Virtua Racing Deluxe

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Virtua Racing Deluxe

System(s): Sega 32X

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega CS

Sound driver: SMPS 68000

Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad

Genre: Racing^[1]^[2]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1994-12-16^[2]	¥8,8008,800	GM-5001
US	1994-11-21	$69.9969.99^[3]	84601
EU	1994-12-04		84601-50
PT	1994
UK	1994-12-04	£59.9959.99^[4]^[5]	84601-50
AU	199x	$99.9599.95^[6]
BR	1994		152020
AS	199x

Virtua Racing Deluxe (バーチャレーシングデラックス) is an enhanced port of Virtua Racing, released as a launch title for the Sega 32X in North America and Europe in late 1994.

Much of its team was comprised of developers who had produced the port of Virtua Racing to the Sega Mega Drive. However, the visuals in Virtua Racing Deluxe are far more accurate and some music was rearranged. Naofumi Hataya also composed several new tracks for the game, in some cases replacing original themes.

Gameplay

Car and track selection

Two-player split screen

Virtua Racing Deluxe is a racing game that plays similarly to its 1992 arcade counterpart. The car is steered with and , accelerates with , and brakes with . If equipped with a manual transmission, upshifts and downshifts.

The standard mode has the player race five laps against fifteen computer-controlled opponents on any of five different tracks. Each track is broken into multiple timed segments, and the player is given more time for passing a checkpoint marker (80 seconds on Easy, 75 seconds on Normal, and 70 seconds on Hard). The player is retired from the race if time runs out.

There is a Time Attack mode where the player can race on any of the tracks without any opponents. In this mode, there is no time limit. The player can choose to race 5, 10, 15, or 20 laps.

The game supports two-player competitive play with a split screen. Each player can select a handicap, which affects the handling of the car. Like the Time Attack mode, players can choose to race 5, 10, 15, or 20 laps.

The car can take damage from crashes, which eventually impairs its performance. The player can take a pit stop to repair the vehicle. The pit is located at the starting point of the track. The countdown timer pauses when the player is in the pit and adds ten seconds when the player starts moving again, though the player can still be passed by other racers while in the pit. The Bay Bridge and Highland courses do not have a pit, and it is also absent in two-player mode.

Cars

In contrast to the arcade original, Virtua Racing Deluxe gives the player a choice between three cars, each with different speed and handling characteristics.

	Formula Car
	A single-seat, open-wheel race car, similar to those used in Formula One and the Indianapolis 500. This is the same car that is available in the arcade version of the game.
	Stock Car
	A race car resembling a production car, similar to those used in NASCAR.
	Prototype Car
	A sports prototype race car, similar to those used in Le Mans and the FIA WEC.

Views

The player can switch between four different perspectives at any point during the race. Using a three button control pad, the button cycles through each of the views. With a Six Button Control Pad, each view has its own button (like the original arcade game).

View 1 (

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View 2 (

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View 3 (

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View 4 (

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Tracks

Virtua Racing Deluxe includes the three tracks from the arcade Virtua Racing, plus two exclusive tracks.

	Big Forest
	Big Forest is a wide course through a forest with mountains and an amusement park.
	Bay Bridge
	Bay Bridge is a narrow track that passes over a suspension bridge and through a tunnel.
	Acropolis
	Acropolis is a narrow track through a valley with a difficult hairpin turn.
	Highland
	Highland is a mountainous track with buildings and trees as scenery.
	Sand Park
	Sand Park is a desert track with rock formations.

Versions

Virtua Racing Deluxe operates at around 20FPS during gameplay, which is two-thirds of the frame rate of the arcade game, which targets 30FPS (though more than the Mega Drive conversion's 15FPS).

In order to speed up processing time, the collision detection has been pared back. In the arcade version, driving into a palm tree causes the car to stop and coconuts to fall, while on the 32X the car clips straight through. Likewise road signs which would be pushed out of the way by the player's car in the arcade have no collision detection on the 32X.

