EnglandInemuri_japon time is for the mini ride-on version. It is much easier and course is different to the sit down. Under the new rules it isn't valid. Can we not add a new leader board for ride on runs?
i will post a compare of the ride on to the sit down later.
I made a montage video showing some 3 runs on various settings. This is to show tricks to improving times overall. But also the differences in NPC settings. Top: My quickest time on Hardest Time settings but Easy NPC. Bottom Left: My stock settings run Normal Time/NPC. Bottom Right: Kusanagi765 run with Easy Timer but Normal NPC settings.
You can see the volume of riders compared to bottom left. But if you look at tech you want to take bends has close in has possible since this seems to improve times. The sharp turns require you coming out of them speeding up to get maximum efficiency and taking them just right by staying in tight if a NPC isn't blocking you.
If you want me to do some more for the other courses or the home version I can do so using the videos from the leader boards.
I wanted to just make sure people know that there's several different arcade versions of Super Hang-On that have different course structure. The one on this site is using the "sit down" version of tracks. If you look for videos on the mini ride on, you will see the difference in the courses. There is also another version I think a limited edition or something, which basically has the engine so to 317kmp and no turbo boost. I'm not sure if the track layout is different on that one. I can link videos for these various versions if that helps.
The second thing I wanted to mention is difficulty setting on NPC (other riders) there is a difference with the volume of riders if you switch the game to easy. If you notice at the first bend on easy you only have one yellow rider but on normal you have two riders the yellow and green. Since the NPC are one of the major things that can effect your time due to collisions having more does make you more likely to collide and lose time. I haven't messed around with the hard/very hard setting to see if even more bikers appear or with the other version like the mini ride on to see if this effects the game in the same way like in the sit down version.
A good read on the super hang-on history and games. https://beepgamecenter.com/tag/super-hang-on/ Might wanna use google translate ;)
