Virtua Racing Deluxe Mirror Mode

Original game : Virtua Racing Deluxe

Platform : 32X

Author : Elfor

Release date : 04 December 2020

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : L

Downloads : 1027

ROM Information

File: Virtua Racing Deluxe (USA).32x
CRC-32: 7896b62e
MD5: 72b1ad0f949f68da7d0a6339ecd51a3f
SHA-1: 18dfdeb50780c2623e60a6587d7ed701a1cf81f1

File: Virtua Racing Deluxe (Japan).32x
CRC-32: 0908e888
MD5: 08cae0a96d9ee07001c6e1c247d407c6
SHA-1: 1c64e80eb164ca8d6c6587a55ad60385ba1daf27

Hack description

This patch will enable mirror mode which lets you race around each track in reverse.

It will add a sixth off screen option in the MODE SELECT menu, move all the way right to select it.

Includes patches for both the US & Japanese version, people generally prefer the later, since it has the ability to save best records and it shows everyone's position after a race, a feature absent in the American release.

There is also a similar hack for the Genesis:
https://retrohackers.net/hack-details.php?id=5572/

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
Tony Hedstrom	Hacking

Reviews

Awesome hack with room for improvements	ultimateman	2020-12-05	Version 1.0
This is an excellent rom hack that adds the ability to race against the CPU on mirrored tracks, effectively "doubling" the number of tracks in the game from 5 to 10. Selecting the mirrored tracks generally works well. I did experience some glitchy menu behavior but it was easy to work around by entering and exiting options. I played this on real 32X hardware and I was playing the Japanese rom which saves best times and trophies. This hack can get better in two ways: 1) The times and trophies for the mirrored tracks are not saved at all. This is kind of a bummer as it defeats the purpose of playing the Japanese version of the game. Implementing records for mirrored tracks would be really nice. 2) There is no way to race the mirrored tracks in Time Attack mode, which offers not only the additional challenge of beating your best times, but also acts as a kind of practice mode. That said, this is still excellent and it will likely be my "go to" version of this game for the foreseeable future.

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