Interstate '76 no-cd!

[SCO]

You gotta take the good with the bad and all that...

Incidentally the Glide version only went to 640x480 if I recall. Unless using a wrapper allows higher resolutions, you may want to use software rendering anyway to get to the higher resolutions. Then again at the time I got the game I had a crap CPU and a Voodoo 2 so Glide gave much better FPS. Does the game look any different visuallyÉ

Yep. Glide with wrapper goes until your monitor supports it. There is also texture filtering.
I've investigated in a debugger what are the differences between the i76shell.dll's execution here:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=25721

There seems to be a error loading a file (?) from a virtual filesystem called "wauto_1d". As the only thing that changed is the dll's the error must be in the new dll - a (file) reference is wrong.

 

[hal900x]

"The children...they're BURNING!"

 

[SCO]

I found out the cheat mode for the game:
turn off the engine and the enemies become far less agressive (only shooting when you are in their weapons direct path (not moving) - you can still target.

 

[DraQ]

This is a amazing game.

Yes. Yes it is.

 

[SCO]

It gets lots of funny gameplay moments that's for sure.

It's very 70's, calling cops pigs, killing them to progress, etc, not sure how that would fly now (GTA non withstanding).

But the best is the car handling. Last playthrough did a barrel roll in the air while going full speed (150) on a highway, and landed correctly. Amazing feeling.
Or the other mission where you "rescue" Taurus and of course, i went the wrong way. So taurus is saying:
"Where are you going" and groove is saying:
"This is not right"
while z-fighting the middle of a wall in a mountain that i probably shouldn't be able to put a car at, just before (ofcourse) the car falls of on it's head, and cue synchronized screaming:
"AAHHHHHHH".
"AARRHHHHH".

 

[SCO]

The nitro expansion is confusing. It seems like there is a shadow of a story there, but they just gave up. The episodes have a order, but it's not likely to be the order you play on - i think it is round robin on the 3 main characters and then the secret one.

Not that the story in the original game was any good either. Just a pretext for gameplay.

 

[Sceptic]

Yeah don't play I-76 for the story. Though as a cheesy as hell parody it works great. Nitro Riders makes even less sense, but it's nice to play it before the main game as you develop some liking for Jade before she gets offed. I'm sure there is an order for the Nitro missions, and there was some way to figure it out, but I've no idea how.