SNES hacker speeds up a game that originally ran at 4 frames per second
The Atari arcade cabinet game Race Drivin' was ported to the Atari ST in the summer of 1991, and then ported again to the SNES a year later. It was the sequel to 1989's Hard Drivin', and while it boasted numerous improvements over its predecessor - it could model a car with four wheels, as opposed to Hard Drivin's two - it was still not particularly fast.
The SNES console port ran at a slideshow-y 4 frames per second. And when the Genesis port arrived in 1993, Electronic Gaming Monthly's January 1994 issue gave the game a capsule review. It reads in full:
This is another so-so entry in the driving scene where the truly innovative titles (Chase H.Q. II and Rock & Roll Racing) tend to stand out, while others like this get lost in the...