I've patched Daytona: And the Book of Gold to version 1.0b.  Some mac laptops have trackpads which don't easily allow you to hold down the button while moving to draw shapes.  The patch allows the Z and X keys to serve as alternatives to the Left and Right mouse buttons.

I don't mean to raise this topic from the dead, but I'm having some trouble.
I'm not sure if this is my computer, or the new mouse I bought. Sometimes, when I am playing the game, the mouse is incredibly unresponsive, and when I click the left mouse button nothing happens. I'll hold it down, and the game will go in and out, and the beakin or whatever it's called will stop. The sound of it completely stops. I also get this error:
Daytona and Book of Gold
Run-time error '9':
Subscript out of range
OK
I'm not sure what's going on, I hope it's not my mouse. I've been waiting for so long to have a wirelesss mouse to play this game, lol. I'm not sure why the mouse keeps going in and out. I hope I explained this correctly.
One suggestion I had is to make the control key able to stop the speech of the telling of the shape. When you click the right mouse button, you can not press control to interupt speech.

I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but that sounds a lot like the sound mode option when you press, Shift and A.  If this isn't the same thing, please explain it again, so I can better understand your idea.

Have you tried running Aprone's checkup file that's included in some of his games, I don't know if it'll help but it might be worth a shot.