A new test build of the unofficial native Windows version of Ridge Racer 6 (Xbox 360). Inside the zip it calls itself "test build 09".
You need your own Ridge Racer 6 disc image (USA, title ID 4E4D07D3). No game data is included.
New since v0.1.4
- Language. The game can now be played in any of the six languages on the disc: English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish or Italian. Until now it was always told to use English. Choose it under Language on the launcher's Display page. In Japanese, the menu titles and course names stay in English: that is how the game's own Japanese text has them. (Asked for in #2.)
- DLC folder. The game folder has a
DLCfolder. Put the downloadable content files you own in it (folders inside it are searched too), and each time the game starts it adds the ones that are new or have changed. The launcher's DLC page still works as before. (Asked for in #2.) - The launcher keeps settings changed elsewhere. It used to write all of its settings again at every Save or Play, so a render size chosen in the game's F4 window was undone at the next start. It now writes only what you changed in the launcher, and leaves other lines in
bin\rr6_recomp.tomlalone. (#15) - F3 shows the frame rate. The F3 window used to be an empty box. The log (
logs\run.log) also gets a line every 30 seconds with the frame rate and the slowest frame, so a bug report shows how fast the game ran on your PC. (#7) - The F4 window keeps a change only when you press Save to config in it. The launcher now says so.
- Safer content installer. Each content package's list of files is checked before anything is written (a doctored package could otherwise write files outside the content folder). Files are unpacked into a separate folder with every write checked, and only then moved into place; adding a package again replaces the old copy only once the new one is complete.
- Disc copy. A damaged disc image is refused instead of being copied in part, and an interrupted copy made with "Play without the launcher" is no longer taken for a finished one.
The runtime (rexruntime.dll, rexgpu-xenos.dll) is the same as in v0.1.3 and v0.1.4.
To update, unzip this one next to the old folder and move the game folder across; the game files do not need copying again. Saves are kept (they are in Documents\rr6_recomp). If you used the DLC page before, your content stays installed.
Install
- Download
RidgeRacer6-PC-v0.1.5.zipand unzip it to a normal folder. - Start
RR6 Launcher.exe. Windows may warn about it; see below. - Press Choose disc image... and pick your
.iso. The game files are copied out of it once (about 6 GB). - Press Play.
Known limitations
- On some PCs the game runs below full speed (#7). If that happens to you, press F3 in a race and add the number to that issue, with your processor and graphics card, or attach the report from
tools\collect-report.ps1. A lower Sharpness on the Display page can help. - On ultrawide screens the videos and the loading screen are stretched, and so is the rear-view mirror (#12).
- An achievement is awarded after the race, with the save, not at the moment it is earned; a race left early gives nothing. That is how the game itself works.
- AMD and Intel graphics, PlayStation controllers, the downloadable car designs, long sessions and the ending videos are largely untested.
- Online play does not work.
If Windows warns about the download
The programs are not code-signed, and a new release is a file few people have downloaded yet, so Windows and browsers warn about it.
- Edge blocks the download: in the downloads list choose the three dots next to the file, then Keep, Show more, Keep anyway.
- Before unzipping: right-click the zip, Properties, tick Unblock, OK.
- "Windows protected your PC" on the first start: More info, then Run anyway.
More in the README.
If your antivirus flags rexruntime.dll
bin\rexruntime.dll is the runtime of the ReXGlue SDK, the toolkit this port is made with, built from our fork of it. It is the same file as in v0.1.3 and v0.1.4. Eight scanners on VirusTotal flag it, all with one verdict, Gen:Variant.Yogi.85276: Bitdefender and seven products that use its engine. A false-positive report has been sent to Bitdefender. The file is not packed, and the name is a general-purpose label, not that of a known piece of malware.
The README has the results file by file with links, what the file does, and how to check that your copy is the published one.
Checking the download
SHA-256 of RidgeRacer6-PC-v0.1.5.zip:
19d160e2db310eeadb4143b3182565031dd72ccd59957718a82f12488bd77881
SHA256SUMS.txt also lists the programs inside the zip. In PowerShell: Get-FileHash RidgeRacer6-PC-v0.1.5.zip.