[OUTDATED] Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers - Track Comparison (VS SRB2K) 

THIS VIDEO IS NOW OUTDATED, WATCH A MORE COMPLETE VERSION OF THIS HERE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rcNefqC0cdM.html Note that this does NOT include Addon tracks for SRB2K. There's a bunch I recognized from playing myself, but this video is long enough as is with just the base game tracks. This was recorded as of version 2.1. I'm aware of version 2.2 making some changes, particularly to Desert Palace, but I recorded everything before that released.

This shows one of my favorite aspects of ring racers: the artstyle. The colors used are just so striking and vibrant and seeing them side by side with older stages really highlights how much work went into the visual style of the game. Its quality makes it almost feel official

this is how i found out ring racers' green hills still more or less has the same basic layout as the original. that's really cool

The level of improvement on the tracks in Ring Racers is genuinely incredible! It's amazing how much they wrre able to improve the gameplay, visuals, and music, all the while keeping to the same general layout.

I’m gonna be completely honest it never occurred to me that some tracks in Ring Racers were remakes of SRB2K I genuinely thought they were all new or at least that some were loosely inspired by the older tracks. It was to the point I was asking myself “I wonder if they are gonna add the original tracks as a bonus”

Oh, the glow up is so bright it's not even funny, the SRB2K versions feel just like SRB2. The legacy versions, especially.

Aa someone who never played SRB2K but has been playing Ring Racers... *WOW!* The sheer upgrade is *INSANE,* both in gameplay and visuals. I can't imagine how much love and effort went into these...!

Thanks for putting this together! Seeing the tracks side by side like this really drives home the enormous glow up DRRR has both visually and mechanically.

to make it fair, I did played SRB2 Kart before. but I love how much tracks have changed during the DRRR development. DRRR had a great Sonic 3-styled artstyle compared to SRB2 Kart, that quite atleast had SRB2 v2.2 artstyle.

Interesting how every comment so far has a negative spin. I think the tracks are a great improvement in Ring Racers overall.

It’s funny, when SRB2K was new I ever thought the tracks were that barren but now they look empty by comparison. They really added a lot to the Ring Racer’s versions, but I like how the general layouts remain since they were already great, they just added on in a few spots to improve them.

Of the nineteen tracks returning here, only half a dozen of them didn't get new music: - Northern District - Desert Palace - Lake Margorite - Coastal Temple - Crimson Core - Kodachrome Void

I had been an avid player of SRB2K for a good while so I was well familiar with all the Vanilla tracks. But stuff like Darkvile Garden, Green Hills genuinely took me a bit of re-racing in Ring Racers to realize they overhauled them visually and layout wise. Genuinely funny how much they decided to make Green Hills way more one to one, to the actual Sonic 2 8-Bit Zone. In Kart, I just thought they were just homaging it by name and song, Ring Racers puts the original to shame lmao.

Jesus, the redone maps in ring racer makes the originals feel even more like its from a doom engine game

Maps in the video: 0:00 - Green Hills Zone 1:42 - Northern District Zone 3:23 - Darkvile Garden Zone (Act 1 in Ring Racers) 4:52 - Daytona Speedway Zone 6:17 - Sonic Speedway Zone 7:54 - Misty Maze Zone (Renamed to Aquaduct Crystal Zone in Ring Racers) 9:47 - Sub-Zero Peak Zone 11:50 - Silvercloud Island Zone (Loses the Zone part in Ring Racers) 13:32 - Blue Mountain Zone (Act 1 in Ring Racers) 15:30 - Desert Palace Zone 16:30 - Aurora Atoll Zone 18:22 - Sonic Mania Special Stage 3 (Becomes Wavecrash Dimension Act 1 in Ring Racers) 19:29 - Lake Margorite Zone 21:18 - Costal Temple Zone 23:28 - Opulence Zone 25:28 - Crimson Core Zone 27:21 - Kodachrome Void Zone 28:46 - Virtual Highway Zone 30:29 - Chemical Factory Zone Maps not in the video but should be: Ancient Tomb Zone (Becomes Abyss Garden Zone in Ring Racers)

