Freaky Flyers

Freaky Flyers
Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SLUS-20284 SLUS-29051 (Demo, Rating Pending version) SLUS-29061 (Demo) Release date: August 5, 2003 CRCs: 9D1BA44D Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SLES-50713 Release date: October 10, 2003 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Midway Studios - San Diego
Publisher(s): Midway
Genre: Racing
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 66/100
Game description: Freaky Flyers takes you into the air for fast-and-furious racing with an interesting cast of animated characters. You'll either play as or encounter more than a dozen characters including an American hero, a female bandit from south of the border, and a mellow ambassador of tropical paradise. Explore, adventure, and dogfight in the skies over Danger Island, Haunted Transylvania, and Roaring Chicago. Pirates, haunted castles, and mob bosses all lie ahead of you--are you skilled enough to overcome these dangers?
The game is a humorous, air racing game which incorporates other modes which make the game more open to larger gamers. Freaky Flyers takes you into the air for fast-and-furious racing with an interesting cast of animated characters. You'll either play as or encounter more than a dozen characters including an American hero, a female bandit from south of the border, and a mellow ambassador of tropical paradise.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC-U	Windows	I5 3330 HD radeon 6850	1.3 Git 29 of April	GSDX	SPU2-X ?	USA v02.20(10/02/2006), Games hang shortily in game, Vif1 running when CHCR == 60000055 in emu log.	DESTRUIDOR
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro 64-bit	Intel i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB	v1.7.0 (dev-59)	GSdx 1.2.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	BIOS: USA v02.30, Preset: 1 (Safest). Goes ingame but the status remains unchanged. There are still various visual glitches. The game also shortly freezes sometimes with the console throwing an audio error and then getting flooded with Vif1 errors. I have played through the first two levels and didn't run into any other issues. See my video here.	TomBoss
NTSC-U/PAL	Windows 11	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D @ 4.20 GHz AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	2.0.2	Vulkan	Cubeb	Works well. No visual glitches and no audio error. No issues.	DarkZKnight

Test configurations on Linux:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC-U/PAL	Linux Mint 22	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D @ 4.20 GHz AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	2.0.2	Vulkan	Cubeb	Works well. No visual glitches and no audio error. No issues.	DarkZKnight

Test configurations on macOS:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
?	?	? ?	?	?	?	There are no test results for this game on macOS. You can help by playing and submitting your test results here.	?

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	Freaky Flyers (SLUS 20284) (U)