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Is it possible to race against your own replay in Stunts (in one instance of the game), like racing against a ghost in a modern pipsqueak?  I think the answer is no, but I've been out of the loop for a few decades and maybe the community knows something I don't.

I did not check out this thread until now, but the example combined track pieces are really cool!  I love this!  Adds a cool new dimension to the game.

What is in that track archive^?  Is it every known stunts track available to download online over the years?

It's roughly every downloadable track I have found over the past few years.

Thanks, that's very handy. I've downloaded it for my own use.  Would it be worth uploading to archive.org? Seems like probably the largest representation of tracks made by Stunts users around, and since it goes back 30+ years, that seems pretty historically significant.  Would really add a big dimension to the Stunts experience if you were someone who was studying it for some reason or perusing it as a nostalgia thing.

By the way, I'm still messing around with that floppy disk that I initially got the tracks off of, but other than being able to read it the first time I ever used it, its been a total dud!  I've even tried some data recovery software, such as BadCopy, which did an excellent job recovering files from 10 other disks I have, but its unable to show anything on this disk other than to tell me its totally messed up.  Here's the log from the latest scan I did.

What is in that track archive^?  Is it every known stunts track available to download online over the years?

New version of track archive is attached to the original post. Everyone may feel free to share these files with anyone anywhere, and/or upload them to any website.  I think some highscore and even some old replay files that we thought interesting enough to save at the time (stuff like launching straight into air, power gear adventures, unusual crashes or other unusual car behavior) are in the archive as well.

I have had no luck accessing the floppy disk files... But I recovered more tracks from my old hdds from later years. I think it's around 140 tracks in total. Tracks were saved during these years:  1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2014.  Will upload the new archive when I'm next at my PC. 

Are there other Stunts websites that might want my tracks as part of an archive?

Hm, how do I go about restoring the partition?  Wish I could boot into dos with an old pc, but my working computer these days is a modern Windows 10 machine.

For what its worth, tried the tracks diskette again a few times in Explorer where it worked before, and in some tools, but didn't get anything showing up or downloadable tonight.

Wow I tried some software for getting corrupt files off floppies and it was working well with some other floppies I had that weren't working yesterday, so I tried this one as well. The software says the whole disk is bad and recovers no files, I am also unable to read it in regular windows explorer like I was yesterday...  Good thing I grabbed what I could yesterday, this disk might be permanently messed up now.

Thanks, this looks like a giant collection of tools covering a variety of topics. Is there one in particular that might help me recover data from the floppy disk?

It may be possible to recover the rest as well. HBCD has a bunch of tools you can try, and doesn't need installation.

And, internet as we know it, started in the middle of your timeframe. So unless your father was already a BBS enthusiast, you probably didn't have access to internet for well past 1994..

On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet.

What is HBCD? I'd be happy to try some tools to try and get more data off the disk.  I also have old HDDs from our old PCs from the early and mid 90s, which almost certainly have more Stunts tracks saved on them, but I don't seem to be able to read these old HDDs via a USB adapter I bought, but they do spin up and seem to mechanically run smoothly. Might this tool help with recovering data from HDDs too?

EDIT #2:  FINAL VERSION OF TRACK ARCHIVE WITH 30+ ADDITIONAL RECOVERED TRACKS ADDED TO THIS POST 3/2/24

EDIT: LATEST VERSION OF TRACK ARCHIVE WITH ADDITIONAL TRACKS IS ADDED TO THIS POST  12/20/23



I found a floppy disk in a box in my parent's basement today in the year 2023 with the pencil label "Stunts tracks, SAVE!" on it and the date, 1994.  I was able to check it out with a USB floppy drive I bought awhile ago, and surprisingly I could read this almost 30 year old disk and see that it had ~240 files on it. The files of course were Stunts tracks and their highscore records, (so maybe around 120 individual tracks).

I tried copying them to my HDD and was able to get a portion of them, maybe about 70% of what was on the disk.  I think its about 80 individual tracks. 

So without further ado, here are mine and my brother's (and some of my dad's) Stunts tracks that we made between August 1992 (probably immediately after we got the game) and January 1994 when the disk was made.

Its personally nostalgic for me to find these long lost tracks, but maybe they will be interesting to others to see what current players of the game were doing when the game was still relatively new and there were no enhancement or edit tools or easily findable internet community. As it turns out, it seems the very first track that was saved was by my dad (judging from the file name daddy1), and it is an edit of default.trk.  That is an example of how one might first learn the track editor by loading up an existing track and messing with it, rather than making one completely new by scratch.  As the track list goes on, there are plenty of tracks that range between simple to sadistic, short, to long and complicated.  Curvy dirt rally tracks, and extreme stunt tracks and weird experimental stuff too, such as long straightaways of slaloms just because my brother wanted to make me a "tough" track.

By the way, in 1992-1994, my brother and I would have been in elementary school and my dad in his late 30s. So that's the age range of us, the creators of these tracks at the time!  Please enjoy my personal archive. 

There's also a track similar to hard driving in this thread. https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=3956.15

I took a stab at recreating the hard driving/race driving track 1 a few years ago.  It did come out looking pretty different due to the differences between the games but it was fun to try and approximate it.

I attached it to a forum post here. Let me know what you think:
https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=3774.msg80482#msg80482

I agree it doesn't look like it will be a 1:1 recreation of the stunts gameplay.  Still though, it would be fun to drive around/make stunts courses and drive them with a different kind of engine, a smoother more modern take on stunts.  I appreciate the untextured polygon style of graphics that is being used in some places... this project looks more interesting than some of the older remake attempts like Ultimate Stunts.