Daytona USA - 777 Speedway with PS3 Dualshock pad Model 2 Emulator
1,100 views · Published 21 February 2016 · 3:57 · Indexed 21 October 2026
Channel: MrThunderwing · 2016 · Gaming
So, I made a lot of excuses for my poor driving in all the multi-player Daytona USA videos I've just uploaded and I placed the blame squarely at the feet of the fact I was using a PS3 Dualshock 3 pad to play the game with rather than my usual steering wheel. In particular I kept fucking up the drift turn on the Sonic wall. This made me feel like I needed to try and see if it was actually possible for me to get a first place on 777 Speedway using only a pad - so this is the video of me doing just that! Now the idea with this was that it was really just meant to be a video I could capture quickly and upload quickly and as such I recorded the gameplay on my older PC (which was on and ready as I'd be using it to watch a film on ) - the downside to this is that for whatever reason it was struggling with video capture. Fraps was murdering the frame rate so in the end I had to use Bandicam and even then it still was causing quite a few frame rate drops which you'll see here and I had to play the game in windowed mode to reduce them even further. Also, because it's the trial version of Bandicam it's got the annoying logo at the top of the screen. I decide I'd rather have it blurred out than show up, so I ended up having to do some further video rendering on it, so, so much for quick and simple video capture idea. I would've been better off just doing it on my newer fast PC with FRAPS. The Bandicam frame rate counter was having a fit in the finished video as well (and it shouldn't even have been showing at all in the finished video - WTF?), so I decided to cover that over with my initials in logo-ised form (something I use in arty-farty projects). I don't know why Bandicam was being such a knob, it's normally worked fine when I've used it on this PC for the Daytona LAN videos I've uploaded in the past, and those have normally been full screen. So, I managed to get 1st, but maaaaan it was not easy doing it with a Dualshock 3. The X axis is so sensitive you barely have to touch the stick to manoeuvre and the car. It will over-steer and skid extremely easily - trying to straighten the car up after you come out of the Sonic turn at speed can be very challenging. Also, the turn leading into the straight with the big overhead slot machine can also be very tricky to straighten back out from once you've gone around it, you can see me struggling with it quite a few times.. It's also very hard to dodge AI cars who decide they're suddenly going to pull out in front of you. But, I persevered and eventually got that coveted 1st place. Took a lot longer than I'd anticipated...
