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|---|---|
| Players | 2 (split screen) |
| Region | PAL (Europe) |
| Publisher | Disney Interactive |
| Year | 2001 |
## What this adds
All enhancements live in the bundled **Toy Story Racer Widescreen** mod
package (launcher → Mods) and can be switched off.
**Widescreen** (fit to window, 16:9, 21:9 or 32:9) — a real wider field of
view, not a stretched picture:
- tracks and objects are drawn all the way to the screen edges, in one and two
player races; the cloud sky of the title and level select fills the width
too;
- the race HUD is anchored to the corners, and so are the prompts of the
menus, level select, track preview and pause screen (the character select
prompts keep following the characters' heads);
- *Track draw distance*: the original hides scenery outside the 4:3 view;
Extended doubles the draw distance, Full (default) also ignores the 4:3
visibility lists, so nothing pops in at the sides.
**Native scenery renderer** (default on) — the track scenery, the karts and
the characters are drawn by the PC instead of the emulated PlayStation GPU:
no wobbling textures or jittering polygons, correct depth between pieces, no
polygons cut at the 4:3 edges.
**50 fps races** — the PAL game runs at 25 fps; races can run at 50 fps (one
player by default, two players optional on a fast PC). Game speed and music
are unchanged.
**HUD size** — 100 / 85 / 75 / 65 % (default 85 %): the low-resolution HUD
and menu art is drawn smaller so it looks sharper next to the high-resolution
game.
**Other options**: CPU overclock (races only; keeps two-player races at full
rate), near-polygon pool size, frame smoothing, race progress bar position,
VSync on high-refresh monitors, skip the intro videos.
**Fixes**
- Character voices no longer stall the menus while they load.
- Music changes no longer hitch.
- Pier: a corrupted sea-grid record on the European disc crashed the
original GPU; broken packets are now dropped instead of halting the game.
- Pick-up crates no longer float in mid-air in wide views (a 32-bit overflow
in the game's object position maths).
- Scenery no longer vanishes during jumps and falls (Skate Park) or at long
range (fences and roofs in the Neighbourhood), and the sky of the outdoor
tracks reaches the edges and the top of a 32:9 view.
- The star-shaped scene transition covers the whole 32:9 view.
- Lamp halos are round (no faint square around them) and no longer shine
through walls.
- Two-player end-of-race camera cuts no longer flash shrunken prompts and
stale margins for a frame.
- Damaged track data on the European disc (see below).
Plus everything psxrecomp provides: high internal resolution, texture
filtering, save states, controller rumble.
## Damaged track data on the European disc
The European disc has about 45 two-byte values overwritten (`3E 3E` where the
USA release has `80 3F` / `10 3F`) in ten track files. The visible results
were broken textures and geometry on Skate Park, Pier, Car Lot, Cinema and
Neighbourhood. The **Track data fix** feature (Fixes group, on by default)
restores those values while the disc is read, so the tracks come out byte for
byte like the USA release. It is a list of 46 guarded patches in the mod
manifest: no game data is shipped, and nothing is changed if the expected
European bytes are not found.
The runtime can also read any file placed under `disc_override/` next to the
game executable instead of the one on the disc (same path, e.g.
`disc_override/COURSE_B/PIER.AXE`), for testing replacement data.
## How to play
1. Download the latest zip from
[Releases](https://github.com/IraFunesto/ToyStoryRacerRecomp/releases/latest)
and extract it into a new folder.
2. Run `ToyStoryRacer_Recompiled.exe` (Python 3 required).
3. Select your own disc (.cue/.bin of SLES-03398) and follow the
**Generate & rebuild** wizard: the game is compiled on your PC.
4. Enable **Widescreen** in the launcher's Mods page.
The download contains no game data and no Sony BIOS; OpenBIOS (MIT-licensed)
is used when you do not provide your own.
## Framework changes
The game needs a few additions to psxrecomp (a linked-list hook for the menu
prompts, disc file overrides, CD/XA loading, GPU packet safety, CPU overclock
and more). They ship inside the release zip and are kept here as
`patches/psxrecomp-toystoryracer.patch` against the pinned `psxrecomp`
submodule commit.
## Legal
You must own the original game. Disc images and files taken from discs are
gitignored and must never be committed. Retail BIOS dumps are not
redistributed; OpenBIOS is used for Generate unless you supply your own SCPH
locally.
App icon: the Toy Story Racer logo (`assets/psxrecomp.ico` / `.png`); Windows
builds embed it via `APP_ICON`. Launcher box art: `launcher_assets/img/`
(see `BOXART_SOURCE.txt`).
## Quick start (dev)
```bash
git submodule update --init --recursive
git -C psxrecomp apply --ignore-whitespace ../patches/psxrecomp-toystoryracer.patch
./psxrecomp/tools/ci/build_emitters.sh
python3 psxrecomp/psxrecomp_cli.py generate \
--config game.toml --project-root . --disc disc/