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I added this morning option to choose what car to show top time for.. so you can choose a track, then it lists times for all cars like usual but you can also choose to show times only for a specific car.. this should make competing with cars slower then Indy nicer, because they are in sort of their own categories even though they don't have a chance in the global high score chart (in which who has most winning times in all tracks).

The idea for making time delayed competitions is nice and we also thought of it once, the implementation would go much like what you thought here. Now just have to find time to implement it, maybe on some holiday.

The re-designed track elements you see on the page aren't actually re-designed but actual 3D objects taken from Stunts, rendered together using PovRay in the server. Thanks go for the main creator again, who is not me.

How would we go in adding stunts challenge to the stunts portal like you mentioned? Do you mean the front page of stunts.hu, or some other page? We could maybe create a banner for it and then contact the admin person.

Would you consider adding a limited number of them - maybe the ZakStunts set (F40, Lotus, Skyline, Speedgate, Superkart) plus Melange? Please? 

My friend added those cars so they should work now. I'm going to DL and try them myself too since never tried custom cars yet.

Two words: LIVE RACING

(Though there are many other cool things that can be done with this! There is lots of potential in having an easy way for informal racing and replay sharing)

One initial question: does the Stunts running on the server have any custom cars available? (I would test it myself, but I don't want to risk making the batch job choke with my experiments.)

And welcome wind! Cheers from a fellow former 486er 

Feel free to experiment with the server, if it crashes or gets owned its better to fix now than later, so we don't mind down time if the bug was ours. There are no custom cars so it'd either drive wrong in the replay giving DNF or the replay is rejected (like done with wrong versions of the game.)

Cheers, and hope to compete with some times there

Oh, and as is the case with some competitions on the net already, there is no way to prevent continued replays so the competition is really done with replays where people do their best and rewind back if they drive bad. One friend is working on binary patch which would remove the feature from stunts and obfuscate the replay for the kind of competition where rewinding is not possible but there is no saying what comes out of it if anything. I am sceptical myself because people always find ways to cheat so its best to stick to what would be done anyway and make all out of that.

Yes, for now it can be taken as something fun to try out, but it might need some changes and additional features to become better for wider use. We hope you like it. It is hosted for now on a steady virtual server and domain.

My real name is Jussi and I'm from Finland, 29yrs. I played stunt first in 1994 I think, when I got it to my 486 PC. Before that I liked playing Test Drive 3 on my friends 386 and Stunt Car Race r on my C64. I haven't taken part in any Stunts competitions on the net but few years ago I first read about them. I always liked playing Stunts even when it had became an old game. I also like other new racing games like Forza 4, but Stunts always has its own fascination and I think it is still the best game for making fun tracks and competing in them.

My GF says I can go on date only with her and there are no buts. I imagine I had talked about racing and her perspective to it to begin with and what is her favorite track part like a bridge jump or a loop. I don't have a favorite opponent because they're all too easy and the best guy (Skid) keeps siding with the car messing my line and then he crashes soon into something anyway. I found the portraits in japanese Stunts (FM Towns version) fun though. They look as if real people tried to cosplay the stunts opponents and then someone took photos. It's where my portrait in this forum is taken from. Though he is missing the glasses.

There is a new Stunts web site opened at
www.stuntschallenge.net

It is a site where users can create an account and send RPL replays made with Broderbund 1.1 version. The replay is then turned by the web server automatically into a video that can be watched with flash player or downloaded as MP4 file. The times and stats of the replay are stored under the track so users can compete who makes fastest time in which track. The tracks are taken from the RPL file so there is no need to upload new tracks separately. Users can also download the tracks for trying to beat the time of another user. Replays can be commented and also DNF replays are stored separately, so funny crashes and clitches can be uploaded for others to laugh at as well.

Technically, it was all possible by running Stunts in modified DosBox by the web site as a background batch job.

The site was made with my friend. Maybe some of you like to check it out and see if it will become fun. It is not heavily tested yet so there might be some clitches but it seemed to work with 3 people so far.

There are no other social functions besides commenting and profiles, so it is in no competition with any other Stunts web sites or forums,  just a new idea.