Daytona USA 2001

Daytona USA 2001
Japanese cover art
Developer(s)Amusement Vision
Genki
Publisher(s)Sega
Director(s)Yoshinari Sunazuka
Kenji Ōta
Producer(s)Toshihiro Nagoshi
Composer(s)Keiichi Sugiyama
Naofumi Hataya
Tatsuyuki Maeda
Junko Shiratsu
Hideaki Kobayashi
Hirofumi Murasaki
Platform(s)Dreamcast
Release
  • JP: December 21, 2000
  • NA: March 13, 2001[1]
  • EU: May 11, 2001
  • AU: July 13, 2002
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Daytona USA 2001, known in North America as Daytona USA, is a racing arcade game developed by Sega and Genki for the Dreamcast. It is a complete revamp of Daytona USA (1994), featuring every course from the original game and Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition (1996), as well as three new tracks. Daytona USA 2001 also introduced a Championship mode, where the player must place above a certain point in the overall rankings to progress, culminating in the King of Daytona Cup.

The game's graphics were significantly updated from previous home installments of Daytona USA, more resembling that of Daytona USA 2. It was also playable online, allowing for competition between up to four players and uploading/downloading of best times and ghost car information, although the online options were removed from the PAL version. The Dreamcast's online servers for both Alien Front Online and Daytona USA 2001 were taken down permanently by mistake as a result of the developers hard-coding the IP-address to the servers in the game and Sega giving away a network block that belonged to AT&T.[2]

Online services for the game were unofficially restored by fans through private servers in 2023.[3]

  1. ^ Chau, Anthony (March 13, 2001). "Daytona USA 2001 [sic] Rolls Out To Stores". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on December 9, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "Resources". DCserv.org. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  3. ^ Yarwood, Jack (July 17, 2023). "Daytona USA For The Dreamcast Is Now Back Online, Thanks To Fans". Time Extension. Hookshot Media. Archived from the original on July 17, 2023. Retrieved July 17, 2023.

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