I wasn’t expecting Sega Rally 2 levels of brilliance but this is a rather underwhelming game.
I played the first series (4 courses) of three on arcade mode several times and what really stood out for me - above and beyond the bland and repetitive background visuals - is how workmanlike the course design is. It feels like a bunch of corners and jumps randomly strung together with the defining differences between courses being the road surface. The background graphics being unvaried across the tracks compounds the issue.
Sega Racing Studio did a much better job at capturing the spirit of the older games while at the same time trying something new that worked with Sega Rally Revo in 2007.
After going down the hardware scaler route and encountering a dead end, I discovered that my laptop (2013 MacBook Pro) can do hardware H264 encoding. So deinterlacing and encoding is very quick and hassle free. Over 300x speed.
This is 480i@60 to 720p@60, compare to the earlier video of straight 480i
Been thinking of getting Mister Mosquito for years but it’s always been a bit too expensive for my tastes. Is it actually good or is it one of those quirky games people rally around because of the fun premise?
I played a few levels recently. It’s… OK, if unremarkable, at least for as far as I got. It’s a novel concept but has a few quirks with its age. But for me, so far, a 6/10 game.
Maybe it gets more involved? That could be good or bad depending on whether the controls can support increased difficulty. I do want to go back to it.
Does anyone know what the deal is with OPL and the CFG folder?
I’ve generated CFGs for the games I have installed on my HDD. Everything is on the +OPL partition (THM, ART, config) but I can’t get the CFG or CFG-DEV folder for work on HDD, MASS or MC0.
I wasted an hour trying to get this to work and gave up.
Mine works properly, maybe you have some incompatibilities somewhere. Did you generate the CFGs with the latest OPL Manager? Also, do you have a more recent version of OPL (0.9.3 or even some newer daily version) and a theme that is compatible with the CFGs?
This is how my OPL folder on HDD looks like, maybe check if you have something wrong on yours:
