New racing game "Highway Fighter" hits the MSX market

Nice Work Congratulations!!

smooth?
It plays at 60 fps (road fighter plays at 30 fps).
Please make sure you select the youtube quality setting at HD 60 fps to watch the video at 60 fps, or even better, try the demo on a real msx (msx emulators break the scroll constantly and it is unplayable, plus there is a delay on the controls response time).
Also, the game should be played at 60fps on a real msx (instead of 50).
It is way smoother than road fighter.

Screen 10, very awesome!

Oh... in a crosswalk...

HAHAHAAHAHA

which muscle cars? the player's cars?
according to calculations, the player's cars run at near 120km/h

I also get the impression that speed is "low"... maybe the size of the car (larger than the sprite used in road fighter) tends to reduce the "speed feeling" compared with road width.
Did you try to "double" the vertical scroll speed?

Anyway great work, especially the turbo R+OPL4 version... I'm charmed by the attention to details like the puddles that change aspect after the car has "splashed" them

Some more scroll speed could indeed give some more sense of speed.

We will not release a Kai Magazine Collection 3 since game compilations devaluate our games. Those of you who are waiting for us to release a Kai Magazine collection 3 to get your hands on Dim X and Highway Fighter, don't need to wait anymore.

I see how this could be missunderstood.
My statement was not an answer to the previous messages in this post. We published this decision everywhere.
There are many reasons not to release a Kai magazine collection 3.
Some of them being:
On the last Kai Magazine collection anouncement, many people wrote to me complaining (with reason) about the low price of the collection and the fact that they purchased the 3 independent games in it for a much bigger price.
That is a kick in the balls for many supporters. I should have never done that but I was desperate for money to pay the rent. When people gets desperate, they (me) tend to do stupid things without thinking on the consecuencies.
Another of the reasons is:
I examined the ratio on digital pre-purchases and cartridge pre-purchases.
Usually, digital prepurchases are a fraction of cartridge pre-purchases.
In this case, there are more digital purchases than cartridges.
Numbers are ok, I am not complaining, and the game is being liked, I receive all kinds of feedback from everywhere (thank you everyone), but this shows me that something is wrong if there are more digital orders than cartridges when it has always been 2 digital orders for every 10 cartridges.
This made me think that, while the game is liked and successful, some buyers who always purchased all previous games on cartridge now they are waiting for a kai magazine compilation.
Once I realised that possibility I simply published an statement clarifying that we will not make any more Kai Magazine collections.
This decision was taken long ago, after receiving some comments on usual supporters.
We will not do that mistake again. I just wanted to let everyone know that.

Regarding the tips and ways to improve the game, those have been discussed here:
https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/software/highway-fighter-...

Thank you everyone for your feedback and your suggestions.
Please read that thread to see what can be improved and what cannot, and why.
Thanks!

Highway fighter is finished!
There is a new function: you can increase or decrease the engine and brake sound effects volume on the title screen by pressing f1 and f2 keys. (only in the title screen)
This is only useful for the fm+psg version (or music module + psg). On opl4 is not necessary.
The music module samples have been fixed (there was an issue and only some sounds were loaded) and it sounds quite good.
The fuel is a bit easier to pick.
Other improvements have been made.
Thank you everyone for your feedback!

Just wondering: how did you manage to pull it off with these huge 'sprites'? With MSX-Basic-kun?