Sega Touring Car Championship
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:12 am
I recently got my hands on a Saturn and absolutely love it. With it, I received a copy of Sega Touring Car Championship, which is extremely fun (although nearly unplayable without a Saturn Racing Wheel).
The internal battery on my Saturn is probably dead, so the console asks me to set the date and time every time I turn it on. I usually leave it at 1/1/1994 just so I can quickly get to the game. Now, the interesting thing is, whenever I start the game with the console at this past date, Sega Touring Car Championship displays an advertisement for its 1st Global NetLink event scheduled for December 24, 1997.
This leads me to believe that some sort of multiplayer was possible for this game over NetLink. I'm assuming that Sega directly hosted this "event", and that it probably wasn't related to xBand. However, I investigated further and found that in the Hiscores menu on the Saturn side of the game, there is an option to connect to the internet via NetLink to upload your race records.
I don't have a NetLink modem to test this, but I'm really curious to see whether or not this could be another hidden online Saturn game. Supposedly there's a browser to go along with the NetLink interface when you submit scores as well.
If anyone knows more about this game, I'd love to hear, and I'd be willing to try to restore my landline to play over NetLink! Also, if anyone could fill me in about the Saturn expansion cartridges and how to play imports, that would be fantastic (I have a Japanese 4m ram cart).
Thanks all!
The internal battery on my Saturn is probably dead, so the console asks me to set the date and time every time I turn it on. I usually leave it at 1/1/1994 just so I can quickly get to the game. Now, the interesting thing is, whenever I start the game with the console at this past date, Sega Touring Car Championship displays an advertisement for its 1st Global NetLink event scheduled for December 24, 1997.
This leads me to believe that some sort of multiplayer was possible for this game over NetLink. I'm assuming that Sega directly hosted this "event", and that it probably wasn't related to xBand. However, I investigated further and found that in the Hiscores menu on the Saturn side of the game, there is an option to connect to the internet via NetLink to upload your race records.
I don't have a NetLink modem to test this, but I'm really curious to see whether or not this could be another hidden online Saturn game. Supposedly there's a browser to go along with the NetLink interface when you submit scores as well.
If anyone knows more about this game, I'd love to hear, and I'd be willing to try to restore my landline to play over NetLink! Also, if anyone could fill me in about the Saturn expansion cartridges and how to play imports, that would be fantastic (I have a Japanese 4m ram cart).
Thanks all!