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Name: | Ridge Racer |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | Namco |
Genres: | Racing |
Ridge Racer, released in Japan as Ridge Racers, is an arcade racing video game developed by Namco for the PSP. It is named after the eponymous Ridge Racer video game series to which it belongs. The game was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 22, 2005 and in Europe on September 1, 2005 as a lanuch title. A sequel titled Ridge Racer 2 has also been released for the PSP. Available in the game is a fully playable version of the Namco arcade game New Rally-X.
There are two components for playing a psx Ridge Racer game on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Ridge Racer game itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Retroarch – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Retroarch, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the RetroArch-1.7.5-x86-setup.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Ridge Racer. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Retroarch and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.