Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 23:51:20 +0100 From: Markus Nagelholz Organization: The NAILWOOD Company Subject: Re: Replays - Bug Reports - Highscores - NEW TOOLS Hello Peter ! Some weeks ago I've started searching the web for Stunts-fans and I've also found your page. I was surprised that so many people are still fascinated by this game. Stunts is one of my favourite games, too. I have started my driving career in 1992. I've not only built many cool tracks with various special-effects, but I've also tried to examine the track-, car-, and score-files. If you have ANY questions about the game, feel free to e-mail me. If you have not got an answer to your question about the replays so far: The replays only contain the NAME of your car, of the opponent and of the opponent's car, the track- (and terrain-) Information, and the keyboard-events during driving. This leads to the following implications: 1) You must provide EXACTLY the same car in the Stunts-root-directory if you want to view a replay. :-( 2) If only 1 byte of the replay is altered - especially in the keyboard-event-section, the replay will be chaotically from this point. So hacking around in the replay-files is not useful. :-(( 3) The replay does not contain any information that you have not continued your driving from the end of the replay - so if you've crashed (it may happen sometimes ...) then you only have to continue from a previous position and try again. Then you must save the replay before the finishing line, re-load it and finish with a (I hope) good highscore. :-))) === Some bug-reports: === The link to 'valhalla.zip' in the section 'Submissions' does not work. The zip-file 'paf-trks' does not contain the 'valhalla'-track that you recommend, so it is not possible to beat the highscore. I've attached the replay so that you can adapt the highscore table. Since the replay has been saved during the finishing jump, you only need to load it and select 'continue'. Please enter 'Mark Nailwood' if I have got a highscore - I think that my time is not too bad ...) :-) The 'sikotic'-zipfile does not contain a replay, but the txt-file says that there should be one. === My attachments === Markus Nagelholz / Mark Nailwood - nagel@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
02-14-97 - PAF-TRKS.ZIP Incredible highscores for baka/barrier/bars/default1 !
02-14-97 - TB.ZIP Fascinating highscores for all 'all*'-tracks !
02-14-97 - VALHALLA.RPL A replay from the King of Valhalla !
The main reason for my mail is that I've written some useful TOOLS for this game and I would like to share them with others. Now I'm working on the last refinements and bug-fixes. On February 21st I'll publish them. Please check out my small homepage (search for nagelholz (my name) in AltaVista) or go directly to http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e8926276/ENGLISH/Stunts.htm - I think you'll like the tools. I think there are some other Stunts-freaks that would like to play around with my power-tools, so feel free to provide a link to my page on your (very good) Stunts-page. I have seen that it is visited very frequently. OK, that's all - I'm looking forward to any comments. *** Keep drivin' ! *** Markus