Speedway Promoter Game?

[Sp33dy89]

34 minutes ago, mrlincolncity said:

im lost on how I actually run the files? im guessing I need an image.file of some kind to play it through my virtualbox w98 iv got going? But how do I make that vdi??

Copy the files from the speedway promoter to the directory I mentioned previously

 

[Sp33dy89]

@Marksman

Where did you find the info about leagues and changing the date?

Wondering whether it possible to reduce the number of teams in a league and add a third league maybe

[Chadster]

23 hours ago, MassMarauder said:

Flying Shale - you can only take control of one team, or none, but not all. Which means, the AI will do some weird stuff at some point which does have a an annoying tint on the overall game 

Pretty sure you can control every team on Flying Shale if you want to.

[MassMarauder]

14 minutes ago, Chadster said:

Pretty sure you can control every team on Flying Shale if you want to.

When you start to run a competition you get a choice, pick on team or none. That's it.

[mrlincolncity]

1 hour ago, Sp33dy89 said:

Copy the files from the speedway promoter to the directory I mentioned previously

 

Ok iv copied the files into that gdw2002 folder... but still struggling to do anymore, how do i set the VB up? Im presuming i need to put the game somewhere as some kind of virtual image, but i cant grasp what to do at all? 

[Sp33dy89]

3 minutes ago, mrlincolncity said:

Ok iv copied the files into that gdw2002 folder... but still struggling to do anymore, how do i set the VB up? Im presuming i need to put the game somewhere as some kind of virtual image, but i cant grasp what to do at all? 

I'm currently using virtual machine with windows xp, I'd copied the files into the folder I mentioned and ran the Spe2002.exe 

[mrlincolncity]

12 minutes ago, Sp33dy89 said:

I'm currently using virtual machine with windows xp, I'd copied the files into the folder I mentioned and ran the Spe2002.exe 

Ahh im with ya now, im on w10 with a w98 virtual op, im pretty sure im just in need of an image file from that exe.file you mention.... but no idea how you create one

i downloaded an iso.file of ultimate soccer manager and just dropped that file in the drive where the floppy drive and virtual drives are in the setup settings and the cd appeared like it would normally on the w98 start button, and downloaded it and bingo, lots of iso.files of old games and disk.files and tape.files.... but how do you create them? 

[Sp33dy89]

3 minutes ago, mrlincolncity said:

Ahh im with ya now, im on w10 with a w98 virtual op, im pretty sure im just in need of an image file from that exe.file you mention.... but no idea how you create one

i downloaded an iso.file of ultimate soccer manager and just dropped that file in the drive where the floppy drive and virtual drives are in the setup settings and the cd appeared like it would normally on the w98 start button, and downloaded it and bingo, lots of iso.files of old games and disk.files and tape.files.... but how do you create them? 

You don't need one for this, myself and others are running it fine as long as you've got the files correct. It doesn't need installing either

[Marksman]

2 hours ago, Sp33dy89 said:

@Marksman

Where did you find the info about leagues and changing the date?

Wondering whether it possible to reduce the number of teams in a league and add a third league maybe

The date is in the save game file on line 133 if opened in Notepad++

0,8,0,12,25,15,400,43,9,1,1,401,2020,8,0,1,5,436

43 relates to the points limit, i tried editing to 55 for example and it worked!

25 seems to be the number of teams, but doesn't work if you change it, probably will mismatch the code.

 

The leagues start on line 2085 in the same save game file i.e.;

0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,43,40.7,15,0,0,0,0,0
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2

The 2 at the end of the 2nd line denotes what league that team is in, 1 for EL 2 for PL. The teams are listed in alhabetical order.

 

 

[MassMarauder]

2 hours ago, Marksman said:

The date is in the save game file on line 133 if opened in Notepad++

0,8,0,12,25,15,400,43,9,1,1,401,2020,8,0,1,5,436

43 relates to the points limit, i tried editing to 55 for example and it worked!

So when you get the editing done and files saved - maybe you could share them :-) ?

I need to learn this VB stuff...

[Welwyn]

On 5/17/2020 at 9:02 AM, Welwyn said:

Can't get the VM to run on my computer. Comes up with an error note when I attempt to run it.

When I load the Virtual computer up it comes up with FATAL: No bootable medium found! System Halted."

[Cj69]

Very quick guide how I got the game working.  Don't have computer to hand (wife using it for work) so apologies for any mistakes will double check this evening.

1. Install a VirtualBox (I used one from oracle). 

2. Download windowsXP (or 98 if preferred).  I googled 'Windows XP for Virtual Box' and found one pretty easy.  

3.  Run VirtualBox create new 'box' for windows XP. I followed all the steps and didn't change any settings (Used default settings). Was prompted to find downloaded Windows XP to load from (I put file on desktop for ease). 

