Which definitely makes sense. So…

The result is a bluer and greener background that mixes OutRun styling with the up-to-date (for us) Daytona USA palette. Hope you hate it a bit less. This isn’t today’s “main” update, by the way. We are not deluded enough to think that a new background is interesting news to anyone else. This update is mainly to stop Stefan complaining.

He had everything. Virtua Racing, Crazy Taxi, Dreamcasts, Mega Drive display pods, a Lara Croft statue that’s DEFINITELY been ejaculated over, pinball machines. Everything.

He even had a Saturn! $100 for a SEGA Saturn demo pod is a DEAL. The auctioneers will get a shock when this goes for $25k.

And he had Mega Touch Maxx Ruby Edition.

The Model 2 emulator is awesome. Very nice. It runs perfect, even on the cheap mass-produced computer that powers UKR.

The latest-generation UKR “Con” is powered by a Core 2 Duo E8200. There are three “gigs” of RAM in it, plus whatever Dell’s default cheapest graphics card was six months ago.

Adam Doree can’t get it to work though!

ADAM DOREE: “My PC is really precarious at the moment – I can’t afford any crashes or reboots as sometimes it decides to take FIVE CUNTING HOURS to successfully boot, so I have to wait till that’s sorted before revisiting the M2 emu which crashed me last time. Er, does this sound right though? The Daytona ROM I have is only 14.5MB? That can’t be right surely?”

Yes, Adam, it’s right.

It also runs SEGA Rally perfectly and anything else you can find the ROMs of.

There’s a bundle of Model 2 ROMs on the torrent sites.

We’ll probably have to explain to Adam Doree how to find those as well, if he ever gets a PC good enough to run it.

We never dreamed we’d be able to (a) play Daytona USA all day for free or (b) take screenshots and examine its glorious textures.

We only selected “Manual” for the purposes of taking this screenshot. In actual play, it was automatic all the way.

Offramp! What does that even mean? We’ve spent all morning reading the textures of the cars. Screenshot #5 up there shows a car sponsored by a record company called just “Records.”

That car is sponsored by SG8. AM2 was too busy making the world’s best-ever driving game to have meetings where it spent all morning thinking up clever names for things.

Driving up to Jeff is also a good way to spend an afternoon.

We’re not doing very well. It’s hard setting up the controller to work satisfactorily. That’s the only complaint.

Sliding, probably by accident.

Angular seagull!

Crash ahead!

Horses! When you’re playing for free, wasting a go by driving off the track to examine the surroundings is an OK thing to do.

SEGA was pioneering environmental power generation even in the early 1990s. That sky texture would make a lovely background for a blog about games, wouldn’t it?

Get it. Press F12 to take a screen grab. It dumps them in a folder automatically. Away you go.

It’s nice that he called Mario “Mario the Plumber”. It implies that Nintendo copied SEGA and that Mario isn’t famous enough to just be called Mario. This is what we should all tell our children, if any of us are ever lucky enough to be allowed to have sex and the recipient of the sex is willing to follow through with it.

The correct spelling of “centre” suggests this could have originated in PAL territories, although the use of “Genesis” suggests otherwise. Which country called the Mega Drive the Genesis but also spells centre centre? Or is it just a manufacturing error? We’re on a knife-edge!

We would very much like to hear from any former employees of the Hi-Tech Game Centre. Hopefully it was based in a medium-sized Northern shopping centre and the sign and shuttered-closed shop front are still visible.

Found by a reader called “Alexander”. We had no idea we were highbrow enough to attract Alexanders. He probably has A-Levels and a job and everything.

He ACTUALLY SAYS “This is my den. I love my BMX. I love my skateboard”. It is terrible. Very terrible. As terrible as, say, a green and blue background with a yellow and red logo on top.

FROM THIS MAN: “While spending another lunchtime at my desk watching the Guardian’s pick of sporting Youtube clips, I noticed Sony’s latest attempt to really scrape at their favourite demographic, the bottom of the barrel. It’s a piece of rare marketing nouse, yet another attempt to assimilate an uncaring public into a community/ghetto.”

Cheerio, old pal. You were good, on certain versions of certain browsers, and when viewed at specific resolutions.

We have a funny story to do with attempted robbery and a SEGA light gun. But we will save it for another time. Possibly a posthumous update to avoid legal repercussions.

“Since I have nothing better to do at work I thought I would send you this picture of an early 90s Sonic keychain obtained from a kid’s meal at a local Northern Sweden hamburger chain (www.frasses.se) and also a mug from work that looks a bit like it has Dreamcast logos on it. You might want to publish these for the sole reason that the picture is high resolution, was taken with a moderately expensive camera and lit with semi-professional studio lighting. Lots of love” – Protected identity Swedish guy.

Another battle lost for Sony. War still raging.