My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Monday July 09, 2001

JavaScript Pages to Help Compare Cars and Locate Used Cars

I spent a couple of weeks working on JavaScript pages to perform selective queries of GT1 car data.

The pages gt1stats and gt1used contain JavaScript utilities which, if you have a suitable browser, will allow you to search for cars available in GT1.

gt1stats is generally more useful, since it contains more information for each car, and stats for new cars. Since it contains information for used cars up to only day 100, the table of data is actually smaller than the other page, and so the whole thing tends to work faster. (In fact, I do also include a few used cars appearing after day 100, so as to document the first appearance of each car of each colour).

gt1used, however, is the result of my analysis of the raw information contained on the game CD and contains information for all 60 used car lineups. (The lineups are for day 0 (i.e. day 1), up to day 590, each one lasting for 10 days. On day 600, the used car inventory repeats with the day 0 cycle, and so-on). For the way this is stored (actually in-line in the JavaScript), it is rather a large amount of data, and so the page is rather slow, but it is amusing to peruse it every now-and-then.