This project aims to implement all the functionality of the 1995 game Whiplash/Fatal Racing in a way that builds and runs on modern PCs. Where necessary, DOS-specific functions are substituted with SDL and Windows/Unix equivalents. For instruction-matching decomp, see https://github.com/FatalDecomp/ROLLER-matching
Assets from a retail copy of the game are required to run. Drop the contents of the build directory (bin or zig-out) into the Whiplash/Fatal Racing install directory. ROLLER.exe should be in the same directory as WHIP.EXE/FATAL.EXE.
Debug symbol dump generated with wdump, part of: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
Useful tool in generating nice asm output with symbols from wdump applied: https://github.com/fonic/wcdatool
Directions on how to use wcdatool and get remote debugging working with open watcom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9tEZOSrQg
Note: wdump symbol offsets do not account for DOS4GW.EXE. Load FATAL.EXE_split_dos4g_payload.exe (FATAL.EXE with DOS4GW.EXE split off, generated by wcdatool) into Ida/Ghidra to have matching symbol offsets.
Hashes of executables used for decomp:
FATAL.EXE
md5: 812EEE1404ECDFD87FF765281DF89720SHA256: 7789768C0A6CDC213EAF7B1AD8CC125531EB3FE7C213ECCAC6188E58F428687E
FATAL.EXE_split_dos4g_payload.exe
md5: 05C2B0730641663133D76DD2CA552B4CSHA256: A4AD4131DBBFF9884DA4687D8B579B81117E6D23525950D942DF2DF585E2A11E
- SDL3.2.14: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL
- SDL_Image3.2.4: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image
- WildMIDI 0.4.6: https://github.com/Mindwerks/wildmidi
- Clone repository
- Open ROLLER.sln
- Build project
git clone https://github.com/zizin13/roller.git
cd roller
make- SDL3
- SDL3_Image
- WildMIDI
git clone https://github.com/zizin13/roller.git
cd rollerThe easiest way to install is to use mise:
mise installUsing default settings
zig build runA custom data folder
zig build -Dassets-path=/path/to/fatdata runThere is basic support for Visual Studio 2022 using ZigVS