Strobe's GP2 Utilities Page

Grand Prix 2 Utilities

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This page, and the utilities available here, are not supported in any way by Spectrum Holobyte-Microprose

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I will be making various utilities, in various states of completion, available on this page.

I would hate for there to be any disincentive to people sharing their setups , so here is a preliminary version of my Show Setup Utility [6K .ZIP]. As yet there is no documentation - it just displays the setup information from a single car setup file (.CSx) which you specify on the command line. You will be pleased to know that if you redirect the output to a file (e.g. showset race.csh > race.txt), the setup information will be sent to the file, but the vanity banner will not!

I plan to add the ability to show the setup information from a hot lap (.HLx) file, and also to extract this to a separate setup file; unfortunately this has hit a few snags, so please don't hold your breath! I will also look into an option to permanently remove setup info from the hot lap file.

Samuli Takala ("tax") has written a TEXT2SET utility which will convert back from the text file to a loadable setup file.

Due to the strange lack of a menu item in the game to alter the length of a quick race, I have created a Quick Race Length Utility [8K .ZIP]. Full documentation is in a .TXT file in the .ZIP. I have tested this on European (English) v1.0b GP2, and it has been reported to work on both the German and the US versions.

Note that for longer quick races, the game's automatic fuel calculations may give you an inappropriate amount of fuel at the start; to avoid this, pick "Use Car Setup" for "Pitstop Strategy" on the "Drive Options" menu.

Stupid GP2 Tricks

Here is an amusing Dancing Car [27K .ZIP], produced by hex editing ridiculous values into the setup file. Load the saved game, return to cockpit and hit R to see the replay. Then try to drive it!

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