Posted: 15 days ago
InfamousKnight
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Midtown madness is basically the precursor to midnight club series. I've been looking forward to tasing this game for a while. To get it working, following the windows 98 installation. Insert midtown madness in an xml file with your hdd for win98. Follow the installation steps. I'm using midtown madness Chicago edition. Once the game is running, its gonna run very slow at first. Go to options and set the renderer to software renderer. This will boost speed BIG time. And adjust the settings further for more speed like lower the resolution down(duh). Enable speed loading. Click done. Exit the program to save config. Overwrite the hdd. I'll begin work on a tas when I get around to it.
Posted: 15 days ago
coolman
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Oh that is a huge childhood game of mine, would love to see a TAS of it!
Posted: 14 days ago
InfamousKnight
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Link to video First race done
Posted: 14 days ago
CoolKirby
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Exotic platforms TASer of 2014 NES TAS of 2013
This game doesn't run in DOS, so this thread should be moved to the Windows folder. Looks decent so far. It looks like you're using the arrow keys for movement though. Wouldn't you get more fine optimization using a joystick like the WRs do? You can also optimize the boot by shutting down successfully in your verification movie to skip the ScanDisk screen. Also, see if you can skip that Microsoft intro logo with left click, Enter, or Escape.
Posted: 14 days ago
InfamousKnight
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The intro can be skipped by pressing enter. I just left it there for entertainment reasons. About mouse movement vs keyboard, I guess I could bind those to the analog stick on my ps4 controller? Also, unless you tried tasing midtown madness yourself, the game is very glitchy. The car randomly freaks out and I have to do weird inputs to get around it. Like the car slips into the floor or goes off the map. Thats my excuse for not optimizing movement fully. Also, long turns end up having the car spin out to a complete stop.
Posted: 13 days ago
InfamousKnight
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*bump* looks like gamepad controls won't work with this game..