Behold the 3D polygon POWER of the Sega Genesis!

[SouthwesternEagle]

The argument between Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo rests here at this video.

Hands down, Genesis wins.

- A fervent SNES fan

[nooblet911]

exactly, vf1 and star wars arcade should be md games instead of that expensive and disfunctional 32x.

[nooblet911]

it's indeed impressive game for the md.

[alexwilsonNC]

I got this and nothing else for my bday it was $100 freaking bucks!

[luishomeroremohsiul]

i'm amazed of how smooth this game runs on the genesis... no sarcasm

[alexriesenbeck]

beautiful 3d

[alexriesenbeck]

@alexriesenbeck PIXELS POLYS I LOVE EM

[MaxPayneIzRudog]

Genesis does.

[FedorovAvtomat]

@RetroShinigami

It was planned, but the project was canned in favor of the 32X and Saturn versions.

[Juanpasaenz]

this blows stunt race FX out of the water

[nooblet911]

I disagree, I find stunt race fx has better tracks. it does run faster but then stunt race fx has some textures and changing weather.

[webclipper]

Thanks Anayo, terrific game it was, man I totally pwned my friends with this. I remember buying the cartridge very very expensive and pridefully showing its immense size (due to additional Sega Virtua Processor inside) to everyone and what a blast it was. My first actual, polygonal 3D gamewith an actual world... thankyou Sega, be like that again, PLZZZ!

[geromd91]

imagine a wipeout game made that way...

[kargaroc386]

too bad this game had a GPU in the cart, so it's kinda like cheating

I still love the graphics in this game though :)

[bradpitt021]

Man...how'd...Genesis has a very limited hardware but yet this...This is like an advanced...I mean this awesome men..But it's sad that Sega is gone now in hardware business!

[girlsdrinkfeck]

america calling the megadrive the genesis = fail

[gregory06]

@girlsdrinkfeck that's fail because that's what it was called for us? sega decided to call it that..

[girlsdrinkfeck]

@gregory06 because of copyright ! sega didnt have a choice to call it the megadrive in usa due to copyright

[phrixil]

I remember this game was like 70 dollars or something stupid like that. Was a big waste of money.

[Antaeus1991]

Don't you just hate it when you can hear the controller buttons clicking...

[wondereyedrive]

man this game was expensive when it came out!

[IMaximusDMI]

Wow, this shit was ahead of its time for real.

[SafasoTV]

Wicked cool! that looks better than starfox!

[katakisLives]

The Sega Virtual processor was only ever used in this game! no wonder it took so long for anyone to get around to emulating it! the 32X used very similar tech (I have heard) it was just too expensive! they could have had just a cartridge adapter with the SVP inside! it could have a game built in! a bit like Sonic & Knuckles.

[itamax]

I seriously think VR runs faster and smoother than StarFox on the SNES...although I love both games the same way. ^_^ Just imagine how neat it would have been if Sega made some space shooter using the SVP. o_o

[Xeniczone]

I guess Star Wars 32X is as close as we are going to get.

[nooblet911]

of course it runs faster, the game costed 100 bucks after all

and the genesis was better for polygon 3d games in the first place because of the faster cpu

[GGigabiteM]

@nooblet911

The VDP in the genesis is physically incapable of rendering polygons. The CPU in the cartridge rendered everything in software, converted each frame into 16x16 tiles and used DMA to transfer the tiles to the VDP to be displayed on the screen.

The only thing the 68000 does in the Genesis is run the game logic, and the Z80 runs the YM2612, PSG and DAC.

[fareedbakhit]

never played this game before in my life. but is it runing on a normal sega genesis or dose it run on 32X or sega cd?

becase i never see the genesis running 3d polygons this fast.

[Xeniczone]

Runs just on the Genesis. you should look up Sega SVP.

[fareedbakhit]

and i thought the genesis couldn't do these thing thanks!

