~Nascar Racing 

Using US Car Sets in Euro Version.  Help obtained from Paul Hodgetts
via the Internet.


Here's info on how to use car sets created with the US version of 
Nascar Racing with the European version.

As background, the US and European versions of Nascar Racing include
different car sets, found in the cars94 directory.  For licensing and
whatever other reasons, different cars had to be included.  Each
location in the car set is named based on the car occupying that
location in the cars94 car set.  You can see that name if you go into
the paint kit and export the car.  A .pcx file will show up in the
Nascar directory with the name of that location as the file name.
Even if you change the cars around, the names of the locations will
remain the same.  But the names of the locations are different in
the US and European versions.  Those names are hard coded into both
the .dat file in the car set and in a .dat file in the objs directory.

So, a car set made with the US version will have the location names
for the US version in the .dat file.  These will not match the
location names contained in the European .dat file in the objs
directory, and you will see the garage error when you try to use it.

To fix this, you will need a hex editor that can edit binary files.
Go into the objs directory, back up the file named "objs.dat", and
pull it up in your hex editor.  Search for the string "beng13" (hex
codes 62 65 6E 67 31 33) and replace it with "kell_5" (hex codes
6B 65 6C 6C 5F 35).  Save the file.  Your European version of Nascar
should now be able to use car sets created by the US version.  But,
now you can't load the original cars94 set that came with your
European version.  Go into the cars\cars94 directory, back up the
file named "cars94.dat", and pull it up in the hex editor.  Again,
replace all the "beng_13" with kell_5" (there should be 4 of these).
Now your cars94 set can be used with the modified Nascar.

Of course, after you do this you will no longer be able to use car
sets created with the European version.  But, as far as I can find,
the best of the car sets are being produced by the US version, so
that shouldn't matter.

Enjoy, and remember that I'm not responsible for any heinous damage
that you do to your Nascar files with the hex editor, either because
of you or because of anything I've said.  If you back up first, you
should be safe from disaster anyways.

                                   Paul Hodgetts (paulh@odetics.com)

