Statement: Its multiplayer spoke IPX, a language Windows stopped speaking at Vista, and it crashes at the sight of an RGB controller, a macro pad or the wrong keyboard. Its makers still sell the corpse.
LucasArts' podracing game from Star Wars: Episode I, released for Windows and the Nintendo 64 on May 18, 1999, and later for the Game Boy Color, Mac OS and Dreamcast. It had sold 3.12 million copies by 2011 and holds the Guinness record for the best-selling sci-fi racing game.
A launcher and fix pack for the GOG and Steam releases: TwinStick controls, harder difficulty presets, upscaled or PS4 cutscenes, and an SW_RACER_RE compatibility mode.
Runs on
Windows 10/11, Linux (Steam version, partial)
Needs
The GOG or Steam version of Star Wars Episode I: Racer, launched at least once before installing. Unpack the launcher into the game's folder and run MrGameFixer's Launcher.exe. On Linux, with the Steam version, rename it to SWEP1RCR.EXE over the original.
An open-source decompilation of Star Wars Episode I: Racer, and the Community improvement mod built on it: windowed widescreen play, N64-style fog, custom tracks and a new OpenGL renderer.
Runs on
Windows
Needs
The GOG or Steam version of Star Wars Episode I: Racer. Unzip the mod into the game's folder (the one with SWEP1RCR.EXE and Smush.dll) and press F5 in game. To uninstall, delete or rename dinput.dll and the assets folder.