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Feb 1

• dreadnaut
  Happy Birthday @Overdrijf! 🎂🎉
• Alan Rotoi
  Happy birthday @Overdrijf!!
• Erik Barros
  Happy Bday @Overdrijf!!
• Stan 286XT
  Happy birthday Overdrijf!!!!!!!
• KyLiE
  I'll go in for the fifth: @Overdrijf, Ik hoop dat je een fijne verjaardag hebt!
• Argammon
  6th: Happy birthday @Overdrive!
• Frieshansen
  Happy Birthday @Overdrijf! And good recovery @HunterBoy344!
• Overdrijf
  Thanks everyone! One more shift up on the gears of life. And get well soon @Hunter.
• Alan Rotoi
  I'm glad to announce a new Doubleplusspeed team member: @Erik_Barros. Welcome!!
• Erik Barros
  Thank you @Alan_Rotoi, @Frieshansen and @Dreadnaut!!! I'm very happy and need to dedicate a lot to improve skills!!

Feb 3

• Mark Nailwood
  Hi, I'm back in the racing community after more than 2 decades of retirement. This is my first submitted replay. There might be some room for improvement.
  0:51.22 A
• Duplode
  Wonderful! Welcome back to the scoreboard, Mark Nailwood This is a day for celebration!
• Alan Rotoi
  Welcome back to Stunts Community @Mark_Nailwood! You have the throne of the early days.
• Stan 286XT
  Eurek have 386 486dx100 dos box ant few much more... Stunt bb11 2024 for ibm XT necV30 8087 640kb of Random acess memory!!!!! COOOL!!!!!!!!!
• Stan 286XT
  https://twitter.com/BasicAppleGuy
• Daniel3D
  WELCOME MARK

Feb 4

• Stan 286XT
  Lancia schansfoul cars!!!!
  1:00.30 A

Feb 5

• Stan 286XT
  Mark you are more fast of DOSbox!!!!!!!!

Feb 6

• Ryoma
  
• Overdrijf
  Ryoma! I'm (sort of) working on a car with Car Blaster while both Mark Nailwood and Ryoma are around, it's almost like a convention!

Feb 7

• dreadnaut
  Is that @Friker on the scoreboard 😱 Hello mate!

Feb 8

• Duplode
  Great! Hello @Friker, nice to see you
• Friker
  Hi, guys! Thanks for welcoming me. This is probably another one of those occasional participations for me. I see a lot of new cars (also in past seasons) - it's great to see creativity and implementation of your artistic thoughts. Where is CTG?
• Duplode
  Hi @Heretic, welcome to the new season! And I've been wondering about that too, @Friker
• Overdrijf
  He's hiding, until he's sure he can beat Mark Nailwood. Also hi, always nice to have both my teams (sort of) on the board.
• dreadnaut
  Could he be living his life, having a good time without Stunts!? 😱
• afullo
  Some years ago, he said that "his life changed enough to keep him away from addictive games".

Feb 9

• dreadnaut
  Stunts is not addictive. I'm not even playing that much, and I can stop any time 👀
• Overdrijf
  Oh come on, we haven't even started implementing habit building techniques yet*. In the next competition you can get a little bit of extra points if you just open the game and play for any amount of time at most 48 hours after your last session. You also start the competition with one random bronze tier car, but you can get more through lootboxes. You have a chance of getting a five star box if you post the current leading time, and that might contain an ultra rare like the Indy. Although you can also buy a large boxpack for 1210 Cherry Chassis Cash, which has an amazing 50% chance to contain a five star box! That's only 20 coins more than what you get in the 100 dollar cash pack! (Yes, the competition uses US dollars). Of course, those cars are only for the current season. We wouldn't want to give people an unfair advantage for being around for longer. I feel like I'm still missing at least one or two big addiction makers. Anyone care to help me out? *= Okay, we do actually have LTB to encourage early racing. Maybe we're more evil than I thought.
• Argammon
  Here comes the GTO. :-)
  0:55.56
• Overdrijf
  Nope.
  0:57.86
• 

  And that’s how you start Season 2023

  Hello hello, amazing Stunts community!

  Dreadnaut here, bringing you a renewed welcome to the 23rd ZakStunts racing season, and to all who have joined (and re-joined) us in these past weeks. Plenty of activity on the track and the Forum, where further plans are hatching: it’s going to be an interesting year!

