I really like this game, but I don't found neither strats or guides of any sort to help getting a better time. The only thing I have closer to a strat is last's stage of OutRun2, "Cape Way", which is "Stay on the inside of the curve as much as posible", pretty much. (You know, since this game have some sort of magnet, it kinda helps you the closer you are to the side of the track).
Someone have anything? Atleast something to talk about the game.
Is this game dead for SpeedRunning? I hope no, but I guess it is.
My PB for OutRun2 is 13m 43s 704ms with BB512 (OR).
When slipstreaming behind a Ferrari, I've noticed that the speed increases much faster than behind a regular car. so when you get to the fork in the road you should ideally follow the Ferrari and hope for not really an early pattern but a slightly later pattern for the cars that spawn before he final turn into the next stage. That's at least what works for me.
Also, while chasing your #1 time (awaiting verification as of the time I'm writing this) I noticed that the traffic isn't RNG at all, but rather it spawns the same amount every time and behaves exactly the same from run to run. So by rough memorization of how they spawn and behave you can actually use careful slipstreaming to manipulate the traffic to your liking and build up a strat from there.
I also want to say thanks, because without your PB run I would never have figured out how to get through Coniferous Forest in style.
And yeah, sadly this game appears dead for speedrunning, but I don't think it's going to stop any of us from trying to get sub 13'20 for OR2!
Yeah, normaly Ferraris traffic gives the best MAX speed, but on stream I noticed some normal traffic gives the same MAX speed that some Ferraris (namely, the purples cars and some trucks), but they are generaly slow so they don't hang around the enough to make them really useful. Tho, they are really useful on Deep Lake since there is no rival early on.
Yeah, it isn't RNG, but what makes it not that obvios is the AI, so yeah, as long as you do the same everytime, the trafic will be the same everytime. I actually found a score runner's info about it, to get the max amout of points as consistance as posible.
Yeah, Coniferous Forest is hard, not designed for OutRun Cars, neither Cape Way is tho.
Someone pointed out this page http://homepage3.nifty.com/~hina/ on my PB video (tho, my actually PB isn't recorded... it isn't much of an improvement), aparently arcade record is 13'21"446 in arcade, but the page is in Japanese, so I don't know what it says, exactly.
I'm looking forwards for the sub 13'20, we getting on there!
Gonna stream soon, I haven't play in a while (focusing on school), so I will be some time there.
Here's (some?) of the code for slipstreaming (from emoose) if anyone with programming experience wants to look over it.