[sybnios]

It is amazing how powerful was the SVP chip but also the SEGA Megadrive alone. Still the SEGA 32X version is by far better. I own both version and played them long enough both! I wish the SVP chip was used in more games back then... :(

[kinorai]

For some reasons, I always preffered to play V.R. on the genesis, instead of the 32x version.. don't know why, I guess I just felt like a god, showing how my -mighty- Genesis could do better 3d than the Snes. I would like to know what chip was better: FX for the snes (or FX2), or the chip used for V.R. on Genesis...

[Anayo]

I hear ya. I got the 32X version for a while and the colors were a little bolder, but that was all. The Genesis version looked practically the same. I agree that the novelty value on this game is really high.

[kinorai]

Lol thanks! Because of you I learned a new english word! "Novelty"! See, I'm french Canadian, and I'm far from perfect in english! Still, I read on Wikipeda that it had a capability of 600 polygons per 15frames/ seconds. And could show simultaniously 16 colors. Lol! 600 polygons!!

[nooblet911]

sega was only good at copying nintendo

if nintendo had a platformer, they had to have a platformer, if nintendo had a 3d game, they had to have a 3d game

[sybnios]

hahaha you are delusional man. Sorry...

[nooblet911]

ok, they didn't make direct copies (like atari) and nintendo also wasn't completely original (f1 race for nes for example - a [good] hang on copy), but sega tried too hard and thats what burried them in the end imho

check out star fox 2 beta to see what snes could do in 3d

[greatgnomex]

@kinorai At its time VR genesis chip was MUCH better than Snes FX (like star fox games )

but they never used all the hardware power in one game. It could be more powerfull than VR.

Sorry my english

[Dant2142]

@kinorai The SVP was faster than the FX but slower than the FX2...

[spajsboyz]

very fast 3d , but this sega is completely different hardware than sega mega drive 16 bit ??

[Anayo]

There's another processor inside the game cartridge. That's how these graphics were possible.

[MartinChir]

Mhhh....not that bad

[seproma]

The Genesis was powered by a Motorola 68000, which could handle polygons like this (the Commodore Amiga used the same CPU). It was more capable than a SNES Super FX cartridge.

Doesn't stop V.R. being an awful game however!

[AmigaFalcon]

lol, the megadrive had zero "3D power" :) this game cartridge includes a 3D chip.

[nooblet911]

look at hard drivin' and youll see it could do 3d polygon graphics also without the in-cartridge 3d accelerator chip

[Vaquilla92]

Disgustingly awful 3D, sure.

[antomil1000]

but 3d

[Outlander11]

The 68000 had enough power to produce basic 3D graphics as seen in abrams battle tank, hard drivin, race drivin, etc. This is the only cart to use the SVP chip for the genesis.

and to the people that say crap like "Disgustingly awful 3D", this is because you are far too young to appreciate and understand the labor that went into producing these graphics on such limited hardware.

[Vaquilla92]

No, I can appreciate effective 3D pioneering like this game, Starfox, Starglider, the arcade Star Wars, etc, but Hard Drivin' for the Genesis was simply a mistake; an ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless. The arcade version was decent tho.

[Outlander11]

Your referring to games that use add-on co-processors, Hard drivin uses only the 68000.

You can not compare games like star wars(32x), or starfox(specialFX) to anything without a specialty co-processor. Thats like comparing an apple to an orange and expecting to get the same taste.

and star glider was from 86 so why even bring that up?

[Vaquilla92]

What I'm referring to is effective presentation of 3D. Starglider, for all its simplicity, was; hard drivin wasn't, IMO. The latter was just a bad call, as the system couldn't handle it very well and it came out looking very ugly and ultra sluggish. They should have used a co-processor, is my point, or just skipped it.

[antimetalclubRfags2]

dude u hit the nail on the head ! very good job!

