Beta 1.2

Beta 1.2

Install: download Setup.exe and run it (you need your own decrypted disc image; nothing from the game is included here). Already on Beta 1.1? Click the update button in the settings window that opens when you start the game (or hold Shift while starting it) - it installs in seconds and restarts. On Beta 1? Run Setup.exe once more.

New

• Recomp Options in the game. All of the PC version's settings are now in Options > RECOMP OPTIONS: display, graphics, sound, controls, online and updates. Works with controller, keyboard and mouse. Settings that need a restart are marked and the game offers to restart for you. The separate settings window no longer opens at start (hold Shift while starting the game if you still want it).
• Updates from inside the game: Options > Recomp Options > Updates & Help checks for and installs new versions. The game also checks when you go online and tells you when an update is ready. Updates are now handled by a small separate program (RidgeRacerUpdater.exe).
• Performance overlay: show the frame rate, or frame times and renderer details, in a corner of the picture (Recomp Options > Online & System).
• Draw distance setting (Recomp Options > Graphics): see scenery further away.
• Screenshots folder shortcut in Recomp Options, and a short on-screen message when you change the volume.
• Online: if players are waiting to join your room during a race, you get a message telling you to choose SELECT after the race to let them in.
• Bug reports can also be made from Recomp Options > Updates & Help, and there are buttons for the GitHub issues page and our Discord.

Fixed

• Setup could not find the game when its file or folder name contained square brackets, for example RIDGE RACER [ULUS10001].iso (issue #1).
• Rev gauges were always full on cars with the bar or ring gauge (for example Danver and Gnade cars): they now fill with the engine speed like on the PSP.
• Menus on the port's own pages (Recomp Options, server browser, name entry) no longer move twice per tap at high frame rates.
• The volume shown in the options now matches after changing it with F8 / F9 / F10.

Known issues

• Cars far away can still be drawn with their simple (low-poly) model, even with the draw distance at its maximum. Still being worked on.
• Frame rates above your monitor's refresh rate (for example 240 on a 144 Hz monitor) look uneven; the frame rate setting now points this out.
• Windows Defender may flag the game as a false positive because it is not code-signed. If it does, restore it from Protection history or exclude the game folder.

This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Bandai Namco. All code was written by AI (Claude, by Anthropic); the project's owner directed and tested it.

Checksums (SHA-256)

• Setup.exe: 5e09562ef803395319355ec6fd37b1abae5da2ad561c9b1d4a3ec48b074f785e
• RidgeRacer-Update.zip: 42b82c67beec74d47e0fbcb3216abbcc916ea4a5572cb0665941667ee817c442