just wondering if anyone tried this game can give it a quick review.

i don't think i'll ever be able to get it but it's nice to know.

Awesome.
It takes many of the rivals from Shutokou and Kaido Battle series and puts them on circuits.

You have SP battles, Drift challenges (like corner artist 'races' in Kaido Battle), and just flat out races with multiple opponents all running at the same time like a typical circuit racing game.

The cars, physics, music... all familiar to regular Genki fans. Huge number of rivals including wanderers. Fairly large selection of cars and parts along with garages you can customise, and items for both car and garage that can actually give you advantages when you race-- ie, helmets or harnesses that lessen SP damage, or a drift 'ring' that doubles your drift points if you make no mistakes.

The amount of Japanese text may be a put-off but with the translation available from NTSC-UK you can get through it.

Well worth it, particularly if you'd be intrigued to see a lot of the familiar Genki features in a completely different setting. It was pretty cool to race the C1 Loop in the daytime or fight Zero on a circuit!

Augh I've wanted this game for so long, it's the only PS2 Genki game I haven't played.

DFP/GT support?

sounds like it took the best parts of GT games and imputting most of the great features from Genki's games which sounds awesome.

i think it should support dfp/gt considering it was released after kaido3 was, no guarantees though. it's impossible to find though unless u pay a lot n have a chipped ps2.

i have a chipped ps2 but couldnt find it, or find a torrent version. u can try emulators if u have a decent computer that can play ps2 games.

It has wheel support. Its attributes are consistent with Kaido3 (Densetsu), including a BBS, scoring of drifting (which it calls DP, drift point, as opposed to CA, corner artist battles), and many of the characters/cars.

Interestingly, it puts a number of the Shutokou rivals into cars more properly designed for the track as opposed to their street rides. So you'll recognise them from their stickers (and usually their colors) but they might drive a different car or a circuit version of their street car.

I got my copy of the game from ebay. New (and this is a couple of years ago) it was like 40 dollars. I think now it has some collector cachet so buying it new is kinda spendy-- but I've seen used ones still in the 35-40 dollar range. As long as you get a reputable seller just buy a used one-- we're in it for the driving, not how pristine the box is.

Bought it from YESASIA, still waiting for it. 14 business days have already passed. Going to wait another 14 before I send them a report. Hope it arrives though. Does YESASIA's shipping take that long?

P.S. It's HK to Philippines, which is not that far.