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My series about modding Grand Prix Circuit is finally complete. There should be something for everyone: war stories, hacking techniques, the word "boustrophedonic" and, as bonus, an outdoor game to keep your kids away from the screen for a while.

https://marnetto.net/2026/07/18/dml-making-of-1

[WOW!]

WOW!

This is awesome! The music sounds good, but what I find fantastic are the new sound effects! And also, the doc section is of excellent quality. Many, many congratulations!

I hope we can help to popularize your project. Maybe some community member has a physical SC-55 lying around?

I'd like to try the Roland Sound Canvas driver. Is it available already? Your repo `skidsc55` seems private.

Looks good! Worth including in the wiki, I'd say.

With minutes to go until the deadline, it's a good time to talk about the track map!

Thanks, I love this kind of lore and secret messages!

I had also missed the existence of the dark theme till now. Very happy to know it is available!

The scenario here needs a team of cryptologists.

* Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?

Ancient Romans wrote 300 = CCC. But this is not Sparta.

Oof, so obvious in hindsight!

Where i can see the full world cup prediction?

Opta's prediction is at the link of my message above. My own prediction is only for the first three favorites, France-Argentina-Spain, message #5 in this thread.

France's performance yesterday was impressive. I had not seen something like that from a national team since 2014's Germany or some Brazilian teams of my youth. They are now the clear favourite to win, in my opinion.

Interestingly, Opta's predictions now align with the ones I made before the tournament start: https://theanalyst.com/competition/fifa-world-cup/predictions

Oh, I thought it was Paraguay's flag like Alan suggested in the chat, and that the map took place on the border between the two nations, on the banks of the Paraná.

The scenario here needs a team of cryptologists.

* Are the trees in the middle of the track a reference to the Custom Car Championship?
* Are there flags in the north-east and south-west corner? If they are, what do they represent?
* Does the scenario south of the north-east flag represent the Canis Major constellation, to which the Sirius star belongs?

And I am sure there are other details to be found.

Mod published (see the other thread). I also published the extended verion of Stressed allowing to open GPC files. Hope it will be merged to the official edition soon.

https://marnetto.net/projects/grand-prix-circuit#stressed--gpc-edition

Nice work! It looks great. Congratulations on the release!

Thank you, @KyLiE !

Cool! There aren't different weathers in this game. I add "night" as another weather

Are there mods like this for Test Drive II? A night stage would be also cool!

I think there are no mods for TD2. But the game uses .PES files just like GPC and Stunts, only the compression algorithm is different. So it should be possible to upgrade Stressed and make it open Test Drive assets.

If you are interested in modding the game, let me know. I can probably extend Stressed for you, but it will be up to you to design the backgrounds for a night mod

I think some updates every now and then are perfectly OK in this forum. Let's see what the mods say.

By the way, don't be discouraged by the lack of reactions. Games are like kids: some of them grow to become famous, but the attention a parent has for them is rarely matched. When I develop my personal projects, I do it firstly for myself; getting other people interested is very gratifying but I never rely on that happening.

Thanks Alan! Now, in addition to the night race (Möbius) you can imagine that Spa has a light fog (gray sky), and so my mod perfectly mirrors your last rally race!