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[Jay]

What, no topic about these already?  (Or rather, the only one is from 2008, and pretty bad quality)
Time competition racing games where players create the tracks.
Nations is free, contains the Stadium environment, and less customization features.
United ($39.99 not counting sales/discounts/etc) has the six environments from the older two Trackmania games in addition to Stadium (Desert, Snow, Rally, Island, Bay, Coast).

Both contain a fairly decent replay editing system dubbed MediaTracker.  Common usage - Combining multiple runs into one video, as such:
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The actual racing is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
http://trackmaniaforever.com/index.php
Both versions are available at their respective prices (free/$39.99) on Steam, as well.

Trackmania² -- The upcoming sequel.  Few details available, apart from one of the environments being dubbed Canyon.
Canyon trailer

The Bay12K Project
^{(Disclaimer: Will most likely not contain 12,000 replays)}

I'm opening one of my Stadium tracks to all of you for replays (meaning that even Nations players can participate!)
Your mission? Lots and lots of replays!
Every replay up to 2 minutes will be accepted!

Rules:
-If you crash, please try to recover without resetting.
-If you absolutely must reset (not restart), please wait five seconds (this attempts to assure that you won't disappear in front of the cameras..  it will be very difficult to enforce, and probably won't work anyway, so this is more of a suggestion)
-If you crash on the opening jump, wait 5-10 seconds, then press S to save that replay.
-If you're submitting multiple replays, select them all in the replay editor to Edit them all, then export the result as a clip.  This saves time and bandwidth.
-Please don't restart your runs!  It makes a more interesting final product if there are lots of mistakes!
-Custom vehicles accepted, just provide their zip alongside.
-Be dynamic!  Don't race the exact same line every time!  That would be boring!
-If you can't make the 2 minute limit, but we absolutely must see the beginning of that run, press S to save the replay before 2:05.00!
-This is not a race!  I will not guarantee that you will ever see yourself during the race if you get too far ahead of my time!
-Please avoid skipping parts of the track!  This tends to cause you to get ahead of the camera!

The Map:
It's not the most inspired piece of track ever (because I'm not a Stadium track-maker -- I did this for the sake of Nations back-compatibility), but it works well enough.
SugarSync link or Dropbox link

Location: My Documents/TrackMania/Tracks/Challenges/* (that is, anywhere inside that folder)

Ready to Submit?
Preferably, post/PM links from SugarSync, Dropbox, or any other file server, or you can email to jaycraftmc@gmail.com (I make no guarantees that you won't be intercepted by the spam filter if you go this route, and if that happens, I won't have any idea you even made a submission)
Please no Rapidshare/Filesonic/anywhere with a lame download timer.
No limit to number of replays that can be submitted, just try to combine (as above) as many as possible.

Preview
Screenshots:
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Current best time: 1:11.50 (../Tracks/Replays/*.Gbx)
151x Preview

EDIT4: Edit log was pointless

[Sensei]

Is Nadeo still planning on making Shootmania/Questmania or are those defunct?

Also, I'd love to play Trackmania with some Bay12'ers. I used to have a lot of cool tracks but I lost them when I switched computers, I ought to get back in the groove.

[inteuniso]

I'll play it. Sounds pretty fun.

[ductape]

DLing the free version now to see if i like it.

[Jay]

Is Nadeo still planning on making Shootmania/Questmania or are those defunct?

Looks like they're still alive, but Nadeo are the kings of secrecy.

Also, I'd love to play Trackmania with some Bay12'ers.

My ingame name is jaybud4.
Add me as a friend if you want.

EDIT: Bay12K Project info moved to OP

[freeformschooler]

I like the game a whole lot and how it's unique to other racers (every car is the exact same except for looks so getting the best time is a matter of timing, strategy and planning).

But let me just say this: two-player Trackmania, Nations or not, is one of the most fun games I have played with my brother in a really long time.

[Sensei]

I actually dunno about Trackmania 2. Are they going to change much? It looks like a graphics update and new environments/vehicles. But that's not a huge change... I'd really like to see at least optional collisions, yeah?

[Jay]

MY GOD.  IT'S FULL OF CARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BSEoh4qRGQ

[olemars]

Interesting, it's like an extremely elaborate fluid dynamics simulation.

[Boksi]

So I downloaded this game to check out your track, Jay. I'm not very good at this game, but in the end I managed to make up for my lack of skill with some... Creative driving. It doesn't matter how you drive so long as you reach the checkpoints, right?

Link.

[Jay]

It doesn't matter how you drive so long as you reach the checkpoints, right?

Yupyup.  That replay will make it into the next preview, whenever I get enough to warrant another.

Feel free to make some more if you like.  I have 108 of my own in there now

[Thendash]

Here's mine: 1'16"91. Good enough for a gold woohoo!

[Jay]

Bump.
New preview up.
151 cars --
30 Soulwynd
1 Thendash
1 Boksi
119 Jay

I need more replays, folks!

[Thendash]

Haha, I'm the lone Team Canada F1 car. I'll do a couple more playthroughs then submit them.

[ductape]

I know I suck, but I am not a huge fan of the track so far. There so many jumps that just make you flip, is there any way to control that? I find myself just driving very slowly so i dont flip a bazillion times.