GTI Club

GTI Club is a racing game released for the arcade in 1996 by Konami. It runs on the Power PC-based hardware, and the game's graphics were very good for the time. In the game, the player could choose from 4 rally cars, including a Mini Cooper and Renault 5 Turbo, and race in Cote D'Azur. The game allowed free-roaming of the environment, which was revolutionary for the time, and contained several semi-hidden shortcuts that could be used to reduce lap times. A handbrake is provided which the player is encouraged to use to perform handbrake turns round sharp corners.

A MAME ROM of the game is available, and is playable in MAME versions 114u2 or later (Reset and hold down F2 to set the EEPROM data). You can finish a lap or two, but eventually it will hang on network error ([1]). Ville Linde is actually working on it ([2]) within MAME.

Trivia

The Yellow Bugatti EB110SS, which is unlocked when player adds an extra credit into the coin slot, was similar to and the same color as a car owned at the time by Michael Schumacher. Schumacher has since sold the car.

Hardware description

CPU : PowerPC 403GA @ 64 MHz

3D DSP : ADSP-21062 (SHARC) @ 36 MHz

Sound CPU : 68EC000 @ 16 MHz

Sound chips : Ricoh RF5C400 PCM 32Ch, 44.1 kHz Stereo, 3D Effect Spatializer.

Graphics (Custom 3D) : 2 x KS10071 (Possibly graphics as well : KS10081, K001604)

Unknown Chips (possibly sound related) : K056800, K056230

External links

GTI Club at the Killer List of Videogames
Hardware description of GTI Club
Partial emulation images
GTI Club at Caesar.logiqx.com
Lastest news on March 18, 2007

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