Death Rally
2 ports
Death Rally (DreeRally)
enriquesomolinos/DreeRally
DreeRally: a reimplementation of the Death Rally engine (Remedy Entertainment, 1996) that recreates the Windows version and replaces DeathRally.exe. Its plans are multiplayer, mods, and a Linux port, and for now it offers OpenGL rendering (-gl) and smoothing (-smooth), per-language translations (-lang), windowed mode, sound and effects that can be turned off, and a simple mod system: a mods/<name> folder with a config.txt and a files folder with modified game files, enabled with -mod. It has no multiplayer yet. Its two versions, 0.1.0 (April 22, 2019) and 0.2.0 (December 20, 2019), are pre-releases, and the last code change is from September 2021. It builds with Visual Studio 2010 to 2017, with MinGW, or on Linux with make. Death Rally is free, since Remedy distributes it as freeware, and the README points to the full Windows version; the project includes no game assets. Another project covers the same game, dRally, which starts from the DOS executable’s assembly.
You needThe files of the Windows version of Death Rally, which is free (the full version, which the README links from ModDB): ENDANI.haf, ENGINE.BPA, fmod.dll, IBFILES.BPA, MENU.BPA, msvcr71.dll, MUSICS.BPA, SANIM.haf, SDL.dll, and TRX.BPA, in the folder where the DreeRally executable goes in place of DeathRally.exe. Plus Windows; on Linux you build it.
Death Rally (dRally)
urxp/dRally
dRally: an open-source engine for Death Rally (Remedy Entertainment, 1996) that aims for a native port for Linux and BSD-based systems and also builds for Windows. It starts from reassembled code of the DOS executable: version 0.1 (May 6, 2019) was a “working reassembly” of the DOS game, and 0.2 (January 13, 2022) was a 64-bit alpha with Linux and Windows builds. It builds with GCC or Clang, make, and SDL2. It has no multiplayer yet, and the last change is from July 2023. Death Rally is free, since Remedy distributes it as freeware, and the README points to the registered Windows version offered by CHIP magazine, whose installer is unpacked with 7z. The project includes no game assets. Another project covers the same game, DreeRally, which reimplements the engine of the Windows version.
You needThe files of the Windows version of Death Rally, which is free (the registered version, which the README downloads from CHIP): ENGINE.BPA, IBFILES.BPA, MENU.BPA, MUSICS.BPA, and the TR0 to TR9 .BPA files, plus ENDANI.HAF, ENDANI0.HAF, and SANIM.HAF in a CINEM folder that a CDROM.INI points to, all with uppercase names. Plus Linux, BSD, or 64-bit Windows.
Questions
What projects are there for Death Rally?
The catalog has 2 ports for Death Rally, all on this page with their status.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Death Rally (DOS). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Death Rally (DreeRally), with 101 stars on GitHub.