How to Self-boot Wacky Races [PAL]

[magicrat]

Been having a lot of trouble with this game. But finally got it working, without studders in audio and video that some people have reported. This was done using an original GD-ROM, but should work with other releases out there.

First of all, the disc was too big to fit onto an 80min CDR, so I had to let the alternate languages go. These were:

DUTCH.SPK
FRENCH.SPK
GERMAN.SPK
ITALIAN.SPK
SPANISH.SPK

Replaced these 5 files with dummy files (eg. files that are named DUTCH.SPK etc but are 0 bytes).

The problem I had next, was it wasn't getting past the Sega Liscence Screen, after patching the 1ST_READ.BIN with "binpatch" to LBA 11702 and removing/changing the HEX values for selfbooting. I was at a loss, and went through many coasters. Tonight, I thought I'd play with it again after remembering the trouble I had with one of the Street Fighters (I think it was Super Street Fighter 2x). Anyway, I remembered having to also patch the maigo.bin (I think thats correct) with the LBA values as well.

So, I tried this out on some of the Wacky Races files and found two that needed changing.

MOVIE.BIN
WACKY.BIN

Patched these, then dummied, sorted, and self booted it and it worked. Finally. Hope this may help out some people who have had trouble with this one in the past. Couldn't find any info in here, so sorry if this has been said before

P.S. If anyone is interested in a CD label for this game, I've made a custom one....Let me know and I'll up it to some webspace.

Regards

MagicRat