I am trying to use the Taladega track for Daytona. But the sim wont allow
it, it seems. I get a "problem loading track" message. I copied the
taldega dir and all files to DAYTONA dir. I edited the names of the files
to daytona. I also edited the DAYTONA.TXT to DAYTONA BEACH, DAYTONA INTL.
SPEEDWAY.
If any one can help, please let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
RANDY YOUNG
Young) writes:
>I am trying to use the Taladega track for Daytona. But the sim wont allow
>it, it seems. I get a "problem loading track" message. I copied the
>taldega dir and all files to DAYTONA dir. I edited the names of the files
>to daytona. I also edited the DAYTONA.TXT to DAYTONA BEACH, DAYTONA INTL.
>SPEEDWAY.
>If any one can help, please let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
>RANDY YOUNG
The way I got this to work was:
1.make a directory called "DaytonaB" (it has to be the same number of
letters as "Taladega")
2. copy in all the taladega files, renaming taladega.dat to
daytonab.dat, and taladega.txt to daytonab.txt.
3. here's the tricky part...load the new "daytonab.dat" into a hex
editor, like Norton Utilities, and carefully change all the graphic
filenames from "taladega" to "daytonab". There are 5 or 6 occurrences
in the file.
4. load "daytonab.txt" into any standard text editor that does not
store formats with the text and change the text to what you want (and
the number of laps for the second race of the year, as well...it's a
400miler, not 500)
5. and last step..load the file "calendar" in your NASCAR root into a
text editor and make sure the track name is "daytonab", not "daytona".
and viola`, you should be able to run Daytona (although it will
actually be identical to Taladega).
PLEASE PLEASE NOTE MAKE BACKUPS OF EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU DO THIS...
