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Team F1 Track Patch (by Fornax)
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(For use with the Hybrid rip of Team F1 (English version))

Please visit http://www.theunderdogs.org/ and search for "Team F1" or "Pole Position" (without quotes) to download a copy of the game.



Information
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This patch was made to fix Hybrid's pathetic attempt when ripping this game from CD.  Here's what the group had to say in their release nfo:

º  CD-Rip info:                                                               º
º  ~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                               º
º  This sucker was a bitch to rip. We have been working on it for almost 2    º
º  days. We had to rip all the big resource files, and remove the none-       º
º  needed stuff, and then link it all together again.                         º
º  Alot of animation files, and all commentary have been ripped out.          º
º  And we asure you that this game is 100% working, since we have played      º
º  a whole season through.

That "none-needed stuff" consisted of another twelve tracks!

And any dumbass should be able to tell that something's not right when:
- The entire field retire half way through a race because they run out of fuel.
- The race is held in Brazil (Interlagos), yet is staged on a German track (Hockenheim).
- Certain tracks stages more than three races in an entire season.

Respect to Hybrid for their efforts, considering that the rip was severely cut down to size due to limitations.  But next time, they could use their heads and do what I managed to do: -

Team F1 comes with ~8Mb files for each individual track.  These files mainly consist of animation data which is displayed during the race.  And as it so happened, there was also a German version of Team F1 called Pole Position, which was published earlier in the same year.  Pole Position had ~300Kb track files, with scarce amounts of animation in them.

So what did I do?
- I took the Pole Position track files
- Renamed them to work with Team F1
- Overwrote the Team F1 track files
- Added the missing tracks into the Team F1 folder
- Hex edited the Team F1 executable to work correctly with all eighteen tracks

Known problems
- Lap times, they might be stuffed or perhaps that's how the game was made
- No other problems known as of yet.  The game is far more playable with this patch as it was beforehand.



Instructions
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Please follow one of the options only:

Option 1:
To install the low-res (Pole-Position) track files...
- Extract all files directly to your Team F1 game folder (making sure the "include subfolders" option is selected).
- Overwrite all files, including the Team F1 executable file.

Option 2:
To install the low-res (Pole-Position) track files, but still retain the six existing hi-res (Team F1) track files...
- Extract files to any directory but your Team F1 game folder (make sure the "include subfolders" option is selected).
- Copy all files and directories except for the "Aida", "Argentin", "Hockenhe", "Imola", "Testtrk" and "Ungarn" directories, and those files within.

That's it, enjoy! :)


Quote of the day:
"And we assure you that this game is 100% working, since we have played a whole season through."

Yeah right!
Fornax