Daytona USA 2001
| Daytona USA 2001 | |
|---|---|
Japanese cover art | |
| Developers | Amusement Vision Genki |
| Publishers | Sega |
| Directors | Yoshinari Sunazuka Kenji Ōta |
| Producer | Toshihiro Nagoshi |
| Composers | Keiichi Sugiyama Naofumi Hataya Tatsuyuki Maeda Junko Shiratsu Hideaki Kobayashi Hirofumi Murasaki |
| Series | Daytona USA |
| Platform | Dreamcast |
| Release | |
| Genre | Racing |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Daytona USA 2001, released in North America as Daytona USA, is a 2000 racing video game developed by Amusement Vision and Genki for the Dreamcast. It is a complete revamp of Daytona USA (1994), featuring every course from the original game and Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition (1996), as well as three new tracks. Daytona USA 2001 also introduced a 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's graphics were significantly updated from previous home installments of Daytona USA, more resembling that of Daytona USA 2. It also featured support for online play, 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 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. Online services for the game were unofficially restored by fans through private servers in 2023.