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Wacky Wheels

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This page is for the original game. For the reboot, see Wacky Wheels HD.

Wacky Wheels
Wacky Wheels cover
Developers
Beavis Soft
Publishers
Apogee Software
3D Realms
Release dates
DOS October 17, 1994[1]
Windows (DOSBox) August 21, 2014[2]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) August 21, 2014[2]
Linux (DOSBox) August 21, 2014[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Art styles Cartoon
Series Wacky Wheels
Wacky Wheels on HowLongToBeat
Wacky Wheels on MobyGames
Wacky Wheels on Wikipedia
Wacky Wheels
Wacky Wheels 1994
Wacky Wheels HD 2016

Wacky Wheels is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing game in the Wacky Wheels series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Official website (unavailable)
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\WACKY.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358380/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\WACKY.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358380/pfx/[Note 2]
WACKY.CFG stores one- and two-player saves as well as configuration settings.[4]
WACKY.DTT stores duck shoot high scores.[5]
WACKY1.HI stores high scores for 12 HP engines.[5]
WACKY2.HI stores high scores for 6 HP engines.[5]
WACKY1.TIM stores time trial fastest times for 12 HP engines.[5]
WACKY2.TIM stores time trial fastest times for 6 HP engines.[5]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Split-screen.
LAN play
Using DOSBox modem wrapping.
Online play
Using DOSBox modem wrapping.

Issues fixed

Weird controller behavior with DOSBox

Turn off the timed option[citation needed]
  1. Open the DOSBox configuration (in the GOG.com version, that's dosbox_wwheels.conf)
  2. Locate the [joystick] section
  3. Change timed=true to timed=false

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/358380/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358380) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References