Production credits

V.R. Deluxe Production Staff

Producer: K.Nagata
Chief Programmer: R.Hattori
SH Programmer: O.Hori
Programmers: K.Toya, E.Horita, K.Yokoo
Chief Designer: M.Matsuura
Designers: R.Manabe, M.Kubo
Planner: Y.Saito
Music Composer: N.Hataya
Sound Director: T.Kozaki
Sound Programmer: Y.Kashima
Adviser: M.Kobayashi
Special Thanks: K.Umeda, H.Anbo, R.Hasegawa, K.Yamaji, Y.Soejima, N.Sekine, H.Yokaichiya, T.Sasaki, T.Mitsuyoshi, T.Nakagawa, A.Miyazawa

Source:

In-game credits^[7]

Magazine articles

Main article: Virtua Racing Deluxe/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

NL flyer

Print advert in Super Juegos (ES) #33: "Enero 1995" (199x-xx-xx)

Print advert in Freak (IL) #78 (1999-xx-xx)

Artwork

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

75

^[8]

CD Consoles (FR)

32

^[9]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

93

^[10]

Computer + Video Giochi (IT)

90

^[11]

Edge (UK)

80

^[12]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

65

^[13]

FLUX (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[14]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

95

^[15]

Game Players (US)

86

^[16]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

95

^[17]

Gamer (GR)

87

^[18]

Gamers (DE)

PAL

80

^[19]

GamesMaster (UK)

PAL

90

^[20]

Games World: The Magazine (UK)

PAL

88

^[21]

Hobby Consolas (ES)

90

^[22]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

91

^[23]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

90

^[24]

Mega (UK)

PAL

90

^[25]

Mega Force (FR)

PAL

93

^[26]

Mega Fun (DE)

90

^[27]

Mega Play (US)

NTSC-U

89

^[28]

Micro Kid's Multimédia (FR)

50

^[29]

Micromanía (segunda época) (ES)

93

^[30]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

PAL

90

^[31]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[32]

Player One (FR)

97

^[33]

Play Time (DE)

PAL

90

^[34]

Power Unlimited (NL)

80

^[35]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

77

^[36]

Score (CZ)

90

^[37]

Sega Magazine (UK)

PAL

90

^[38]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

94

^[39]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

88

^[40]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

90

^[41]

Sega Force (SE)

97

^[42]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

89

^[43]

Todo Sega (ES)

91

^[44]

Ultimate Future Games (UK)

89

^[45]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

82

^[46]

VideoGames (US)

90

^[47]

	85
Based on 40 reviews

Virtua Racing Deluxe

32X, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, US
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, FR (Blister pack)
Cover

32X, PT

32X, AU
Cover
Cart

32X, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, Asia
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	7896b62e
MD5	72b1ad0f949f68da7d0a6339ecd51a3f
SHA-1	18dfdeb50780c2623e60a6587d7ed701a1cf81f1

3MB

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	0908e888
MD5	08cae0a96d9ee07001c6e1c247d407c6
SHA-1	1c64e80eb164ca8d6c6587a55ad60385ba1daf27

3MB

Cartridge (JP)

✔

CRC32	27f14b5f
MD5	c30a6430b1a7e819bd2dde63a41d4d57
SHA-1	bb26ddde26cd07191d872e8a76a170ca3326f781

3MB

Cartridge (EU)

?

CRC32	99f38344
MD5	a5efb294179bc3bdc6515383bcdeb63d
SHA-1	88b3ef2bb0ccba25f3f83f218ca090e1a89512fe

1994-09-05

Page

?

CRC32	86a318de
MD5	9e7b5d7e83ae5f25421a44e14d6140bf
SHA-1	b1385111a39795bf2ea57ab50a4feb479d7e502d

1994-08-29

Page

?

CRC32	6ebb3eda
MD5	c07a68331b846d1614954554c0414f86
SHA-1	d4e996fd7fb26919017d1056d0de608a34f05184

1994-08-22

Page

References

Virtua Racing Deluxe
	Main page \| Comparisons \| Credits \| Hidden content \| Development \| Magazine articles \| Video coverage \| Reception \| Region coding \| Technical information Prototypes: 1994-08-22 \| 08-29 \| 09-05

Virtua Racing series of games
	Virtua Racing (1992) \| Virtua Formula (1993)
	Virtua Racing (1994)
	Virtua Racing Deluxe (1994)
	Time Warner Interactive's VR Virtua Racing (1995)
	Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 8: Virtua Racing FlatOut (2004)
	Sega Ages Virtua Racing (2019)
Virtua Racing related media
	Virtua Racing & OutRunners (1993) \| Yu Suzuki Produce G-LOC/R360/Virtua Racing (1998)
	Virtua Racing Hisshou Kouryaku Hou (1994) \| Virtua Racing: Official Racing Guide (1994)
	Virtua Racing: Virtua Video (?)

