NoEmulation - All FMV sequences run flawlessly. The menu text and elements are bled and remain on screen when changes and navigations are made, and not all menu choices are shown on screen (see first attached screenshot). During a race, color mode changes and all graphics become messy.
Primary Surface - Text flickers during opening credits (see second attached screenshot). Menu text blinks once and disappears during navigation and setting changes. Game crashes immediately as soon as race begins loading.
No problem for the game, I got my old CD copy.
The reason why it didn't log is because the game frontend runs the engine ROADRASH.EXE directly on the CD, where it's obviously impossible to create a log file.
I tricked the game by copying the entire contend of the CD ROADRASH folder on HD and updating some registry entries, so now I got some preliminary logs.
It's early to draw conclusions, but the problems I saw could be similar to those of other good games, so I'll try to find a solution.
One thing that puzzles me instead is the fact that the game seems perfectly playable, with the moto races and all things working. I tested it quickly with the latest release v2.1.91, automatic DirectX version hook, Primary surface emulation and just the "Remap GDI client rect" option on.
Stay tuned for the news.....
For fans of this good old-fashioned bike game, there is a hidden hotkey where you can hide the textures of models (buildings, mountains, etc..), and I'm proud that I'm the first person who figure out the trick :)
You just need to press the subtract key [-] mutiple times to transform, and press the add key [+] to revert the textures into normal. The developer might use these keys for debugging purposes, so they didn't want to popularized it.
@cloudstr: Oh, my, the problems seems to depend on a vicious interaction between USER32 and DDRAW, very likely the "real" coordinate (who knows why only one?) filtered from the BeginPaint region area.
May the Programmer's God forgive me for this quick & dirty fix that doesn't understand and eradicate the problem but just cures its effects.
I mean, it works!
@anyone else: fix for v2.04.38 avoiding "Road Rush" lost blits (black screens or other graphical problems)
Here it works better, maybe I had to click twice, but I'm not sure. It may depend on a message queue saturation when the CPU is overloaded. Does the same effect happen if you press the key? In any case, if it is a CPU power problem, I fear I can't help...
I paste the request here to avoid opening another thread on the same game. Let's see if that is possible and what happens .... it will take a little time because, as I said, I'm running on emergency conditions.
Yes, you can. It's pretty simple, here's how to.
I assume you managed to have a working entry of the game in DxWnd configuration. With my settings, I see that the game window is difficult to drag and move on screen, so you need a second game entry with changed coordinates. For instance, I had the first 800x600 instance at the default position 50,50. To create a second entry I used the command right-click -> Duplicate, then updated the second entry setting the x position at 900 (that is 50 + 800 + 50). This way the two windows are supposed to stay one by side of the other and spaced of 50 pixels, Of course, you can make your own calculations and fit the space how you like best.
But this is not enough: DxWnd must be configured to be allowed to control multiple games (by default this is not true). So, be sure o be in expert mode, then go to Options -> Global settings and tick on the "Allow multiple hooks" flag.
That's it, here's the result. The two games will run in parallel but only the game with focus will receive the keyboard input, which means probably you won't have a good performance in both races.
Road Rash contains 5 different tracks and offers 3 game modes: Trash mode (sit on the bike and at play), Big Game Mode (Championship, where you start as a beginner and you have to move to the top) and Mano-a-Mano Game Mode (multiplayer game over a network). Road Rash is not a traditional racing game, where bikers are fair, but the game has a great atmosphere, gameplay and catchy music.
There are several characters to choose from, which differ in graphics, the initial bike, money and the tool with which you will smash your opponents - so choose wisely :) As you start to race, you get selection of 5 locations, which in the first level are about 8 km long (in the last one they are well over 20 km). Aim to complete these races with a minimum finish of third place to advance further. You gradually buy more powerful bikes with the money you earn and fortunately, the prices are quite reasonable.
