Hi all,

Wonder if there are gamers here who go to arcades in shopping malls to race?

Races like:
initial D ver.2, ver.3
Wangan Midnite Max tune
Outrun coast to coast
Daytona
Battle Gear 3,4


I am a frequent Initial D ver.3 player. have several cards in my wallet always . Love the one on one challenges. Quite tense and chee kek. waiting for ver.4

Irritating stuff i face sometimes

steering wheel force feedback broken,
Accelerator pedal acting funky, sometimes on sometimes off
Steering wheel padding is torn partly revealing metal steering inside

So sad.. I accidentally damaged my ER34 card . it was up to battle level 21. Now can't read it. I think i have bad relation to this car. my 1st card on this car also faced the same thing and i restart everything with a new card. now the 2nd card also habis ....



list of ver.3 cars in my wallet :
( this is battle level if i remember)
FT means full tuned. in this game 990000 points will have your car maxed out.

English:
rx-8
cn9a FT
sil180
bnr32
bnr34 FT
ae86 FT

Jap version
EK9 (5) new card.
rx-8 FT,
er34 FT (21 before died)
cn9a FT (20)
bnr32 FT (19)
altezza FT (19)
imprezza gdb FT
s2000 FT
cp9a tme FT
Rx-7 Spirit FT

This post has been edited by nlik: Jul 23 2007, 11:34 AM

Whoa! Lvl 21 already? I juz play until lvl 4 b4 realizing that my wallet were empty.

Yesterday played at Sg wang. Decided to concentrate on my Civic EK 9. Ok night as i had more wins that losses. so level up to 8, tuning points up to 300,000k

win:
no card buntamobile -akina-dry-dh
no card buntamobile -akagi-dry-dh
Ae86 -akina-dry-dh (1st try)
Ae86 -akagi-dry-uh
FT BNR34 -akina-dry -uphill (as revenge )
FT BNR34 -Tsuchizaka - dry -ib (as revenge )
Rx-7 -Akagi-wet-dh
rx-7 -Akagi-dry-dh
LVL 22 EVO 4.. -Tsuchizaka-dry-ib ( So sweet as revenge. While choosing track i was deciding if can i beat him wif skill versus his more superior car)

lost:
Ae86 -akina-dry-dh (2nd try.. this Ae86 really has the advantage here, lost at right turn before long straight even though i did a 141 corner without whacking the side)
FT BNR34 -tsuchizaka-wet-outbound (civic like ice skating with running shoes, slip here and there)
FT BNR34 -shomaru-wet (I overtook him, but whack wall near the end)
LVL 22 EVO 4 WTF Akina-dry-dh (I am really disadvantaged here. Overtook him once, but boost on, so i got passed easily again)
LVL 22 EVO 4.. -tsuchizaka-dry-ib (he rechallenge me, i lost due to careless mistake at the right turn with the oil slick. Damn! could have easily avoided this)


Tsuchizaka inbound dry is my best track and often win more than lose here.

Ek9's ranking is around number 20 out of 35 cars. So it's kinda like a lower ranked cars and not easy to win battles since most people only use the top rank cars.

Rx-8 is the top number 1 car in this game and version
Evo 4(CN9A) I would consider this the 2nd top car

This post has been edited by nlik: Jan 25 2007, 12:41 PM

These are my collection of cards. red=ver1. , blue ver2. , green ver.3 . Omitted cards that have same pictures.

This post has been edited by nlik: Jan 26 2007, 05:46 PM


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i was a driver also i was initial d player also..but after my college moved to far places,i seldom play already..i oni got 2 FT car on english version, 1 level 12, another level 16 i think

Anyone knows how to find the game and install it as a pc game? I mean using some kind of emulator like PS2 emulator and play with pc.. expensive lar go arcade play .. 1 time 4 credits=RM2...

I never really liked the steering for Initial D arcades. Their force feedback is soft that I have to steer the wheel back into the middle. The force feedback also has a tendency to push your steering to the other direction if you tries to steer back to the middle.

I had 3 cars on my own. FC on V1, FD on V2 and V3(Japanese). Friends also gave me their collection of cars including AE86, EK9, WRX, Levin, S2k. Mostly V2.

V4 will be launched on Feb 2007 in Japan. Heard from some people who played it before that the cars are slower but easier to drift now. I might wait for the english version before investing in V4.

Play at PS2 no feel le

This post has been edited by SeaGates: Jan 27 2007, 02:23 AM

lol, you have kinda many 'dead' card on the pictures there.
i think you know already how to recover the 'dead' card(*seeing from the attachment* lol).

i mean 'dead' here is due to late taking the card from the slot till the warning beep can be heard.

anyway, nice going. i'm just casual player only for ID Arcade v3. Newbie XD

another racing game i do play is Daytona USA, favourite course is Advance, Transmission Manual XD

Thats only the racing game i 'usually' play so far at arcade.

OT: about emulator..i think from the list given, you can try out Sega Saturn Emu to play Daytona game.. maybe just go for Daytona PC game. for ID, i dont think have yet, though you can play at ps2 console like Gates's said.

ps: already beat ID game one for ps2. fighting Bunta is pain and hurt my fingers controlling the car using joypad

This post has been edited by Miyabi: Jan 27 2007, 02:41 AM

Penang still 2 ringgit a pop?In KL, it's nearly RM1 everywhere now except 1 utama. 3 or unlimited battle continues varies from place to place.