  A few highlights:

  • There are now single-car podiums for each race. These exist outside the main championship, to celebrate fun racing with different cars. Bask in the glory of being the best LM002 driver on every track! Feedback welcome on the forum
  • We have four dates for Live Races this year! Add them to your calendar, and join us in organising these adrenaline-and-cursing-filled events.
  • We are working to organise a World Stunts Meeting in Europe this year, likely in the well-connected Amsterdam. You should come!
  • Enjoy spectating as much as driving? Let us know your views: book your race and send us a guest report.
  • But who is the strongest racer? Check out Duplode’s math as he develops a cross-competition rating system for the ages.

  As you can see, the first race of the year might be almost over, but it’s just the beginning. And I’m nowhere near done yet!

  • A new Race for Kicks track opened just a week ago. That’s where you find the best stick-to-the-track racing, with optional NoRH.
  • Want to drive new and exotic cars instead? Head to CCC, the Custom Car Competition, where Daniel3D works his magic as the first car DJ! The new season is starting soon: keep an eye on the forum, you don’t want to miss that!

  Well then... what are you waiting for? Fasten your seatbelt, and give us your best shot on our current track!

Feb 10

• Duplode
  Yup
  0:54.80
• Friker
  @dreadnaut "Stunts is not addictive. I'm not even playing that much, and I can stop any time 👀" Exactly!
• Friker
  What's up with PG cars?
• Overdrijf
  @Friker: What do you mean?
• Argammon
  NoRH Crash Recovery List filler.
  1:01.24
• Argammon
  And another listfiller! All scoreboards complete.
  0:58.32
• Duplode
  Welcome back to ZakStunts, @Ryoma! And @Friker, if you mean why so many laps with those cars: this is a legendary Kalpen retro track which had a longstanding Indy record by Bonzai Joe; as for the GTO, we're just having fun with the single-car scoreboards
• Argammon
  Mouse Lap, NoRH, Crash Recovery!
  1:07.87 A
• Friker
  Aha, so "Car podiums" section is for a current track only?
• Duplode
  Yes, they are mini-scoreboards for the current track. (After the race, they will remain visible in the archives as usual.)
• Overdrijf
  Best improvement ever.
  1:02.84
• Overdrijf
  Interesting how the new cars rank. On paper I wasn't expecting them completely in the rear.
• Duplode
  NoRH lap, driven on @HunterBoy344's Stunts Online! https://stunts.hunterboy344.com/
  0:52.68

Feb 11

• Friker
  Let's try to get to "Car podiums" section. ..I can stop anytime..
  1:02.00
• Overdrijf
  Steering wheel lap. I got myself a cheap(ish) second hand one to try it out. It's really weird, and also the fact that it doesn't fit my table is a bigger deal than I thought it might be. I'm going to need a lot more practice to become anything resembling good (that is: to get near my keyboard skill level), but at least measured in driven time I'm still the fastest non-keyboard player here. (P.S. Technically this is NoRH crash recovery, because everything that goes wrong on a closed track causes a crash.) (P.P.S. The car choise is intentional, I tried a few different cars but I quickly figured out I needed something I know well in order for it to stay on the track at least a little.) Edit: Lol, nice "less than 6 hours" animation on the timer.
  1:19.33
• Overdrijf
  By the way: live scores reveal tonight?
• dreadnaut
  I could be around, yes 👍
• Duplode
  XBox 360 gamepad, digital controls, crash recovery. I actually wanted to test the analog sticks, but I couldn't get them working in Stunts yet...
  1:08.25
• dreadnaut
  10 minutes left!
• Erik Barros
  @Duplode, I managed to make an Xbox One joystick work, with the analogues
• Duplode
  Nice, @ErikBarros! We should exchange notes then This replay surely won't matter, but let's send it anyway
  0:54.72
• Duplode
  And let's wrap things up with the Indy
  0:55.12
• dreadnaut
  Live results tonight, join us on the chat! https://forum.stunts.hu/chat/

