Hydro Thunder
Windows - 2001
Description of Hydro Thunder
In 2001, Sold Out Sales & Marketing Ltd. publishes Hydro Thunder on Windows. This racing / driving game is now abandonware and is set in a naval, sci-fi / futuristic and track racing themes.
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How to play Hydro Thunder Windows
Autorun of original CD requires the installed Macromedia Shockwave Player for work. But you can launch installation from DATA folder, simply click on setup.exe.
Also, you can copy the contents of the \DATA\English\data\
folder to your drive and replace the executable file with the NoCD by beha_r.
The game has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, works with no problem. For best experience run the game through dgVoodoo utility
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Comments and reviews
8-bit kid 2023-02-05 1 point
Oh man... I loved playing Hydro Thunder on the Dreamcast and I was so miffed that it got released on the Playstation because I KNEW it wasn't powerful enough for the game. Did eventually get released as a bundled game on the Playstation 2 but the Dreamcast STILL did it better! This was one of THE best racing games I EVER played! Game wasn't lying when it said your crazy trying to defeat EXPERT! Took a perfect game play using ALL the shortcuts and a good bit of LUCK to beat those nightmares! But boy? You had a killer time doing it!
Sickmind33 2022-09-21 3 points
This is such a good game. I remember playing it at the arcade as a kid.
Also, for those who want to reset the save, just delete Hydro.cfg
momspaghettiii 2022-07-04 1 point
i have a faint memory from my child days that i was playing a water racing game and there was different monsters on the track, almost like hydra thunder hyracane's one level, but i cant find a trace on the internet, did i make it up?
SS 2022-05-03 1 point
You can change the resolution by using the dgVoodooCpl.exe found in same folder. plenty of options to check out there. From what i can tell it seems the game used the voodoo cards back in a day and that dgVoodoo is just a wrapper that allows us to play it using directx. SO check out dgVoodooCpl, i was able to make it full screen but it is stretched a little bit. just find what ever resolution works best for you enjoy
pocketrice 2022-02-07 1 point
any way to change the resolution of the game? can't play it because my screen has a super high resolution
pomokey 2022-01-20 0 point
sparkitty, is it actual force feedback? like steering feedback, or just vibration?
Sparkitty 2022-01-15 2 points
Such a amazing game to have played during my childhood. Used to have a sit down arcade cabinet of this game in the old bowling alley we went to and I'd play this so much. I didn't even know of a PC version until I looked it up on here and what surprised me as well is that this game has wheel support. Ran it using my G27 after seeing it had Force Feedback and it works great after lowering the FF and changing the Steering angle to around 360. Just a question, though. Does anyone know how to reset the save for this game so I can start over?
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