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First post, by schlang

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Hello my friends, I'm sure many of you will remember Whiplash / Fatal Racing.
This is still my favorite arcade racer and I still play it every week at least once.

https://play.fatal.racing (Play in your browser)
https://github.com/FatalDecomp/ROLLER (Repository)

The game has been fully reverse-engineered (thank you zizin and deevus) and re-implemented in SDL so it can run on any modern OS with modern input devices.
You will need to provide your own game files (ISO works best) if you don't own it you can also use the official demo.
In case you are wondering where the name ROLLER is coming from: it's the game's original project name in the codebase.

We not only added a real SDL hardware renderer on top of it, but you can even play it in a browser now (and on your phone).
The hardware renderer still has some minor bugs and glitches but that will get ironed out over time.

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If this is not the right forum for it, please move to the corresponding one.

Cheers

PC#1: K6-III+ 400 | 512MB | Geforce4 | Voodoo1 | SB Live | AWE64 | GUS PNP Pro
PC#2: 486DX2-66 | 64MB | Riva128 | AWE64 | GUS PNP | PAS16
PC#3: 386DX-40 | 32MB | CL-GD5434 | SB Pro | GUS MAX | PAS16

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Reply 1 of 2, by Stretch

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Thanks, it runs great with hardware acceleration on my Windows 11 PC.

Win 11 - Intel i7-1360p - 32 GB - Intel Iris Xe - ESI Maya22 USB

Reply 2 of 2, by gerry

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schlang wrote on 2026-09-14, 12:56:

Hello my friends, I'm sure many of you will remember Whiplash / Fatal Racing.
This is still my favorite arcade racer and I still play it every week at least once.

https://play.fatal.racing (Play in your browser)Cheers

the fact that it runs smoothly in the browser on this old budget laptop is impressive, to me at least!

I know many games run in browsers now, but still cool