Feb 12

• Shorty
  Even without sticks I would love to play with a controller. Just for driving manual. But I'm not able to make it work.
• Duplode
  @Shorty if you don't need analog, you can use the Ctrl + F1 remapper of DOSBox to add bindings between your controller and the Stunts keys (arrows, A, Z, Esc, Enter, maybe Space too).
• Stan 286XT
  Nice QuiteReplay!!!!!
• dreadnaut
  Scoreboard confirmed. Congratulations to the first winners of the new season: @AlanRotoi, @Argammon, and @Duplode 🏆
• Frieshansen
  Congrats to @Duplode, @Argammon and @Alan! The podium places are in a league of their own
• Argammon
  @dreadnaut: The McLaren has gone missing. :O
• Alan Rotoi
  Congratulations people! Also congrats @dreadnaut to implement the new car podiums it seems it was a success. How did you get the idea? It's genius! And thank you for the morning replay confirmation - posting new track!
• Overdrijf
  Obvious route in obvious car, benchmark test. Nothing to see here.
  1:26.03
• dreadnaut
  Whops, McLaren issue fixed. @Alan, could you re-submit your replay?
• Alan Rotoi
  I Can't, so sorry, already overwrited. Delete it, no problem
• Mark Nailwood
  Let's see how long I can keep this position. :-)
  1:21.79 A
• Overdrijf
  I had an idea, I want to try making a car together. I'm looking for 7 volunteers willing to do a part of their own choosing somewhere over the next year or so. Experience not required, although some roles would include a bit of a learning curve. I made a thread over on the forum: The Community Car Project: an exercise in collaborative car making
• Friker
  NoRH, almost GAR.. Really frustrating to keep up with all rules GAR imposed. I drove the track trying to keep up with all rules I remembered and then remembered that I also could not have a map opened on background. Anyway - why turning back and then to the finish again does not work? Maybe I will post an image to the forum.
  1:44.20 A
• Duplode
  LOL -- what do you mean, I can't turn the GPS of my car on? As for the two-tile turning back shortcut, you know how that rolls: you post the map to the forum, everyone reacts horrified, and we decide the shortcut will be banned for the good of the race Please post it anyway, as it's good to have it written down somewhere.
• Friker
  Oh, it's two tiles? That's probably why. And GAR - yes, I specifically asked Marco about this and he forbids to look at the map while driving.
• Cas
  First blind try!
  1:24.38
• Alan Rotoi
  GAR is like a hegemonic religious cult. Everything is forbidden.
• Argammon
  The Mclaren is a nightmare on ice. *g*
  1:27.75
• Stan 286XT
  For BUGS\bunny this is an Indy.TRK!!!!!!!
• Stan 286XT
  4 BUGS\bunny my286 12Mhz is out of memory!!!!!
• Overdrijf
  Must be the realistic water physics, those kill any machine sooner or later. (Just to be sure everyone gets it: that was a joke about games from the most recent 20 years or so, for me it was the Age of Empires 2 remaster that crashed the game when building too large a map with too much water on it.)
• dreadnaut
  @Friker, note that a replay is not really valid for GAR unless your name is Marco at the moment of driving the lap. Changing name between driving and submitting the replay is not enough.

Feb 13

• Argammon
  First, the hare is leading. Then Alanrotoi takes the lead with the hedgehog and now the hare strikes back. Please tell me the track is not balanced Alan! :-)
  1:16.80
• Daniel3D
  I think that not driving back on a track is actually the second rule of ZakStunts. The first is that you have to continue Driving past finish until the game goes to evaluation. Both should be made official in my opinion. There are no other rules, right?
• Daniel3D
  Everyone: since some of us are on telegram and some are on element. But a lot are not on either I would like to test something this weekend. Dreadnaut has changed settings for the forum chat (chat link I the left menu here) to show more history and expand timeout times. So. Everyone who races this weekend, please join the chat
• Duplode
  Another one usually held is that the finish tile must be crossed in the forward direction. That rules out the instant finish bug. A precedent for it is ZCT085 : https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?msg=36738 . BTW the wrong way driving restriction has a few subtleties, aliong the lines of what was discussed at ZCT202 : Z202 - Ketiranyu . If we were to add an explicit rule for that, I think the safest formulation would be "you can't drive a section of track in *both* directions over a single lap *if* you are using that to do a dual-way switch".
• Alan Rotoi
  As far as I remember the rule "you have to continue Driving past finish until the game goes to evaluation." came after ZCT15 when for some reason (probably a split road after the start line) you could finish the replay at 9 seconds.
• Daniel3D
  I mentioned the driving past finish because I remember that last season there were issues with uploading because a driver hit escape after the finish to be able to quickly save the replay. That resulted in cutting the 20 ticks and thus an unintended quicker time if no key presses were made short before the finish or an invalid replay.
• Alan Rotoi
  Yes, it was just an additional info.

