NASCAR car graphics

From the magazine reviews I've seen of NASCAR and comments I've read here, it seems to me that US and UK versions of the game came with the actual NASCAR drivers & teams assigned to the cars - Rusty Wallace, Jeff Gordon et al. In Australia, however, it has fictitious drivers, teams & sponsors. Is this correct? If so, can someone from Papyrus tell me why Australia did'nt get the real graphics, and where can I get them from? Greg

Well, I don't know what US/UK are getting, but we in Germany have fictitious drivers, too (Rachel Bolan, Tony Searle, Palmer Stiles etc.). If you have FTP you could try didnt.doit.wisc.edu for a 1995 car set (I hope it is still there, at least it was some weeks ago). Bye, Michael : From the magazine reviews I've seen of NASCAR and comments I've read : here, it seems to me that US and UK versions of the game came with the : actual NASCAR drivers & teams assigned to the cars - Rusty Wallace, Jeff : Gordon et al. In Australia, however, it has fictitious drivers, teams & : sponsors. : Is this correct? If so, can someone from Papyrus tell me why Australia : did'nt get the real graphics, and where can I get them from? : Greg ----------------------------------- | Michael Koppenhoefer at | | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | -----------------------------------

Oh, I can tell you (it's been a topic on Papyrus's BBS before) though I'm not from Papyrus. It has to do with copyrights. Pure and simple. They can't get the overseas copyrights to all those sponsors/teams.

The European version of the sim doesn't have the correct graphics because the licensing of the images does not extend past US borders. You can get 1995 car sets (including a European version which you'd need) from http://www.xmission.com/~iwcc/iwcccars.htm.

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>>From the magazine reviews I've seen of NASCAR and comments I've read >>here, it seems to me that US and UK versions of the game came with the >>actual NASCAR drivers & teams assigned to the cars - Rusty Wallace, Jeff >>Gordon et al. In Australia, however, it has fictitious drivers, teams & >>sponsors. >>Is this correct? If so, can someone from Papyrus tell me why Australia >>did'nt get the real graphics, and where can I get them from? >>Greg >my UK version had crappy old fictitious car paint jobs and drivers:-(

I sit corrected. If you still have'nt got a "proper" set, I've since been directed to a fairly good one at http://yarrow.wt.com.au/~sjackson/nascar.html Greg

I bought Nascar cheaply a few weeks ago and it had the fictional drivers. However, it was the work of a couple of minutes to grab the IWCCEURO 1995 car set and now I'm racing against Dale Earnhardt and suchlike. :-) -- Peter Fenelon - Research Associate - High Integrity Systems Engineering Group, Dep't of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO1 5DD (+44 1904 433388)

Is this correct? If so, can someone from Papyrus tell me why Australia did'nt get the real graphics, and where can I get them from? <<< We didn't have worldwide licensing rights to the various drivers and cars. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II/NASCAR Racing for Macintosh/Windows Papyrus Design Group, Inc.