega was ahead of their time.

They probably made Power Edition look more similar to the original to attract people to the cabs; nostaliga for the first game was/is extremely strong in arcades.

I totally agree - Sega were the absolute kings of the arcade racer genre back in the day. I was so gutted that this game (and Scud Race) didn't get ported to the Dreamcast back then. FYI, I believe the difficulty of the AI opponents was toned down a smidge between BOE and Power Edition. You should check out the secret Hornet in BOE with the unlock code - it's like the Shin Akuma of Daytona cars. It makes getting first place on the Expert Stage easy peasy.

Like so many games this needs a home release. Sega really needs an arcade collection of stuff they haven't released before

SEGA arcade racing games are phenomenal. They are so charming, with the color graphics, cheesy music and sound effects/over the top voice acting. The sense of speed is great too. The presentation for these games are unmatched. Hell even the arcade racing games SEGA made for home consoles are fantastic too, most of them anyways. F Zero GX is my favorite racing game ever and SEGA made it, and even some Daytona USA developers worked on GX too. SEGA used to be so damn cool.

Daytona Usa 2 was THE game i once wanted to obtain an arcade cabinet of! i also only wish that Power Edition had the tropical dome over the oval circuit tho :3 that's what 90's arcade racing is about: flashy colorful sunshine environment!

Drifting in this game feels so satisfying!

This series has got me itching to snag some wheels to get a VS. setup added to the home arcade. I haven't played some of these since I was a kid and the girlfriend is always glued to the Initial D cabs at the local arcade. Thanks for the great videos as always my guy, loving this series!

These graphics still look good today! I was blown away when i forst saw Model 3 games, it was like taking a glimpse into the future. Sega was so far ahead when it came to graphics technology that it wasnt even close.

Emulates perfect in supermodel. Even link up works great. It gets a lot of play in in my ridge racer twin cab when the pc's are hooked up. This, scud race and outrun sp are the top 3 most played here. Thanks for this series!

Sega, for the love of God bring this to modern consoles! When they re-released Daytona on Xbox 360 I played it none-stop. The same with Outrun 2. Like you mention in your video, they are just fun to play, but they also strike that brilliant balance between easy to get into and have fun, but trickier to master. No more Sonic re-releases. All of outrun series, Daytona, Scud Race and then something a bit more obscure.

I always have fond memories seeing the machine in its twin cabinet form at CineStar in Dortmund in my mid-teens in the mid-2000s, alongside the deluxe version of Ferrari F355 Challenge. CineStar is a movie theater located near the central station in Dortmund and has gotten rid of both machines ever since, but I always remember that they were there and I did play them, especially the PS2 port of F355 Challenge that I got to play after I just got my PS2 in Christmas of 2005. If I remember correctly, due to my incredible curiosity surrounding the game, this was the one game that got me into MAME in the first place when I wanted to play the game at home on my PC so badly, only for emulation of the game at the time being non-existent. And even still to this day, Model 3 emulation on MAME is still non-existent, but that's why the Supermodel emulator, as we know it, came about that I had known around the same time I had just gotten into MAME when the emulator was newly announced when I browsed through the System-16 website.

I love Daytona USA so much. My second favorite racing series after F-Zero!

Glad you covered this one. My mate bought this cab a few years ago; original Daytona USA 2 and it's a single cab that used to be a twin-cab (1 player side) complete with the light-up sign, but no space for it to go on top. Great game and the force feedback on the steering wheel might be better than the original Daytona. If feels like there is more technology going on. The seat doesn't have force feedback. It's all with the big CRT screen so it's a similar resolution to Dreamcast, but of course a beefed up Model 3 Spec. It also has mirror mode on all courses and you can choose to beat your own lap times. I remember playing it in London in the early 2000's and who knows could be the same cab as it's got Namco written on it and we did go to Namco Station Waterloo back then.

I think we all dream a "Sega Ages" with Model 3: Daytona 2, Scud Race... M2, get to work, please.

