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Oct 1

• Taxi driver
  I think I might manage, but it will take a while. The introduction is easy: "Никита, одиннадцать лет, Санкт-Петербург, Россия, песня "Эта я "." The first 2 verses say: "Эта я праву (?) бурю. Эта я раздуваю пламя." - "It is I who stir up the storm. It is I who fan the flames."
• Victor Narl
  Happy birthday, @Usrin!
• Victor Narl
  Happy birthday, @Imperas!
• Taxi driver
  Let's not forget Lord Je... Dreadnaut. Not your birthday, but anyway: Oops... forgot again... you don't like music...

Oct 2

• HerrNove
  OH NO! I fear I continued @MiDiaN's replay! @Duplode @dreadnaut Please check my .rpl, they might be all irregular! EDIT: the 1:55.65 should be good. Not so the following 2.
• HerrNove
  But this is a genuine one So my replays of 2 Oct 11:27 and 2 Oct 12:48 CET should be removed and ignored for PTB purposes – apologies to @MiDiaN for that. Still, my “100% HerrNove” run is the best, and the big guys will need to send something if they want to get to the top again.
  1:49.30

Oct 3

• Overdrijf
  Hi Matei! For clarity, the "Overdrijf is awesome" license only applies to the cars released under said license, in this case the Siluro, but the DTM cars were also released under it. (I think even the updated Kart version is from before I thought of it.) It is a joke, but it is a joke with a meaning behind it. Sometimes the internet can look a bit like there's two camps: companies with ever stricter protections, and users who figure that everything they can google is theirs now. Licenses such as the creative commons license have been popping up to fill that gap, where you can create something that's free for others to use and modify, but not for say a company to copy and turn into a paid product. I saw some people applying licenses like this to their Stunts creations, and I decided that while I was too lazy and too carefree to follow their example to the letter and start figuring out which of these things is the best etc (because who would steal my cars made for Stunts? I'm happy to have people play around with these things), I could create my own license instead. And that was the Overdrijf is awesome license. I am very happy that the curators of the Zakstunts pack, as license abiding citizens, followed the instructions in said license and included it in the pack. That's what the license asks, if someone includes these cars in say the release of a game they include either the notice of the license or another note that Overdrijf is awesome. It's because they included it that you now know that Overdrijf is totally, totally awesome.

Oct 4

• dreadnaut
  Thanks for letting us know @HerrNove, I've excluded the two replays from the scoreboard ✅
• Taxi driver
  Hi nobody! If you want me to call you by the nickname, then call me "Taxi driver", especially since I don't know your real name, which I would have used in this context, since you used mine. First, laws don't matter even when they should. Here's an example: https://icpraha.com/en/physical-punishment-of-children-is-prohibited-in-the-czech-republic "Does this mean penalties for parents? No." If I would have distributed your car, which I won't because I don't like it, I would have specified that I downloaded it from here though, as I already did in file README.txt from my game: "The first 19 tracks available here (and converted) were created by Cas and are available at https://www.raceforkicks.com/ and the rest of them are tracks other/trk/ZCT020.TRK ... other/trk/ZCT078.TRK made by some people for Stunts - https://zak.stunts.hu/downloads. Also not under GNU GPL license, but it doesn't really matter(?)" So I distributed the tracks and If anyone has anything against that (I estimate that no one will bother), as I already wrote ~3 days ago: "It is I who stir up the storm. It is I who fan the flames." Can't guarantee that the translation is 100% correct, but I really like this song.

Oct 5

• dreadnaut
  Happy birthday, @AkossPoo! 🎉
• Taxi driver
  Forgot this - song referring to the aforementioned license: "I've done everything that I wanted and it was more than I thought it would be. I will leave my mark, so everyone will know I was here." Great song performance, but the text has a few issues...
• Victor Narl
  Happy birthday, @AkossPoo!
• Victor Narl
  There is an error in the PTB update - the date can't possibly be October 1st when there are 360 ​​hours remaining. https://zak.stunts.hu/articles/ptb-updates-season-2026#
• Duplode
  Happy birthday, @AkossPoo! @VictorNarl Indeed, that was supposed to be September 30th. Now fixed (on the "previous update" chart).
• Victor Narl
  @Duplode, it looks like you made a mistake regarding the latest PTB update again. The correct date is October 3rd, not October 5th.
• 

  Chocolate Stunts 🍫

  Exciting times in the world of Stunts reverse engineering: new efforts based on the Restunts project are popping up left and right.

  In my eyes though, the release Chocolate Stunts marks a big milestone: it is the first port that sticks close to the original while going well beyond graphic enhancements. I'm thinking in particular of the “press Q to rewind” feature, which can greatly reduce the effort of replay handling.

