GP2 1991 Season MOD (BETA Version)
Posted: 23.07.2012, 12:59
Hi there my friends.
Yesterday I've finally finished the 1991 MOD for GP2. I've been working on this MOD for aprox. 1 month and a half.
The MOD includes all cars, drivers, tracks, sounds, helmets, shapes, menu pictures of the 1991 Formula 1 season and a "Engine Sound Selection" program I made that lets you select which engine sound to use on the GP2 (V12, V10 or V8) in order to make the simulation more real. I developed new engine loops, downshifts and flyby sounds according to each type of engine.
I developed this MOD basing myself on the 1991 season drivers and cars performance, results, and I adjusted each track slot for real 1991 lap times.
IMPORTANT: This mode is not suitable for multi session (more than one player).
This MOD has an Installer that installs the whole working directory on your C:\.
IMPORTANT: You MUST install the GP2 1991 MOD directory on your C:\ root directory. If you install it in any other directory it won't work.
This MOD pacckage includes VDMSound for those who use WinXP and DOSBox for those who use W7.
If you have already mounted C:\ in your DOSBox conf file, please unmount it. Otherwise the DOSBox shortcut won´t work.
Read the INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS carefully.
I hope you enjoy this MOD and give me your feedback in order to improve it.
Any questions/doubts you have, feel free to contact me.
Download link (mediafire): http://www.mediafire.com/?m1istj523mq3m2u
greetings from Argentina!
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UPDATE!!
Our friend rremedio made a patch for fix the C:\ only directory issue. If you want to use the GP2 1991 MOD in other directory, you must download and run the "updatesystem" patch by rremedio. I used it in WinXP and works perfectly.
If you're gonna use GP2 1991 MOD in the C:\ directory, then you don't need this patch.
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?14w45v4juovb7rw
Follow his instructions:
You must install the mod in any folder, then put updatesystem.exe on your xx\GP21991 folder (always that folder...the same folder as GP2 1991 MOD.exe) and run it. It should update all the files with the correct paths.
There are some issues:
1. The script was writen with Ruby, but Ruby won't produce windows exes (the user should have Ruby installed to use the script, just like Java) so I've used also Ocra which is a tool to create windows .exes from Ruby scripts. The problem of making this way is that the .exe will always be too big (in this case, more than 3MB for a simple script) and will always lag a little to launch (you have to wait between 1 and 30 seconds for the script to run). It's lagging just 1 second on my system, but I have Ruby installed and I don't know if this makes it launch faster.
2. Becouse of some Ocra related issues, I'm not sure the script will work on other people systems (it worked on my system) so it would be good if more people test it.
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UPDATE 2
Phoenix Track changed to real 1991 track layout. Mediafire download link updated.
cheers.
Yesterday I've finally finished the 1991 MOD for GP2. I've been working on this MOD for aprox. 1 month and a half.
The MOD includes all cars, drivers, tracks, sounds, helmets, shapes, menu pictures of the 1991 Formula 1 season and a "Engine Sound Selection" program I made that lets you select which engine sound to use on the GP2 (V12, V10 or V8) in order to make the simulation more real. I developed new engine loops, downshifts and flyby sounds according to each type of engine.
I developed this MOD basing myself on the 1991 season drivers and cars performance, results, and I adjusted each track slot for real 1991 lap times.
IMPORTANT: This mode is not suitable for multi session (more than one player).
This MOD has an Installer that installs the whole working directory on your C:\.
IMPORTANT: You MUST install the GP2 1991 MOD directory on your C:\ root directory. If you install it in any other directory it won't work.
This MOD pacckage includes VDMSound for those who use WinXP and DOSBox for those who use W7.
If you have already mounted C:\ in your DOSBox conf file, please unmount it. Otherwise the DOSBox shortcut won´t work.
Read the INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS carefully.
I hope you enjoy this MOD and give me your feedback in order to improve it.
Any questions/doubts you have, feel free to contact me.
Download link (mediafire): http://www.mediafire.com/?m1istj523mq3m2u
greetings from Argentina!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPDATE!!
Our friend rremedio made a patch for fix the C:\ only directory issue. If you want to use the GP2 1991 MOD in other directory, you must download and run the "updatesystem" patch by rremedio. I used it in WinXP and works perfectly.
If you're gonna use GP2 1991 MOD in the C:\ directory, then you don't need this patch.
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?14w45v4juovb7rw
Follow his instructions:
You must install the mod in any folder, then put updatesystem.exe on your xx\GP21991 folder (always that folder...the same folder as GP2 1991 MOD.exe) and run it. It should update all the files with the correct paths.
There are some issues:
1. The script was writen with Ruby, but Ruby won't produce windows exes (the user should have Ruby installed to use the script, just like Java) so I've used also Ocra which is a tool to create windows .exes from Ruby scripts. The problem of making this way is that the .exe will always be too big (in this case, more than 3MB for a simple script) and will always lag a little to launch (you have to wait between 1 and 30 seconds for the script to run). It's lagging just 1 second on my system, but I have Ruby installed and I don't know if this makes it launch faster.
2. Becouse of some Ocra related issues, I'm not sure the script will work on other people systems (it worked on my system) so it would be good if more people test it.
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UPDATE 2
Phoenix Track changed to real 1991 track layout. Mediafire download link updated.
cheers.