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Movies / Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X / M6859
DOS Level 1Imported

Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X

by eien86

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Introduction

Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X is a neat racing game for the DOS that offers some unique mechanics inspired in the homonymous anime. You can activate the jump springs, afterburners, guns, tree-cutting saws, underwater scuba-driving, etc. In this movie I finish the first level (of many) that involves going all circuits once. An all-level movie would be too long and repetitive to do without getting horribly bored.

I also go for success in all the missions assigned to each race. These missions give you extra money, which is relatively useful at the beginning. However, by the last level I just do them for completion purposes.

I created an additional installation movie because the installation in this game takes unreasonably long. I manually defeat the copy protection by checking the Mach Y specs documentation.

Software + Hardware

Emulator

  • EmuHawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)

ROM

https://www.goodolddays.net/en/diskimages/?id=371

Steps:

  • Download the 3 disk images and put them in a folder
  • Put the following in an speed_racer.xml file in the same folder
<BizHawk-XMLGame System="DOS" Name="speed_racer">
  <LoadAssets>
    <Asset FileName="./disk1.img" />
    <Asset FileName="./disk2.img" />
    <Asset FileName="./disk3.img" />
  </LoadAssets>
</BizHawk-XMLGame>
  • Run this movie to install the game, and click DOS > Export Hard Disk Drive to generate a .hdd hard disk drive image
  • Load the HDD image and run this movie

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