  To keep racing fair, improvements of this kind need to be accessible to everyone, and Chocolate Stunts is in a good place, with builds for many operating systems, DOS included! Give it a try today, and let us know what you think on the forum

  The landscape is shifting

  From the point of view of the competition, Stunts BB 1.1 remains our reference point, at least for the moment. Racers might use different versions of the game (original, SuperSight, Chocoloate?), but replays must show a valid line in the Stunts version available for download on this website.

  But the Stuntsphere is changing, as they say, gradually, then suddenly. From small patches to extensive mods, to a Cambrian explosion of projects bringing Stunts into the 21st century. We need a conversation to chart the competition's path ahead: how do we keep racing fair and fun with an increasing number of improvements and tools?

  What remains fundamental to ZakStunts is that the replay must be entirely driven by the person submitting it. Sharing with other folks is no-no, and magically generated laps will not be allowed. The spirit of the competition remains to challenge ourselves, to find and execute the fastest route that our fingers, our patience, and the game will allow.

  Again, join us on the Forum to shape what the competition will look like in 2027. And fasten your seatbelt, however many pixels it is rendered with.

Oct 6

• Taxi driver
  Just found out there's a new version of Stunts called "Chocolate Stunts". Downloaded executable file which worked with Fedora 41, so I recorded a replay with it and uploaded here, but I still prefer the version for DOS repaired by Mr. Herrnove, because compiling the new one is Mission Impossible, which means I can't change a setting that I use (among other things). I suppose that whoever wants to record a shorter replay should use it though... the replay I just uploaded is 3.15 shorter than the previous one. Used "hyper vision" set to "medium", CPU Pentium 4 650.
• Duplode
  @VictorNarl Fixed (again! 😅). Happy birthday, @Ryoma! 🎉
• Victor Narl
  Happy birthday, @Ryoma!
• Alain
  Bon anniv' Ryoma. Le kairos planait ce matin : un petit cadeau (une avancée inédite dans la communauté Stunts) t'attend dans ta boîte mail frérot !
• Victor Narl
  The date in the PTB table is incorrect again. The correct date is October 3rd, not October 6th.
• MiDiaN
  @Duplode, maybe a coffee will help your focus
• Ryoma
  Hi Victor and Alain, thank you and for Alain I will check
• Taxi driver
  I see some people just posted some shorter and shorter replays. As can be seen in the column incorrectedly titled "Driven" (should be "Time(s)"), mine is not larger than anyone else's though... did you start using Chocolate Stunts? As I understand, "replay handling" works much better here, but I don't bother with that. Checked if it works with Fedora 34. Doesn't. https://zak.stunts.hu/tracks/ZCT303/all
• dreadnaut
  Happy birthday @Ryoma! 🎂
• Marco
  HB Ryoma !!! My friends, i'm back because this guy of Stunts online introduced a worldwide score and removed the chance to use replay handling by invalidating the score if you use the continue button. It's not disabled. If you want to come and set some records
• Marco
  https://playstunts.com/
• Marco
  Dread you can save and share the replay
• dreadnaut
  I could, yes! Maybe when I get closer to 0'30" (See ZCT079)
• Marco
  The programmer asked me about your replay. I saw Victor 29 seconds. What have you done ? the shortcut on the left going all by the grass ?
• dreadnaut
  Victor used a modified Indy for the DGC scoreboard, I merely went to the website and drove a lap. No powergear involved.
• dreadnaut
  I actually don't know how folks reached 30-40" without a cheat car. We don't have any replays for ZCT079 or the permanent competition but those were driven with the stock Indy! So I can only try over and over, somewhere there's a powergear opportunity
• Marco
  This guy is an unbelievable programmer, he removed replay handling in a half hour without removing the continue button. Now is working to divide scoreboard with shortcuts from scoreboard without cuts. he says that he can recognize the shortcut and place a time limit. So we could all enjoy and compete our style
• Marco
  Dread you run a normal lap without cutting ? in 59 ?
• dreadnaut
  Being me, of course there's a cut! Or to be precise a dual-way switch. Others might get the same time with the go-straight path though. Many results are claimed in the forum thread for Default , who knows how they were achieved.
• HerrNove
  Bon anniversaire, @Ryoma! /// @dreadnaut: > “We don't have any replays for ZCT079” All replays for ZCT079 are available, just right of the “download track” link. I even linked Ayrton’s 31.25, and many other specialty records, from the wikipage of the Default track.
• dreadnaut
  @HerrNove, ouch, then something went wrong and the zipfile is now empty. And there are no replays in the database 🤔 — [edit] Ah, nevermind, I always get confused by this: the replays for ZCT079 are in the ZCT080 zip. I'll have to fix this one day. But now I should look at all those replays
• Marco
  @dreadnaut . Well if this guy is able to find a "discover cut" idea (and he seems he has a nice one) , it will be a super interesting version . I told him that it would be not fair to disqualify from "no cut" scoreboard people that have some kind of difficulty to stay continuoulsy on the road and he told me that he will allow to go outside the track but you must get inside again on the next part of road otherwise it will be anyway a good result but with the " shortcut logo " over the scoreboard. This is beautiful to me you know ).
• Taxi driver
  Just for the record, the first thing I wrote here was: I can drive without my hands, I can drive wothout my feet, and I have no problem keeping taxi on the street. I already uploaded 3 replays, btw. https://genius.com/Dr-bombay-calcutta-taxi-taxi-taxi-lyrics

