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[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]I don't know what kind of Daytona you are playing. The arcade cab comes with a four-position shifter (VERY unrealistic for '90s NASCAR, they usually had many MORE gears... what kind of autist would you have to be to want that?!). The most popular Model 2 emulator runs it pretty great, and lets you assign your own buttons. Me, I have an old Xbox downloadable copy, which lets me remap the four positions of the shifter to the four face buttons of my controller. For simplicity's sake, let's call them 1, 2, 3, and 4. Daytona uses very-primitive one-position handling. That means that your virtual car is only connected to a single point of the virtual road, somewhere around its belly. Don't laugh! This was used well into the PS1 generation, for example all the PS1 Codemasters games used the same (Colin McRae, RIP, etc). Later they came up with two-point handling, where your front and back axles get different physics calculations. I believe this is what the PS1 Gran Turismos used. I think, 7 years later, Forza Motorsport was four-point from the start - one for each little palm-sized patch of rubber that is a tire's contact with the tarmac. The trick to Daytona is not steering. I mean, you gotta do that. That is literally ALL you have to do on that first oval track. The way to fast times in Sonic the Hedgehog Speedway is steering veeeery carefully into the pit lane, just enough to cut the corner, but not far enough that you engage the pit autopilot. You'll figure it out. But for every track after that, by which I mean the two tracks after that, the trick is shifting instead of braking to initiate a drift. What you want to do is tap 1 to kick out your rear, strafe the apex, then slam it back into 3, then as soon as your tach allows... 4. You only need 2 when drag racing (which Daytona did not include, frowny face - I think it was all rolllliiiinnnggg starts). It's about a million miles away from realism. It's about a million miles away from the contemporaneous Papyrus PC sims. But it's pretty goddamn fun.[/quote]