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Before installation

You need to own a copy of your both Driver 2 CDs to play the game.

For legal issues, project does not provide Driver 2 CD contents and you must obtain it by yourself.

Game version information

There are two known versions of the game which has little differences.

See http://redump.org/discs/quicksearch/driver-2/ for more information

Supported versions:

CD serials Region/Language Description Build date Status
SLES-02993 / SLES-12993 PAL EU/English Initial rev 1.0 Oct 12 2000 Full support
SLES-02993-P / SLES-12993-P PAL EU/English Platinum rev 1.1 Oct 29 2000 Playable, buggy.
SLUS-01161 / SLUS-01318 NTSC US/English Initial rev 1.0 Oct 12 2000 Full support
SLUS-01161GH / SLUS-01318GH NTSC US/English Greatest Hits rev 1.1 Oct 29 2000 Playable, buggy.

Other languages to be supported later

Installing (Windows)

  • Dump both of your Driver 2 CDs to ISO or BIN/CUE file (use CDMage or UltraISO)

  • Extract game ISO or BIN/CUE to your folder (next referred as <your_redriver2_folder>) on hard drive (example: "D:\Games\Driver 2") so it will look like this

  • If you have a PAL version, be sure to rename DRIVER2/GFX/SPLASH1P.TIM to DRIVER2/GFX/SPLASH1N.TIM (change P to N)

  • (Optional) go to <your_redriver2_folder>\DRIVER2\FMV and delete all .STR files (and keep .SBN). Also delete all <your_redriver2_folder>\DRIVER2\XA files

  • Download the latest release or artifact and extract it to <your_redriver2_folder> (example) (result)

Installing (Linux)

Steps are same as Windows except paths and you'll need to install additional libraries as game can be run only on i386 platform:

  • libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
  • libopenal:i386
  • libjpeg-turbo8:i386

Retrieving game video and audio

  1. Download jPSXdec and install latest Java
  2. Run jPSXdec and open your CD1 ISO or BIN/CUE file
  3. change Directory to <your_redriver2_folder> on hard drive
  4. In bottom of jPSXdec window open dropdown menu and select All videos and push Select...
  5. Repeat previous step but instead select All audio (excluding video audio) (graphic example)
  6. Click Save All Selected and check if AVI and WAV files are going to be saved, then hit Start (graphic example)
  7. Repeat steps 1-5 for CD2 and it's done.

After you've done all the steps

You also may need MSVC++ Redist 2016-2019 if you haven't already installed: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

Simply start REDRIVER2.exe (red RED2 icon). If you installed game incorrectly, you will see error messages.

Don't forget to check control mapping

Enjoy the improved Driver 2 PC version without emulation!

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