Darkaiser | Crash Team Racing - PC Port Progress Update #3 @Darkaiser | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
The PC port is now 70% finished, with 835/1190 functions rewritten! The last two months of progress was contributed by Niko, Faradise, and DCxDemo. Now supporting 16:9 + 60 FPS.
The Adventure Garage now has working UI, and as a bonus, you can type on a real computer keyboard to enter your name, opposed to using the controller D-Pad buttons.
In Time Trial, ghosts are now fully implemented. Both N. Tropy and N. Oxide ghosts can be replayed and spectated with the in-game freecam.
In VS and Battle, all drivers spawn on the starting line.
What is not directly visible in the PC port yet, but will be ready soon:
- Particle Effects rewrite needs 2 more functions.
- Player controls are fully implemented.
- Player physics are half implemented.
- Collisions are a quarter implemented.
- 100+ audio functions are rewritten, only a few remain.
- All MDEC video decoder functions are rewritten.
- PC port will replace MDEC with QuickTime API.
- Camera code has been rewritten for some kart modes, still need a few more.
- Several functions related to in-game weapons have been rewritten.
- New UI improvements.
When the PC port is finished, we plan to shift focus to content expansion. On PC, without being chained to the original file formats, we can create new formats that bake VBO/IBO data into the level that the PC port can read. This heavily reduces the amount of work required to make Maya or Blender plugins, reduces the workload for artists, and increases game performance.
While we do plan to support custom levels on the original PS1, an easier first-step would be PC-only levels, then going back to console support.
Online multiplayer will also be significantly easier to program, without the overhead of emulator synchronization, or process injection overhead. PC-only Live++ hot-reload tools will let us rapidly test and develop multiplayer code, without needing to restart the server or client for every change in the code, which we had to do for our OnlineCTR 2020 mod.
Stay tuned for more.
The PC port is now 70% finished, with 835/1190 functions rewritten! The last two months of progress was contributed by Niko, Faradise, and DCxDemo. Now supporting 16:9 + 60 FPS.
The Adventure Garage now has working UI, and as a bonus, you can type on a real computer keyboard to enter your name, opposed to using the controller D-Pad buttons.
In Time Trial, ghosts are now fully implemented. Both N. Tropy and N. Oxide ghosts can be replayed and spectated with the in-game freecam.
In VS and Battle, all drivers spawn on the starting line.
What is not directly visible in the PC port yet, but will be ready soon:
- Particle Effects rewrite needs 2 more functions.
- Player controls are fully implemented.
- Player physics are half implemented.
- Collisions are a quarter implemented.
- 100+ audio functions are rewritten, only a few remain.
- All MDEC video decoder functions are rewritten.
- PC port will replace MDEC with QuickTime API.
- Camera code has been rewritten for some kart modes, still need a few more.
- Several functions related to in-game weapons have been rewritten.
- New UI improvements.
When the PC port is finished, we plan to shift focus to content expansion. On PC, without being chained to the original file formats, we can create new formats that bake VBO/IBO data into the level that the PC port can read. This heavily reduces the amount of work required to make Maya or Blender plugins, reduces the workload for artists, and increases game performance.
While we do plan to support custom levels on the original PS1, an easier first-step would be PC-only levels, then going back to console support.
Online multiplayer will also be significantly easier to program, without the overhead of emulator synchronization, or process injection overhead. PC-only Live++ hot-reload tools will let us rapidly test and develop multiplayer code, without needing to restart the server or client for every change in the code, which we had to do for our OnlineCTR 2020 mod.
Stay tuned for more.
![Crash Team Racing (Aug 5, 1999 prototype) - Time Trial Mode [Part 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hG1uVLtZ7RU/hqdefault.jpg "Crash Team Racing (Aug 5, 1999 prototype) - Time Trial Mode [Part 1]
This is the sixth preview video of the prototype of Crash Team Racing (PS1).
This gameplay is from the August 5th 1999, a beta version of the game built a month and a half before the final NTSC build date of September 24th 1999. This build is dongle protected, which means you cant play via normal means, so attempting to run it will result in a black screen. Were solving this problem, so it will eventually be released to the public. Dont ask for a release date because even we dont know and were also busy with other stuff, so please be patient and enjoy the videos.
A full documentation of the differences will be available at The Cutting Room Floor article, and a download link will be posted on Hidden Palace website. At the time, both pages are being worked on.
A HUGE thanks to almarkowbender, gdias/Darkaiser (me), Gh0stBlade, let-over-lambda, mementomori/madmarsrocks, Niko, and psx-collector for making this release possible.
Noticeable Differences:
- Tropys ghost is harder in this version, as he access some shortcuts that only Oxides ghost would do.
- Oxides ghost arent present in this build. Instead, you race against another ghost using the current players character.
- The ghosts are unfinished in some tracks (out of bounds), which is impossible to beat them.
- Menu differences: missing transitions, no exclamation mark in the texts, different X button icon, etc.")
![OnlineCTR (2020) - A New Crash Team Racing Experience [First Showcase]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iQk0j_ZHM9Y/hqdefault.jpg "OnlineCTR (2020) - A New Crash Team Racing Experience [First Showcase]
Yes, online mode in Crash Team Racing is already a reality. In development by Niko since October 2019, its finally stable enough for a video, but still an early WIP prototype.
Two players can choose any characters on any track, to drive around and race each other. Niko and I tested the multiplayer, while 4000 miles apart, it lags much less depending on distance.
Bonus features include Oxide in Character Selection, pressing F10 for randomized characters + tracks, and pressing F9 for battle tracks.
Download here:
https://github.com/niko1point0/OnlineCTR/releases
Please read the on-screen directions in OnlineCTR.exe carefully, most common cause of crashing is when someone forgets to Press F1 and F3 (save state and then immediately load) before injecting the mod (by entering PID).
v19 has experimental support to automatically work with any emulator, prior versions only worked with ePSXe 2.0.5. Oxide character selection is still only for ePSXe 2.0.5 until further notice.
Music:
- Polar Pass Remix by RB
- Classroom Chaos Remix by airumu")
