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David Van Moer
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« Thread started on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 06:22am »

Thanks to speedy Play-Asia.com and UPS I just received the Jap version + Freeloader 1.06

I can only concur that there are problems to play it correctly: for instance at the mode selection screen and the accel <-> speed screen you just see a blue void but it's easy to guess here and work your way thorugh.
The worst thing however is that while racing there is no energy meter, no speedometer ... and no chronometer working (
Bit of an underwhelming experience becasue of all this but I'm sure they'll update the freeloader soon..

Thankfully you can still play the game so I can get used to the new racing but since there's no time measuring it's kinda hard to start time trialling


the racing itself is pretty sweet.. seems DTs have been greatly reduced in steering efficieny and doesn't seem to be too compatible with FZX skills.. need to learn lots of new stuff.

Have to go to work now.. I'll play again this evening.


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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #1 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 07:46am »

that's unfair!
I guess I can find it in shops tomorrow though...
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 08:05am »

After you've played a bit more, tell us if the game is still enjoyable and playable. Cuz I saw the videos on play-asia, and it scared me : nothing on screen but the race and other cars.
I hope it doesn't kill the whole game, but just a small part of it.
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« Reply #3 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 08:31am »

Tell us how the game fast is too^^
maybe there are problems with other modes especially CUSTOMIZE, if you cannot see stats of the fantastic ship you re building...
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« Reply #4 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 09:16am »

Mine is on it's way but I'm scared to look at the videos on play asia
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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #5 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 09:28am »

don t worry, i m sure there will be new freeloader compatible with f zero gx!
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« Reply #6 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 10:00am »

The thing is that if we have to wait as long as we waited for the first one, we'd better wait for our homeland release and play a full compatible game without any "bug".

Damn...I don't want to buy another freeloader, nor to wait 'til late october....
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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #7 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 10:13am »

It's always best to wait for your local release, especially if you can't read Japapese. Sometimes, extra bugs are fixed in the American or European (PAL) editions, and you will always be able to read it...and its comportable with your machine without having to buy a Freeloader, and it's always compatible with other players near you.

Anyway, give me the infooooo!
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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #8 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 11:14am »

Man, no timing mechanism using Freeloader ... that sucks! That'll seriously sour the first month of competition unless many Japanese players join.
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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #9 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 11:14am »

Yea how does sliding feel etc
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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #10 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 12:07pm »

I bet the freeloader that will be compatible with FZGX won't come out before the actual game
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« Reply #11 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 1:31pm »

anyway think to the poor european players that will only begin competition in October!

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« Reply #12 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 2:09pm »

True... we'll have a great disadvantage to the rest of the players .
But I'll work extra-hard on the FZGX so I can show you how the game's played lol.
Let the waiting begin
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« Reply #13 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 4:43pm »

Ok, just played some more and could easily win the first cup on normal.

Some mixed feelings about the racing. Doesn't seem to have that much in common with FZX. I tried railsliding and some DT-diving ( or X-diving in this case ) but that didn't work. Very annyoing that you're not able to see how fast you are going so I'm not sure of it adds to your speed or not.
Also feels very awkward that you can't jump anymore with the shoulder-buttons. A hard habbit to break from after all those years on X. Then again, the jumping doesn't seem to help that much anymore with the cornering.

So far it seems the game relies heavily on the slide turn by holding down both shoulder-buttons as the main technique to make the diference .. it sure propells you around the corner at much faster speed when boosting at the same time.

Still very early days of course.. and I'm sure there's loads of stuff to discover. But it would appear that FZX vets certainly don't have any advantage to newcomers.

Story mode and the rest I'll find out about later

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Re: Just got it !
« Reply #14 on: Jul 23rd, 2003, 5:00pm »

on Jul 23rd, 2003, 4:43pm, David Van Moer wrote:
Still very early days of course.. and I'm sure there's loads of stuff to discover. But it would appear that FZX vets certainly don't have any advantage to newcomers.


That's what I like to hear. I never owned F-Zero X so atleast that won't be a disadvantage for when the F-Zero GX competition starts up.
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