I find myself oddly excited about the DSi. I'm not a big gadget person (this was my last handheld game system, seriously), but I would like something small for web browsing using Wi-fi instead of using cell phone minutes.

I know you can buy Opera for the DS Lite, but apparently it's very slow. This video is all I can find about Opera on the DSi. Apparently the faster hardware helps quite a bit.

I guess the DSi has been out in Japan for a while. Anyone have one yet? It comes out here next month and I just might buy one, especially if there's a good homebrew market.

Quote from SamH :

FYI, Scawen has introduced penumbral shadows in the latest test patches.

Penumbr-what? Oh, maybe you mean the pendulum umbrella? If so, lerts deserves some royalties.

I would love to see NASCAR race on more road courses. Now that there are more "international" drivers (ok, Montoya and Ambrose) you'd think they would be trying to broaden their fan base.

Of course they don't want to alienate their current fan base either. If they were to add road courses they would be over here I'd think. The cost of shipping all the cars overseas wouldn't be something that most teams could handle. As nice as would be to see NASCAR race at Monza, Spa, Silverstone, etc, I really don't see it happening.

There's also the "meeting room" thingie in the server list browser. People who are trying to find a race could go there to figure out which server to join. The few times I've gone in there it's been empty.

Quote from cobra193 :

I have the same problem. I had a DFP for about 2 years and it started doing this a few weeks ago. I tried new drivers and it still happens. I just received brand new DFP and yes, it STILL Happens!!! I have tried the wheel in GTR2, rFactor and N2k3 for a few hours and the pedals are fine, as soon as I go into LFS, the throttle starts cutting again. Usually once or twice per race. I don't think I can go an entire 10 lap race without the throttle cutting at least once.

I don't normally like to blame once piece of software but I don't know what other conclusion you can come to.. It really seems to have something to do with LFS...

Another thing to check is how many USB devices you have hooked to your PC. I had a spiking throttle, plus sometimes my gas or brake would just completely ignore the fact that I stepped on them. One thing I would up doing was unplugging a USB HD tuner while I was racing. I haven't had problems since.

I'm not sure if it's a question of the USB power being split too many ways, or if my PC isn't fast enough to keep up with polling the USB ports for input, or something else, but it works now.

Quote from ACCAkut :

any possibility to add the LX4 to the TBO class? i think LFR would end in a total T1 carnage as the newbies mostly have no experience at all in these cars, but would still join if the server is full.

FWIW, I did some testing a while back and it seemed like LX4 with maximum weight added was pretty close to the TBOs.

I spent some time there too. It was nice to race "in the wild" again. Any thoughts of putting 3% IR on the FXO to balance it with the other cars a bit?

Several years ago my wife and I bought a 4 foot by 8 foot section of lattice at a home improvement store about 1.5 miles from our house. Unfortunately it was too big to fit in our '92 Ford Escort hatchback, so we decide to tie it down to the roof for the short drive home. The store gave us some twine to tie it down with.

To our credit, we managed to tie it down without tying the doors shut. The car had the motorized seatbelts that automatically slide up a track when you start the car. The problem was, the twine was blocking the end of the track for both seatbelts and they are apparently "smart" enough that if they don't make it all the way to the top of the track they would go back a little and try it again.

So now the metal seatbelt clips are gently sawing away at the twine. To add to the fun, if I got over about 15 MPH, the front of the lattice would rise up into the air and try to pull away from the car. It was a low speed race to make it home before the seatbelts cut the twine and the lattice went flying up in the air. We made it home. Barely.

I guess that's more of a OMG, I'm so stupid story.

I made a similar post in the pong forum when I stopped playing that game.

Quote from flonoen :

I wish there where some official servers, one for the TBO-class, one for the fox or fo8, and one for the GTR-class (and perhaps one for fz5, lx6 and rac). With racestart every half hour, ca 20 minutes races, and 10 minutes of qualify in between. And of course some variations in tracks. Maybe a points-system, which could be viewed through lfsworld.

Something like CTRA, without the licensing-system.

I've thought about that in the past. There are so many empty servers out there with interesting combos, but nobody wants to join a server called "running in Bob's basement #5."

If one server was designated as "the official TBO server" people would know where to go. Think back to the load testing that was done before patch X. Scavier put up an official load test server and people flocked to it.

