Update: I was right. It was a regional issue. I parsed the values of the corner sharpness instead of converting them with a default culture setting. I've changed it and now it should work flawlessly without having to change the setting in-game! (After I've uploaded the new version.)
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Well that's great you figured it out, that's an unusual bug, definitely something that's hard to test and catch yourself, I never would have even thought of it.
That's awesome that you have so thoroughly detailed the driving model for the game and have so many different factors playing into it. There's many racing games out there now and in the past that just don't achieve the fun factor and sheer joy of driving that Outrun captures, and what you've got going here. Sega sure made a lot of great racing games. One thing you have to be sure to add is a great game over screen, in the proud tradition of great Sega ones in Daytona, Sega Rally, etc. 😄
Yeah, haha, I couldn't wrap my head around it when that regional problem manifested for the first time. I just couldn't replicate the problem that so many people had.
I got my epiphany when I made and uploaded a log version of my game so I could compare my log file with the log file of someone else. I knew something was up when I saw that the decimal sign in my own log file was a comma and in the other one a point. I then set my system to USA settings and voila, I was able to replicate the problem on my system. The rest is history.
Yeah, I'm so glad that my game seems to hit the spot! About the game over screen: yeah, maybe I can add some dramatic voice-over to the game over message!
As a matter of fact: I'd really like to add some spoken lines to the game, especially in the car select menu. I'd like to replicate the excitement of Daytona USA2.
That sounds exactly like my experience with debugging anything, feeling around the edges and weird output of a problem until you suddenly piece together what's going wrong with it in your mind.
Yeah some radio chatter might add a little bit of flavor to the game for sure. Daytona USA is great and I haven't played Daytona USA 2 that much but it seems fun as well. Have only toyed with it in emulation, where it's kind of a broken mess. I really wish Sega would rerelease that. Or make a racing compilation with Outrun, Turbo Outrun, Outrunners and Outrun 2 on it. But I think they lost the Ferrari license which complicates things.
Daytona and Virtua Racing kinda make me want to make a low res polygon racer too haha. But there are a couple of those out there already.