[nooblet911]

the genesis 3d games that didn't use the svp chip ran like ass though

[SEGAmegadriveable]

@Outlander11 nicely said most of the people that are saying things like that, are young ignorant gamers. who compare ps3 xbox360 etc etc to such games as this one. i feel sad for them missing the great 16 bit era otherwise they would know what the word nostalgia means

[calumknight1984]

@Outlander11 and considering this was BEFORE 3D made it big in games, shows how revolutionary this was (not sure if virtua fighter had even been released at this point the first 3d fighting game)

[Anayo]

千ズは好物です。 :D

[plurp7]

im pretty sure this makes me want to eat cheese

[Anayo]

Wendsleydale?

[plurp7]

perhaps, more like Smoked Gouda

[hokman1]

what does cheese have to do with cheese?  both u and the jap guy

[JohnMarineTube]

It's incredible this game was made for the Genesis/Megadrive. Never thought it ws possible until I saw these Genesis YouTube videos. The Super Nintendo had the FX Chip with games like StarFox and Stunt Race FX. Never realized the Genesis had such capability.

[Snotnarok]

It's because of the Sega 32X, the genesis alone cant' do this.

[jimmyjimbo72]

It could. There was a 32x version but there was also the fully 3D standard Genesis version that contained a special chip inside the cartridge. It was called the Sega Virtua Processor chip.

[Snotnarok]

As cool as that is/sounds...Blast Processing wins! haha

[aryinc]

yeah the 32x could have been skipped,so if it where that way sega could have beaten the snes with giving everything out of a genesis,

[nooblet911]

thats amazing for the genesis. I wonder why they didnt use that svp chip in virtua fighter I mean they could just skip 32x

[Anayo]

I agree with you. I owned a 32X for a little while and the ONLY fun game was Virtua Fighter.

[Nitrous0x]

What about Knuckles Choatix?

[Anayo]

You need a 32X to play that.

[geoflcl]

Who needs a Super FX chip?

Take that, Nintendo! XD

[Abu5ername]

TIME BONUS!

Found this game at a Game Crazy and got it free due to a buy one get one free deal. lol it still had the $100 price tag on it.

[jcarlson09]

a pc can emulate the 32X version. but the 32X already has 3D polygons

[whiteguysamurai]

Sega was always so ahead of the competition!

It's a shame they are no-longer in hardware.

[paulsbuck5]

It's out of sync.

[Anayo]

All my videos are. My digital camera is the Satan. -.-

[Eddieh1979]

The virtua racing cartridge itself had it's own processor in it to make the game run as good as it did, which is why the cartridge was so bulky and expensive. This actually had a lot to do with how the 32x came to be.

[Anayo]

SVP chip. Similar technology was used in the Super Nintendo game "Starfox", although for that game they called it the "Super FX chip."

[Droyd21]

I didnt know that, sounds insane lol. (same for sonic 3 and knuckles cartridge "stacking", a sega genesis is a strange thing) I had the rom for this game a few years ago but I hadnt the same feel on an emulator.

[Anayo]

Yeah, I know what you mean. For some reason I prefer to play games on a TV in the original system even if it's something my PC can emulate anyway.

[aj0049]

well there isn't a Genesis emulator out there that can run Virtua Racing yet, so this is the only way. the SVP chip hasn't been emulated yet ;_;

it's like the last step to perfection

[zack86735]

well, there is one right now. :)

[keneblayon45344]

Lol..... At the beginning I saw something resembling MissingNo. in the top right corner of the TV.

[KokoroNoSama]

I just remember playing in free mode and crashing into the barn and cow a lot :p

[Anayo]

The cow owned.

[CelestialSticker]

Man, this game is so cool! It has very good third dimensions and very good visibility for the Genesis!

[mhzSt]

Remember this game! It was damn hard!

[rpgdreamr]

Brings back memories...

However...

ANAYO - WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

[rpgdreamr]

Brings back memories...

However, sorry to bring this up here...but...

ANAYO - WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!

[SegaMegadriveMic]

That was the most expensive Sega Genesis game ever

[Anayo]

Sega Genesis system: $120 USD

Copy of virtua racing: $100 USD

Getting it all for about $13 in the year 2007:

Priceless.

[keneblayon45344]

I got my Genises for 3 Bucks.