TOCA 2 Touring Cars

"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal) 02/24/2015 at 09:36 • Filed to: Vintage computer racing

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Rummaging through my old racing sims, I came upon the copy of Codemasters TOCA 2 Touring Cars from 1999. Out of curiously I decided to see if I could get it to run on my current Windows 7 machine.

Fortunately, someone thought about this before I did, and came up with a solution using a Hex editor. A little tinkering and before I knew it, I was racing James Thompson, Alain Menu, David Leslie and other drivers from the Super Touring era of the British Touring Car Championship. Not bad for a sim I imported from the UK in 1999 and hadn't used in probably 15 years.

Now if my buddy still has my copy of the original TOCA I bough online from Australia the year prior, I might give that a go.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Just wear your damn mask... 02/24/2015 at 09:59

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How does the game hold up?

GTI Sprinks > Just wear your damn mask... 02/24/2015 at 10:05

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Should send this over to codemasters. They love seeing stuff like this. They just posted a tweet about someone finding toca 2 for their playstation and firing it up.

GTI Sprinks > GTI Sprinks 02/24/2015 at 10:07

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and of course holler at digital burnouts.

Just wear your damn mask... > GTI Sprinks 02/24/2015 at 10:42

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Possibly. I heard they have mixed feelings about these old games because of licensing.

Just wear your damn mask... > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 02/24/2015 at 10:44

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It is pretty much as I remember. Graphically it isn't iRacing or any of the modern console games, but it is neat. The lens flare is funny in retrospect. It'll all be worth it to hear Tiff Needell say "Thruxton" again.

Evil-B > Just wear your damn mask... 02/24/2015 at 10:55

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Great game, have fun.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Just wear your damn mask... 02/24/2015 at 13:56

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I can verify that TOCA 3 will play on Win7 with no patches or mods.