Heat Mods without the hassle?

JohnMid · February 7, 2005

Hello, gang, long time no blether.

Hard working Heat modder TheMask (he made the mod launcher most of us use to fire up our games) posted on RSC to bring attention to an all in one free download to enable people to play Heat mods

http://www.themodsquad.uni.cc/modules.php?...ewtopic&t=12#72

Is the statement on the modsquad forums with the download link.

The package uses some files from the heat demo, and re-packages them, with all the patches etc, up to version 1.80. As it states, you won't be able to play the original game, but all mods should work fine.

I think I'll backup my heat install to a dvd-r (it might just fit ) and install this, I'll report back how it goes. Seems like a good time to clear out the old installation fresh for a new season anyway

Wouldn't it be fantastic if people could be offered a single download/cd with *everything* they need to go racing in stocks, hotrods, bangers right off the UK Dirt site?

wrighty496 · February 7, 2005

Blimey this is a development lol - i knew the Mask had had recent contact with Hasbro inter(etc) regarding creation of the 1.80 patch, but they seem to be really helpful atm lol. is this the 'demo' that people were discussing on TexasSpeedRacings forum?

did our game just get even free-er?

cheers John, let us know how it goes please

many thanks in advance ....... Wrighty

ps: if you've still got the mods, do we get to see you in Jolt from time to time again? (purely for research purposes of course lol)

best wishes m8

JohnMid · February 7, 2005

Blimey this is a development lol - i knew the Mask had had recent contact with Hasbro inter(etc) regarding creation of the 1.80 patch, but they seem to be really helpful atm lol. is this the 'demo' that people were discussing on TexasSpeedRacings forum?

did our game just get even free-er?

cheers John, let us know how it goes please

many thanks in advance ....... Wrighty

ps: if you've still got the mods, do we get to see you in Jolt from time to time again? (purely for research purposes of course lol)

best wishes m8

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Well, if I did it right, I'm paid up for 2005, so I should be online. Between hardware trouble, forum confusion and shiny objects, I got distracted from UK Dirt for the last couple of months or so.

JohnMid · February 7, 2005

Well, I cleared out my Heat install (all 2.3gb of it ) flushed the registry of anything related to hasbro, rebooted and installed the Nascar Heat Essentials kit and the hot rods mod.

Mod worked fine first time, though the cut-down mod launcher that comes with the essentials pack refuses to recognise any mods (I dragged ukdirtf1 and vtab back off the backup dvd).

The good news, though, is that the regular mod launcher works fine, though you'd have to be careful not to select cup 2000.

The essentials pack is only 23mb, so it's a good package to keep as a backp if nothing else, especially as it patches everything you need up to 1.80. Not sure what patch ukdirt currently runs on, but I've downgraded before without any obvious problems.

Grasser233 · February 7, 2005

Still on 1.72e John although ive swopped both around countless times without any probs.

Cheers

Grasser233

AndyG · February 7, 2005

Very cool!

AndyG · February 7, 2005

Worked like a dream here - I uninstalled everything, then installed the Essentials exe, immediately installed BH2005 (didn't do anything with the Essentials), and BH ran perfectly from the desktop shortcut. An extremely easy (and free!) way for newbies to get BH (and the other mods of course).

(The mini mod launcher provided also found and ran BH2005 no problem.)

Cheers,

Andy

Edited February 7, 2005 by AndyG

JohnMid · February 8, 2005

My personal theory is that the mini launcher has the c:\program files path hardcoded into it or something, given that my windows is on D: that may be a problem- the only thing I can think of anyway. If it works out the box, that's great, if not, it only takes a download of the regular mod launcher to fix.

Pedz 212 · February 24, 2005

i got a crash log can someone help

50.37.404: ======================================================================

50.37.404: Sep 6 2002 12:09:31 N W32 M6 R senor_b

50.37.404: ======================================================================

50.37.404: mem: p/s/t t/a 1023M/754M 2950M/2743M 2047M/2025M

50.37.404: JoyBegin

50.37.404: Config Dir: C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat\

50.37.404: Add-on tracks dir: "C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat\tracks\"

50.37.404: mod: trying mod "ukdirtf1"...50.37.404: mod.cfg found ok.

50.37.420: mod: options.cfg not found, copying.

50.37.420: mod: Config Dir override: C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat\ukdirtf1\

50.37.420: Running on WinNT version 5.1:2600

50.37.420: FileReadExact: Tried 1 times to read 20, hit end of file at 0 (C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat\ukdirtf1\ui.res)