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Thursday January 20, 2000

Slumming

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Thursday January 20, 2000

Slumming

We're set to visit my nephew next Saturday, and, other things being equal, a major part of the agenda will be trying to help him learn to pass his Gran Turismo 1 A License tests.

So last night I once again went through my licenses from scratch in Gran Turismo 1, to make sure I had not lost the touch. I was only a little bit slower than I expected. The only thing I noticed was that I was often, but not always, a bit over-cautious when braking in Gran Turismo now.

I got home last night some time after 8pm, and started doing the tests shortly after that, and also ate supper around that time. In any case, by 9:30pm I had acquired my A license.

Here are notes I made.

         B - I got all bronze, on the first try, except for B-2 which 
            I failed on the first try and got silver on the second try.
    day 10
        A-1      2 tries, 1 failure, 1 silver
        A-2      bronze in 1 try
        A-3      bronze in 2 tries
        A-4      bronze in 8(!) tries   38.854
        A-5      bronze in 1 try   31.411
        A-6      silver in 3 tries   26.479
        A-7      gold in 1 try   28.013
        A-8      bronze in 2 tries, 1:06.993
  
  

day 30

It was now 9:30pm, probably less than one hour after I started the B license start. I had eaten supper by now.

     day 30
        IA-1     bronze in 1 try     1:06.779
        IA-3     bronze in 3 tries   2:02.325
        IA-5     bronze in 1 try     1:23.997(!)
        IA-7     bronze in 2 tries   2:12.383
  
         IA-2     bronze in 3 tries   1:29.261
        IA-4     bronze in 2 tries   1:23.537
        IA-6     bronze in 2 tries   1:32.699
        IA-8     bronze in 3 tries   1:58.538
  
  

day 47

It was now 10:05pm.

I then realized I should have kept replays of the A license runs, since bronze-level runs will probably be more useful for my nephew to look at than the gold-level runs of the Demonstrations in the Replay Theatre. Too bad you can't look at them from within the license test screen; hmm. you can't actually do that in GT2 with your own replays, either. So anyway, I redid the A tests to save the replays.

  

Replays (I didn't note how many attempts I took to get the following)

         A-1      33.032  Bronze
        A-2      25.330  Bronze (forgot to record 25.190 silver)
        A-3      43.577  Bronze
        A-4      38.833  Bronze
        A-5      31.159  Bronze
        A-6      26.832  Bronze
        A-7      27.789  Gold
        A-8    1:07.525  Bronze
  

It's possible I did them all on the first attempt; it certainly never got very desperate-feeling.


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