MRC is an average-at-best racing game developed by Genki (which contains some former Sega staff) and published by Imagineer/Ocean. If you’re somewhat familiar with what Genki mainly does these days, then it should come as little surprise that the game feels like a combination of Sega Rally and Ridge Racer with a tiny dash of the Shutokou Battle series (in the form of limited car customization). The game combines average audio, decent visuals, and average gameplay for a rather average experience.
After the game’s cool opening, you get access to your standard racing modes and can choose from a variety of cars that don’t handle very different from each other regardless of how you tune them (most reviews cite the controls as “bad” or “poor”, but it kinda depends). The game has a few courses that are designed pretty well, but if you were hoping the visuals were as crisp (and excellent) as the intro, think again; the graphics get significantly foggy when a race starts and the main reason this game is annoying isn’t entirely due to the controls, but the draw distance, which is a shame as the stages have some interesting layouts and the weather effects are a great touch. Even with the announcer warning you of what’s ahead, it’s almost impossible to actually see what’s ahead on some corners (so you basically have to memorize the courses and curves). It doesn’t help that the cars handle like Rally cars but the stages have uber sharp turns and such that you’d find in some Ridge Racer tracks, and the on/off road aspect adds admittedly little to the game.
If this game had a better camera, greater flexibility with the controls, and the visuals didn’t get diminished during races, this would be a great racer. As-is, it’s a title I’d pop in once or twice and then forget about it.
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This is my favorite N64 game… not just racing game, favorite game for the entire system. And I always wanted to be able to race Hannya again but there is no way to reset the game once things are unlocked, I had searched for years off and on to try to figure out how to reset this game to factory state. I literally destroyed my old N64 trying to short out this game, by jumping a capacitor with a screw driver with the back of the cart off while plugged in and running. It didn't reset the game, I had no idea what I was doing… After scouring the internet I finally came up with an idea, after finding a database showing the insides of each board, and learning which chip was responsible for saving data. I thought maybe you could disable that chip… So here is how you do it. Open the cart, you have to get a special tool (ebay). There are 3 chips. The smallest one says bu9850 738 h84. It has 8 pins soldered to the board. Flip the board over where the pins are soldered, and take a soldering iron and carefully remove the solder from the bottom right pin. This will disable the carts save feature and reset it to factory settings. I wasn't sure this would work to erase the data. I thought the cart might not boot up with the chip disabled, I thought I may have to remove the entire chip, or re solder it to get it to work and every time I wanted to reset the game disconnect and reconnect the chip… but I had hope. So, with the one pin disconnected I put the game together and popped it in. It started up! Which gave me a lot of hope… I went into the main menu and couldn't select match race! Which means it wasn't unlocked anymore… went into championship and all my trophies were gone! I was so excited, felt like a kid again! The game works great, and the best part is you can still save all your data and trophies to a memory pack, so you can save all of your progress and pick up where you left off by loading the data from the memory pack, but if you want to play from the beginning you can! If this information helps just one guy fulfill his childhood dream of playing this game from the beginning again on a real N64 (the best way) then my mission here is a success…
Recuerdo cuando mi hermano jugaba esto, a los días tuvo que cambiarlo por lo malo que era
Every time you hit a car I thought it was the funniest thing…..
OWWW.
That Imagineer car based off a Skyline GTR R33, my best GTR.
This game was pretty crappy, even though there wasn't anything better on the N64 for quite a while. The N64 wasn't a good console, if you're into racing games. At least when it comes to simulations.
I guess the menu fonts look similar to Sega Rally BECAUSE OF the former Sega staff members you mentioned in the description!
これが。エンターブレインと元気株式会社の、本気。
This cartridge was the feeling of the 90's arcade racing games(Namco,Sega…etc) i love It.
Si este juego hubiese llegado a tener más pistas me seguiría enviciando con el al día de hoy
Back then this game’s graphics were jaw dropping… especially with the weather change
What kind of the championship is that? Just 1course?
You kinda suck lol. Missed all the shortcuts
I used to play this all the time it just came to mind there lol had to type it.fuckin nostalgia trip n a half ..graphics were shit hot
I though along time ago i had this game had all kinds of cars
My first n64 game I ever played; christmas 1997; me and my brother got a n64, lylat war, super mario, and this AND on ps1 we got crash 2, ff7 and nhl 98.
BRO I REMEMBER WHEN THIS CAME OUT DAMN IM OLD
I still love this game!
childhood, amazing how big the world is and how everything leaves u with a sense of enjoyment.
OMG, part of my childhood right there.
I loved this Game 😀
👌!