Oct 7

• Alan Rotoi
  @dreadnaut my 2002 Default record replay from Permanent Competition (AKA ZCT079) was uploaded to www.raceforkicks.com . It was the record for several months back then but far from Renato Biker's (about 8 seconds). It's 0:38.60 with official Porsche March Indy.
• Alan Rotoi
  I'll check if I can find Meganium's replays from ZCT079 (Aburaf's, Ayrton's, Chulk's and mine)
• Taxi driver
  About DAF Siluro again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomatic "the transmission works in reverse as well, giving it the side effect that one can drive backwards as fast as forwards." Not in Stunts (1990) though, but I know a few games in which all cars can do that. Anyone interested? No? Ok, just checking... https://www.insidehook.com/electric/fastest-car-reverse-rimac-nevera
• Marco
  Ok my friends, I'm back. Sorry if I'm no good with the forum and i write here but I'm old. As anticipated, a norway guy did an online version that sounds very good to me. He did some update in the last days, as already told you He blocked the Replay Handling and, yesterday, he set an automatic system to check if you are cutting or not and then place your lap record in different scoreboard. About the no cut lap, it's fine if you go on the grass or lose the car but you must simply not cut completely parts of the track. It's not strictly as GAR so you can "cut" the corkscrew , you can jump against the wall of the divided road, etc, that's obviously due to your skills to be able to do those tricks without RH . In the next update there will be 2 scoreboard, valid route or shortcuts route. In this moment they are together with the flag. It would be great is some of you professional can perform a couple of run just to see if it works. At the end of your race , the replay is automatically recorded and the game checks it. There are the faq that explai. The scoreboard is always via web. You find some of my tests in the scoreboard https://playstunts.com/ https://playstunts.com/high-scores thank you and sorry to bother you again but you are the best I know
• Marco
  Victor , I hope you can join some trials
• Taxi driver
  From pl*ys**nts.com: "THREE.WebGLRenderer: Error creating WebGL context." Don't remember having disabled WebGL, but: https://blog.pixelfreestudio.com/webgl-security-best-practices-ensuring-safe-3d-web-experiences/ "With the rise of 3D web experiences, WebGL has become a powerful tool for developers to create immersive, interactive, and visually stunning applications that run directly in the browser." I see that word "directly" is used quite often these days, like "Why drink water from your own well, when you can buy a bottle directly from Coca-Cola?" https://www.killercoke.org/
• Marco
  wow, do you mean it could be dangerous ??
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Hi Taxi driver, I’m Sven, the person behind PlayStunts 🙂 Thanks for trying it and reporting the graphics error. Could you tell me which browser and operating system you’re using? That would help me investigate.
• Taxi driver
  In this case Firefox and Fedora 41, but you didn't read my entire message, did you?... Another problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript "It is developed by Microsoft as free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0." Free?... Here's why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp. "Intel Vice-president Steven McGeady, called as a witness, quoted Paul Maritz, a senior Microsoft vice president, as having stated an intention to 'extinguish' and 'smother' rival Netscape Communications Corporation and to 'cut off Netscape's air supply' by giving away a clone of Netscape's flagship product for free." If Micro$oft releases some free software, that's to extinguish some other free software that they don't like, but don't worry, people here prefer proprietary software (and maybe SaaSS(?)).
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Thanks for clarifying. My first reply focused on the graphics error and didn’t address your broader point, sorry about that. I understand your concern about Microsoft’s history, and “free” alone certainly isn’t a guarantee of good intentions. I chose TypeScript as a development tool, not as an endorsement of Microsoft. PlayStunts is a personal hobby project with its source available on GitHub. The browser version is an option, not a replacement for the original game or locally run alternatives. I also understand preferring software you can run and control yourself rather than depending on an online service. Thanks for the Firefox/Fedora 41 details, too. I’m happy to investigate the graphics issue without asking you to weaken your browser’s security settings.
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Could you open about:support in Firefox and send just the “WebGL 2 Driver Renderer” entry under Graphics, plus your Firefox version? It may explain why the graphics couldn’t start. No need to change any security settings.
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Could you open about:support in Firefox and send just the “WebGL 2 Driver Renderer” entry under Graphics, plus your Firefox version? It may explain why the graphics couldn’t start. No need to change any security settings.
• Taxi driver
  "WebGL creation failed: * GL error 0x500 occurred during WebGL context initialization! (FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBGL_GLERR_2)", but you already ask a lot... The introduction of the game ran a little before that error, but it was very slow and some other factors might be involved, like video drivers etc. I don't have a "concern about Microsoft’s history". Anyone can see that Micro$oft must be avoided if you know what's good for you, and of course, nonfree software in general, not just Micro$oft, which spreads like disease. Github now belongs to Micro$oft, the money for Firefox comes mostly from G***le etc. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/22/malware-viruses-companies-preinstall
• HerrNove
  @TaxiDriver Are you still using your Acer Aspire 3000 from 2011? I think this would be a very relevant info to share with @svenanders, since your PC might very well be outside the target spec of the web version. /// @Marco WebGL is not dangerous, just a little more demanding than DOSBox in terms of hardware (PlayStunts runs at 30 FPS on my laptop, less than modernish Unity games like Disco Elysium).
• Marco
  Hi Taxi, i'm using chrome and i had to enable the hardware accelleration of the browser and now it's good. Thanks @Alain for your run . Tomorrow I will try to take your Carrera 1st place on the default
• svenanders
  @taxidriver Thanks, that error gives me something concrete to investigate, so I won’t ask for more details for now. It points to a failure while Firefox initializes the graphics, although it doesn’t establish the exact cause. I’ll also look at how the game handles that failure. I understand your point better now: you object to proprietary software and corporate dependence more broadly, not just Microsoft’s past actions. You don’t have to agree with my choice of tools, and I respect your decision not to use the project.
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Your report helped me find a problem in how the game handled unavailable graphics. I’ve updated it so the introduction and demo switch to original graphics rather than stopping or repeatedly retrying. It also shows a clear explanation. This doesn’t fix the underlying Firefox/driver issue, but should let the game continue without changing your security settings. Thanks for helping out!