Since you mention it, we have a tiered racing system running that uses TBO as the entry class and LFR as the second tier. The system tracks crashes and races completed for each racer, kicks those who can't keep it on track, and rewards those who race cleanly. The system has been up for months, but it only gets traffic when we have a team night on it.

It's the same old thing, if you run a TBO server in the forest and nobody races on it, does it exist?

I tried this last night and it was actually InvalidKey.wav, but I wouldn't have found it without your help. Thought I'd share that for anyone else too cheap to buy a shifter.

Thanks again.

Thanks guys!

I'm using the program virtual-h (found it in this thread http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=5793) and a non-FFB joystick for a shifter. Virtual-h maps joystick x,y ranges to key presses, which then you can map to select gears in LFS. It works really nicely after I removed the centering spring, but...

Virtual-h constantly sends the key press, so it's as if I'm holding down a key on the keyboard. When you hold down a key in LFS, you get this repeating clicking sound, presumably to say, "hey, you're sitting on the keyboard!" You can set virtual-h to send the key press only once, but LFS won't stay in gear then.

I thought it might a general windows thing, but I only get the sound in LFS. Is there any way to disable that sound? I didn't see anything in the menu.

Thanks

Quote from sldwayz :

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MAKE A UPDATE FFS
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I'm afraid the next update isn't going to help the drifters much. A FWD VW with traction control and ABS won't make a very good drift car.

Being based in Charlotte will give them a head start on their superspeedway program.



I'm kidding of course. They picked a good year to start, when the standard engine rules go into effect. I wish them well.

Quote from deggis :

Not quite that wording but:

"The trouble with High Definition is that there are not many people who have got the equipment to receive it, so there is not much point"

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58776

That is from May 2007, I think that is still a valid point even coming from a mouth of this senile prick, but it's funny that F1 as one of the most widely spread sports is not on the frontline in technology.

That strikes me as odd also. At least over here, the typical F1 fan has a much greater chance of owning an HD TV than the typical NASCAR fan. But NASCAR has been broadcast in HD for a few years now, and F1 (to my knowlege) is not. We'll see about this year.

The series with cutting edge engine technology broadcasts using decades-old equipment. The series with decades-old engine technology broadcasts using cutting edge equipment.

It's rather amazing that everyone remained calm enough to exit a sinking plane. Also, I'm a little surprised that PETA hasn't called for the arrest of the pilot. He killed two birds after all...

Quote from Forbin :

I really hope the cars don't eff up that track. It's pristine at the moment and it'd be a huge shame to see it get horribly bumpy all of a sudden.

I hear they're adding more bumps to that track in the next online incompatible patch.

The concept of nostril dominance has never occurred to me. Now that I think about it, I eat and write with my left nostril, but I golf with my right nostril. I'm ambi-nostrous!

I have my doorbell mapped to 3rd gear.

Seriously, there's a reason why people use the gas pedal for gas and the brake pedal for brakes.

Quote from Scrabby :

nope, Mirror's Edge did it with me

Just watching a preview of that game on TV made me sick.

Quote from lerts :

no no i meant lfs

i think its due to the camera being very far from the trajectory

talking of odd feeling playing fps sometimes my perception is strange but feels very good, i can locate better origin of sound my field of view grows

im pretty sure games are a godd fitness for the brain
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wow im trying ballistics

Chase view has a lot to do with it. Also rapid turns make it worse. When I play Monster Jam with my son (awful game, but he likes destroying stuff), I can only play for about 15 minutes before I feel like I need to throw up. In that game you spend a lot of time making tight turns to go break things. I had the same problem with the Carmageddon series.

I read this article a while back about "simulator sickness".

eidt: Forgot to mention, I got really ill watching Cloverfield, which was done entirely from the POV of a hand-held video camera. Other than needing to barf, I really liked that movie.

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Quote from FlyeThemoon :

HAHA (sorry :P) American drivers in racing series have strange last name for example Scott Speed, anyway Let the force be with her (always)

Don't forget Dick Trickle.

Quote from racer hero :

Well, I thought I saw in a video on youtube that it was based out of South Boston. Thanks for corecting me.

That was from the SRT preview of iracing. The guy (Darin I think) said, "Since FIRST is based in Boston, let's start with South Boston Speedway." I cringed a little. Otherwise it was a nice preview.