Arcade boardKonami, 2000
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Thrill Drive 2 / GTI Club: Corso Italiano

Games: Thrill Drive 2 (Arcade, 2001) · GTI Club: Corso Italiano (Arcade, 2000)

ARC

Unofficial native ports of two Konami arcade games for the Viper board: Thrill Drive 2 and GTI Club: Corso Italiano (Driving Party: Racing in Italy in Europe). The original PowerPC code is statically recompiled into C and a shared runtime reimplements the board (Voodoo3 graphics, sound, input and output, CF card, and clock); it is not an emulator. Each game has an enhanced mode, the default, with menus, options, pause, aspect ratios from 4:3 to 21:9 (the 3D scene widens), double resolution, and internet multiplayer for up to four players, and a classic mode with coins, attract mode, and the test menu, at the original 30 fps. Thrill Drive 2 EBB (Europe) and GTI Club 2 JAB (Japan) are listed as playable; Thrill Drive 2 JAA and AAA and Driving Party EAA boot and race with scripted inputs but haven’t been played by hand. There are no published releases: each game’s executable is built with make from your own dumps. 26 of its 28 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own dumps: the Viper board BIOS (941b01.u25 and ds2430.u3, in the kviper folder) and, for each game, its CF card as a CHD and its NVRAM (for example a41b02.chd and a41ebb_nvram.u39 for Thrill Drive 2 EBB), with the same folder layout as a MAME rompath and the SHA-1 values from the README’s table. A C and C++ compiler, make, Python 3, SDL2, and chdman. Tested on macOS with Apple Silicon; Linux untested and Windows not yet supported.

How it gets to PC
Static recompilation
Console
Arcade board
Architecture
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Author
spita90
Original studio
Konami
Year
2000
Stars
34
Last activity
2026-11-06 · 5 days ago
Latest version
v0.14.0 · 2026-11-05
Language
C++
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