Oct 8

• Taxi driver
  Works now, but it's the obsolete version, not the current one in which Mr. HerrNove fixed the graphics. Anyway, I also object to rape, murder etc., but everybody with his own opinion, which we must respect. @HerrNove: No, the Acer Aspire 3000 is from 2005, not 2011, it has a 32-bit Sempron CPU, I use it mostly to compile some programs for Window$ (with Wine, of course), and right now I'm using a computer with Pentium 4 650 64 bit CPU from ~2006. The Asus Eee PC (CPU Atom N455) is from 2011.
• svenanders
  @HerrNove If you haven't already, try activating hardware acceleration in your browser. If you're on a recent laptop, that should give you some better performance. In Chrome you'll find it here: chrome://settings/system
• HerrNove
  @svenanders Yes, Chromium with HW acceleration runs at 60 FPS on my Debian laptop. As always, Firefox seems to lack some video optimizations. Good to know, and thanks for the tip!
• Taxi driver
  Yes, we play with game from 37 years ago, but we need hardware at least 10000 times faster than we needed then. This is progress.
• Taxi driver
  Speaking of which, I did put a game which can be played "directly" in the browser on my site (which I don't recommend, but anyway), i.e. Chequered Flag for ZX Spectrum from 1983, because I found an emulator which also works with Firefox 10 from 2012. The car actually moves better than in Grand Prix Circuit from 1988 (don't know if anyone's interested) and there's also more landscape around the track. When I was using a ZX Spectrum I had the impression that Grand Prix Circuit was better, which it isn't, but I had only seen from some distance and for a few minutes in 1990. When I played with it ~20 years later, different story (almost unplayable). Links: https://matei.one/oprog.html#online https://www.retrogames.cz/play_413-DOS.php
• svenanders
  @HerrNove Thanks for testing! Did you also try PlayStunts in Firefox on the same laptop? If so, roughly what FPS did you get, and which Firefox version? That would help me check whether there’s something I can improve on my side 🙂
• Taxi driver
  Yes he did, he got 30 FPS at most and used a much newer version than I do. I would have been interested to see what Mr. x29retaliator did, but he was afraid to give anything to anyone else and ran away... Working native port of Stunts with 8 multiplayer over Internet About "something I can improve on my side": "...the path towards a new beginning starts within you."
• HerrNove
  @RCBandit Happy birthday! /// @svenanders Firefox/Linux: 30 FPS / Chromium/Linux with HW acceleration: 60 FPS / Chromium/Linux without HW acceleration: 1 [sic] FPS. Did not expect the last value, but the Firefox/Chromium difference is something I have often experienced: Chrome’s engine seems better optimized for video and games.
• Taxi driver
  Of course games and videos run faster with Chrome, because most of the money for Firefox comes from G**gle (duh), but as I wrote on my site: https://matei.one/invidious.php?v=kJAGzGDMahc "Browsers are not optimised for playing videos, so you will get much better performance and energy efficiency if you use a specialised program."
• svenanders
  @HerrNove Thanks, that helps! 🙂 Which Firefox version are you using? Could you also open about:support and tell me what “Compositing” says under Graphics? No need to change any settings.
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Well, I get a steady 120fps in the newest Google Chrome on my MacBook Pro M4.
• HerrNove
  @svenanders I have Firefox 140.4.0 ESR with Compositing: WebRender
• svenanders
  @HerrNove Tested the newest version of Firefox on my Mac, and also got 120fps, just for information...
• svenanders
  @HerrNove What does it say under "Target Frame Rate" under about:support for you?
• Taxi driver
  @svenanders Maybe it's because your screen refresh rate is set to 120 Hz (and Mr. HerrNove's is set to 60 Hz), but while you're at it, you could also try to see what reported framerate you get from my game(s), where I limited the framerate to 500 FPS (SDL_Delay(2) at every frame). I obviously don't have an executable file for your M**B*** *** **, but it's very easy to compile (no idea how you would do it on that thing) and you can also see what happens when you remove SDL_Delay(2). I already gave the address of my site.
• Victor Narl
  Happy birthday, @RCBandit!
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Yes, my display runs at 120 Hz, so that could explain the 120 vs. 60 FPS, but not Firefox getting 30 while Chromium gets 60 on the same laptop. 🙂
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver Just so you know what my project is: I reverse-engineered the original DOS game by studying its executable, data files and behaviour, then reconstructed its logic for the browser. The aim is to preserve the original driving physics, tracks and game flow while adding optional updated graphics and website features. It runs locally on your computer,not streamed from a server, and needs no separate installation or emulator.