Y'know in all my years I've never seen Daytona 2 played, so thanks for shining the spotlight on this one. It looks fantastic!

Man just found out about this channel through the game Junction sweet sega racing series love me some sega

Played this a few times in the arcade back in the day and it was an amazing experience! Must play

Great looking game, one of those classics that unfortunately passed me by in the arcades

I played Daytona USA 2 more times in 1998 than any other arcade simulation unit available VGE. This game was fantastic from the second you started. As I recall the drummer and guitarist from the band Winger participated with the English soundtrack to the game as well. Amazing. 8^) Anthony...

i love power edition bro. you can select the alternate soundtrack with vocals provided by takenobu mitsuyoshi, which can be enabled in the japanese bios. he is super cool! ⭐

I remember playing this the first time at a mall when I was little and was in awe myself when playing it. It is definitely the strongest Daytona entry for me, but I felt bad that this has never seen console releases although we have emulators now. The Takenobu versions of the music are still the ones I grew with and still hold up best for me.

Wow, never knew this existed, know what I'm playing this weekend! Daytonnnnaaaaaaaaa!!!

Woot here we go! Dayyytoonaaaaaa!!

Video: Please bring Daytona USA 2 home to something Sega: Flicky, Space Harrier and Golden Axe again? Done!

Whoa....how weird I was playing this last night and BOOM....your video today!! I was wondering what were all the differences between DUSA2 and the Power Edition one. Playing both I noticed the Easy track lost the mountains and waterfalls. Although I'm still trying to figure out how to power slide correctly. Sometimes I hit it right, other times not so much. For some reason it looks a lot better and more nostalgic running ReShade CRT filter with DUSA2.

It does look fantastic.

Daytona 2 was the absolute peak pinnacle of 3D videogame graphics when it came out. It's also really fun to play too! Perhaps it was too powerful for it's own good which may be why it never got a home port.

Another great video! The game looks so Amazing! They really need to make console versions of this, OutRunners and Scud Race. Virtua Racing on Switch is Amazing. Daytona on PS3 is amazing! We need all of these with proper local/lan and net play multiplayer (I'm looking at you Virtua Racing, while 8 player split screen w/single joycon is pretty cool, 8 Switches would be even better) and PHYSICAL too!!!

Another great video, another marvel of technology at the time!! With the updated board set this is just astonishing good, even now!! It’s one of my silly dreams but back in the day I always wished for sega to produce mini controllers based on there original arcade hardware! Too expensive and unpractical but I just can’t play these with an Xbox controller!

5:57 prefer the dome as well.

Love this game i played it in Florida they had a row of them. Does supermodel emulator work on steam deck yet without windows?