Green Hills is so different I don't consider it a returning track honestly. New one is good but the old one was iconic!! Most everything else is a glowup though

Srb2k. More favorable for beginners but lackin in style Ring racers, oozes with charm and vibrant colors with banger genesis toons, but has a high skill gap for beginners

ngl I like green hills in srb2k more, since there is a lot more visual elements to it, the two bridges over the river, the entrance to the cave, and the loop in the back as you approach the end looks a lot nicer

- Green Hills Zone: I liked the simplicity in the original better and it was a great introductory track. The new one is still one of the better RR tracks - Northern District Zone: My favourite SRB2K track and I’m really sad with what they did… No more risky left route and the construction shortcut is much less time attack friendly. Music still bangs though - Darkville Castle: I was never too fond of it but the remake is probably better for RR. Less emphases on drifting means tamer turns. Miss the big offroad shortcut though - Daytona Speedway: It’s basically as good as it was. Though sad you can’t use the first speed panels to do the offroad shortcut anymore. - Sonic Speedway: it’s of comparable quality. I’d say it feels worse but that’s probably just me not being used to the new mechanics - Misty Maze: The same layout but I really don't like the water physics. At the very least I think the water in the beginning should be normal road - Sub-Zero Peak: More or less the same. Prettier even! - Silvercloud Island: Overall an improvement actually. The original was quite bland in layout and the elevation really makes it stick out! Quite sad the alternate route is boost exclusive now though - Blue Mountain: Overall the same but I’m not a big fan of the last cave section change. It was fun to keep a drift going on a straightaway on the last cave section. - Desert Palace: Can’t believe they turned the risky bridge into offroad. The button had more of a chance to fuck people over when people were going on it. - Aurora Atoll: Feels like a different track. Not a bad thing but losing the original’s two iconic twist turns is like Sky Garden losing two turns in MK8D. - SM Special Stage 3: Ruined. It was such a good sprint type track where you felt great keeping your momentum… - Lake Margorite: Feel like it’s an improvement both visually and layout wise. Not too different actually - Costal Temple: Honestly did one of my favourite tracks justice! The leaves make it a bit hard to see but I’m glad they didn’t make it a water track - Opilence Zone: Honestly much cooler layout. Wish you could still water cut at the end though. No more u2 Akuyama music what’s up with that? - Crimson Core: One of the greatest tracks and basically as good as the original. Though with the two shortcuts I feel like catchup potential is too big. Felt like a stage that really rewarded getting down the track layout. - Kodachrome: It should be burning my eyes - Virtual Highway: The corkscrew being long enough for a rainbow drift felt better. I do like the alternate route being locked behind a boost though - Chemical Factory: wow it’s as shit as the original Oh and I’m pretty sure Ancient Tomb is there too? Not too sure No Sand Valley, Megablock Castle, Pradise Hill, Vanilla Hotel, Volcanic Valley or Eggman’s Nightclub is really sad though. They will be missed. Rest in Peace to the MK tracks as well. The replacements just don’t replicate the bullshittery of the orignals. Thanks for the comparison video man 👍

A lot of people are saying that the originals are barren or lame, but I still think they look really nice! Simple doesn’t always mean worse. Both are quite charming in their own regards.

Wow. Ring racers really is a visual upgrade at least from SRB2 kart

I don't know how anyone can go back to the old Kart versions of these tracks. A lot of them really felt empty and truly unfinished, and Ring Racers' updates really breath life into them. The textures do so much to give each level a real unique identity, Daytona being a favourite as it introduces a lot of little details from the game it comes from like the slots & Sonic rock carving. They really went beyond in the visuals. My personal favorite of the legacy courses shown here would be Virtual Highway, the original was a real mish-mash of textures as opposed to the work of art that looks like it'd fit with Battle Network. Sad this is missing the MK courses that got changed completely into the "MEGA" courses!