Oct 9

• Marco
  New update , Replay Handling definitively blocked and system to check if the lap is full route or shortcuts placing the results in 2 different scoreboards. Sven followed my suggestions, So it's completely different and completely not in competition with zak but it's finally a version in my opinion very good to play NORH challenge. If someone of you professionist want to join a lap or 2 it would be great to see you in that scoreboard with me. No monthly races, there are the original tracks to place your record or if you want you can upload and share your tracks. It will need surely other improvements in the future but at the moment sounds good. Thanks my friends, I pass and close the point because i already bored you so much but you know me how I admire and love you but also how much i hate the RH ) . https://playstunts.com/
• Taxi driver
  If you hate the RH then don't use it, I don't understand what the problem is. I don't bother with it it either.
• MiDiaN
  Some really skilled drivers have been racing on PlayStunts! I'm expecting even better times from the NoRH master himself, Victor Narl
• Taxi driver
  Skilled drivers? Where? Can't see any. Anyway, I just recorded a replay myself there and saw that the game runs by default in slow motion, so this was a tool assisted speedrun, because I couldn't find the button to change the setting, which I don't normally use. What I didn't notice until now, however, is that Chocolate Stunts doesn't have this option(?), which would be required when the game doesn't run in an emulator...
• svenanders
  @Taxi driver Do you mean PlayStunts? Was the actual race running slower than normal, or was it just low FPS? Which browser and browser version were you using? The more specs I get the more I can adjust it so older hardware can run it better.
• Taxi driver
  Don't bother, I just went there out of curiosity. I already have a lot of games to play with, which I don't even have time for. Your problem is that you use very fast PC when you make program. My programs, including games, run well on Pentium III and even Pentium II with a few adjustments. https://matei.one/gnlx.html#imgs Other games require even less(?): https://matei.one/games.html
• Marco
  Taxi you sound really friendly
• Marco
  @Midian, yes some very skilled joined, me, Alan Rotoi, Alain, the top 3 laptime are from ZakStunts racers.

