Initial D

While browsing through the Initial D GBA movies I posted last week I also found Initial H!

It's a parody on the Initial D intros done in something similar than MS Paint. IMO it's drawn and animated very well! Even though it doesn't look like it: it must have been a lot of work!!

First Stage (original):

Original

First Stage (second intro):

Original

Second Stage:

Original

Respect! d:)b

During programming at work I like to listen to some music because I can concentrate more and it makes me focus much more upon the progamming instead of being distracted by colleagues.

Today I really was looking for some Super Eurobeat because I needed to speed up the typing even more... So I started looking for an Eurobeat shoutcast stream. Then I discovered Initial D World opened a shoutcast stream featuring Eurobeat on the 16th of April last year. Talk about nice birthday present more than a year afterwards. ;)

They say that Eurobeat will be broadcasted at least 12 hours a day between 4:00 AM ~ 4:00 PM PST, and the rest of the time it will be filled up with DJ sets and some other music whenever needed. Currently it should be Trance and Eurobeat, however I currently only hear Eurobeat...

This is their current schedule:

You can find the stream here:
Initial D World Shoutcast stream

Aah, I still remember having the Initial D game on the GBA emulator... I tried and tried to remember all options, figure out what the best option per corner would be. But I sucked soooo hard at this game I gave up after trying it for a day or something.

It's great to see some people collected their walkthough on Youtube now! Take this Keisuke vs Takumi walkthrough for instance:

I love the oldschool GBA music (mostly Eurobeat in sid/gsf/chiptune) and the graphics are very nicely animated as well! Those Wantanabes are really well done!

This is a lot better than those crappy Initial D flashgames I collected. ;)

Some other videos:
Mako (Sil80) vs Takumi
Nazakato (BNR32) vs Takumi
Shingo (EG6) vs Takumi
Bunta (AE86) vs Takumi

Last week I already added the first Initial D flash game. This new one is even more crappier, however it is backed up by Newgrounds so apparently there should be some quality in it. ;)

Judge for yourself:

Click on the image to start the game, or go here directly:
http://www.banpei.net/page/initial-d-flashgame-drift-stage

Hachiroku.com.au posted that a new Initial D game called Extreme Stage is coming soon.

Hachiroku.com.au posted the youtube trailer:

You can see the trailer in more detail here:
http://www.initiald-ps3.com/movie/promo01.html

I took some screenshots:

Look at the detail in the hand, the gearknob and steering wheel!

And here how much detail there is in the dash! It is just about the same as I had in my Trueno (mine was LHD, so mirrored dash) and it iluminates just a tiny bit more than on full illumination.

And here you can see how much detail there is in the drift scenes!

As you can see it is much more detailed than the previous games (they show them to compare), especially the road and inboard graphics. The question is of course if this the actual quality, or if it is only the intro of the game... I suspect it is the latter... Otherwise it would have been a great tool for the animators of the Anime series!

If I would have owned a PS3 I would definitely buy it! Unfortunately I don't own one and I probably won't buy one in the near future... :(