: Europress have now released an addon package for their Rally
: Championship game - the addon is under the name The X-Miles addon.
: Cost at HMV Oxford Street London was 14.99 UKP last Wednesday but I
: have now seen the software on sale in Byte for 12.99 UKP.
They were(are?) doing an offer of 9.99 UKP + 2.95 P&P if
you buy it from them before the launch. I got my copy
on Monday. It installed OK but lost my config and all my saved
games :-( This is a major bummer and there was no warning
about this in the insructions (what instructions???)
It also says complete with course maps - but the only maps
I found was the ones in the 'View stage' option there were no
'paper' maps of the stages like in the original game.
: The addon allows 10 extra courses in all modes, i.e. individual,
: arcade, championship etc. It includes BIG jumps (yes BIG jumps),
: tunnels (cannot recall any tunnels on rally courses), deserts and
: courses where the weather/road conditions vary.
There are tunnels in the original game but the x-miles has tunnels with
gradients :-)
: It may just be my imagination but the addon also appears to have
: improved the way in which the car handles, i.e. plenty of back end
: step out.
I think it's just your imagination :-)
: All in all, a worthwhile purchase IMHO.
For a tenner, yes, 15 quid is too steep for just 10 tracks.
On a slightly different tact, has anybody managed to suss out the
graphics format used for the textures/car bitmaps?? I would
love to edit them but have not sussed out the format yet.
Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Or even better suss out
a track editor.... That would be fun.....!!
Looking at the files they appear to be simple 'bitmaps' but are
not in a 'standard' format. If you see what I mean.
Happy driving...
Neil
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