SEGA Rally 2

Background

SEGA Rally 2 (セガラリー2) is an arcade rally-racing game developed and released by SEGA in 1998 as a sequel to SEGA Rally Championship. . The game was later ported to Dreamcast and PC in 1999, with notable differences existing between arcade and console to warrant separate record-keeping categories. The game features more tracks, modes and vehicles than its predecessor, with the Peugot 306MAXI being the fastest but hardest to control and the Lancia Stratos coming close second. Beginner players tend to use the easier-to-control Corolla WRC for learning the game at the cost of slower speed. The most popular category is beating the game's Arcade Championship mode.

The official segarally.com allowed Dreamcast & PC runners to submit their times to a leaderboard that featured weekly & overall rankings. Players could discuss times and strats at the game's official forum. In the game's early years, the Japanese community created a webring to interact with other players and document their times and meet ups. One notable location where runners would time trial the game was the SEGA XiV World arcade in Fujioka city, where top runners competed in a major tournament held on 26th February 2000.

Records on arcade hardware - primarily arcade records by Japanese players - are currently kept track of on the atwiki managed by top runner M•K. It is a continuation of an older defunct Japanese site, and features WR progression charts dating back to 1999.

ir3d netgamers hosted replay files of top times for the PC port, allowing players to download and race against ghosts of other's records. It also featured leaderboards for the other modes of Practice, Time Attack and the PC/Dreamcast exclusive mode 10-Year Championship.

The game was added to speedrun.com in November 2016, with runners being required to provide video proof of their runs. SRC allows for runs done on emulators.

SRC Moderators

Super Mods

• Naegleria
• Brionac

Mods

• analogism
• SEGARALLY

Categories

WR holder "DKI" (right) and former WR holder "R.N" (left) at a meet up in June 2001

Arcade Championship

The Arcade Championship mode (commonly denoted "CS" in the Japanese community) is a multi-course race through four tracks of increasing difficulty: DESERT SS1, MOUNTAIN SS2, SNOWY SS3 and RIVIERA. This is classed as a "Full Game" run on SRC with separate categories for arcade, PC and Dreamcast as well as real hardware or emulator. In-game time is preferred. The atwiki seperates arcade runs based on which vehicle was used and features best splits for each course.

World Record - 3'57"35 by DKI

World Record (w/ video) - 3'57"90 by DKI

10 Year Championship

The 10 Year Championship mode was added to the Dreamcast & PC ports, it features 10 individual events each consisting of four races. This is classed as a "Full Game" run on SRC, where runners have to complete all 10 individual years and add up the IGT of each event for a final time alongside the option to submit the full RTA time. The old ir3d netgamers site hosted leaderboards for each of the 10 individual events.

World Record (All years) - 45'57"296 by Naegleria

Practice

Practice mode (commonly denoted "P" in the Japanese community) allows the player to practice the courses featured in the Arcade Championship mode with that mode's time limit in effect for 3 laps (5 laps for the last course RIVIERA). SRC hosts Practice runs in its "Individual Leaderboard" section, separating categories for each platform as well as hardware vs emulator and including fastest lap times. The atwiki hosts Practice times for full course and fastest lap times.

DESERT course World Record - 2'39"976 by ZENO名誉顧問

Time Attack

Another mode exclusive to the PC and Dreamcast ports, Time Attack allows the player to time trial all CS courses without the game over time limit plus extra courses in the game for 3 laps. This mode also allows the player to use different vehicles and configurations for better times. SRC includes leaderboards for Time Attack full course and fastest laps in the "Individual Leaderboard" section. Leaderboards were also hosted on ir3d netgamers.

DESERT course World Record - 2'36"828 by ZENO名誉顧問