Who created Crazy Taxi?

Crazy Taxi is a series of racing games developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega. It was first available as an arcade video game in 1999, then released for the Dreamcast console in 2000.

Who are the characters in Crazy Taxi 3?

Joe, Gena, Gus, Slash, Iceman, Cinnamon and Hot-D making for a total 12 drivers. Eventually all drivers can be played on any stage.

What is the point of Crazy Taxi?

In Crazy Taxi players are tasked with earning fares by taking customers to destinations as quickly as possible. The main objective of the game is to pick up customers and take them to their chosen destination as quickly as possible .

Are they remaking Crazy Taxi?

It is correct information that Sega is developing full remakes of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio in Unreal Engine 5 with most of the original staff. These titles would release before the GaaS reboots. The previous plan before this month was to release Jet Set Radio remake and reboot in 2026 and Crazy Taxi in 2027.

It is directed and storyboarded by Baku Kinosh*ta and written by Kazuya Konomoto while Konomoto and Hiromi Nakayama designed the characters. The music for the series is composed by OMSB, PUNPEE and VaVa.

Who is the creator of taxi show?

This article helped suggest the idea for the show to James L. Brooks and David Davis , though nothing from the article was used directly. The article was a profile of several drivers who worked the night shift for a New York cab company.

Who started the taxi business?

Taxis as we know them started in 1891… In 1897, Gottlieb Daimler built the world's first dedicated gasoline-powered taxi vehicle. Equipped with a taximeter, it was called the Daimler Victoria and was delivered to German entrepreneur Friedrich Greiner. He founded the world's first motorised taxi company in Stuttgart.

Who created big yellow taxi?

Joni Mitchell remembers the inspiration for "Big Yellow Taxi" very well. "I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii," she told the L.A. Times in 1996. "I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance.

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller - PCGamingWiki PCGW (2024)

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Developers

	Hitmaker
Windows	Strangelite
Publishers
Europe	Empire Interactive
Japan	Sega
Russia	Akella^[1]
Release dates
Windows	February 26, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Sponsored
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Arcade, Driving
Vehicles	Automobile, Transport
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Contemporary, North America
Series	Crazy Taxi

Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi	2002
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller	2004
Crazy Taxi (2011)	2011
Crazy Taxi (Steam)	2014

1 Availability
2 Monetization
- 2.1 Microtransactions
3 Essential improvements
- 3.1 CT3Tweaks
- 3.2 Xinput Fix
4 Game data
- 4.1 Configuration file(s) location
- 4.2 Save game data location
5 Video
6 Input
7 Audio
- 7.1 Original Xbox Music
- 7.2 Localizations
8 Issues unresolved
- 8.1 Game stutters on switching music files during gameplay
9 Other information
- 9.1 API
10 System requirements
11 Notes
12 References

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points: Lacks the Xbox soundtrack that included Offspring and Bad Religion tracks from across the series, among others. See Original Xbox Music to restore the original soundtrack.; Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. Use CT3Tweaks to adjust the cap.; Does not support analog brakes or acceleration on controller.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDiscv3 DRM^{[Note 1]}. The game works on Windows 10 x64, but doesn't work with Matroska Splitter or LAV Filters. Uninstall all. The FX version starts from `inicio del jogo.exe`.
Retail		Xplosiv re-release is DRM-free and can be run without the disc after installation.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller requires an upfront purchase to access.
Sponsored	Several prominent real world establishments, such as Burger King, HMV, and FAO Schwarz, are featured as destinations to drive customers to.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller has no microtransactions.

Essential improvements

CT3Tweaks

Adds custom resolutions, a FOV slider, and 60 FPS support.

FOV slider and widescreen fix only affect the default camera.

Increasing the framerate cap beyond 30 FPS results in a visual glitch when driving on certain kinds of dust where all shadows and visual effects will briefly fly away from the camera and reset multiple times per second depending on the player's speed.
This goes away as soon as the player is off the dust.

Xinput Fix

Fixes the trigger problem on most XInput controllers, like the Xbox One controller, when using the config application.
By default, using the trigger will crash the config. This XInput Plus file swaps the axis on the triggers to buttons, which stops the config from crashing and allows use for XInput controllers.

Extract the file in the directory where the game is installed, then open CT3Config.exe, setup the controller and it should work.
It's recommended to do this before using CT3Tweaks.

If controls doesn't work or aren't recognized in the config, open up XInput Plus, select CT3.exe as the target program, go to the DirectInput tab, select the Advanced sub-tab, click Detect on the controller of choice, and press any button on the controller.
The controller should be recognized by the game now.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\TAXI3.CFG^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game^{[Note 2]}

Video

External resolution and audio settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use CT3Tweaks
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Use CT3Tweaks
4K Ultra HD		Use CT3Tweaks
Field of view (FOV)	Use CT3Tweaks
Windowed	Use dgVoodoo 2 or D3DWindower
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Use dgVoodoo 2
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Use dgVoodoo 2
Vertical sync (Vsync)	Use dgVoodoo 2
60 FPS	Use CT3Tweaks
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

External keyboard bindings

External gamepad settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Does not support mapping to analog triggers.
Controller remapping		Does not support remapping movement from analog stick or assigning multiple buttons to a single input.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		While the game supports XInput controllers by default, the left and right triggers are not recognized by the external configurator.^[4] To add trigger support, see XInput Plus.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers		Generic DirectInput controllers are supported.
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Referred to as "Enable Force Feedback". Can be toggled from the external configuration.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders for Music, SE and Voice.
Surround sound		Plays up to 7.1.^[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		The game uses licensed songs with no option to change to other songs

Original Xbox Music

Extract the music files into <path-to-game>\Media\Music to restore the Xbox soundtrack.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Uses metric measurements.
Italian				FX Interactive release only.
Japanese				Japanese release only.
Russian				Official localization by Akella. Local retail only.
Spanish				FX Interactive release only.

Issues unresolved

Game stutters on switching music files during gameplay

Since the same tracks play in the same looping order every time and the game has no problem playing long music files, the initial tracks can be appended with the others until they are longer than a play session to ensure the stutter doesn't happen. The audio tracks that play (looping) are:

m03.ogg to m04.ogg to m05.ogg for West Coast
m08.ogg to m09.ogg to m10.ogg for Glitter Oasis
m13.ogg to m14.ogg to m15.ogg for Small Apple

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0b

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible	128 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0 compatible

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[3]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ [1] - last accessed on 2023-02-25
↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-08-24
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-08-24
Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.