Crazy Taxi Crazy Box S-s

[Janne Desir]

Iknow they are confusing, I actually looked for some YT videos just for help. For a crazy dash, It's kinda like a 1-2 thing and don't shift into reverse first it just slows you down. I constantly do crazy dashes cause its about the only thing I can do. I think I figured out crazy drifts (uncontrolled). If you actually know anyone good you have to watch them, I never know these things existed until I saw a friend play and I've never played the same since. If someone wants to make a tutorial video I'm sure it would help some people.........

Also, in case anyone is wondering, it's pretty easy to do a Crazy Drift. All you got to do is hold both A and B while turning. It works well, but sometimes it changes the gear to reverse, which can get annoying.

I am finding the controls a complete joke, I've been able to do some kind of speed boost, where you see the driver "vibrate" but I can never get to the end of the challenges fast enough. On 1-S I run out of time half way down the final lane to the last 10 pins and on 2-S I run out just after the final turn.

In terms of graphics, the game has a fun cartoony look and still holds up well. The cities are nice and bright, and everything is easy to see on-screen. The game also appears to run at a smooth 60 frames per second, which really helps to support the sense of speed in the game! The music (primary provided by The Offspring) provide a fun punk rock vibe that pair well with the frantic gameplay. The sound effects do a decent job as well, and the voice acting is fun and adds a fun layer of your passengers letting you know how good of a driver you are!

this was the best racing game that ever came out in the history of racing games the graphics were incredible the music was banging and the game play was all that I recently managed to emulate the original version on the reicast app crazy taxi the only taxi service i take screw you uber.

The rip begins with the intro to Crazy Taxi but "crazy" is replaced with Pan Pizza, of the YouTube Channel RebelTaxi, saying "rebel". At 0:04, a mashup of the advertised track and "Snow halation" begins playing with the announcer talking over the intro. At the end of each chorus, the "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" lyric of "All I Want" is pitch shifted to "Snow halation".

What the Heck is a Makey Makey?

Have you ever wanted to change the way the controls work on a particular computer program or game? Ever wanted to create a fun electronic invention without needing to be an electrical engineer or computer programmer? Ever want to have some crazy fun? Then Makey Makey is for you! What is it? Basically it's a device that a computer thinks is a USB keyboard and or mouse, but you can hook it up to lots of things more fun than simply a keyboard or button...for example, with Makey Makey you can use Play-dough, a banana or a bucket of water in place of keys on a keyboard. Makey Makeys have been used to create custom game controllers, piano's with fruit as the keyboards, musical staircases, and even a Dance Dance Revolution machine with buckets of water as the dance mat! There are tons of examples you can view here

Crazy Taxi, Why?

Crazy Taxi is fun old game, and the keyboard controls seem kind of unnatural. Makey Makey allowed me to create a custom control panel including even gas and brake pedals. I put this Instructable together so anyone can learn about Makey Makey, learn how to create custom controls and even override the default keys supported by Makey Makey. I've included a video of my Crazy Taxi "dashboard" and "pedals" in action.

What's in the package?

A Makey Makey kit includes a circuit board card, USB Cable to connect it to your computer, 7 Alligator clip wires to connect to your "keys" (which may be crazy things like bananas), 6 Connector Wires (for connecting to the header contacts on the back of the board), 20 Stickers (for the fun of it), a colorful tin storage box and graphical instructions.

What can I use for a "key"?

You connect your Makey Makey "keys" to the Makey Makey circuit board by alligator clips, essentially electrical wires, so as you might guess, whatever you use as key needs to be able to conduct electricity. So naturally aluminum foil works, but you'd be surprised what else works. Vegetables (we tried snap peas), bananas, water, some types of plastic, for this Instructable we'll be using dollar store Play-dough. Check out this Instructable where I use icicles for game controllers!

Experiment and have fun!

To get familiar with the Makey Makey and try out whatever you are using as conductive "keys", it's a good idea to just run a little test. We started by just connecting a few alligator clips and testing things out with good old Windows Notepad...here's how:

By default the Makey Makey circuit board supports all we need but the e and q key. Since I could use up arrow in place of the e key and down arrow to slow down was almost as good as the brake key we first set things up this way (In fact the first time we set this up Snap Peas where what we used for contact points and they worked great!)