The competition here is definitely not fair, so you have at your disposal either a very effective kick to the opponent or, depending on the chosen rider, either a fist, a baseball bat or a chain. Opponents use the same thing, so they can appear next to you and wave their chain in the air threateningly. Races are full of adrenaline thanks to this, because combined with tricky tracks, you have to be damn careful about absolutely everything.
Despite outdated graphics Road Rash excels in every other department. It is a blast to play, and will keep even the most die-hard racing fans glued to the screen. It is just one of the best old games ever made.
Hello,
I tried playing this game in the browser but the game window shows "The program cannot run in DOS mode" so unable to play the game. Also, right now I am not able to play this game by downloading it as I am facing other display issue after the race starts...nothing is wrong with your download game file as i installed this game from different sources one by one & each time I faced the same display issue where the bottom half of the screen blacks-out after the race starts...so i am trying to play this game in browser instead of downloading. Please if you can resolve the browser issue, it will be a great help..thanks..
Thanks,
Ruchi
My bad, this game shouldn't be playable online, it's a windows game and there is no good way to play win games online. I've removed the online play.
You have to download the game and run it locally on your computer.
HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIN. Nothing else mattered. HAHA I HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIN. No-one cared about winning the race. THE CHAIN THE CHAIN HIT EACH OTHER WITH THE CHAIN ALL THE TIME THE CHAIN. This was the experience of trekking to the local games shop every school lunchtime, and paying the very obviously child-hating storekeeper 25p for a ten minute go on a Sega Mega Drive running Road Rash. It's a motorbike racing game, but really it's about hitting people in the face with chains. Road Redemption [official site], a spiritual sequel Kickstarted back in 2013, has spent the past 18 months promising it's about to leave Steam Early access, and now, finally, it has. The chain is mine once again.
I took Road Redemption for a test drive three years ago, and as if the increasingly rapid passage of time wasn't already bewildering enough, I'm fairly surprised to find how fundamentally similar the game is in 2017. Which is to say, at heart Road Redemption is incredibly stupid, because Road Rash was incredibly stupid and to do anything else would be sick and twisted villainy.
You drive fast along a desert road filled with cars and other motorcyclists. These motorcyclists will beat you with iron bars and stab you with knives and batter you with spades and rend you with chains if you get too close, which means that you must attempt to murder them at 120MPH before they can do these things. Sometimes it is a race, in which opponents can be eliminated with a swift spade to the face (although numbers are replenished from the infinite ranks of other motorists), and sometimes you are outright told to murder anyone else.
It's more advanced than Road Rash in that there are modes, and more weapons, and all manner of vaguely nauseating murder- and crash-physics, but really it's the game but faster and with far more regular bar/knife/spade/chain > face action.
One other big difference, though. Though it had AI opponents, Road Rash was a game that was really only fit for paying 25p so you could smack your mates in the face with a 16-bit chain. Road Redemption, by contrast, has a campaign, and it's a little roguelitey.
Lest you fear this sounds complicated from a game that has always been the exact opposite of complicated, let me put it like this: you can upgrade weapons and replenish health between missions, and missions are basically only A RACE or MURDER EVERYONE. If you die, you lose your upgrades, but you get to spend experience on a different set of upgrades that provide minor boosts to e.g. health and damage forever. That's it! It's Road Rash but with unlocks, and some Australian fella occasionally shouting things at you in the background.
Road Rash is one cool action motor race game. Cruise on your bike through nice sceneries, while kicking off fellow roadies, which are of course opponents. If you are not careful enough, the police might get involved.
To get the thing running, just unpack the zip file and double click on 'runonce.bat' to get the registry file saved away. After that you can just double click roadrash.exe.
On my computer the 'home' button was pressed continuously and driving was horrible..
update: Ran it now in a virtual pc: windows xp, and ran pretty ok.
by Latis
Windows
This is a Windows game. Sometimes it should be run on an older Windows version or at least a 32-bit Windows. You could use VMware player (free) and install an older Windows on a virtual machine. e.g. I have installed my old Windows XP 32bit on VMware. More info on that you can find over here.
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