Feb 16

• Stan 286XT
  I drove DE TOMASO Pantera GTI on DEFAUT.TRK is faboulous!!!!!!!!
• Argammon
  Ok, time for the hedgehog.
  1:15.17
• dreadnaut
  Ok, let's try the other route 🤔
  1:20.83

Feb 17

• Frieshansen
  Supported by PS4 D-pad
  1:18.98

Feb 18

• Duplode
  That's groundbreaking, @Frieshansen!
  1:17.30

Feb 19

• Alan Rotoi
  Welcome @Rody!
• Rody
  @Alan Rotoi, thanks! Just uploaded my very first replay! Love to see that this community kept Stunts live for so many years!
• Stan 286XT
  286 640KB RAM no FPU!!!!!!!
  1:30.05 A
• Duplode
  Hello and welcome, @Rody!
  1:22.14
• Stan 286XT
  the hooo jump!!!! I berevetted Defaut.rpl thet jump is my speciality!!!!
  1:24.42 A
• Stan 286XT
  Whit this.TRK I am more fast of DOSBOX!!!! I am before Overdiff becose I have better bonus!!!!
• Frieshansen
  Howdy @Rody
  1:28.34
• Overdrijf
  Okay, maybe it's time to do a little racing somewhere in the next few days...

Feb 20

• KyLiE
  Welcome @Rody!

Feb 22

• Shoegazing Leo
  First
  1:36.09 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Second
  1:40.75 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Third
  1:40.53 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Fourth
  1:43.12 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Fifth
  1:34.76 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Sixth
  1:26.56 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Seventh
  1:25.15 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Eighthieth
  1:23.52 A

Feb 23

• Akoss Poo
  AtheR(y)oma is back! But how and why? He can't drive is Stratos car this year! Then what was the use of his earlier hysteria?
• dreadnaut
  Fanning the flames, @AkossPoo? Please don't.
• Overdrijf
  Last-ish call for building a car together with several very talented individuals: The Community Car Project: an exercise in collaborative car making. 9 out of 10 dentists agree it's a better use of ones time than trying to start an argument in the shoutbox, and only slightly worse than driving Zakstunts.
• Akoss Poo
  Dreadnaut, I think he owes this community a detailed explanation for his disappearance vs. his sudden return.
• dreadnaut
  I think people don't need to justify their past behaviour, they only need to move in the right direction 🤷‍♂️. Otherwise, there would be a lot to justify in ZakStunts' past, and I think we are all better off letting that stuff lie.

Feb 24

• Argammon
  Excellent time by Frieshansen. I like it when the other drivers challenge the "big three". We are not invincible. :-)
• Overdrijf
  Another episode, another plug. Overdrijf's the name, speed-ups are the game:
• Shoegazing Leo
  I don't know the real function each car scoreboard, but it's funny.
• Rody
  I saw these GAR rules among the articles. Do we have such a leaderboard?
• Duplode
  @Rody Not at the moment, though we used to have that between 2016 and 2021. You can race with similar rules at Race For Kicks, though: https://www.raceforkicks.com -- this month's race there goes until tomorrow, by the way

Feb 25

• Alan Rotoi
  @Leo the car podiums are just for kicks. To have fun not only racing the best car of the race but with the whole set. Yes, it's fun, a great idea!
• Ryoma
  https://mega.nz/folder/1mJEwDCC#4k1vV5V8T_xgxcNidXV31w

Feb 26

• Akoss Poo
  Chürmücücű
• Argammon
  Nice to see Akoss becoming active again. Now you only need to start racing!

Feb 27

• Alan Rotoi
  I know you'll take back the lead in 5 minutes
  1:13.34
• Alan Rotoi
  @Argammon gonna be mad tomorrow...
• Daniel3D
  1 hour away from an LTB point.. that's just plain evil..
• Argammon
  No, I am not mad. I am impressed! Perhaps we have been driving the wrong car all of us? ;-)
• Duplode
  Unbelievable timing with @AlanRotoi's lap. Oops :-)

Feb 28

• Duplode
  The inventory of cars in @Ryoma's Mega folder keeps growing! 😲

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