A Real Train Driver Plays JR East Train Simulator. Real Japanese Train Cab Footage
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Join Me Richard AKA DAD RAIL, a real life train driver for a drive on JR East Train Simulator.
Based in Japan JR East Train simulator use real life train cab videos, alongside CGI Elements to create a unique train simulator.
Come along for a first play and let me know what you think. Join our chat and banter and hopefully I can answer some of your real life train driving questions.
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Thanks for the video!
Some minor suggestions... Japanese trains are famous for punctuality. It's kinda unbearable not start moving the second when the orange “ready for departure” indicator turns on, resulting in 20s+ timeout.
For speed limits... The new computerized E233-1000 shows its speed limit with the triangular pointer at the rim of speedometer. For the oldschool model 110 dieselhead, the six rectangular lamps at the top right corner are related with speed limits. The second one which comes on at 31:25 is for overspeed warning. If the train continues to accelerate, the third light would illuminate (like what's happening at 37:09) , indicating that automatic safety brakes are applied to prevent further overspeeding. Once the speed falls below the limit, the brakes would release. However don't rely on this mechanism to maintain a proper speed. It's only a failsafe.
35:33 The "beep" and E-key is for EB system. Basically it's a watchdog/deadman timer verifying the driver's presence and consciousness at a regular interval to prevent something in the movie Unstoppable from happening. If the driver fails to respond the beep by pushing the button in several seconds, then tschhhhhhhhh... Here comes the emergency brake!
Bit late to the party on this one Richard, but thanks for sharing your review. Have been thinking about buying this having tried the Kyoto and Meitetsu sims from another developer (the latter in Japanese only so a real challenge to sort out). Problem with the video clip format is that you only ever get the run in one set of conditions, no weather, no twilight or night, no seasonal variation. The concept kind of took off in the late 90's prior to getting games like MSTS with a proper graphics engine, there was even a UK video based sim called Cab View Driver, which became known as Crap View Driver as it used dreadfully low res Railscene videos, complete with swinging camera when Jeremy English (RIP) spotted something of interest out the side of the train!
With no speed limit displayed on screen, no real objectives or variation (from Steam reviews the routes can only be driven in one direction) it's more of an interactive cab ride than a true simulator. Might take a look if it gets a decent discount in the Xmas Steam sale, there seems to be a fair bit of DLC (also quite expensive) for it too.
They really need to think about putting this to a proper graphics engine so you at least enjoy the sort of gameplay and viewpoints we take for granted in TSC and TSW. You are correct though that DTG could learn a thing or two about sounds from this game! :)
When i worked for British Rail, the early form of AWS was being used and some drivers decided to turn it off, until they were caught, I remember a sign in the crew room informing everyone what the consequences were of anyone repeating that action.
Actually the original (video based) train simulator appeared in 1995 from Ongakukan on the PC and Mac well before MS trainsim. They later ported it to the Playstation consoles in varying forms. Not sure if videos of these are out there.
I’ve got vague memories of playing it, although it ran terribly!
@@DadRail lol...i bet.
I would like to play this but, It would be so much better if it was in other formats ( SONY PLAYSTATION 😉👍 ) not just on steam.
Thanks for the video ! Where can I find easy and complete documentation about the japanese railway signaling to learn it and play jr east ?
27:57 that guy is right. You used to be able to play this game (or a very similar one) online for free.
Was the train sim called BVE
BVE is a great sim
@@DadRail the sim was great but the community became a little sour. A lot of falling out. BVE T was the forum at the time but that died and the community went in different directions, BVE worldwide is now the only decent forum where you can find most add ins for that game now.
@@DadRail BVE 5 actually has a ton of content from japanese creators, but the rules are kind of stingy, like example some routes cannot be streamed some can, runaway driving is not allowed, if a video will made about it, you cannot monetize it, that sort of thing. The consequence put by the creator is that they'll remove the route.
The amount of interuptions, cheesy jingles and other distractions make this just unwatchable for me. Shame as you seem a nice guy, but the format is so 90s cheesy quiz show. Interupting the drive for that daft quiz = not good.
Thanks for your feedback. I guess the format is not everybody’s cup of tea.