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@jeff-strutb jeff-strutb released this 08 Oct 03:38
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v0.88
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Rally Builder makes a native build of a game from your own copy of it. Pick one of three:

  • Boss Rally (PC, 1999), from your retail CD, with its CD soundtrack.
  • Top Gear Rally (Nintendo 64, 1997), from your cartridge ROM.
  • Top Gear Rally Remastered, from both: Top Gear Rally's menus, seasons and soundtrack, with every race run by Boss Rally's engine on the same tracks.

On a Mac, Boss Rally and Top Gear Rally build for the Mac, and Remastered for the Mac or for the iPhone and iPad; on Windows, each builds for Windows. The games' data is copyrighted, so the builder does not include it: you provide your dumps, the builder checks them by MD5, takes what the game needs from them, and produces a game that runs on its own. The dumps are not needed once the build is done.

Version 0.88 is the decompilations' byte-exact (M2) progress, the average of the two:

Boss Rally M2      77.55%  (349494 / 450649 B)
Top Gear Rally M2  100.00%  (379932 / 379932 B)

Download

  • macOS (12 or later, Apple silicon and Intel): RallyBuilder-0.88-macOS.zip. Unzip and open Rally Builder. It is not notarized: if macOS refuses to open it, Control-click it and choose Open, or allow it in System Settings, Privacy & Security.
  • Windows (10 or later, 64-bit): RallyBuilder-0.88-Windows.zip. Unzip it and run RallyBuilder.exe from the unzipped folder (the games folder beside it holds the games' code). It is not signed: if SmartScreen stops it, choose More info, then Run anyway.
  • Linux is not built yet.

What it needs

Game Your dump MD5
Top Gear Rally (for Top Gear Rally and Remastered) ROM of the USA cartridge 6f7030284b6bc84a49e07da864526b52 in .z64 byte order (.v64 and .n64 dumps are accepted)
Boss Rally (for Boss Rally and Remastered) BIN/CUE image of the retail CD BIN 31c64f9b1e09788c2dfc384b44af8f6c, CUE a48a4a5860558177c3041afee57e03c9 (another ripper's cue sheet with the same track layout is accepted)

What it makes

  • Mac: Boss Rally.app, Top Gear Rally.app or Top Gear Rally Remastered.app.
  • iPhone and iPad (Remastered, from the Mac builder, iOS 16 or later): Top Gear Rally Remastered.ipa. When your Mac has Xcode signing (a development certificate with a provisioning profile for it), the .ipa is signed with it, ready to install from Xcode (Devices and Simulators) or Apple Configurator. Otherwise the builder says so in red and the .ipa is unsigned, for you to sign and install with a tool such as AltStore or Sideloadly.
  • Windows: a folder named for the game, with the game's .exe in it.

Top Gear Rally Remastered

The menus are Top Gear Rally's; each race is run by Boss Rally's engine and its result goes back into Top Gear Rally's results, season and records. The options screen adds Widescreen (the races and menus fill any window shape), Music (Top Gear Rally's N64 soundtrack, or Boss Rally's PC CD soundtrack) and Show FPS. Two players race split screen, side by side when Widescreen is on. The controller screen sets each player's keys and gamepad buttons. On the iPhone and iPad, touch drives it: in a race a finger on the right steers and accelerates, one on the left brakes; in the menus, tap and swipe; two fingers pause.

Saves live in your user folder (Application Support on macOS, the iPhone and the iPad, AppData on Windows), so rebuilding never touches them. Source: builder/, ports/.

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