danielgomesvieira2000/beetle-adventure-racing-recomp v0.4.0-alpha

v0.4.0-alpha — Multiplayer

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Fourth public build. Windows x64. Still early and lightly tested — please report anything that looks wrong.

No game data is included. You must supply your own legally-dumped
Beetle Adventure Racing! (USA) ROM — SHA-1 e5ab4d226c08d22f68a2edcc48870203e67454b8.

Install

1. Download beetle-adventure-racing-recomp-v0.4.0-alpha-windows-x64.zip and extract it anywhere
   (keep the assets folder next to the executable).
2. Run beetle-adventure-racing-recomp.exe. On first launch choose Load ROM; afterwards it starts
   straight from Start Game.

Settings, key bindings, Controller Pak saves and the cached ROM live in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\beetle-adventure-racing-recomp.

What's new

• Multiplayer, up to four players. Pads are assigned in the order they are connected. To play the
  keyboard as another player, use Controls → Assign players. Player 1 keeps the Controller Pak and
  rumble; players 2–4 each get a Rumble Pak.
• Split-screen widescreen: all four views fill the screen, the dividers between them reach the
  edges, and in Beetle Battle each player's health bar and ladybugs sit at their side of the screen.
• Results screens: the race result, records and save screens are no longer pulled apart in
  widescreen.
• More HUD elements placed correctly out of the box.
• Hang watchdog: if the game stops responding for 5 seconds, it writes a hang-report-*.txt to the
  settings folder. Please attach it to a report.

Known issues

• The game can freeze when leaving the results screen after a race. It's diagnosed as an audio loop and
  not yet fixed.
• An intermittent crash at startup (_uvScDoneAud) has been seen before and not reproduced. If the game
  fails to start, try again.
• A Linux build is in progress but not released.

Not tested

• Linux, macOS.
• 3-player games and split-screen races (2- and 4-player battles were played).