They added a very cool feature to the end of lap checkpoint it tells you how much faster or slower than the first place car you are. They also moved the location of the checkpoint timer to the middle of the screen so it is easier to see. It keeps track of your race times down to the thousandth of a second as compared to a hundredth of a second on original 2049. You really have to keep both hands on the wheel most of the time on TE especially on jumps.
This stops the cars from (self-correcting) themselves so dramatically when you take jumps or got air like they do on original 2049. They also adjusted the mass of the cars on TE, making the cars a little heavier. Top speed remains the same, but the rear end of the cars on TE is a lot looser and more difficult to control than the original 2049. Aaron wanted to make the extreme handling more like the extreme handling on the first RUSH game ‘Rush the Rock’, in other words, a lot more difficult. They tweaked the handling of the vehicles whether you were in tournament mode or not. In fact if you are running a super fast time the abort can actually send you backwards on some tracks. If doesn’t matter if you wait for the game to put you back on the track as opposed to hitting the abort right away, it is the same. Aaron Hightower, who was lead programmer for the RUSH team, made it when you hit ABORT you got put back on the track almost exactly where you aborted. One of the best things Atari did in designing TE is eliminate all the abort cheats. But, with a lot of arm-twisting and pleading they allowed 3 locations, Starbase being one of them, to keep TE forever. Midway wanted all the TE hard drives back from the test locations. Unfortunately after 9 months of testing and tweaking Midway and Atari cancelled their coin-operation games division, thus ending the worldwide release of TE. We did, and they were eventually changed to make the game better. They videotaped all our races for months to see if we could find any glitches. The owner of Starbase, Video Bob, has had an ongoing personal and business relationship with Atari, especially the RUSH team. They tested TE exclusively at 7 or 8 locations in Northern California, 1 location in Southern California and at least 3 locations in the Chicago area. Team RUSH was based at Atari games in Northern California but owned by Midway out of Chicago. They generally held weekly tournaments on two different tracks with cash prizes for the top five times.
Midway games was starting to get into nation-wide arcade to arcade cash tournaments for there golf game ‘SKINS’ and the upgraded version of TE 2049.
#SAN FRANCISCO RUSH 2049 CPU REPAIR UPGRADE#
The TE edition was an upgrade kit for the original Rush 2049. It boasts more difficult handling, no abort cheats, a new race timer, new vehicles, and new tracks basically a whole new feel. Rush 2049 Tournament Edition or TE is a superior game compared to the original version. What is Tournament Edition? Rush 2049 Tournament Edition (TE) We have already lost so much over the years. This is going to be a lot of cut and paste of info found on the web.
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