McLaren’s top speed

[Bobbin]

#11771

Hello, club! I met some of you while dealing with Stunts and Stunt Island and I finally decided to sign up in the forum ☺︎

I’m currently working on a mod of GPC, featuring three new tracks. A lot is still to do, but meanwhile I have published a small preview, showing the top speed that the MP4/4 can reach, without glitches, on a dragster track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yohwZZDyO-o

[DJ_HiP]

#11773

haha incredible, so the mod basically turns the track into a mobius strip?

[Bobbin]

#11775

The Möbius idea was the starting point. The initial plan was to just have a straight track (like in the video) with a “Finish” banner halfway: the player was supposed to see that, also see his dot on the minimap is approaching the starting point, and to think he’s arrived. But actually this is a Möbius strip, so he’s now on the “other side” of the streak and must still complete half a lap.

I soon found out that the surprise effect was not enough to justify a track concept. So first I added some decoration (tunnels, nonsense signs) like in the video, and then I made it more challenging: in the edition I’m going to publish the Möbius space circuit has undergone some gravitational warping and now slight bends have appeared. The skill will be in managing to launch the car to 219 mph without losing speed on the bends.

The mod will feature other two tracks, but real-life. Goal is to choose “the best from the past, the present and the future of F1”.

[butterburp]

#11776

Ah, Bobbin! Welcome. Don’t miss our Loom thread, haha.

Now back to racing.

[Evil Taco]

#11777

OHHH! This is beyond awesome! Modding GPC? This so cool – this is a game I played as a kid. I have to share this with my sister 😀

[Evil Taco]

#11778

(I still can’t get over that I _swear_ we had a version that had km/h instead of mph)

[Bobbin]

#11779

Thanks to everyone for the welcome, and to Butterburp for guessing the (very easy) reference ☺︎

@Evil Taco Since the mph roll back at 255 as shown by Marco in his glitch video, it’s very likely that the speed is stored in a single byte, which would make a version in km/h not possible. But I know very that feeling of distinctly remembering something that actually was not! Probably your memories conflated GPC with a similar game, happens to me too.