You can select the steering feedback from feather light 1 to a tiring,arm wrestling 10. I have it to 2 or 3 most of the time. It heavily depends on the condition of the machine's wheel. Worst case is when the this is broken and it's totally weightless. So you have to depend on your experience (how much you need to turn in order to get this corner correctly) and Imagine the feel, in order to stay competitive.

The feeling of the steering wheel pushing in the other direction is partly real, to simulate the motion of weight transfer. The other reason is depending on car and track. Some cars will have 'wheel lock' where you're turning right, but the car still heads straight.

Yup. I do keep up wif the v4 news on other forums. Wonder will they really bring in that beautiful screen on it. So dissappointing to read that the v3 cards can't be transferred. I hope that they will find some way to do the transfer.

Hehe.. I didn't scan all the card's I have. Just only the one with distinct pictures.

'dead' as in invalid? Well, the cards can only be used up to 50 insertions. Once it reaches 50 times, the old card cannot be used anymore and you must buy a new physical card to continue with that car. The old card will have an invalid mark. Note that with each insertion, you can play unlimited races or time attacks, with the exception of a single race with bunta which will cause your card to be ejected, win or lose.

When your card countdown reaches 0, It will prompt you to renew, asks for coins (rm4 is the standard for 1 card), then you choose tune and the transmission again. It will eject and write a symbol on the top right of the old card. The new card will be printed with the same details as the previous card.

Yea.. it hurts your fingers playing ps2 initial d. I have my car collection there as well. But after i play the ps2 version, I will suck so bad when i go back to the arcades due to the different speeds and feel even with the same car.

This post has been edited by nlik: Jan 27 2007, 11:53 PM

Card or no card is still the same -.- just that u cannot set ur own settings without card :S
Sometimes i go to timesquare to play this game, just for the sake of fun lawl @_@

This post has been edited by Hell Fire: Jan 27 2007, 11:45 PM

Felt frustrated with the civic on last thursday. Lost more than i won. So far i have never met a lower ranking car in all my battles with this car.

Friday was better when i redeemed my winning percentage. But had to resort to my fav revenge track more than I had liked. Got the flame at lvl 11.

I really despise, hate, angry at some of those battle lvl 20+ fellers. They have one of the top 5 cars FT already with a ~ 70% winning percentage. Yet they chicken bring my EK to a track that handicaps my car + rain some more, over and over again. So Fed up to fight a losing battle. Mind you, I still give my good effort to battle, just in case the guy screws up and I get the tiny chance to win. To me, these players are just show off's without sportsmanship and don't have my respect.

Very strange car this EK. It excels greatly in close consecutive corners. Some, I could take it at the same speed as the rx-8. But it literallly dies on long sweeping corners where it will understeer and slide to the outside of the corner. I can solve this sometimes by a quick release of the accelerator but at the cost of acceleration that will give you a disadvantage. Lost on usui to an altezza,just because of this reason. But I revenged him by winning on Iroharaza uphill dry.

Hmm just being curious, but how can we play Iroharaza uphill?

Yes, I partly agree here since I have seen stock cars beating the FT players. Player skill and experience is still more important and decides the battle most of the time.

Actually difference between full tune and stock car is around 5,6 seconds ( estimated guess based on my time attacks).

Times sq, .. maybe we seen each other b4.

Iro uphill is not available??. You have to turn the steering to the right and left in order to choose up or down, inbound or outbound. on iro uphill, Car's that startup faster and hugs corners well will have advantage. Can block from start to finish.

This post has been edited by nlik: Jan 28 2007, 12:11 AM

Hmm i seldom play at there, just played back recently, lost my old card which is a interga dc2, but im using back the same car again lawl, have u seen KKC this player before? thats me

I have force feedback to 10. I don't really like the inertia carried through. Moreover the force feedback felt quite limp even at 10. Battle Gear 3's has a much harder steering.

Iroharaza can't play uphill le Only downhill.

Time Attack and Battle has different mechanics. In TA, better upgraded car means faster times.

Battle has a handicap system, whereby the car behind has speed(maybe accel) boost that allows the guy to catch up easily. Front runner one mistake and 2nd place will overtake easily. Explaining why sometimes stock car can beat the crap out of card setting cars.

Iro can't block at the hairpin turn with shortcut(MR2 jump). Car model can cross into each other there. Unless both guy take the shortcut together.

V2's ghey car that won't slow down when hitting the guardrail. Was tempted into buying the DC2 once.

This post has been edited by SeaGates: Jan 28 2007, 01:44 AM

How much do you guys spend on this game actually? let say per month?

Since i don't really care bout the card lv, i used bout rm10 per month on this game.

Each time i go, it's usually a min rm 10 before i get satisfied. Time attacks on various tracks can easily eat up tokens and time. A month probably be rm 70 - 90 My worst hit was when i used rm 50 in 1 day to play all out. (maybe triggered by life's frustrations and dissappointments)

Someone told me, each guy will be involved in some sort of vice, bad activitiy.There's no escape muahahahaha . Either smoking,drinking, womanizing, gambling, brawling and maybe other things. Since i have no interest in those, mine is racing initial d in arcades (Evil eyes ).

I believe that they have made a killer combination that is hard to resist. Using the highly succesful initial-d as the theme and backstory, tense one on one battles and a high pressure time attack. Sometimes will feel high motivation to get as close to the world record times as you can.

official ver.3 time attack rankings

This post has been edited by nlik: Jan 28 2007, 12:13 PM

That's where the card come in. Beat the story mode and Iro Uphill in unlocked (in Ver.2). For Ver.3 It's unlocked already i think.

Bet nlik gonna spend double or triple when IDAS4 come out.

real road cant really satisfy u guys ar?