this is last racing games project cars 3 (delisted 2025)released by namco is flopped so hard and namco had cancelled develop new racing game like rr8.Also they dropped license for this title on website back in 2025
This screenshot was from a few hours ago, Really good start for the ridge racer franchise. I just have to play the extra levels now...
Rage Racer PC is getting some graphical upgrades.
Some of them are already available in newly released version 0.4-alpha, available for Linux, macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows.
You can download it here (requires the original game, PAL preferred, but should work with NTSC, cue + bin format): https://github.com/khasinski/rage-racer-pc/releases/tag/0.4-alpha
Press F10 in-game to switch between a classic PS1 and a modern configurable renderer.
Disclaimers:
This isn't emulation or static recompilation, this version is built from the decompiled source code. While it's still an early alpha you can download and test it here: https://github.com/khasinski/rage-racer-pc/releases (macOS, Linux, Windows). It requires a PAL copy of Rage Racer in bin/cue format.
Expect bugs and broken things!
Disclaimer: AI helped at both decompilation and porting efforts but I'm a software engineer and I write/reverse code manually for this as well :)
I played RR7 for the first time in the year of our lord 2026, that game is 20 years old now and I'm shocked how the racing genre has fallen ever since.
Yeah we got better graphics, physics etc but the overall presentation of this game is miles ahead of anything I've seen in the last 20 years! It's cohesive, engaging, exciting and it all adds up to the fun so much. I'm not just talking menus, fonts, animations, but very distinctive circuits built around unique landmarks that hit just right and make themselves memorable.
When compared to a ton of modern racers it's like they don't even give a shit about the menu. A lot of them don't even have a distinctive visual identity, it's like they completely skip this step. And you can see how much it cripples those games when you, let's say upgrade your engine in RR7 and a little badge shows up on your rev meter to show what part you've installed. Small stuff like this! Or even the rev needle having that little blur at night. It's shit like this that makes you care because they cared making it.
And don't get me started on tracks, now it feels like they make some terrain first and run a track through it. That's it. In RR7 (and other ridge racers too) it's like they go "Ok what would be fun to see when driving, what would be fun to drive on?" and they go from there. I don't see that almost at all in modern racers.
I dunno dudes, all I know is that playing this game for the first time I noticed all of that and it brought in so much fun to the experience that I haven't felt in years playing racing games.
You guys never heard of this bootlegs
I used to play this game way back...maybe around 2010 i think on PC. When the game loaded, the first song that got played was "smoke on the water". It was a offline racing game, mostly offroad maps i think....3 Laps around a track. And if your car hits the wall or other cars, its health would be damaged(which was shown by a green colored chassis that would become red if parts get damaged)
Please if enyone knows it i would be super glad to let me know...thankyou
Every function is named and mapped, most of the globals/variables are also identified. This will speed up the PC port development considerably, I already have a playable version for macOS (which should also be trivial to port to Linux).
There is an asset browser if you'd like to see what's in there: https://github.com/khasinski/rage-racer-decomp/tree/main/tools/assetbrowser (it's not very friendly, but it should do the trick).
I just beat the RRT4 emulator world record for Any%!! Still possible to gain one second!
I noticed nobody had shared the news here. So excited! RRR / RR2 can't be far.
No roms are included.
incredibly down bad for R4 right now so I made a mock-up of some kind of teaser poster or w/e. decided to share it, hope ya like it.
Decided to go the extra mile and also do mock-ups for the title screen and main menu of this fake RIDGE RACER TYPE 4: reMAKE thing I've been doing. Super, super happy with how these turned out, even with some minor inconsistencies between the two images. The reason the "Options" menu tab looks like that is a little nod to the text formatting of the original PSX version of R4, where letters would not underhang, so the P sits above with the rest of the letters. I didn't work well for "Garage", so that one wasn't able to get the same treatment.