Lucumo: You even quoted me when I mentioned that track specifically :P I dropped down three races in a row in the final lap. Took a break and then finished that thing first try. In comparison, the two tracks after that in the invitational tournament are really easy.

Killerbrurner: I'm getting the same error some other people are reporting, and allthough it is still early days, can't seam to get passed it. Every time i luanch the game i get the same problem RDROID_GNOME stops, and game crashes. A shame since i loved the game as a child, but i guess i will just have to be paitient. I hope someone finds a solution soon

GOG.com: The circle is now complete… Let's do another one!

STAR WARS Episode I: Racer is now available, only on GOG.com, with a 15% launch discount until May 8, 5pm UTC.
It's back! The game that perfectly captured the high-velocity spirit of the memorable podracing sequence in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, returns. Pick your character and zoom across several challenging tracks, including the dunes of Tatooine, where young Anakin Skywalker made himself a legend.

Korell: Okay, so I just bought the game and installed it (it prompted for elevated privileges). I installed to my usual games folder on my secondary hard drive. It went through the usual installation, installed DirectX 9.0c, and then I exited the installer after it finished (rather than launching the game straight away).

I then used the Video Settings tool to set the game to use a screen resolution of 1680x1050 (I'm on an old 16:10 monitor that I really need to replace) and I connected my Xbox 360 controller.

Then I launched the game and it started up just fine, though the cutscene videos are rather small as they aren't scaled, but at least they are centred on the screen.

Once the menu came up I navigated to the joystick settings and enabled it, and set the default controls to which I then tweaked them slightly.

Lastly, I started up a single player free play race and it played just fine (but I finished in 4th place as I crashed too often trying to use the roll function and working out how the boost works), though the axis I've set for rolling left/right is inverted, which is due to the game being DirectInput and my controller being XInput.

I'm on Windows 10 Home Edition.

I might try using XInput Plus to see if I can get a better controller setup and to allow me to get some Rumble in place of Force Feedback.

UPDATE: Well, I cannot get XInput Plus to work with this game. Using the DirectInput Output option works in the program itself, but the game doesn't identify it as a controller so can't make use of it. Meanwhile, trying to use it to invert the right stick axes has so far failed as roll left and right remain the wrong way around. Even disabling the right stick completely in XInput Plus, the game still picks it up, so I suspect something else is taking the input. Though I know XInput Plus is being called when the game starts as it beeps on starting the game to let you know it is active.

UPDATE 2: Further tests with XInput Plus, such as swapping the D-Pad and Right Stick are also making no difference, so I can only conclude that something else (DirectPlay, maybe?) is getting in the way, preventing the remappings of XInput Plus from being picked up. Oh well, it's still very playable (and I've managed to get a fastest lap time on that first test track of 54 seconds).

Strijkbout: Here you are.

bpiwnik: I'm getting an RDROID_GNOME release build error whenever i boot up the game and it insta-crashes. Any way to fix it?