Still things didn't feel natural (what? driving a car by pressing chunks of play-dough doesn't feel natural???) So we really wanted to set up the q key as a brake pedal and the up arrow as a gas pedal. To do this we'd have to override one of the default keys supported by the Makey Makey circuit board. Luckily the people at JoyLabz who created Makey Makey thought about that and it's pretty easy

The output header at the top of the board allows you to control objects from the Makey Makey. If you are using the Arduino IDE, you can program the board so when keys are pressed, LEDs, motors or the like can be controlled.

For our Crazy Taxi example, we needed to define the q button which is the brake button in Makey Makey. To change this I simply went to www.makeymakey.com/remap and followed the directions Setup mode is initiated by connecting the up arrow to down arrow and the left arrow to right arrow. On the next screen I simply changed the "g" port to become the "q" key

Crazy Box is a type of mission mode for the game. A few of them will be a bit tedious, but they shouldn't be too hard to overcome. There are a total of 16 missions; to get to the special ones, you'll need to finish some of the original nine first. You can use any driver you feel like; I used Gena for every mission but the last, since she's more of a beginner's character compared to the others, so you might want to try her out. Below is a link that'll take you to all 16 missions as individual videos, if watching what to do is more your thing.

For this challenge, you need to drive your taxi off a ramp for at least 150 meters. To do this, use a move called the Crazy Dash. You can perform a Crazy Dash by letting go of , then quickly pressing before holding down again. It should be a very fast three-step process that takes less than a second to perform. You should have enough room to do about three of these on the provided ramp, but you only really should do two; do one right away, and then do one at the very end of the ramp to get the distance you need. There's another boosting move called the Limiter Cut, but you won't have to use that til the very end of the Crazy Box.

This second challenge is incredibly simple. You just need to drive to a flag on the other end of the beach, but you're supposed to drift by quickly pressing and once. But, since you have 20 seconds, you can get to the flag without having to do that at all and just making a slow, sharp turn.

Now you'll have to run into 20 large circular balloons on a grassy field. You only have 45 seconds to hit all of them, but now that you know how to do a Crazy Dash and Crazy Drift, you'll definitely be able to hit all of them in time. Heck, you'll even have enough time without doing any Crazy Drifts.

This is one of the worst levels ever. You have to knock down all 70 pins in this level using Crazy Drifts (and a few Crazy Dashes), and you've only got 30 seconds to do so. Immediately do a Crazy Dash when the level starts and aim your taxi towards the center pins. But, instead of hitting them straight-on, do a Crazy Drift so you can sideswipe them all and hopefully get a strike. Try not to let go of until you've made your turn properly towards the next set of pins. If you miss even a single pin in a set behind you, you may as well restart, because you're never going to have enough time to go back and get it.

To get to the last ten pins, do a few Crazy Dashes and pray that you can sideswipe them all. If you don't, hopefully you have enough time to turn around and hit the last of them; if not, you're going to have to restart from the beginning. It took me about an hour of failed attempts before I finally got this thing right. If you're better at Crazy Taxi than the average person due to having owned it on the Dreamcast, maybe you'll have better luck with it.

The first mission in the second set is really easy. If you're doing these in order, you should be well experienced with making Crazy Drifts. This circular arena is perfect for doing some more of them; all you have to do is drift, but hold down as long as you can to get some combos in. You should only have to do about three drifts before your combo hits 15 and you surpass the target amount.

For Crazy Turn, you just need to get a customer to her destination on the beach within 35 seconds. You need to have a good understanding of CDrifting if you want to have a shot at this, so it's best that you finish 1-S first. Remember, to drop a customer off successful, you need to make a full stop in the location's border, so slow down as you approach to save as much time as possible.

The customer for this challenge needs to get across several big platforms above the ocean, and you aren't allowed to fall in. You're supposed to dash across every ramp towards the next platform, but to make things a bit easier, dash at an angle so you don't have to recover with as wide a turn as you normally would. This too will probably take a few tries to get right. Just like in 2-2, you need to come to a full stop before the customer is satisfied and hops out, so start slowing down when you get close to the goal zone.

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