Thanks, but it can be on any drive with short paths. I was just not using the right sdaemon initially. THEN, it was on jconfig by not updating mapping properly after you change it to xinput. You have to change api, close, restart, and then the mappings will work finally. Ugh...After an hour of troubleshooting, got it up and running. Good to go!
UPDATE: Looks like it still crashes after playing 3 races though, just like like 1.06. I guess a loader issue.