Chemical Facility being promoted out of map hell is hilarious. Guess it’s in one of the later GPs for a reason though.

SRB2KART has MKDS turning while Ring Racers has MKDD turning

One is "I can't believe this is being done on the doom engine" And the other is "Wait, this is being done on doom engine?" It could be passed off as remastered sega saturn game.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who has trouble with Chemical Factory Zone (Ring Racers)

There is nostalgia in this game to as i provoke reply heat

It feels so weird seeing Kodachrome Void with static textures rather than the moving, seizuriffic zig-zags of before. Is that just me? Even on the SRB2K version they're absent. Was there an update I missed or something? Been so long...

How are you getting speed shoes in time attack? It seems like I can only get ring related drops in TA

Fyi you can use the rings as a boost whilst drifting before you let go for the boost

For all the returning tracks,why is not back Ancient Tomb?

What settings do you use for ring racers? I feel like a lot of graphical assets get in the way of me understanding what I’m looking at on new tracks

So, what, is Ring Racers an updated version of SRB2K?

I love the aesthetics and the complexity of ring racers but I’m struggling with the new mechanics. I know I just need to practice but I wonder if anyone else struggled?

Loving the remakes, minus Misty Maze to Aqueduct Crystal because of how annoying I find the water handling, but the tracks look so much more vibrant

Also ring racers can look gorgeous at times i yearn to play fhis game on a crt some fucking how

Nice ring usage. I find you're enjoying it?

ring racers looks better visually, but I can't really compare the gameplay since I never played srb2k before

I'm noticing a huge problem with visual clutter in Ring Racers, visually the game is definitely improved but a lot of the effects can be distracting and in some cases like the costal temple it's impossible to see turns ahead of you.

Theres a genuinely happy simplicity like an 80s arcade game to the originals vs sat the panzeer dragoon orta of the moder ring racers stages

It seems like every vanilla level of srb2kart is less fun but far more balanced and controllable than ring racers

overall huuuge upgrade from the first games tracks that said, daytona beaches song was better in the first. ^u^;

I'm consistently blown away by the absolutely massive leap they took artistically and graphically but the game itself is such a chore to play. It's absolutely a bigger, badder, more complex game but sometimes you just want something simple and clean.

overall huuuuge upgrade from the first game that said, daytona beach had a much better song in the first game ;u;

Ring racers just needs better resolution

Where's hill top zone?

Daytona Speedway, Sonic Speedway and Virtual Highway do not feel the same without their old music In Daytona's case, the music feels like a downgrade, it's the same song but it's weirdly different.

A part of me really perfers the simpler, more readable tracks of SRB2K.

Seeing these courses back to back like this really puts into perspective how much tighter Kart felt to control. It's rather baffling to me that they made the game feel so much more slippery, despite the massive increase in chaos of the general gameplay.

What have they done to my Northern District ;-; And they rly shouldn't have changed the Daytona Music the new one rly doesn't fit the map

Tracks look a lot prettier most of the time, but I think the simplicity is really needed for a Kart game. My big thing is just that I feel like I could invite any friend to Kart, pop a few mods, and have a grand old time. Ring Racers is just… not something I want them to have to put up with.

they ruined like all of these tracks jesus christ

I like the old one version :< I hate so much the new one

What I didn't like is that some of the tracks are bigger than their original versions

SRB2K: *smooth driving* DRRR: what if we force you to bonk into walls every needlessly right angled turn and fight against every uphill?

Graphically, some tracks look absolutely stunning in Ring Racers, while some others can really strain your eyes with what they throw at you. Mechanically though, I think I'll take srb2k versions 90 percent of the time. Ring Racers is not fun to play.

I really dislike the new designs, way too much stuff to keep track on

Rip srb2k🤧🤧🤧 RR is trash, it is just a fighting game and souls like wanna be 🤮🤮🤮 Please stop lying about it been good just for having an awfull and gimmicky gameplay for no reason 🤥🤥🤥