Hydro Thunder (LANCommander)

Game: Hydro Thunder → (Arcade, 1999)

An unofficial Windows port of Midway’s 1999 arcade game: an executable that wraps the game’s original x86 code and runs it in-process. The calls to the embedded operating system and to the Glide API are replaced with calls to win32, XInput, and dgVoodoo2, and parts of the game have been decompiled and rewritten in C, which makes it possible to play online or on a local network with up to 16 racers. It keeps the operator menu (audits, adjustments, and tests) with free play on by default, and offers rebindable keyboard and XInput gamepad controls, windowed or full screen with selectable resolutions, and a lobby hosted on a local network or over the internet through the hydrothunder.racing master server, or through your own with htmaster (also for Linux). Version 1.0.0, from September 27, is the only published release.

You needYour own hydro.chd, the arcade’s hard disk image from the MAME “hydro” set, version 1.0.0, next to hydro.exe (on first run it extracts the game files into a data folder). Windows 10 or 11 with a Direct3D 11 capable graphics card.

How it gets to PC

Native layer

Console

Arcade board

Original studio

Midway

Year

1999

Author

LANCommander

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