One thing to note:
Most of the sound packs included with the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 use stereo WAV sound effects files, which results in much fuller sound within the game (especially if you have a sound card that supports "Environmental Audio Effects" (EAX) and/or "Creative Multi-Speaker Surround" (CMSS) effects).
The current version 1.10 of GeneRally does NOT support stereo WAV files for the games' sound effects... the Simple DirectMedia Layer runtime (SDL.dll) that is now required for GeneRally v1.10 currently mixes the stereo sound effects files down to mono, resulting in EXTREMELY muddled sound.
James and Markku will hopefully be fixing this problem sometime in a future release of GeneRally, so's you can fully enjoy the stereo sounds.
Nevertheless, the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 works fine with GeneRally v1.05 or higher, and even in v1.10 sounds quite impressive
Brief description directly from the included readme:
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P R E P A R E T O B E R O C K E D !
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The GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 consists of forty-nine sets of replacement
16-bit sound effects for Hannu and Jukka Räbinä's EXCELLENT freeware racing
game "GeneRally" v1.05 or higher.
All of the game's sound effects have been replaced with new ones that sound
*MUCH* better than the originals.
The overall effect that I was trying to create with these sound packs was
simply a "smell the exhaust, thundering, trackside ear-shattering,
black-powdered-tire-rubber-in-yer-Coke" type of thing <grin>. Personally I
think these new sound packs come fairly close... as close as you'll get without
a pit pass :)
In other words, the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 is a compilation of
absolutely the best, top-notch, most awesome, ear-shattering, and rockin' sound
effects that you've ever heard for GeneRally!
Race on over to http://gene-rally.com or http://forum.gene-rally.com on the
Internet to find out all about this great freeware game!
Forty-Nine Sound Packs
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The GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0 now contains a total of forty-nine seperate
sound packs, and currently has grown to more than a whopping 65 megabytes of
ear-shattering sound effects goodness for GeneRally after it's installed!
http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/grspak80_preview.ogg
This OGG Vorbis format audio file is simply a low-quality preview of the GeneRally Sound Pack Pro v8.0, and will give you an idea of what it sounds like while playing GeneRally. All of the sound effects were recorded from within the game (GeneRally v1.05) during a full-field race.
OGG Vorbis Preview Index:
00:00 = Sound Pack Pro 1
00:37 = Sound Pack Pro 2
01:08 = Sound Pack Pro 3
01:26 = Sound Pack Pro 4
01:52 = Sound Pack Pro 5
02:23 = Sound Pack Pro Diesel
02:51 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Beach Buggy
03:09 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Formula One
03:25 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Helicopter
03:43 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Sportscar
04:03 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Tank
04:17 = Sound Pack Pro MicroMachines Warrior
04:35 = Sound Pack Pro Music
05:00 = Sound Pack Pro PC Speaker Indianopolis 500
05:24 = Sound Pack Pro PC Speaker Stunts
05:51 = Sound Pack Pro Remote Control Electric Car
06:10 = Sound Pack Pro Remote Control Gas Car
06:29 = Sound Pack Pro Sailboat
06:55 = Sound Pack Pro Warhead
07:18 = Sound Pack Pro ZipZaps
...and here's yer files:
The full readme, also included in the ZIP (NOTE: Read this for full installation instructions!) -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/grspak80.txt
ZIP -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/grspak80.zip
P.S. Feel free to distribute this pack and mirror it where ever you want... simply trying to save a little bandwidth on my buddy's server
P.P.S. I hope that the included crude installer (a simple batch file) works with the Vista and 7 abominations!