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Nice work pulling that off!  I just tested it and it works as intended.  As for the mysterious 6th graphics mode: Good one!

With the DOSBox keyboard commands you can increase or decrease cycles, but you cannot set the dynamic core which is key for top performance.

I meant entering "core=dynamic" at the command prompt.

My experience is the same.  Using the DOSBox settings that you recommend, I didn't notice any slowdown on ZCT288.  I tested this on an Intel Core i7 6700HQ and an i5 10300H.  What's your idea regarding the CPU configuration?  I know that you can change it in DOSBox using commands.  Is that it?

I really appreciate your work on this!  I just tested it and I didn't notice any issues, but you're right, the performance is significantly worse for the same amount of CPU cycles.  A prime example of this is that there is noticeable slowdown on ZCT288 at even 250000 cycles.  Still, removing the bounds on the camera zoom is a great addition!

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@KyLiE is the only pipsqueak that could help us with hints on what you want to know, he is the only one who saw how to do it, and drove for a ZCT289 podium.

As far as I'm aware, I was the first person in our team to attempt a power gear lap with the Corvette.

I'd love to know how much total time you invested @KyLiE once you had the informations needed to imitate the PG lap.

It was a team effort.  If you really must know, I spent 6.5 hours trying to pull off a power gear lap with the Corvette.  That doesn't include the time I spent driving other cars.  You seem to be insinuating that I blatantly copied @Argammon with little to no effort, but if you compare our replays, you'll realise that we both have quite different approaches to reaching power gear.

I am also not super happy of having wasted time to find a rules-sanctioned way to negotiate the slalom, just to see said rule changed two days after.

The slalom was a ticking time bomb at Race For Kicks that unfortunately went off during that race.  The rules were changed to make sure that it didn't happen again and to make it fair for the majority of the race.  We did the best that we could in that situation.  We like to make the competition as inviting as possible for newcomers, so rest assured, the rules won't be changing again anytime soon.

Nice find!

Congratulations on the release @Zapper!

The map is complete. 42 tracks built from 2002 to 2025 that participated in Stunts tournaments.

Nice work! That's quite impressive!

Congratulations @Argammon!

Nice work!  Thanks for the update!

Had the race ended a few hours ago with you and KyLiE at 1:17.09, the two of you would share the 3rd place and get 10 points each. There indeed are a few places in the site which don't display such cases as ties; you can think of these as display bugs that we'll get around to eventually.

Is the season's standings page one of those places?

I'm a big fan of The Need for Speed!  That feature isn't very well known, despite being included in the user manual.

You've done some fine work with this!  Remember that you're dealing with a 35 year old game and even older cars, so there's always bound to be a compromise with the performance parameters.

@HerrNove, it's great to see that you've gone to the trouble of documenting the development of this.  Part 1 was a very interesting read!

After 48 hours without bug reports, I'm going to nominate my last version as the official release!

Thanks for the last update!  I'm continuing to test this for potential inclusion in my Stunts Windows installer.  I will let you know if I come across any significant issues.