I gotta say, my favorite part was the page where they talked about frozen pizzas and didn't actually end up talking about the game at all. XD
If you can scan it all for me, I'd have no problem going through it and seeing what's different. I myself am somewhat interested to see.
I just went to go dig out my Uniracers manual, only to realize that I left it in a storage building 600 miles away. :/
It is a great manual, though. It reads something like woot.com's front page.
Halamantariel, sorry for the slightly off-topic subject.
Hey, as long as it's about Uniracers, I don't care! :)
(Plus, I have no authority whatsoever on what gets said in this thread, as this is technically a public forum, but I appreciate the concern)
Hey, as long as it's about Uniracers, I don't care! :)
So no more talking about Unirally? :-(
You can talk about whatever you want to talk about, as long as it's not off-topic (not related to Uniracers or Unirally, because they're the same game, just in NTSC and PAL).
After a quick look-through, there are few changes, most of them regional differences, i.e. a note on the ESRB rating (which does not apply outside the U.S.), the coloring of the buttons on controller pics, and game screenshots. I noticed a word changed here and there as well, once again minor. Probably the biggest change was the memo page. The U.S. version says "Oh yeah? So when was the last time you actually used a 'memo' section at the back of an instruction booklet? Are you going to start now? That's pretty doubtful, but just for tradition's sake, here's a memo section. (Albeit a small one, have fun!)" and then has the handwritten part I mentioned in my last post.
I do have the US manual somewhere. I can look next time I'm at my parents. Had a big box with MAD magazines, Nintendo Power magazines, all my manuals for SNES and N64, and all my players guides, from back in the day. I specifically remember getting the impression there were 4 Megas but I don't know if it was from the manual or from the score grid. Actually I think it was Nintendo Power that asked in one issue if anyone knew about the other 2 megas.
By the way guys, is the video quality for the videos I upload on Youtube okay? Is it too blurry? Sound too loud, not loud enough? I could try improving the quality on the next upload. Give me your thoughts! :)
Also, small progress update: I now have about a tenth of a lap completed on Zoom Zoo. 2.5 seconds are completed, and in the previous TAS attempt, a lap was 24.15 seconds. It's not much, but it's progress.
The sound level is perfect for my laptop's puny speakers. A good portion of YouTube videos are inaudible on my laptop without headphones (or sending to my desktop instead), but yours is exactly where it should be.
Blurriness is hard to combat on YouTube, but for what it is, your picture quality is just fine.
In other words, keep doing what you're doing.
Any chance you could scan that in at some point?
Halamantariel wrote:
By the way guys, is the video quality for the videos I upload on Youtube okay?
Definitely. Sound is at a perfect level. It could be a little sharper maybe for full-screen viewing, but that's just me being ultra-picky. If you can up the visual quality without sacrificing your own time to do so, I'd request it.
You've got an avid watcher here. I'm looking forward to the finished Zoom Zoo and even more eager to see how close to perfection players were in the stunt courses.
I'm just some random guy. Don't let my words get you riled - I have my opinions but they're only mine.
You've got an avid watcher here. I'm looking forward to the finished Zoom Zoo and even more eager to see how close to perfection players were in the stunt courses.
I've compiled a list of all the WRs I could find on the Internet for Uniracers. Here's the file: (LINK)
The scores were all taken from a yahoo group called Uniracers (original, huh?). The people there posted their personal records, and when their personal record was the fastest one posted yet, they claimed it was a WR. And since I didn't find any records anywhere else on the internet, I call them WR too, even though there is no way to verify their claims for most of them. One user has posted videos on Youtube of some of his WRs, and these are the only verified claims that I could find.
If you guys know of any other source for Uniracers WRs, confirmed or not, please let me know and I'll update the text file.
BACK ON TOPIC, to answer your question (even though it was not a question), the records for stunt courses are pretty high! I'd even say they're close to perfection. I guess we'll know about that when I get to a stunt course and murder the game! :)
the records for stunt courses are pretty high! I'd even say they're close to perfection.
You can do 4 or 5 stunts on a normal jump and you think they're close to perfection? The depreciation of points for repeated stunts is the only thing holding you back from doubling every one of those scores.
The gamefaqs scores/times are all worse, so don't bother checking there.
Given Flyhec's standard, I'm well willing to believe that they're world records.
I'm just some random guy. Don't let my words get you riled - I have my opinions but they're only mine.
The gamefaqs scores/times are all worse, so don't bother checking there.
Correction: the gamefaqs scores/times are all for the PAL version, which explains (a small part of) the gap. PAL timing is different than NTSC, so a "standard" 25.07 in dragster NTSC (about 1504 frames) might well be 30.08 PAL.
So yeah, the gamefaqs time are in PAL, but they might have been slower anyway, even if they had been compared in frames instead of real time.
Still, thanks for checking it out! :)
Correction: the gamefaqs scores/times are all for the PAL version,
I got the gamefaqs scores/times from the guide, where an NTSC scorelist was saved, not from the board, where NTSC records have indeed disappeared.
I'm aware of the PAL/NTSC difference, but the yahoo group records are obviously well above par.
I'm just some random guy. Don't let my words get you riled - I have my opinions but they're only mine.
Awesome lap! Checked in to see if there was any progress and I'm well impressed having seen the full lap of Zoom Zoo.
I'll be interested to see how the various laps compare in time - I assume you'll be using the same tricks for each lap, having found the optimal stunts?
if so, I guess doing laps 2 and 3 will be easier now that you've worked out what to do?
I actually have one more question, hoping you won't mind answering. Why do you 'only' do a twist/flip on the subsequent 180-track points, having done a double-twist flip on the 1st? Does the greater speed give you more airtime?
In any case, keep up the excellent work.
On a slightly separate note, having really wanted to see the US memo page myself (and kinda also wanting to race through the US version, to see my own NTSC track times to be able to compare both to your times and to 'Flyhec's time) I bought a copy of Uniracers, which I'm playing through (beating the previous owners' times... hehe).
Was it was ever released in Japan? I wonder what the manual for that territory looks like and what it was even called there...
I'm just some random guy. Don't let my words get you riled - I have my opinions but they're only mine.
I assume you'll be using the same tricks for each lap, having found the optimal stunts?
Yes. If they're not the same, they'll be very similar. However, at the end of a lap, I have a different speed than I had at the start of the first one, so the part following the start/finish line will be different. The rest will be the same though.
Bezman wrote:
I guess doing laps 2 and 3 will be easier now that you've worked out what to do?
Yes. All I need is some time and motivation to complete those other 2 laps. I have quite a few things happening in my life right now, but I'm confident I can finish Zoom Zoo in less than 2 weeks from now. Worst case scenario, a month from now.
Bezman wrote:
Why do you 'only' do a twist/flip on the subsequent 180-track points, having done a double-twist flip on the 1st? Does the greater speed give you more airtime?
I'm not sure I understand the question correctly, but I can assure you I've done rigorous testing on each part of the track, and the tricks I do give the best results in the end.
How's this coming? If you posts WIPs after first lap I could see I can improve it. I improved that last guy's first lap on the second course in about 4 spots.
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