Upon putting the .dll file from Special K into the folder that holds Cars.exe, the game then refuses to open. (Before you ask, yes, I did rename it as said in the guide.) Is there a way to fix this?
You may be able to try the current test version of Special K: https://sk-data.special-k.info/SpecialK-test.7z
I'll be honest, I haven't looked at or been able to test that Special K guide in quite a while, so it may not work as written. If you can't get Special K to work, DxWnd is another windowing program that is known to work well with Cars.
This has been a long time coming. RTA timing has been discontinued as the main timing method for full game runs. Loadless timing (LRT) is the new default and standard for full game runs in the Any%, 100%, and Minigame categories.
Over 100 runs have had their load times manually removed from