Oct 10

• dreadnaut
  Wow, seven days left and only twelve people on the scoreboard. Everyone busy this month
• dreadnaut
  Btw, it's ten years since @Marco's first ZakStunts victory 🥇 Can't wait to see you back at the top of the scoreboard pal!
• Alan Rotoi
  @MiDiaN it hasn't the same handling or the sounds confuses me but it's not the same.
• Duplode
  Final 24 hours for CCC Round 2! Pick your race car and join us at https://ccc.mystunts.net/
• svenanders
  @AlanRotoi Are you saying that PlayStunts doesn't have the same handling as the original or compared to something else? Because this version is reverse engineered from the executable from the original game, so it should behave and feel the same. If it's different, can you explain what the difference is as good as possible?
• Alan Rotoi
  It's something about the smoothness of the driving, maybe it confuses me. Also, in the corkscrew I had some wall traspassing (several times) that it never happened in Stunts. Not the red wall but the cork itself. And the car doesn't crash when is upside down. The smoothness I mean is maybe the FPS. It makes the experience quiet different. It doesn't feel like Stunts but something similar. Don't take me wrong, please. I think this project is great. You have my support!
• Taxi driver
  About "as the original" - I downloaded a replay from there, tried to watch it with "the original", didn't work. "Chocolate Stunts" works well though, I already uploaded a replay recorded with it here, although with the interpolation used for increased framerate, car moves more like hovercraft. All I have to do now is compile it so it also runs on Fedora 34, but first I have to install a new version of cmake which takes a very long time etc. Very complicated. As I understand, reverse engineered clones of Photoshop and Micro$oft Office are also available (Photosuite.app, AutoShop, WPS Office).
• Victor Narl
  @MiDiaN, thanks for the compliment. But unfortunately, the PlayStunts website is not available in my country.. https://files.webmoney.com/files/jbQyDBaC (screenshot)
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver: Which original Stunts version did you use, and could you send me the replay that failed? Did it refuse to load, or did the car drive incorrectly? Check the versions here: https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Download I can make the rpl-file work on all versions.
• svenanders
  @VictorNarl: I will move the website to another server soon, so you can get access too.
• Taxi driver
  I used the recommended version of course, in which Mr. HerrNove also fixed the graphics. As far as I remember the replay was recorded by Marco, with track "JOES". It should be on your site(?). First time I tried to run it, the track editor opened instead of the replay and the second time the replay loaded but the car was in the wrong place and nothing worked. This is what I usually play with: https://matei.one/gmstunts.html#download I also raised the camera from inside a little (Mr. HerrNove explained how) because in the original executable from 1990 it was too low (don't know if you noticed). Cars in Stunts have the wrong position
• svenanders
  @Taxidriver: PlayStunts.com is based on Mindscape’s 4D Sports Driving v1.1 from 13 December 1990. Our test replay worked there, but played differently in the other three DOS releases. Downloads now show the compatible version, also explained in the FAQ. I may add support for downloads compatible with all versions later, but can’t promise that yet.
• Taxi driver
  You can't add downloads compatible with all versions because the car moves differently in each of them and: https://matei.one/games.html#details "recorded runs as "replays" [...] are nothing else than exact records of game input keys".
• Marco
  @Alan Rotoi, could this be due to the version used ? Sven used 4d sports driving 1.1 from december 1990. Surely different in some things from the Zak Stunts due to the version. I had not the feeling that something changed in my game experience from stunts excluding some chrash happened after big jump. Maybe because I use 4d sports driving as well on my PC (because there's no the super grip bug on the left and you can run track longer than 10 minutes) . Have you tried the enhanced graphic ? you must enable the hardware accelleration of the browser before. it's easy, settings, system ... it's explained online.
• Marco
  I'm very happy that Duplode will join a test in the weekend and absolutely waiting for Victor as well. I hope that Play Stunts is going to be a good solution for NO-RH races.
• Taxi driver
  @Marco(?) https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Game_versions "Left corner bias Left turns can be taken at higher speeds than right ones." At "MS 1991" the table says "yes", but it's not a bug: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/10/humans-prefer-to-walk-anticlockwise-scientists-find-reason-unclear So that's why I find it easier to turn left when skating and I could ever only rotate left when jumping (180 degrees at most, but anyway), although I find it easier to go right when doing crossovers... https://www.wikihow.fitness/Do-a-Crossover-on-Inline-Skates Can't skate like this though (and I don't skate on ice): All jumps towards left (didn't notice until now). https://web.archive.org/web/20240524061408/https://scienceperfo.com/en/why-is-it-easier-to-turn-left/
• Marco
  in my opinion, if a car turns left faster than right is a bug or, anyway, ia behaviour that I don't prefer
• Marco
  I did some research also on the wiki here. In this moment as told you, Play Stunts is built over 4d sports driving 1.1 1990. This is the first old version . I talk to Sven and i think that's not a necessary feature to upload replays from outside so that they could be compatible or not , why ? The replays from outside are not scored because is not possible to define the NO-RH that's the main point of this version. My question to you, do you think that could be useful to pass from 4d 1.1 1990 to 4d 1.1 1991. On 1.1 1991 there are less crashes after jump . infact I noticed that was easier to crash on Play Stunts. And also you have more speedup on the last version. I red that Stunts 1.1 and 4d 1.1 1991 are anyway replay compatible, so the only change that I know between them is that 4d 1.1 1991 has no the fast grip on the left. And i like this. There s something else that you would not suggest to continue using 4d (1990 or 1991) instead of Stunts 1.1 ?
• Taxi driver
  If replays are "scored" or not, I don't understand why anyone would care about it. It is possible to define NO-RH - don't use RH. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semai_people#Childhood "The games Semai children play are non-competitive. These games include forms of sports that encourage physical activity and exertions so that the body becomes tired and are therefore made ready for sleep and the subsequent dreaming. [...] A game of badminton for example uses no partition nets and keeps no score." Finally, if one version has "the fast grip on the left" and another one doesn't, the replays won't be compatible (read what I wrote before).
• Marco
  No problem, i think that there's no need and sense to upload replays from outside on Play Stunts. Play Stunts has basically the goal to be a place where directly perform certified NO-RH challenge . I'm anyway also uploading videos of my performances on my FB channel recording my fingers too to permit others to learn driving fast techniques. Obviuosly these are for already advanced racers, the others must need to learn on how to stay on the road before.
• Victor Narl
  @Marco, unfortunately, all 1991 versions feature an improved left-side clutch, whereas only the 1990 versions have a balanced clutch on both sides. Also, in the 1990s versions, all the cars are more fragile (closer to real cars) and because of this, there is a greater chance of accidents when jumping
• Taxi driver
  https://genius.com/Dr-bombay-calcutta-original-version-lyrics "Even though I have no licence, I always find the clutch". "More fragile" doesn't mean closer to real cars. How about some physics?...
• Marco
  @Victor, it's seems to me that my 4d sports driving 1.1 1991 has no a left better grip, at least not as stunts 1.1 .

