Hi guys, Che Martin here, the developer of Rail Racer.
  Thanks for the post Richard, I appreciate you letting folks know about the demo.
  If you get the demo, be sure and read the read me file that comes in the zip, it has important installation instructions.
  The full release of the game will be available for purchase in a week, allowing lots of other cool features, check the site for details.
  I look forward to seeing what you guys think of the demo.
  Enjoy,
  Che

Not sure what is going on with your system Mike.  you should be hearing the curves, as well as the sounds indicating jumps.
  No one else has reported any problems with this.
  As for using the arrow keys, if I had mapped the keys that way, how would you shift gears, believe me, I spent a lot of time designing the control system of the game, and this is the best way.
  Regarding the documentation, I'm not sure what you are talking about in reference to it not being detailed, there is nothing there it doesn't cover if you read it.
  Also, there is an option to listen to all the game sounds in the options menu.
  This game may not be to everyone's taste, but as far as not hearing sounds and the like, that sounds like a system problem specific to your machine, not the game itself.
  Later,
  Che

Hmmmm mike, I'm slightly surprised that you haven't heard the curve or jump indicaters, ---- are you using headphones? there is indeed a learn game sounds menue, just check under the "game options" menue to find it.

As for not taking curves, sinse the game is "rale racer" and you are driving a car that runs along a rale, it's not a question of taking the curves without crashing, so much as taking them at the correct angle so that you don't lose too much speed, --- but as you've probably found out, you certainly can! crash on the jumps.

As to the documentation, I deffinately suggest you check out the two audio tutorials Che has posted on http://www.blindadrenaline.com/ one will tell you all about the menues, the other will demonstrate the game. I'd absolute! recommend you here these (I believe they will be included with the full release), especially considdering that Rale racer is one of those games that you really have to practice with and build up your intuitions rather than just understanding the mechanics.

As to the keys, i was slightly surprised myself when i first came across them, but having played the game I can deffinately understand the reason why, sinse there are many things you need to activate and check during the race, such as shifting gears, which would be difficult to do on arrow keys because you couldn't get to the keys fast enough. i haven't fully got to grips with the mouse control yet, but I will certainly see if I can master it, as it sounds fun.

I will admit rale racer takes a bit of learning, but the phrase "easy to learn, hard to master" comes to mind here.

As you can probably guess, I'm well impressed with the game (and I'm not usually a huge fan of racing games), and will certainly be getting my mits on the full version as soon as i can.
rials and such first.

I've not been able to try the joystick options, but I wonder Cx2 how much speech there will be in the full version of the game as compared to the demo at the end of each race, sinse obviously in a full game you will have records of your lap times etc, so won't be constantly told "you have a new record for this track" ---- well not unless you have one of course.

Stil i can see the point about the interupt. Again, I'm really pleasantly surprised with Rale racer.

Hmm, i saw many bugs in the game. first of all, in the menu, when you press the u or the h key, the game crashes. The second key can be the j too, i'm not sure.
In the review game sounds menu, some sound won't play when you press enter on it.
You can get more then 100% damage.
when you got for example 92% damage, the car races slowly, but when you restart the race, the car is fast again.
next, the game crashes many times when i paused the game and continue it.

Can you make a 30 days testversion of the game? I want to test the multyplayer and other functions, before i will buy the game.

Hmmmm, personally, I really enjoy the changing gears business and imho automatic gears would take a lot away from the game, sinse I love the stratogy of changing gears at the right time, ----- obviously the final decision is up to che though.

I've not noticed any of the bugs you mention Leonard, accept for the U key thing. The learn game sounds menue seems to work fine for me, and I've quite often paused the race to continue a moment later. As to damage, I've always fixed my racer as soon as I acquire any, so haven't had a chance to check out how much difference it makes to your speed.

All I can suggest is that you get all the latest windows updates, ----- not just direct x, sinse apparently these can effect performance of the game.

I've checked my finances, and will luckily be able to afford Rale racer, though annoyingly I'll be visiting my parents next week so will miss out on a couple of days of racing grrrrrr!

Hey, I did see the sounds menu bug, one time it workedthen after I played a race some sounds didn't play.

Hi all,
  Sorry for the late post, been busy.
  I will check that out about the joystick button remapping, never ran across that in testing unfortunately.
   Yes, some of the keys for the demo cause a crash, because they are meant for the full version, for instance j will take you right into join a multi player game.  My apologies for not taking those keys out in the demo.
  As I stated in the tutorial, the demo is there to give you a taste of the full game, career mode, tournaments and online play are really the meat of the game, and where the fun is at.  And of course making your own tracks and sharing them.
  Check back with you all later, and really glad you guys like it.
  Take care,
  Che