It's time to make some CRAZY money? Are you Ready? Here We Go!

Game objectives

  • Fastest Time to Reach Crazy License
  • Plays on Hardest Difficulties
  • Starts with Shortest Timer

Emulator Settings

  • Dolphin 4.0.2-dirty
  • Dual Core and Idle Skipping Disabled
  • JIT Recompiler Selected
  • DSP LLE Recompiler selected
  • Skip Bios checked

Describe the Game

Crazy Taxi is an open world racing video game developed by Hitmaker (Sega AM3) and published by Sega. The main objective of the game is to pick up customers and take them to their chosen destination as quickly as possible.

About the TAS

How does this TAS work?

My goal was to reach $20,000(as fast as possible) while running out the clock as best I could. The game ends once the timer reaches zero. In theory, a TAS of Arcade Mode could run forever because if you reach the destinations with speedy bonus, you are given more time that is unnecessary.

San Francisco Level

I played Crazy Taxi with Arcade Rules starting with the lowest amount of time possible to start with and max difficulties on traffic and time(I was actually hoping that the streets would be more packed than they were!). In the beginning of this TAS, I had a lot of hard time remembering old skills from when I had played Crazy Taxi on my GameCube long long ago. One reason for this TAS being hard in the beginning was trying to figure out a combination of buttons to Crazy Dash, which if you have never played before is where you can see me accelerating very quickly and sometimes even jumping.
Other than learning Crazy Dash and Drifting all over again, the basic concept of the game was very simple. Pick up customers as fast as possible, try as close to as many vehicles as possible, and try to pick up the next best customer. To Reach Rank 1 on a new game, just earn $8,000. To Reach Crazy License, it's $20,000. On a game where you've unlocked the bike cart, Rank 1 is a lot harder to earn(You'd have to get over $85,000 or more).

Money Making

The main money-makers are drifting and crazy throughs. Crazy Jumps are too short to make much. Drifting can increment very quickly as detailed below in Wall Drifting. Crazy Throughs are when you pass close by other cars and trucks. If you look at the cash bonus animation there is bronze silver and gold. I thought it was random at first but your distance from other cars and trucks determines if you get silver of gold bonuses, obviously gold bonuses are better. On the freeways where I get huge combos that can be attributed to all the trucks and oil tankers, they dish out 2 bonuses each (buses only give one bonus). I got lucky with RNG and had loads of trucks on the way back to the baseball stadium.

Wall Drifting

Here is the only glitch in the game that I used. Basically if you are drifting and you hit a building or an immobile object, your car will go up onto its side and the game thinks you are continuously drifting. You can stay in the position for a pretty long time if you use a good combination of driving forward and backwards.
I wanted to save this until the end because it can be quite boring to watch someone do this trick for a long period of time, which is why I kept it only to get the last $3,000 to get me right above $20,000.
At the very end of the movie, where it looks like I am just wasting time drifting, I am. I attempted to make entertaining by getting the 100$ to push me into $20,000 and doing a little jump drift. The last 3 seconds had to be run down to the very, very last frame before I would get a Time's Up screen, this way the game finishes a little quicker than if I had dropped off the customer and ran around for 3 seconds(In testing, it saved 725 frames).

Thank You's

Etch, the real Crazy Taxi expert!
Zanoab, STBM, Warepire, Hegyak, thommy3, Phallosvogel, Ilari, Cooljay, Patashu, ALAKTORN, XkyRauh, niamek, jlun2, got4n, arandomgameTASer, Scepheo, Zarmakuizz, Spikestuff, andypanther, alec_kermit, and anyone else who helped in the thread and on IRC!

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Crazy box would definitely be a challenge where id need to bring in more help from people to help me find more memory values. Got4n and I were TASing crazy jump and the best I believe we could get was 363yd
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Also, I'd love to get this working on an emulator so I can feel the rhythm of the crazy dashing.
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solarplex wrote:
Crazy box would definitely be a challenge where id need to bring in more help from people to help me find more memory values. Got4n and I were TASing crazy jump and the best I believe we could get was 363yd
lol I'll doublecheck my save file at home tonight :P So sure my friends and I got over 400. You can do the crazy boost dash thing you use to start off fast multiple times when driving. But I'll post again to let you know :P
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Hey, I saw CSGO logo again. Bang bang!! Funny encoder :D
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PKFC wrote:
solarplex wrote:
Crazy box would definitely be a challenge where id need to bring in more help from people to help me find more memory values. Got4n and I were TASing crazy jump and the best I believe we could get was 363yd
lol I'll doublecheck my save file at home tonight :P So sure my friends and I got over 400. You can do the crazy boost dash thing you use to start off fast multiple times when driving. But I'll post again to let you know :P
Haha sweet: http://imgur.com/Px2qUZC I'll write down all my best times. I don't know if there are WRs for this game, but it's at least another point of data if nothing else. If there is another thread to talk about crazy box, send me there :P
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How come no one has uploaded this to nicovideo yet? (Hint hint.)
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This has been featured on the french show Speedgame (formerly 88mph), the version hosted on JV.com might be available for German viewers: http://www.jeuxvideo.com/chroniques-video/0000/00003270/speed-game-crazy-taxi-dreamcast-dcast-tas-en-6-02-00122490.htm#infos
I wasn't expecting this game to be TASed
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Zarmakuizz wrote:
The french show Speedgame (formerly 80mph).
It was known as 88mph. They used a quote from Back to the Future in their intro. "When this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
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Indeed, my bad.
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French Commentary on YouTube as per usual: Link to video
WebNations/Sabih wrote:
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
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Sorry for the post bump but it seems that the downloadables for this movie have been taken down by archive.org, I suspect due to copyright issues with the music.
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im so glad crazy taxi can be stressed to its full potential
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