Credits and Links¶

Acknoweldgements and Credits¶

In creating this website, I would give special thanks to the following who inspired me for this website:

Taito Corporation, for the games and keeping the Battle Gear official website online for time being, complete with archived sites for past Battle Gear games
mokonaXVI (on Twitter / on YouTube)
pooka11509574
derole, for the NESYS Revival Project
goilup, for dumping the US English version of Battle Gear 3.
Anjasmara Putranto, for footage of English version of the first Battle Gear prior to mokonaXVI's acquisition of said game's board.
A.S HORNET, for footage of Battle Gear 2V.
Fatalita/Minardi_M765, for complete "side-by-side" (pun intended!) playthrough of both versions of Side by Side Special.
Agarin Pachi, an Indonesian vtuber who runs a Discord server with a channel for Indonesian arcade discussion.
MAME team, for documenting and emulating (irrespective of playability) Taito JC System, Taito Type-Zero, and Namco System 2x6 hardware drivers
Every Indonesian arcade that keeps their Side by Side/Battle Gear cabinets running. Big thanks in particular to Timezone Istana Plaza (Bandung), for keeping their English Battle Gear 3 cabinet running (as of May 2025; moved from Bandung Indah Plaza/BIP in mid-2024) and various Sky Games (a low-to-mid tier arcade chain) locations for having at least one Taito racer in every of their arcade that I went.
Various people in the retro racing game community, especially the Japanese arcade-goers.
The people in the Tokyo Xtreme Racer/Shutokou Battle Discord server, as I originally noted most of the stuff there. Special thanks in particular for JDR99 and TeddyVLK among them.
Nenkai's GT Modding Hub, which serves as a major influence/inspiration on this website's design and style.
MRGC on GTPlanet for links to Battle Gear 3 community websites.

Links¶

Note

All official, Taito-operated website links are in Japanese language only, except otherwise mentioned.

Official websites¶

Battle Gear (4 Tuned) official website
BG Archives, an archive of past Battle Gear websites

Official websites not covered by Taito's official BG Archives (all Wayback Machine links):

Side by Side
Side by Side 2 Evoluzione - please note that car renders and specifications are missing from the archive.
Battle Gear (English) - the Honda USA issue is mentioned here, but not on the bilingual flyer.
Battle Gear 2 arcade internet rankings - registration extended from March 2001 to September due to release of the PS2 port, but only arcade version scores were accepted.
Battle Gear 2 (PlayStation 2)

Archives of international servers:

world.battlegear.net, original English server/ranking website for Battle Gear 3
bg3.betson.com, North America Battle Gear 3 server site

Regional Battle Gear 3 community websites (archived)¶

Canada: battlegear3.org
Malaysia: bg3my.vze.org
Hong Kong: bg3.org (Traditional Chinese)
South Korea: battlegear3.net (Korean)