4. Go through Windows installation (this took longest time for me).  

5. Once complete and running XP I installed Guest Additions (was found in the devices menu) 

6. Once guest additions installed I could drag the Speedway Promoter file (which was still compressed) from my win 10 desktop to XP desktop.  

7. Unzipped speedway promoter files then copied these into the GDW2002 folder under windows folder (found in my computer icon in start menu). 

8. Played game by opening from same folder copied files into. 

This is the way I done it. I am by no means an expert and others may have done it different and got it working. 

[Cj69]

Very interested in how you lot are getting in with updating rider details. I will need to have a closer look once I get the computer back.  Glad to see after so long we have this game up and running.  

[Marksman]

13 hours ago, MassMarauder said:

So when you get the editing done and files saved - maybe you could share them :-) ?

I need to learn this VB stuff...

I sure will once i get chance to go through it this week, unfortunately because we don't have access to the source code we are a little limited but still able to give a fairly comprehensive update 

 

39 minutes ago, Cj69 said:

Very interested in how you lot are getting in with updating rider details. I will need to have a closer look once I get the computer back.  Glad to see after so long we have this game up and running.  

From what I see because I don't have the source code we just need to keep the format of 10 top flight and 14 2nd tier Clubs.

Each club needs a minimun of 7 riders assigned or it will crash.

A minimum of 333 riders has to be therefore in the game, consisting of;

Teams Riders	168
Unattached	56
Foreign	30
Retired	79

Can be more, but not less than those numbers 

 

[Chadster]

23 hours ago, MassMarauder said:

When you start to run a competition you get a choice, pick on team or none. That's it.

When you begin a competition you get a drop down box which gives you the option of choosing a team to control or 'control none'. This gives you control of every team. Even then on the match screen, next to each team's name is an icon, either an outline of a head or a computer. You can change these. The head icon for both teams means you control them both. Hope this helps.

[MassMarauder]

2 hours ago, Chadster said:

When you begin a competition you get a drop down box which gives you the option of choosing a team to control or 'control none'. This gives you control of every team. Even then on the match screen, next to each team's name is an icon, either an outline of a head or a computer. You can change these. The head icon for both teams means you control them both. Hope this helps.

HA!  I didn't think that was the option being offered - I thought it meant you gave up control to the AI.  This changes the game !  Will give it a whirl tonite.

Thank you.

 

[daveallan81]

I've got everything running but I can't seem to sign any riders. I can see the transfer lists, and open each rider for history but that's all. Any ideas?

[Sp33dy89]

5 hours ago, daveallan81 said:

I've got everything running but I can't seem to sign any riders. I can see the transfer lists, and open each rider for history but that's all. Any ideas?

If for speedway promoter, when on transfer list. Click on your team name before clicking the riders name. 

[Marksman]

Update is coming along well, maybe need some input on the following groups of riders in case I miss any obvious ones. If you have any suggestions shout up! @Sp33dy89 @MassMarauder @Cj69 + Anyone else interested.

Unattached - Current National league riders without a Championship club and new Australian riders on a 4 point average (at least 56 in total)
Foreign    - Foreign riders on assesed average who've never riden in the UK or didn't do enough meetings for an average (30+ in total)
Retired    - Not neccesarily Retired riders, Riders inactive from British Racing that currently have a UK average (79+ in total) Riders like Woffinden, Lindgren also to appear here.

A small selection of examples of these lists are below, started scouring Speedway Updates and the Rider history site (https://wwosbackup.proboards.com ) for names to use;

Only got as far as D for Denmark so far... these are about 50% of the names I have

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Unattached

Max Ruml
Jacob Bukhave
Jedd List
Matthew Gilmore
Dakota Ballantyne
Fraser Bowes
Brayden McGuinness
Robert Medson
Jacob Hook
Zaine Kennedy
Declan Knowles
Cooper Riordan

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Foreign

Ben Ernst
Eduard Krcmar
Jan Kvech
Zdenek Holub
Michael Hartel
Mikkel Michelsen
Andreas Lyager
Jonas Seifert
Jonas Jeppesen
Mattias Nielsen
Patrick Hansen

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Retired

Gino Manzares
Aaron Fox
Emil Grondal
Hugh Skidmore
Arthur Sissis
Josef Franc
Hynek Stichauer
Zdenek Simota
Vaclav Milik
Anders Thomsen
Dawid Lampart
Bjarne Pedersen
Kevin Wolbert
Mads Korneliussen
 

 

[Welwyn]

Would it be worth sticking a couple of points on the average of a couple of those high-quality GP-caliber riders (Tai, Hancock? etc.) because they are above the level of their average when they were last in the EL as British league speedway has dropped.

I mean, what would Tai's last average be? 7 or something? 

Edited May 20, 2020 by Welwyn