After the remake of Road Fighter in 2003, we decided was time to remake F1-Spirit! In only three months of development the remake had to be completed, and a lot of people have been doing their best to make it happen.
When you read this, the competition has already ended. Out of 73 submitted entries, we finished at the 13th place. Of course, you can read what the judges had to say about our remake.
We decided it was time to get active again (more or less) and do some work! Here's the new stuff:
After participating in the Retro Remakes competition in 2003 with our Road Fighter remake (which finished 7th out of 83 entries), we decided to give the 2004 competition a shot as well. Apparently we like racing games a lot, so after some voting we chose to remake the Konami MSX1 classic F-1 Spirit.
After 3 months of hard work and barely making both the deadline and file size limit, our contribution to the competition was ready. In the end, after the judges saw all the remakes, we ended at the 13th place out of the in total 73 entries.
But... because we kind of finished the remake in a hurry we're not fully satisfied with the current state of the remake. That's why we are still working on it (kind of), adding more things like network play, graphical effects, more and better music and graphics, and the like. So... no, the project isn't dead and finished yet! Nontheless the remake is fully playable already.
The remake has the following improvements over the original:
Here you can see some screenshots of the game in action.
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The F-1 Spirit remake is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers. We provide binary versions for both Windows and OSX, for Ubuntu/Debian you can download a .deb file. For Linux or other computers you can find the source code for the game in the Linux download.
You can download the remake from our primary server. File size is about 18MB, since the download contains all graphics and datasets. You can also try one of the nightly SVN exports for the most current version.
F-1 Spirit is a racing game. You will race with many different types of cars, starting with stock or rally cars, and finishing with Formula 1 cars (once you have classified for it by beating the F3, F3000 and Endurance races). Specifically, there are 6 types of races:
Initially, you can only race in the stock, rally and F3 races. But, as you win races, you will accumulate points that will allow you to play in more races. Specifically, you will receive 9 points if you finish a race in 1st place, 8 if you finish in 2nd position, etc. If you finish 10th or later, you will not score any points.
There are 16 different tracks for F1 cars. As you win races, you will be able to play more tracks in the F1 car category. To complete the game, you have to win all of the 16 F1 tracks. This makes a total of 21 tracks (stock + rally + f3 + f3000 + endurance + 16*f1). The first races are the easier races: the cars are slow, and the enemies do not drive very well. But as you classify for new tracks the difficulty will increase: F1 cars are insanely fast! You will need a great dexterity to win in F1 tracks. The first time you race with F1 cars it seems impossible to control the car, but as you accumulate experience, the races start becoming easier and finally you are able to win any F1 race! Then it's time to play in multi player mode against some friends and show them how well you can control a F1 car!!!
During a race, you can bump into other cars and into the track fences, etc. This will damage your car. In every track, there is a zone (labeled with the "PIT" letters) where you can replenish the fuel tank of your car and repair your car.
These are the default controls of the game. They can be redefined in the options menu.
| Key | Action | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor up | Shift up | Manual transmission only |
| Cursor down | Shift down | Manual transmission only |
| Cursor left | Steer to the left | |
| Cursor right | Steer to the right | |
| Space | Accelerate | |
| M | Brake | |
| F-1 | Pause | |
| F10 or 9 | Select graphics set | |
| ESC | Back to previous screen | |
| ALT+ENTER | Switch between full-screen and window mode | For Windows and Linux |
| Apple key+F | Switch between full-screen and window mode | Only for Mac OS X |
| F12 | Quit | For Windows and Linux |
| Apple key+Q | Quit | Only for Mac OS X |
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The game was made from 2004 onwards by the following people: