Case study
Crash Team Racing: High Octane: a Vita, PC and browser source port
Crash Team Racing: High Octane ports the ctr-native Crash Team Racing code to PlayStation Vita, Windows and web browsers. It adds widescreen rendering, higher frame rates, post-processing, replay controls and platform-specific multiplayer features while reading game data from the player's US PlayStation disc dump.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C1 partial scope or analysis entry
- Stars
- 223
- Last commit
- 2026-10-31
- Language
- C
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-3.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence

- Observed
- Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
- Scope
- Partial
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: Provide a dump of the US PlayStation release of Crash Team Racing.
- Scope: Vita, Windows and web browser are the documented platforms.
- Limits: The Vita demo cutscene can lose synchronization during Oxide's speech.
- License: GPL-3.0.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{crash-team-racing-high-octane-case,
title = {{Crash Team Racing: High Octane: a Vita, PC and browser source port}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Crash-Team-Racing-High-Octane}},
url = {https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Crash-Team-Racing-High-Octane},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/crash-team-racing-high-octane-case/}}
}Plain text
Crash Team Racing: High Octane: a Vita, PC and browser source port. https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Crash-Team-Racing-High-Octane (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/crash-team-racing-high-octane-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · Rinnegatamante/Crash-Team-Racing-High-Octane · Revision bac1c6f
- THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md GitHub · Rinnegatamante/Crash-Team-Racing-High-Octane · Revision bac1c6f
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