Thank you, Nicholas. I thought the original controllers were pretty clumsy, but they were ofcourse just like in the movie so it was all very impressive. Here I'm using rather small analog sticks on panel for a baseball game that I rewired between the IO-board and panel connectors, to play this game well. I don't have those original controllers but I was thinking of using a pair of old throttles from Afterburner or Thunderblade, they're pretty smooth and proper sized.

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emulation is a beast of a way to play games with higher framerates and resolutions

I still love it (Joy (Jennifer Lawrence) with Oz the Great and Powerful Oz and Anastasia/Chipotle on Pokémon/Sean Hussey as Indiana Jones).

You're welcome. I wasn't aware of any home ports.

Tomas Dahlgren I think he's referring to Episode 1 Racer which isn't a port of this. It's an amazing game imo

Right. There was one Star Wars Racer for windows98, I still have it on a CD somewhere.

Good news for anyone interested in that Windows 98 version, there's a modernized version of it recently released on gog.com that'll work just fine on modern Windows systems. Sadly still no way to experience the arcade version on PC yet... I think the 98 version feels faster but I spent a lot more time on the cabinet at the local arcade which miraculously is still standing (with a lap record for Sebulba on Tatooine Easy with my initials that still hasn't been toppled in the last 15 years :), and the arcade version felt way more like what you saw in the movie, not just because of the better graphics, but because the podracers had a feeling of momentum and inertia to them that I just didn't really get in the PC version.

@@BDNeon Current WR is 2'54"665 on easy.

I remember playing Brave firefighters and Star Wars Racer. Arcade, but the firefighters is hard because with a nozzle and um. Star Wars arcade Racer with the handles. You do less than one left and right too much. And no I haven't played. These games for a very long time

Probably had some intermittent connections problem, or the PSU / power feed wasn't stable. Big shame on the operator for not maintaining the game properly.

We don't.

Simple : Dreamcast/N64/PC version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arcade. On PC 900 km/h = 900 km/h. On Arcade 900 km/h = 80 km/h

Consoles and PC don't give the metric units. It's absent so we don't know for sure if it is km/h

It is possible to rely on the Sega Arcades and see clearly the abrupt speed difference comparing to Daytona, Indy 500, Sega Rally, and so on. It is even possible to base on the walls (sides) and see that the same distance is traveled much faster in the PC version. SEGA made a lot of mistakes by reducing the feeling of speed in that game to make it easier to ride. Take the PC version, put on the Boonta Classic track and you'll see what 700, 800 or even 900km / h really are.

Pc is best even better than the switch one

Wow. Are you really that good?

Tomas Dahlgren for some reason I have a knack for the game 😂 I did take a lot of testing though. Thanks for the recognition, I’m proud of myself

It would be awesome to see a video of it.

Say what you will about the acting and plot of the prequels, but the sounds they crafted for the trilogy were top tier.

You have the starwars racer cabinet and you need a spare board? With a bit of luck you can find one at your local operator's, or sometimes on ebay. Or have a look at Yahoo Auctions. These boards are very rare today, why don't you go through yours to see what the problem is?

Tell me about it why I was looking into emulation guess I'll settle with the n64 until I cananage a board

Why not just find out what the problem is with your current board? The problem may not even be your board, it could be your PSU, the cables, some fan, some interconnection between the ROM board /main board.

Source: SEGA HIKARU ...

You can play this game with the Demul Emulator, and the ROM from SW RA, but stay advised that you need a powerfull Pc to run the game decently, and the graphics are lacking the shadows, so it becomes quite creepy!

Game is Sega's Star Wars Racer on the Hikaru system. What is "Demul"?

Demul 0.7 is a program that runs Hikaru and Star Wars Racer Arcade. But it doesn't look as good as yours. Are you playing this through your PC?

No, wait a sec.... You need this www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=724 - it's the Hikaru game board. I am recording the vids straight from the hardware.

OK, so you're running the game board through a PC?

Yeah. But the PC outputs the picture onto my game screen in the cabinet. So when I play it's actually the windows fullscreen captured image. I'll show you a pic of my setup here: www.albyhus2.se/_eget/Recording/The_setup_01.jpg And here's how it looks when playing: www.albyhus2.se/_eget/Recording/The_setup_03.jpg The final clip I then convert to larger format maintaining the 60 fps, so that youtube will show the clip at 60fps. The original capture it 640x480 something.

Ok, I'll wait. ...

I am still waiting.

There are several versions made on other platforms, this one is Hikaru and is not available for PC as such. It may be emulated on PC though, you have to check.

Really? I would say more like a Dreamcast game.

It uses a 200 MHz clocked CPU for the game, like the GameCube

@@solarflare9078 What if it would come on Gamecube

Source is the SEGA HIKARU game system.

"Source: SEGA HIKARU (VGA RGB), 4 channel audio mixed to stereo"

@@uncletom1971 so this was done on the machine itself? I'm not sure I follow

Ohyes, Hikaru hooked up to a SEGA JVS cabinet (NNC), game played with a 2-player analog stick modified controlpanel for a baseball game. .. I think I have a video of that too.. somewhere.

OK, that video is not online. I had the game running on my NNC cabinet with a capture-PC along side it to capture the game play. It was a temporary setup.I have several original arcade systems from Sega, Namco, Konami... and maybe a total of 500 game boards.

Sorry. We don't use windows.

Of course its different, its a different goddamn game! The only thing it shares is the subject matter.

Dont' know. Check the emulation sites. This is Hikaru.

Thank you Sid, you flatter me. Well, not rich in any financial way. I have a job, a car, a bike, my health and I am fairly happy with my life. Perhaps rich in spirit, ideas about fun. I could still find some things to complain about. But that's life, a challenge which keeps us all busy, and hopefully away from boredom.

@@uncletom1971 pardon me I meant nothing disrespectful on the contrary.. bless you and your family .. keep up the good things

Thank you, Sid. And the same to you.

@@uncletom1971 not rich? Very small KZfaqrs say they earn like $6000 in 2 months

For your info, dudes, I don't make any money on youtube. What little adverts pop up in this clip is due to the game's usage of patended music from the film. I get plain squat to my bank account. I did this video to show the awesome game that SEGA made back in the day when games were games, and not bloated chunks of CG animation. So there you go, I'm not rich other than I can afford my monthly dues, as well as a limited amount of toys that make my life appear happier than it really is. Now go get some fresh air and sunshine, and have a rest from the computer screen. It tends to make you 'see things' that aren't real. Cheers!

Yes, I think the tracks in the console versions lack realism. By realism I mean textures and surroundings which provide players with some sort of reference to an actual place, not the actual shape of the track, though I find the console tracks a bit too outrageous. I guess they didn't want to make that same game on the consoles so they made new tracks which weren't as realistic or detailed as in SEGA's original version. Remember that SEGA's version of the game resembles the actual film, where on the consoles you get simpler abstract of the environments, but a whole bunch of insanely wild tracks.

Especially considering that the Hikaru board had a lot in common with the Dreamcast hardware. It would have been an incredibly easy port for Sega.

You mean the original speed levers? Well, I used a pair of smaller analog sticks from Sanwa, originally used in SEGA's baseball game on the naomi. They worked great.