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Instead of just renaming the teams and drivers I switched around quite
a lot to get the 1996 levels from this set.  I compared where each car
qualified in a full season in the gp2 sim, to the actual qualifying.
I then matched up team with similar performance in the game to real
life.  I made the following changes(Old Setting/My Setting):
Minardi/Arrows, Ferrari/Benetton, Benetton/Ferrari, Lotus/Forti,
Tyrrell/Jordan, Sauber/Ligier, McLaren/McLaren, Larrouse/Minardi,
Jordan/Sauber, Ligier/Your Team, Footwork/Tyrrell, and
Williams/Williams.  I also used updated 1996 car colors I found on
websites.  I don't have one for Forti so that is White and Jordan is
not a very good one as admitted by Trevor Kellaway, if you have either

Robert Knauber
SRA Series Director

SRA Series http://www.racesimcentral.net/
RSP Home Page http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Robert Knauber
SRA Series Director

SRA Series http://www.erols.com/dknauber/sra/top.html
RSP Home Page http://www.erols.com/dknauber/rsp/home.html

THe question is (ANYBODY CAN ANSWER): NOW what's to be done is changing
the HELMET colors, plus INSIDE the***PIT color, and finally is there
a way to modify the program in the way that we can change the way the
game rates the drivers/teams. Since the modification Gerhard Berger &
Jean Alesi are running in the middle of the pack since #3 & #4 were
previously TYRRELLS CARS. ---> WHAT I HAVE DONE EXACTLY WAS SWAPPING
TEAMS # exactly like this year.

example: I have used the newest 96' BENETTON.JAM file then converted to
TYRRELL.BMP (to get same # inside/out of***pit), then reconverted the
new TYRRELL.BMP (which is really a BENETTON.BMP) to TYRRELL.JAM. The
result is (as the way the game sees it) #3 is Jean Alesi/benetton in
colors (but really it's a TYRELL as the game computes.

So it's fun to see this behavior (which is normal),but my challenge is
actually changings the ranks of each teams + colors of helmets.

If anyone wants these files i could post it to any popular GP2 site.

Thanks for reading this! Eric

1996BMP to      JAM             Drivers (Car 1/Car2)
Minardi                 Minardi         Pier Luigi Martini/Pedro Lamy
Benetton                Ferrari         Jean Alesi/Gerhard Berger
Ferrari                         Bennetton       Michael Schumacher/Eddie Irvie
Williams                        Williams                Damon Hill/Jacques Villeneuve
Mclaren                 Mclaren         Mika Hakkinen/david Coulthard
Forti                   Simtek          Sandro Montermini/Luca Badoer
Jordan                  Tyrrell         Rubens Barrichello/Martin Brundle
Sauber                  Sauber          H-H Frentzen/Johnny Herbert
Larrousse               Larrousse       Olivier Beretta/Erik Comas
Ligier                  Jordan          Olivier Panis/Pedro Diniz
Footwork                Footwork        Jos Verstappen/Riccardo Rosset
Tyrrell                 Ligier          Mika Salo/Ukyo Katayama
Pacific                 Pacific         J-Paul Belmondo/Bertrand Gachot
Mansell Racing          Lotus           Mark Blundell/Ngiel Mansell

It seems fairly accurate. the car numbers on the BMPs are as for 1996
although the driver numbers in the main driver menu remain wrong -
there seems no way to change this. My own BMP of a Nigel Mansell F1
team replaces Lotus and its in true British red, white & blue ! If any
one wants a copy mail me. I expect once the 1997 season starts,
Stewart Racing could replace Lotus but there are still too many teams
in the game to accurately represent 1996. Once the helmet editor comes
out I more accuracy should be available.
BTW I'm using Paul Arnall's 1996 updates found at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pidi/ie/gp/index.htm. They're excellent !

Jochen Tree

Yes, there is way to change car numbers. First, you have to remove
f1state.* . Than edit the gp2.exe. On offset 1,950,120 you'll find
something like this 81 02 03 04 05 .... 22. 81 is equal to 01 except
number 8 is because Damon Hill is default selected driver.Edit the
numbers ass you wish, but because of lame programming of our dear Mr.
Crammond, there are some things you can't do.You can't use number 1,
you MUST have at least 26 drivers and you can't put 00 between numers
of first and last driver. Also, it seems that driver performance is
related to driver number.

Now, this is harsh.  I very much doubt that "allow program to be
easily hacked by binary editors" was very high on Mr. Crammond's
list of features when he was drawing up the design for GP2.

It's easy to be a critic when you're not the guy who has to figure
out what the software should do, and then make it work.  Perhaps you
would have liked Crammond to publish the source code on the CD as
well, so that you could fix aspects of the design and coding you
found personally distasteful.  Better yet, why not apply your
superhuman programming skills to the task of creating your own F1
racing simulator?

Sheesh.

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Regards,

AIX Compiler Development / IBM Software Solutions Toronto Laboratory

Austin, Tx                 http://www.realtime.net/~indyfan/
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Scott Pruett 1997 PPG Cup Champion!
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It's not cutting corners, it's the way he wanted to code it and that is
the best way to do it (for him). WHY should Geoff Crammond make it
easier for 3rd party add-ons? He is a commercial programmer/developer
and isn't concerned with what we do with his product. If you remember,
this is essentially an evolution of F1GP and as such retains many of the
same conventions, and this "cut corner" is the same as it was before.
I'm sure, given time, that one of the numerous people who have written
F1GP applications can write a number/drver skill editor, but the product
is only just a month old so have a bit of patience.

Max

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