Daytona USA 2001
Daytona USA 2001, known in North America as Daytona USA, is a racing arcade game developed by Sega and Genki which is a complete revamp of Daytona USA for release on the Dreamcast platform. This version features every single course from the original Daytona USA game and the Championship Circuit Edition. Three new tracks were specially designed for Daytona USA 2001, and all of the tracks are playable normally, in reverse, mirrored, or in reverse-mirrored mode.
| Daytona USA 2001 | |
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| Developer(s) | Amusement Vision Genki |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Yoshinari Sunazuka Kenji Ōta |
| Producer(s) | Toshihiro Nagoshi |
| Composer(s) | Keiichi Sugiyama Naofumi Hataya Tatsuyuki Maeda Junko Shiratsu Hideaki Kobayashi Hirofumi Murasaki |
| Platform(s) | Dreamcast |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The game's graphics were significantly updated from previous home installments of Daytona USA, more resembling the likes of Daytona USA 2. It was also playable online, allowing for competition between up to four players and uploading/downloading of best times and ghost car information, although the online options were removed from the PAL version. The Dreamcast's online servers for both Alien Front Online and Daytona USA 2001 were taken down permanently by mistake as a result of the developers hard-coding the IP-address to the servers in the game and Sega giving away a network block that belonged to AT&T.
Another addition to Daytona USA 2001 was the Championship mode, where the player must place above a certain point in the overall rankings to progress, culminating in the King of Daytona Cup.
The game was brought back online by fans through private servers in 2023.