Oct 11

• Victor Narl
  @AlanRotoi, my congratulations on the absolute victories in the first two stages of CCC. I see that with your 30 points, you’re now out of reach. Unfortunately, the main group of riders lost interest in the CCC competition due to the incorrectly chosen first stage

Oct 12

• Taxi driver
  He's not out of reach, you can write to him here. Actually you just did... anyway, he even seems to answer sometimes.
• Victor Narl
  @MiDiaN, by the way, about an hour ago you reached 2PTB, thereby mathematically securing the 2026 championship title early—so please accept my congratulations! You can celebrate your title starting today. Congratulations to the NEW ZakStunts Champion!!!
• HerrNove
  Congratulations to @MiDiaN, and thanks to @VictorNarl for keeping the championship open till today!
• Marco
  Sorry, i'm missing something. If Midian doesn't run c304 and c305 , Victor can still pass or not ?
• Victor Narl
  @Marco, yes, that's right, the mathematical guarantee of the title for MiDiaN happened around 6:00am today. He can now participate however he likes—or even go completely offline for the rest of the year—and still retain the title. Please read this post on the forum https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?msg=102103
• Taxi driver
  Off-topic (not really...): One idea I see in these conversations is that what's most important for people here is to be told "you're great", "you won", "congratulations", "the title" etc., so I will give a (translated) quote from a book called "La difficulté de vivre" written by Françoise Dolto - "Such a child will always need an external law, external calls and pressures to tell him what to do. Because he began his life like this, without knowing anything about himself: his mother knew it for him too...; it is a form of parasitism. [...] Children raised in this way are the ones who try, we often see them, to stick to a supportive group in which they are only a small element, like a child in the arms of a giant adult. Only then do they know what they want: they want what the herd wants. And the school does not try at all to modify this education from the beginning: it does not strive to make everyone think as he wants." The author of the book died in 1988, but: https://archive.org/details/ladifficultedevi0000dolt "PURCHASE OPTIONS". Apparently "abandonware" doesn't work everywhere... especially where it would be most needed.
• MiDiaN
  Thanks everyone for the congratulations! And a big thank you to @Victor_Narl for putting up such a great fight for the championship! It was a close and exciting battle! I'll do my best on the final two tracks as well!
• Marco
  ah right because of the discards. Wow, Nice championship. Taxi , life has still not a known reason to exists. Anyway almost all the form of life excluding humans live simply for the surviving instinct . While Humans introduced a lot of unuseful things including competing on Stunts. Don't waste your time trying to find a sense to all because there's not.
• dreadnaut
  Wow, the fight felt so live and close from the sidelines, that I'm actualy surprised the title solidified in mid-October 👏 I need to go and check what's happening for the 2nd-3rd-4th place slots now, I think there are battles still in play 🍿
• Taxi driver
  @Marco You just ~confirmed the quote that I put there - you don't find a sense, so someone else has to tell you what to do. Also, what you just wrote reminds me of what Mr. d******d wrote to me a while ago: https://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=newsarc&year=2026&month=9 "It means you don't consider those you relate to as human beings," where he continued with "but as resources to exploit." What I did so far is actually called cooperation. https://www.skillsyouneed.com/rhubarb/competition-vs-cooperation.html "Competition is everywhere in our modern world: in school, at work, on the road, in the gym, and more. [...] Emerging research shows that competition is deleterious in many ways." It's actually competition that makes some people consider other people just as resources to exploit, which capitalism has been showing us since long ago. https://historycrunch.com/child-labor-in-the-industrial-revolution/ "workers are often abandoned from the moment that an accident occurs; their wages are stopped, no medical attendance is provided, and whatever the extent of the injury, no compensation is afforded."
• Marco
