http://alternative.gene-rally.com The official unofficial GeneRally News en-en alternative.gene-rally.com 1328363648 images/header.png http://alternative.gene-rally.com http://alternative.gene-rally.com The Crono's project of new GeneRally TrackDatabase finally ended its beta stage and is ready for full operations. The system offers for registered users writting comments, rating of tracks, making list of favorites and of course option to upload their efforts to share them with others so don't hesitate to visit the database. If you wish to discuss its details, propose some improvement or report an issue, check this forum topic too. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Yesterday afternoon was offcially released next bugfixing version of the game - 1.10c. It's main purpose was to solve issue related to saving of game, which affected especially various competitions. Now the saving should be reliable again, so competitions may use the latest version without sorrows. If you use a 1.10 in your competition's pack, don't forget to update it to latest version to prevent any confusions and problems for you. No other changes or new features were done this times, the file available on official website and here in downloads too. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Some interesting news for fans of endurance racing came. For close future are sheduled two races - 12 hours of Lombdon and 24 hours of Zito. The 12H of Lombdon, race for teams of 2 drivers or a privateers driving a LM2 car and consisting of several stints, will be held between 30th April and 10th May 2011. Futher details on its website or in its forum topic. Second endurance event, 24 hours of Zito, consists of qualification and long race (72km) for individual drivers driving current GT cars.  More info in its forum thread. However these two events are not only competitions on start right now. After a time we can try again a competition with surprise login, where driver before login has no clue, which car or track will be used, so have a short practice time approx. equal to all other drivers. After a test round and small organization problems the competitions seems to keep pace and deadline of 1st round is sheduled on 8th May.More details here. After soon end of GRF1 the fans of real world location racing could appeaciate announced Formula Ford series, which will held 13 rounds around various rwl circuits, each round consisting from qualification and race (a week reserved for each round - first 2 days for Q and rest for race). Season starts by qualification at Hockenheim with deadline of the race on 19th May 2011. Rules and other important info may be seen here or in forum too in this topic. Finally let's mention the World Rally League, which is manager competition, where participants take a role of manager, engeneer and mechanic of a AI driver, who races against others on stages of a rally championship. The job of participant consist of hiring a rally crew for his team, choosing and setting a car and that all in keeping a set budget. If you want to see more, check this thread. Lot of fun in front of us. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Today a new version was released - called v1.10b. As name hints, it's a bugfix version of the v1.10 released about month ago. James and Markku focused on various observed and reported issues, the list of changes includes:       - modified armco barrier colour to light blue color     - implemented an experimental feature to adjust zoom based on screen aspect ratio     - grid order for the first race of a season is now defined by player selection order when using "points" or "points, reversed" grid modes     - using 'end race' on the final race of the season doesn't quit directly to the main menu at least one race has been completed     - rendering distance increased to solve bug on some higher resolutions     - and more. The game is available here in Downloads or of course on its official homepage, don't forget to leave your comment its discussion topic too. http://alternative.gene-rally.com 18th season of traditional Rookie Championship for rookies and second rate drivers is about to begin next week. The season starts on 6th March and  consists of 6 races on various interesting tracks with final of Masters of Dicrette. If you want to get first experience with GR racing, now is the right time. More info on its website or in forum topic. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Yesterday early morning happened the thing, which we all were waiting for so long. James Burgess and his small team released new version of GeneRally, called GeneRally 1.10 (1.06-09 are unreleased testing and working versions), which means, that we can play new version of the game after long 8 years! The game is available here in Downloads or on its official homepage, which finally is updated. The game includes several new features, mainly:    - improved Windows Vista/7 compatibility    - windowed mode    - extra game resolutions including widescreen support    - game speed now fixed at 100%.    - 5 new default tracks by TuomoH    - new objects on tracks (road cone, armco barrier, office blocks in more dimensions, telephone pole, pedestrian bridge, invisible wall, person)    - and more. Very important note is, that since now we need to run the game istalled Visual Studio 2010 Runtime (32bit, 64bit), which inludes necessary dll libraries. If you'll notice any other technical problem, don't hesitate to report it direcly to James in Report bug topic on forum in a post shaped according requested form. http://alternative.gene-rally.com After short peaceful time, we finally can see some new competitions with fresh ideas, which start is closest days. First of them is ''Beat them all!'' competition. In usual competition the drivers finish in order of their achieved times. Not here, winner is driver, who beat most skilled AI opponents and time is just secondary measure. Season will consist of 7 short races (5 km), first round starts on 14th Feb. 2011. More information about the system can be found on its website or forum topic here. Second is ''King of GeneRally''. It is a TT-duel competition, which is trying to find an ultimate champion by duels between the actual Master and a challenger. One duel is up to two events: for the first the actual Master chooses track, car and settings and for the second the challenger does. If a driver beat the Master in both events, he is  the HGE King of GeneRally - at least for a week, when he can be challenged by other person.Futher details and latest news available on homepage or on forum. Third one is Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2011. It is rally competition based on real series for cars up to 2 litre engines and consisting of various prestigious regional and international rallies. IRC 2011 will consist of 9 rallies, each of them will take 2 weeks (one week for each racing day). Every single day will consist of several special stages, which driver must complete to finish the rally. The first round Winteria Rally is sheduled from 4th to 18th Feb. 2011, other term will be announced during the year. You can look for more on its website or read details in its forum thread. If you're bit interested in this fun, don't hesite to join any of them. http://alternative.gene-rally.com GR.F1 is back with ew managers, rules, new carpack and calendar! This season will be managed by Miskolc Team Foundation (Madd Dogg, Resir014 with help of T.Miguel) instead of VitorFM, who is too busy. Together with it some interesting changes come in rules (like qualification sessions under login system or 3 drivers in each team). Cars of all F1 teams from Fechna's 2010 pack are available and 16 prestigious real world race tracks make challenging calendar. Season starts around 3rd January 2011 at Losail Circuit, you can read more details in its forum topic and official website. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Gran Turismo GeneRally's first public version is finally available! Its basic idea dates back to July/August 2004, where Alonsomania saw an image from GT4 in a magazine thinking it would be awesome to have that for GR. After many tries and fails, which didn't made his passion weaker, but on opposite motivated him to improve his skills, we finally can in end of December 2010 test result of his extraordinary effort. The project combines two elements - menu interface of GTGR and GeneRally itself. The interface offers many options inspired by Gran Turismo series and the progress of the game experience is designed to be very similar too. You can buy cars of different performances, do license tests or browse trackpedia. The system do some automatized things in the GR too (revealing tracks, cars or AIs), but several other operations must the player do his on his own - mainly start the game and choose the drivers and tracks according instruction of the interface. After completing his mission the player fills his result from GR to the interface, which records it and awards him by credit or/and award (e.g. new car), which helps to player to progress in his career. In GeneRally related matter you can expect ATM more than dozen of tracks by Alonsomania and many interesting cars by among others Mebiko, Haruna Say or J4ber with specific system of physic model reflecting specifications of each of available cars. Even if the project is now still incomplete (several options will be fully available after scheduled updates) and first wider inspection by community players during early moments discovered several less serious issues, it already offers lot of great fun and opens new dimension of the GeneRally playing behind limits of usual races or time trial in the game. We can only hope, that the updates will go quite fast, both updates increasing features of the project and fixing the details. Of course that Gran Turismo GeneRally is completely for free like any other thing related to GR. You can get latest news, updates and other interesting stuff or ask for support in dedicated subforum at GRIF. http://alternative.gene-rally.com Plans of new TrackDatabase were revealed by its designer, Crono, few days ago. The project seems to be in quite late beta version, but no further details about any terms have been sheduled yet, but the database could include some interesting features like comments, adding tracks as favourites, rating tracks, user profiles, search and sort engines or gallery. His project could be replacement of Official TrackDatabase, which was integral part of Official GR website until a crash, which caused loss of all its datas and never was restored. You can read more details, see screenshots of  the new interface and wait for more news by browsing this forum topic.