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Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

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Re: Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

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This game and the Summer Olympics had a huge wow factor when arriving to PC gaming - nice memories!

Also, it seems the same graphics engine was further used (and refined?) in baseball games - with the Hardball series. These, of course, had little traction in Europe. How was it in baseball friendly geographies? How did the popularity of the baseball games compare to the Olympics titles?

Re: Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

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Impressive work and dedication. I was expecting you to discover a glitch that would easily break the record but sadly the game seems too well made for that. The glitch at the end did look quite promising. I guess we can't really rule out integer overflows for certain, so maybe one day we'll have enough compute to brute force all the combinations.

Re: Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”

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post #7

My PC joystick had a rapid fire mode, and if I remember correctly, it was possible to achieve huge jumps leveraging this.

What button did you have our joystick automate?

Same as op. My joystick could automate both fire and opt button
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