Phil's Wacky Wheels Site
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wacky.datThis site is about Wacky Wheels, a DOS racing game (similar to Mario Kart) released by Apogee (3D Realms) on 17 October 1994. You can find every Wacky Wheels cheat code, a way to jump over the walls, and lots of other information about Wacky Wheels. You can get the shareware version from the downloads page.
The screen shot shows the result of a quick edit to wacky.dat — a section of wall is missing. For some ideas on how to edit wacky.dat yourself, see editing wacky.dat.
I just moved this site from its old location (http://phil.maddogcarter.com/wacky_wheels) to a new domain name, yellowantphil.com, so update your bookmarks if necessary. (My dad's website is still at maddogcarter.com.) By the way, I know there haven't been any site updates in a long time but they're still coming, once I get around to it...
I'm going to make some updates to this site pretty soon, but for now, head over to the 3-D Realms forums for some screen shots of a very early version of Wacky Wheels.
3D Realms/Apogee just released a scan of an old Wacky Wheels advertisement. You can download it here. More old advertising for Apogee games will be posted in a series, so we may see more old Wacky Wheels advertising in the next few weeks.
I updated multiple pages of the site, mostly expanding the history and troubleshooting pages.
Szevvy's website, home of the Wombat game tools, is back up, this time at szevvy.net.
Recently, several people on the 3D Realms Forums have reported being able to get a turbo boost at the start of a race without using the turbo startup code. The trouble is, no one remembers quite how to do it. See this thread at the 3D Realms forums for more information. If you can figure out how to do it, or remember having done it before, post a message on that thread or email me. Fame and fabulous riches await the first person to figure it out. Well, maybe.
It looks like Szevvy's website is down at the moment. He made the Wombat Game Tools. Hopefully he will get his site back up, but in the meantime, here's a copy of Wombat Game Tools 0.4a in case you need it.
I have several things I need to update on this site, but I never seem to have time to do it, but anyway, 3D Realms just posted an interview with Andy Edwardson, the programmer of Wacky Wheels. It has a bit of new information about the development of Wacky Wheels, and Andy's thoughts on 3D Realms. Check it out here.
I took the down the forum from this site. It was only there because I had to have it for my web programming class, but that's over now. Frenkel already posted to the forum with some links, so I'll put his post here for now: (Edit 19 Aug 2006: I moved these links to the history and dopefish source code pages.)
I just found an mp3 that's a remix of one of the songs in Wacky Wheels (Ashes). It sounds pretty good so download it or see the site where I found it.
Version 2 of the site is now finished. (Version 1 was written in HTML and has no dynamic content.) I have more plans for updates, but until then, enjoy the site.