Alright... MASSIVE update to 1982, 1983 and 1984 seasons.
A lot of car and driver helmet skins corrected.I have no idea why SimDream has done such awful job. For example in McLaren 1983 if you looked at the other side of the car, you saw Lauda's name and the other side it reads "Watson". Also the numbers were messed up. Perhaps he just put these out without even checking or bothering to finish them.
Fixed 90% of the crashing at Kyalami 1967 (changed the track to different version with a fix)
Fixed cars hitting the barrier in the Monaco Sainte Devoite corner (I have no idea how I did it actually, I copied the colliders.kn5 from Lotus98 Kunos and changed colliders.ini and that finally did the trick)
Thanks to advice of Thockard I managed to make the SD cars much, much better (dampers, antirollbar, suspension more travel = less cars slingshotting, etc)
Reduced the top speeds of all 1982, 1983 and 1984 cars, I think they were a bit overboard
Tons of numbers and preview photos fixed.
But the most important are that
in 1983 season Rosberg's car has the correct #1
in 1982 and 1984 seasons Piquet's car has the correct #1
SD could at least put the world champion skins correct but no. Now fixed.
Only 1984 anon_dallas (Dallas street circuit) is a bit crashy race now. But it was in the real life too. Long Beach has some crashes but the race is fully playable and cars not slingshotting anymore from the bouncy kerbs. SOME crashes might still happen but considerably less. Shin already fixed the Oesterreichring and he's working on Detroit 1982 with the extra hairpin (amazing).
etc etc
I'm not saying the cars are good now but they're CONSIDERABLY better and less crashy. All cars have sparks but they spark only in extreme bumps because the cars of this era didn't spark that much. You'll see them on bumpy Dallas and Zolder mostly. But adding plenty of sparks wouldn't be all that accurate.
Car modifications (unRAR over your vanilla SD cars):
1982:
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1984:
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Championship files:
1982:
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1983:
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1984:
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These cars were so messed up, it's not even worth listing everything. Some previews of the fixes.
PS: If someone has Gilles Villeneuve Ferrari helmet, I'd like to add that. I just created a generic orange helmet for him. At least it's now in correct color.
Still no vintage Zandvoort in the seasons as these cars (and some other cars) are not playable on that circuit. Shin already tested it... complete crash mayhem.
1982 preview:
1983 preview:
1984 preview
I also made period correct ads for Kyalami 1967 before.