Daytona USA 2 is my favorite arcade racer of all time, and it's such a ridiculous shame that it didn't come home to the DC (or other console later). I'm also partial to the original release, but had access to a Power Edition cab much longer and played it more (sadly, I never got to play this against friends or family...the mall had a twin cab, but I only played it solo or vs strangers). Now, I try to refrain from "best", "number 1", etc comparisons of games because judging art, music, gameplay, story, etc merits end up being completely subjective (even though some seem to think otherwise at times) and straight-up techinical merits like frame-rate, polygon or sprite counts, resolution, raw sound quality etc just isn't always the most important thing in gaming (even though I like such comparisons but that's the tech enthusiast in me). No, I like the way you judge many games, including here with Daytona 2 (and the mention of Cruisn' USA and it's N64 port)...it's how I rank games: by how much pure, raw fun I have with them. And in terms of sheer fun in a racing game, *for me* it's hard to beat Daytona USA 2. It's not leaps and bounds in terms of fun for me over the next 4 in my top-5 favorite racing games...but it's so, so fun that it just ekes its way to the top of my list though, again the other 4 do come very close. And, since I can't leave you hanging, here's, not just my top-5 but top-10 favorite racing games (selected by how much raw fun I have with them): 1. Daytona USA 2 ('nuff said); 2. Cruis'n World (arcade, but, IMO, this was the best of the Cruis'n ports to the N64...Cruis'n USA was my first N64 game alongside Tetrisphere though); 3. Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed (PC version, not PSX...even 800x600 at 16-bit color was kind of pushing it for my TNT2, but still this game looked great and plays so well...absolutely my favorite in the NFS series in terms of fun); 4. Mario Kart 64 (my favorite in the series, and just so much fun...played so many hours of it...including playing it for half a day with my sister and BIL in person over thanksgiving...I can go back anytime...I like all of the games in the series, but none nearly as much as MK64...Super Circuit it my 2nd favorite and it's a distant 2nd); 5. Outrun 2 and Coast-to-Coast(just so much raw fun all around); 6. San Fransisco Rush (arcade version rules here...insanely fun; home ports not quite up to snuff, but I liked the N64 version); 7. Virtua Racing (I know not everyone loves how it handles, but I do love how VR feels...at least on model1/Genesis/32X/Switch...not a huge fan of TWI's Saturn port, and I like how the PS2 version looks but not so much how it feels...so many hours of playing this with my sister...I'm also glad to have got to play Virtua Formula too); 8. Hot Chase (whew...my favorite super scalar-ish game, and it's not even from Sega...Konami did such a good job with the sense of speed and urgency in this game...played it every chance I got at the theater) 9. Excite Truck (just pure, raw fun); 10. Super Off Road (fun by yourself; fun with friends; the arcade version is great and the Genesis and SNES ports are not terrible...it was like R.C. Pro-Am meets Atari's Super Sprint, both games I loved). (...okay, normally the original Daytona as well as Sega Rally would probably actually get a spot on this "raw fun" list, but I really wanted to include some other developers besides Sega...).

Came here after official announcement that Sega Racing Classic 2 (Daytona USA 2) will be available to be play at home by playing it on "Like a Dragon : Gaiden".

Remember when i saw for the first time this game at arcades , it was the momment that i realize that dreamcast cannot produce this graphics , dreamcast was more close to model 3 step 1 to step 1.5 , meant to say model3 step 2.0 was expensive as hell and no one came ever close to this level of graphics back then.

Y'know, it's not often that I find a youtuber, and while watching their content think to myself "Man....I thought I was the only one who felt this way!" But VGE, you sir...are one of only a handful that fall in that group. This is another PHENOMENAL video/review dude. Everything you said about Daytona 2 was 100% SPOT ON. From loving the cartoony art style, to how you prefer the "Bio Dome" version of the Beginner track, to how rewarding the handling is once you get the hang of it. It's like you jacked right into my brain Matrix style for this vid lol. After playing the arcade game at Gameworks only a handful of times shortly after it came out in '98, I remember wanting this cabinet(or at least the PCB) for soooooo long before it finally got emulated. Never got around to getting it, but we are incredibly blessed to have access to this game via Supermodel(shout out to Bart and Ian). Playing Daytona 2 on a 77" LG OLED with a Direct Drive FFB wheel and H-Pattern shifter is an experience on par if not better than the real arcade cab. And while it's not my absolute favorite arcade racer(OutRun 2, Scud Race, Rave Racer, and WMMT6 are slightly higher for me), it's certainly in my top 5. Keep up the good work brother. Can't wait for the next vid in the series :)

I remember playing this after sinking so much money in the first Daytona. It is a great game and still holds up well today. I think the only racing game that beats it from the arcade would be F355 IMHO.

Daytona. How I learned to drift.

I was lucky enough to find a working daytona 2 pcb in my local arcade trash took it home

Great job on this series. Never had the chance to play this one in the arcade, but have played a few races on the computer. Are you using a controller or a wheel for playing these games?

Amazing, amazing game!

Im so happy to be able to play this in the new Yakuza game. Sega needa to make a Model 1, 2 and 3 collection. I want ine ao bad literally morw than anything!!

