Road Rash

What works

Thrash (aka Arcade) mode and Big Game mode.

What does not

A Warning dialog box appears before the start of each race complaining of a midi error. Does not appear to affect the game, however.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Mano-A-Mano mode (network play)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

On install, the files are not correctly copied to the virtual C drive - this needs to be done manually from the CD to the directory (which the installer does create) off C:\. Before you start the game, you must apply the NO CD patch available here: http://m0006.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_road_rash.shtml And also install aweman32.dll (available from dll-files.com) into the windows/system32 directory of your virtual c drive. For the in-game MIDI music to work (not essential), TiMidity++ must be running. More info here: http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=mid Once I had configured it, to start TiMidity++ I had to load this module: (run command as root) modprobe snd-seq-midi-emul This enables the music but doesn't remove the Midi Error Warning dialog box, however.

In order to install the game, you must first set the Windows version to Windows 95.
The install will not work on recent versions of Wine (maybe due to the dropping of Win9x support). It is reported to also fail on Windows 7 64-bit. However it is enough to copy the 'roadrash' folder from the CD and to add some registry entries:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\RoadRash 95]
@=""
"Path"="X:\\1"
"CheckDialup"=hex:00
"ChatState"=hex:02
"MiniDash"=hex:00
"OpponentList"=hex:01

Set "Path" to your CD drive (e.g. "D:\\1") or to your game folder (e.g. "C:\\Games\\RoadRash") if you are using a NoCD.

The race musics are in MIDI format, you need to install and *configure* a midi synth (such as timidity or fluidsynth). See the MIDI page on Wine Wiki.