Wacky Races is an insanely impressive and fun Game Boy Color racer! But in my personal experience it does have two bummers – The intro screens are painfully slow and have no way to skip them, and the game uses passwords, no saving.

This patch remedies both of these problems! The game now uses MBC5+RAM+BATTERY and saves all the data usually set by passwords to SRAM, it also saves the selected language. The game now skips the Copyright screens always, and when the game finds a save in SRAM (Created when picking a language), it will skip directly to the title screen, jumping over the Copyright screens and the language selection screen.

The patch also adds two button combinations that can be held pressed when the game boots:

• A+LEFT: Clears save file
• B+RIGHT: Requests language change, doesn’t delete save file

Keep in mind that I kept this patch simple, so SRAM is only backed up when the game originally requested a password. So the game only saves if you input a new password in Options or if you get a password screen after beating certain cups.

Also yes, the password input screen still works!

The source code is included with light build instructions for anyone interested in seeing how the patch works!

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