Road Rash (PlayStation)

TressTM 15 Oct 2021 22:50

Big 10x for this pack cheevs

alyxhawk 16 Jul 2022 17:28

Not a good set, because the cheevos in Trash Mode does not respect the time spent by the player in an insanely big grind - only for the fact the game does NOT save your progress in Trash Mode.

Good for the players who had the patience to grind all the way to level 5. Playtime could be spent in a more positive way in another set.

fraser1974 16 Jul 2022 18:16

What do you mean it doesn’t respect the time spent? The mode isn’t intended to save your progress. It’s an arcade-style mode. That’s why I designed them to be time trials rather than actually beating the mode. I thought about making achievements for actually beating each level of the mode but then you would have been required to play through all 5 levels in 1 sitting, which didn’t think would have been appropriate or fun. The way I made those achievements, saving or grinding is not required. Just some practice on each individual level. And the times are fairly lenient especially in the later levels.

fraser1974 16 Jul 2022 18:18

And in case there’s confusion, you can change which level you’re on in Thrash mode at any time in the Restroom.

alyxhawk 16 Jul 2022 21:34

Thanks for the information about the level select in the Restroom, I had no idea. I was grinding all the way from level 1 to 4 for 5 hours straight and it's not fun at all. The lack of information inside the game causes such negative experience.

I will finish the set soon. Navigating through those menus is just horrible, not even the emulator fast forward helps.

Cheers!

fraser1974 17 Jul 2022 01:33

Glad I could help! Sorry you were having those difficulties at first. I love this game but yeah those menus have not ages well at all lol.

alyxhawk 17 Jul 2022 01:40

No prob. I will write a fair review of the set after I finish it. ;)

fraser1974 17 Jul 2022 02:18

Haha I look forward to it! It was my first set so any criticisms/notes are welcome.

alyxhawk 18 Jul 2022 23:37

Mastered. So far the hardest set I've played. The set is fair enough, but this game is very unbalanced in Level 5. Specially if all other bikers hate you and try to beat you in the race. Besides, as one of the early games from the PSX era, some features did not aged well - The UI navigation is horrible even for 2000's standards and requires a lot of patience.

All in all, set itself is doable. The hardest ones in my opinion are the level 5 Time Trials. The % of completion proves my point. Want a challenge? You'll have a good time here. Good luck!

TrueUltimagod 8 Dec 2022 21:20

The menus pretty much run at 1fps, which makes it a big pain to navigate compared the 3DO version and despite the ps1 version performing much better than that version it's actually poorly optimised and to get 60fps lock you have to overclock the emulated cpu around 250% even then there are 3 frame drops on occasion.

Drakub 2 Mar 2023 18:04

I've found that the best settings for this game are to use Swanstation, overclock CPU to 200%, set the CDROM read & seek to 4x, and enable PGXP. Runs great on my Steam Deck and bumping the CDROM speed is crucial for the sluggish menu system in this game.