Sadly the full game was never ported to a home console, but I think some composite of the tracks might have shown up in the outrun remake Sega made for the og xbox🤔

Sigh, I miss these kind of games so much. When I mentioned "Arcade racing" sooo many folks come with games like "Need for Speed" or "Forza Horizon". NO! That's not Arcade racing that is "making your ego feel good, as a there is voice acting in the games telling you how great you are 24/7 while non arcade racing" :P. Arcade racing is visual spectacular extremes :). Like little touches, the parrots flying over..... that's so brilliant :) . Darn it, give me a new ScudRace :P.

In an alternate universe they actually release Model 3 Racing Collection (Daytona 2 + SCUD + Sega Rally 2) on modern consoles and PC.

Sega were the masters of missed opportunities. There are literally countless racers, super scalers, and 2D arcade games that shoulda woulda coulda been brought home. Daytona 2, SCUD Race, Outrunners immediately come to mind…..

Why is Daytona 2001 so underrated? If not completely forgotten. The Dreamcast had it's own Daytona game and it was a great game that ran 60FPS while looking good, though not as good as this. D2 has the superior OST and sound effects however, gameplay wise I'm not sure as every games in the series have their pros and cons

My favorite part about this game is the twerking caboose.

Dizem que existe uma versão Daytona Usa 2 para o Dreamcast não lançada...

This needs to be ported to Switch

I wanna play this.... I don't really care for what we got on the dreamcast. Though it does still look good.

Remake for current gen Sega. Do it now !!!!!! :)

Beautiful game. Too bad it never got a home release?

I don’t get why they would put so much effort into the Dreamcast version of Daytona 1 and not this…

Have this amazing game on emulation. My controls seem more twitchy than yours, can you recommend any settings changes.

Virtua Fighter 3 was Model 3, and it was on DC. Did you forget about that, or?

Is this coming out on PlayStation or not?

Unpopular opinion : Daytona USA 2 is Scud Race 2, Sega Race TV is Scud Race 3 and Hummer is Scud Race 4 😎

not the biggest fan of daytona, but would like to give it a proper try - i just don't want to waste my time with any version unless it's the best the franchise has to offer, so i guess i'm asking, of all the versions and conversions, if there is only one daytona to play, what version would it be?

Maybe it's my Emulator settings but Steering seems off. Still play this and Scud Race a lot when I'm not driving the ambulance

It is rather odd as to why sega released the first on xbl / psn but not this one as well. And even more odd is how there is no switch version like there is virtua racing. I'd love to play the og on my switch.

I'm still mad to this day Sega never brought this home (and Super GT). So Lame. Btw unless someone else mentioned it, I think Winger did the soundtrack lol.

If sega weren't so Stingy and just released most of their arcade games on the saturn to keep it alive, i suspect that the dreamcast would have come out on date with the other consoles and they were going to survive this .

The gameplay between both versions IS NOT identical. Power edition handling is a lot better than vanilla (especially the drifting mechanic), and that's the best reason to play that version over the other (I like the first stage on vanilla too, but that's the only reason to play it)

I got to play Daytona 2 only once in an arcade- of course it was like $2 to play:) My takeaway was that it didn’t seem like a Daytona game. The fantasy went too far for the concept.

Ggggggaaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeee oooooovvvvvvveeeeeerrrrrrrr

Power edition looks worse than the original I prefer Daytona 2. I also waited for this to come to the Dreamcast but instead we got Daytona USA 1 for the 10th time 😒 Daytona USA 2 is the much better game compared to the original It was amazing when i played it in the Arcades

why the daytona usa 1 is on dreamcast and not the 2??? cancelling a console is one thing, but cancelling a game that already exists in arcade and can bring eacy money from easy conversion is another stupid one !!

My favorite arcade game of all time. Unfortunately never been able to pick up a cabinet, it was always out of my price range for the last 20 years. Some day maybe...