[Arcade PC] Photo Finish Racing (ICE)

[Harry99710]

Photo Finish Racing by ICE

 

Controls:

N,M,K,L,O - Coins for each player

Z,X (?) - Make horse go faster for each player (i'm unsure what the rest are)

F1 debug info

F2 game info

F3 show framerate

F4 show cursor

 

Additional info (thanks catnoodle):

The game requires a serial port to run

If your computer doesn't have one, use a serial port emulator

e.g Virtual Serial Port Driver from Eltima Software https://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/

 

Download:
mega://enc2?XxvVRuGJNl4X69Roa1OomY9UPKLnebF9whc3Y5TD-JMYQ46Wy7OeWjiglsV7abm5sQQo3dr7xz-VdDyLlFHY1A

(download with megadownloader)
mirror.
 

 

Screenshots:

Edited September 21, 2020 by 7zxkv

[joeplay]

[Guest pixels]

Thanks! 

Harry99710 

start the game with start.bat file

shame we cant use the balls lol

[Guest pixels]

 

[ssphaneuf]

Sadly not working for me either. Here is a video of me trying.

https://streamable.com/sx5r8d

 

Update : 

 

 After the recommendation of a couple people, some in discord and mametastic. i installed a program called Virtual serial port driver 9.0 by eltima software, booted right up after i configured it.

 

 

Here is the website for the program https://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/

 

and here is how to configure it : https://streamable.com/m8llmk

 

All credit to the dumper, and involved in getting the game working! thanks!

 

 

 

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by ssphaneuf

[MAMEtastic]

You'll need a serial port on your computer for the game to work, or else it will cause "Failed to initialize communications port" error.

If your computer doesn't have one, use a serial port emulator (like Virtual Serial Port Driver)

[fire10]

Hopefully this means more ICE games can be made playable, id love to see Ghostbusters working

[bojo5150]

Anyone figure out how to increase the speed of the horses? None of the keyboard keys seems to do anything. Just the coins seem to work

[bojo5150]

any luck figuring out what keys make the horse go faster?

[witherzombie222]

Managed to extract it from an ISO before finding out there was already a thread about it here and apparently there are 2 versions of the game, 3pack and 5pack.

I don't know what the differences are between these 2 versions.

[baddeolv]

here is a free serial port emu.  The one mentioned above is only a 14 day trial  

 

FREE Virtual Serial Ports driver, Rs-232 null modem emulator

free-virtual-serial-port-tools.exe

[argonlefou]

You don't need the serial port emulator, the game uses a config file in which you can disable the COM check.

It's either in D:\CE Games\Photo Finish\PhotoFinish.ini or C:\CE Games\Photo Finish\PhotoFinish.ini

 

Set RelayErrExit= 0

 

Just run the game once to make it create the path and store the file

 

 

Edited September 6, 2023 by argonlefou