  Absolutely true Taxi and, competition, will be probably one of the main key about our close extintion. But there's nothing we can do to change this because is inside our evolution, inside the evolution of life. Yes our brain, in some few people, is able to understand that this is very deleterious as the same that we know we must die but we live as we will never die. This is probably what was designed by the Universe and maybe there's some reason we don't know or we could not know. There's nothing we can do, if we will survive, the next sapiens sapiens sapiens, triple sapiens, maybe will be better but there's a scientific important theory regarding the big filter that, staying on the logic of the things, probably we will not survive till the 3 sapiens. The supposition is determined by the fact that the Universe is completely silent also if we discovered the way to listen the sound of the initial big bang and see the primitive radiation. If the Universe is so silent this can mean only 2 possibilities in our knowledge. Or we are alone or the intelligent and technolocic life doesn't survive enough to crox each other in any part of the Universe. Considering that billions of solar systems are much older then our one, the second possibility is probably the most probable. You are competitive too Taxi because you cannot be different also if maybe you think to be ... just talking about not to be but you are.
• Alain
  Congratulations to MiDiaN on claiming a title I won 22 years ago, and with fewer victories than he has. The universe itself seems built for a single purpose: to erase itself in heat death. There must be a good reason for that. Players come and go, but the illusion of a timely victory stands the test of eons.
• Taxi driver
  Most likely, we are alone. Not room here to develop the idea, but I estimate that the probability for us being anywhere is already small enough that not even we should be here, or as someone else said: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/631594 "We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes." Anyway, as Dr. Richard Stallman said: https://yquotes.com/richard-m-stallman/135931/ "I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win." Or... Song largely created with LLM, which I don't recommend, but (subtitles incomplete): "It's enough just to be the hero in your own life story" - "Not a diamond, not a flame, not a knight with a shiny name. Not a hero, not a light, just a shadow in fight. I fall, I crawl, I stand, but I stall. [Chorus] I'm not here to save the day, forgive me. Forgive me, I pray, just doing my best to be me, amen, amen. Let me be free. [/Chorus] Not the armor, not a crown, not the king that won't back down. Just a heart with cracks and scars, just a wanderer chasing stars. I break, I ache, I give, but I take. [Chorus]" And maybe someone might explain to be how this video is desplayed here, because I can't download it with yt-dlp or even watch it at y****be.com, as it says "Please sign in" etc.
• Alain
  You think we are alone because you don't see them with your -no offense- ape eyes tweaked just good enough to see ripe fruits. But what about the "are they everywhere and we didn't notice them being the fabric of ourselves" hypothesis?
• Taxi driver
  Are they everywhere? https://genius.com/Jeff-wayne-the-eve-of-the-war-lyrics "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... But still, they come!" Or... https://www.definitions.net/definition/a+million+to+one "2. Benny Hill: The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."
• sebastianali302
  Hello. It is not exactly relevant to the competition but i wanted to ask why Stunts keeps asking for a CD when changing the car? It only started to happen when i reinstalled to update the version.
• Shoegazing Leo
  1st
  2:44.97 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  2nd
  2:36.86 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Third
  2:22.42 A

Oct 13

• Alan Rotoi
  Hi @sebastianali302 . Maybe because you want to watch a replay with a car that it's not installed?
• Duplode
  Congratulations on ensuring the ZakStunts title, @MiDiaN! 👏
• Duplode
  Hello @sebastianali302! If that happens while you're changing cars on the car selection screen, it could be because there is some car in your Stunts folder that's missing one of the four files: https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Car_files . The order of the cars in the selection screen is the same as the alphabetical order of CAR*.RES files, which might help with figuring out which car is making it stuck.

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