Rage Racer PC 0.3-alpha

Unsigned alpha builds for macOS arm64, Linux x86-64, and Windows x86-64.

This release contains no game data. At first launch, choose the .cue sheet for a legally obtained PAL Rage Racer disc image; the selection is saved locally.

Highlights:

• Opt-in modern renderer next to the faithful PS1 one: z-buffered rendering at a configurable internal scale, optional 16:9 presentation, an uncapped interpolated frame rate, an extended draw distance, and FXAA. Create a rage-port.cfg next to the executable to enable it:

  renderer=modern
  modern.internal_scale=4
  modern.aspect=16:9
  modern.fps=vsync
  modern.post=fxaa
  modern.texture_filter=linear

  Without the file, the classic PS1-accurate renderer is used.

• Renderer effects: CLUT-aware texture filtering (modern.texture_filter=linear), optional highlight glow (modern.bloom) and colour grading (modern.grading=vibrant), smooth per-vertex depth cueing.

• The distant road no longer shows sky-coloured lines across it in the modern renderer (the authored LOD strips tile again like the GTE's integer output).

• Rear-view mirror fixes in both renderers: rivals no longer scroll against the track, the mirror stays correct while sliding in and during pause, and rival cars no longer show black shadow plates over their lower half.

• Car models no longer sink into the road at hill crests.

• Engine and effect audio restored: the engine drone, skids and impacts play and track the revs (SPU loop-address and pitch-update fixes in the PSY-Z layer).

• CD audio pauses during data loads the way the PS1 drive does, so the prologue music no longer bleeds under the menus.

Optional: 100% complete save — Rage-Racer-0.3-alpha-complete-save.zip contains a retail-format PAL memory-card save (save data only, no game assets) with the Advanced Series, all classes, all 13 cars with top upgrades, max money and first-place records unlocked. Unpack the bu00 folder into the directory you start the game from and load slot 1 from the title-screen memory-card menu; see the bundled README.txt for per-OS details.

Rage Racer PC 0.2-alpha

Unsigned alpha builds for macOS arm64, Linux x86-64, and Windows x86-64.

This release contains no game data. At first launch, choose the .cue sheet for a legally obtained PAL Rage Racer disc image; the selection is saved locally.

Highlights: current native game-state, menu, save-state, input-replay, CD, and sound-behaviour work.

Rage Racer PC 0.1-alpha

First public macOS and Linux alpha.

• macOS: Rage Racer.app for Apple Silicon (arm64), ad-hoc signed only and not notarized. On first launch, macOS may require Control-click > Open.
• Linux: native x86-64 tarball built and tested on Ubuntu 24.04.
• On first launch, select the .cue sheet from your legally obtained PAL Rage Racer disc image. The selected location is saved locally for later launches.
• The release contains no game data.

Keyboard controls and a rage-input.cfg example are in the README.