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[:File:GamePro_US_065.pdf_p66-3] GamePro, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 66

[:File:CVG_UK_159.pdf_p78-4] Computer & Video Games, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-15), page 78

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_08.pdf_p74-5] Sega Magazine, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-15), page 74

[:File:SegaMegazone_AU_49.pdf_p40-6] File:SegaMegazone AU 49.pdf, page 40

[:File:Virtua_Racing_32X_credits.pdf_p-7] File:Virtua Racing 32X credits.pdf

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1995-01.pdf_p26-8] Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1995" (JP; 1994-12-08), page 26

[:File:CDConsoles_FR_02.pdf_p132-9] CD Consoles, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 132

[:File:CVG_UK_157.pdf_p132-10] Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 132

[:File:CVG_IT_43.pdf_p44-11] Computer + Video Giochi, "Dicembre 1994" (IT; 1994-xx-xx), page 44

[:File:Edge_UK_016.pdf_p88-12] Edge, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-24), page 88

[13] Famitsu, "1994-12-23" (JP; 1994-12-09), page 1

[14] FLUX, "Issue #4" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 82

[:File:GameFan_US_0212.pdf_p27-15] GameFan, "Volume 2, Issue 12: December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 27

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0712.pdf_p46-16] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 12 December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 46

[:File:GamePro_US_066.pdf_p70-17] GamePro, "January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 70

[18] Gamer, "Ianouários 1995" (GR; 1995-xx-xx), page 1

[:File:Gamers_DE_1995-01.pdf_p48-19] Gamers, "Januar 1995" (DE; 1995-01-08), page 48

[gamesmastertv4x081024-20] GamesMaster (UK) "Series 4, episode 8" (1994-11-08, 24:00) (+10:24)

[:File:Games_World_The_Magazine_UK_07.pdf_p15-21] Games World: The Magazine, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-xx), page 15

[:File:HobbyConsolas_ES_039.pdf_p102-22] Hobby Consolas, "Diciembre 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 102

[:File:Joypad_FR_037.pdf_p98-23] Joypad, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 98

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-01.pdf_p50-24] MAN!AC, "01/95" (DE; 1994-12-07), page 50

[:File:Mega_UK_27.pdf_p28-25] Mega, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-30), page 28

[:File:MegaForce_FR_Supplement_34.pdf_p26-26] Mega Force, "Megadrive 32X elle est là!" (FR; 1994-12-02), page 26

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1995-01.pdf_p30-27] Mega Fun, "01/95" (DE; 1994-12-21), page 30

[:File:MegaPlay_US_0601.pdf_p49-28] Mega Play, "February/March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 49

[:File:MicroKidsMultimedia_FR_03.pdf_p56-29] Micro Kid's Multimédia, "Février 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 56

[:File:Micromania2_ES_079.pdf_p23-30] Micromanía (segunda época), "Diciembre 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 23

[:File:MeanMachinesSega27UK.pdf_p68-31] Mean Machines Sega, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-30), page 68

[:File:NextGeneration_US_01.pdf_p99-32] Next Generation, "Premiere Issue 1995" (US; 1994-12-08), page 99

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_048.pdf_p62-33] Player One, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 62

[:File:PlayTime_DE_1995-02.pdf_p101-34] Play Time, "2/95" (DE; 1995-01-04), page 101

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_018_199502.pdf_p41-35] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 3, Februari 1995" (NL; 1995-01-25), page 41

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1995-03_19950315.pdf_p40-36] Saturn Fan, "1995 March" (JP; 1995-02-08), page 40

[:File:Score_CZ_13.pdf_p39-37] Score, "Leden 1995" (CZ; 1995-01-01), page 39

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_12.pdf_p74-38] Sega Magazine, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 74

[:File:SegaPower_UK_62.pdf_p46-39] Sega Power, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-17), page 46

[:File:SegaPro_UK_56.pdf_p25-40] Sega Pro, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-02-28), page 25

[:File:SegaPro_UK_40.pdf_p44-41] Sega Pro, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-01), page 44

[:File:SegaForce_SE_1995_02.pdf_p12-42] Sega Force, "2/95" (SE; 1995-04-19), page 12

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p84-43] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 84

[:File:TodoSega_ES_21.pdf_p32-44] Todo Sega, "Diciembre 1994" (ES; 1994-1x-xx), page 32

[:File:UltimateFutureGames_UK_02.pdf_p88-45] Ultimate Future Games, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-01), page 88

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1995-02.pdf_p92-46] Video Games, "2/95" (DE; 1995-01-18), page 92

[:File:VideoGames_US_71.pdf_p140-47] VideoGames, "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 140

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Virtua Racing Deluxe

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Cars

Views

Tracks

Versions

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Artwork

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References