Just to highlight (to Mr. Thunderwing) where the original Outrun is accessed from on the Japanese Outrun 2 for Xbox. In the US/EU version, this is burried within the Outrun Challenge menus but on the JP version, it's right there on the main screen.
OBS elected NOT to record sound but nothing to hear
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjezu0X9a4o
Goal B (Route 2) after doing the skybox trick. Run is nothing remarkable, this is more just for the beautiful journey in literally, a new light. The low hanging sun makes a cool looking shadow over your car and looks especially good in Metropolis (My white F40 looks near black on that course). And of course, that cloudy highland..... mildly cloudly rather than overcast showcasing that lovely, lime coloured sky.
This was played on an Xbox 360 E via HDMI at 1080p for the best possible image I can capture. Game scales up beautifully though the emulation is known to be a little poor at times. Shame there is no perfect way to play Outrun 2 in these HDTV times (2SP/2006 is well covered in this regard).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2QD3Z7Opns
Goal C (Route 9) after doing the skybox trick. Run is nothing remarkable at all (features plenty of love-making with the walls - was getting tired at this stage). This is more just for the beautiful journey in literally, a new light. The low hanging sun makes a cool looking shadow over your car throughout and in this route, we take in a polluted looking industrial complex (thanks to the ghost fog) and oddly lighted Ancient ruins too. This is my only video in the forest too which just looks a little foggy.
This was played on an Xbox 360 E via HDMI at 1080p for the best possible image I can capture. Game scales up beautifully though the emulation is known to be a little poor at times. Shame there is no perfect way to play Outrun 2 in these HDTV times (2SP/2006 is well covered in this regard).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WK4VWPmDfQ
Pretty sub par time (I think - I never usually play Normal instead of Tuned and certainly not AT). But, gotta kick start the speedrun.com leaderboard.....
https://www.speedrun.com/outrun2sp
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zM9zYVtbs
Another little bit off but still lots of room to improve. I'll be happy with something in the 2:45 region.....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe5i_Txcug