Your pit crew will beg you to turn around, but eventually the big 'Reverse' banner will move to the bottom of the screen, and in the Japanese version you'll hear Takenobu Mitsuyoshi yell "逆走だぁー！！" ("You're Driving Backwards!!"), signifying you're now running the race in reverse. Obviously, there's one very big difference between this and Power Edition's more 'legitimate' implementation though - you're driving into oncoming traffic! This easter egg is actually a carry over from the original game, including the Mitsuyoshi shout.

If you're able to do this and actually finish the race, you're treated to a unique sight; the ending credits for the stage, despite the fact you technically finished last!

This toggles the vocalist opposite to the game's current default settings. The US region default is Dennis St James, while the JP default is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. This code's notable as with the US board region, it's actually the only way to hear Mitsuyoshi's vocals - you can't change the vocalist setting in the Test Menu outside of Japan!

Apparently this was also supposed to change the announcer clip used when selecting the Challenge/Mix course in Power Edition too - in the Japanese version, you'll always hear Mitsuyoshi shout 'MIX!' when selecting it, and in the US version you'll always hear Dennis St James say "Challenge"; but opposite voice clips exist for both versions!

If you just can't get enough of the Beginner Course song (like me), why not just listen to it on every course? Each VR Button corresponds to a different song. The order's pretty obvious, but it's as follows:

That last one's a bit odd - it literally just plays through the different 'Victory Lane' themes, and then once the last one ends, it's... just over. Could've popped an unused track in here, SEGA...

The Hornet Special has one major difference over every other car - you can customise its stats on the Car Select screen! Using the VR buttons and steering wheel, you can change the Engine, Steering and Suspension to better suit your playstyle, or just make an absolute monster of a car. For years it was assumed that this car was an unfinished leftover of some kind, because people could only figure out how to access it via hacking - which bypassed the customisation aspect, and basically broke its stats, making it nigh impossible to actually use. It's speculated that the only people who actually knew about the code to unlock the Hornet Special were superplay group Team Marubaku (MBK), who referred to it in their SuperPlay videos for the game but didn't share the code. In the end, over 20 years later, It was The Cutting Room Floor who finally datamined the solution. Even the official Daytona 2 guidebooks don't mention this car!

The LED sign will cycle through various messages as you tap the Start Button. Some are fairly standard, such as 'ERROR' and 'SEGA'. Others sound like taglines, ('REAL HOT RACER!') and some are just straight up rude, as you can see above.

You see all those spaceships flying around in the sky? Well now you can control them! Or at least, their weaponry; tapping Start makes them fire their lasers. Which doesn't really do much besides covering the track with explosions.

Holding Start during this part of the track will cause the fans here to spin. That's pretty fun. Peak of excitement, innit.

Anyway, this is the part where I get a bit of an ego, because there's actually a second part to this particular Start Button secret - that would've gone completely undiscovered, where it not for the fact I was really bored one day. For some reason, I pondered how fast those fans could spin - and I figured the best way to test this out was to hold Start for an entire lap, then come back to the harbor area.

Yes, if you hold the Start Button for an entire lap, the fans will literally fly off their hinges, shoot off into the sky, and eventually disappear behind a hill in the distance. When I first saw this, I was absolutely dumbfounded that they actually thought to program something so... specific. But then again, that's 90's SEGA for you. This will always be the bizarre Daytona USA 2 thing I discovered, so it'll always be sort of special to me, as ridiculous as that sounds. Incidentally, if you'd rather see these in action - because these screenshots are all native res and can be somewhat hard to make out - I uploaded a video of all three of these secrets a while ago.

Another holdover from the original Daytona USA. You can use this to change how zoomed in the traffic camera on the HUD is. Maybe you'll find this helpful!