Site last updated: 03/24/20





What is this thing?

The JJ Spotter Pack is a spotter/crew chief alternative for iRacing. Its goal is to significantly heighten the immersion factor of simracing by replacing the default in-sim spotter/crew chief with authentic audio from crew chief Chad Knaus and spotter Earl Barban. Even though the dialog came from stock car oval racing, the pack is purposely designed (as best I could) to be used for any vehicle in any series. Although it sounds a little funny to be told to clean your tires in a dirt race, but... let's just ignore that minor detail. With over 4,400 samples in the pack, no two races will ever sound the same in the history of history.



There are 2 flavors of the JJSP: The Standard Pack, and the Cuss Pack. The Standard Pack is PG-13'ish, and won't play anything that you wouldn't hear on network television on a Friday night. The Cuss Pack contains the same content as the Standard Pack, but also includes profanity. It's not overboard, but it's enough to make it colorful.



Installation instructions are detailed further down the page....





Project History For Anyone Who Cares

The JJ Pack was first brought to life on March 13th, 2003 for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season by Papyrus. After 3 years and 21 updated versions, it reluctantly became a "finished product" for NR03.



A couple years later when iRacing opened shop, the JJ pack began its migration. It started as a simple port job from NR03, but it has changed a lot since then, including a whole spotter replacement from Chris Osborne to Earl Barban in version 5.00. Work continues on further expanding the pack in iRacing, unless otherwise stated. My goal is to have so many clips that it breaks the sim.





Distribution

JJ Spotter Pack for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

Latest News

Please do not re-post the files from my work on another site, or use them in another project for this sim or any other sim: The usual and reasonable wishes from any artist or creator of things.If you still race NR03 and want the old JJSP for that, I've moved all the NR03 stuff to its own ancient page. Click here to go there.

03/24/20





v7.10 Update Now Available!

Installation Instructions

Lap Times

I guess this would count as an update, even though it's only 200 new files. With 4,416 files now in this thing, it feels like dumping a shotglass of water into a 55 gallon fish tank. Will the fish even notice. New in this version is just more.... sound. This will simply deepen the pool of clips that play.As usual, the pack comes in Standard and Cuss Pack versions. To make things easier, all the files are in both packs. But fear not those of you with children around, the Standard pack will not play any of the Cuss Pack clips.I uploaded both in self-installing .exe files, plus just the .zipped up sound files as well. It was brought to my attention that the installer doesn't work on Macs... or Linux.. or DOS.. or some configuration of Windows.. or whatever it was. With the .zip flavor, the files would just need to be manually unzipped to a folder that you must create. See instructions below.Do NOT extract the .zip to your desktop! A friend accidentally did this and it crashed his computer when 4,000 files flooded his screen. I thought it was funny, but he wasn't amused.* NOTE- You are not required to uninstall any previous versions of the JJSP for the new one to work. Just make sure to select the new version in the sim after you install it.* Download your version and format of choice; There are 4 files to choose from to suit your needs. You only need 1 of them.--: The Standard spotter pack version in a self-installing .exe file. It should create and extract all the sound files to the default iRacing folder.--: The Standard pack with just the zipped up sound files. You'll have to extract the zip manually to the correct folder location.--: Theversion in a self-installing .exe file. It should create and extract all the sound files to the default iRacing folder.--: Thewith just the zipped up sound files. You'll have to extract the zip manually to the correct folder location.* Just run the .exe installer and everything will take care of itself. It will create a "JJ Spotter Pack" folder and extract all the sound files into it.* You will first have to locate where the iRacing core software files are. You can do a hard drive search for "spcc" and the folder should come up. It's NOT in your 'my documents.'* The \\iRacing\sound\spcc folder is what you're looking for. You will see several default sound pack folders already in there, such as; chrisWheeler, darrenManing, tj_and_steve. If you see those, you're in the right place.* Create a new folder along side those in that SPCC directory. Name it whatever you want.* If using the .exe installer, point it to that new folder that you created when it prompts for a destination. If you're using the .zip format, extract it into the folder you created.* When all is well, your folder tree should look something like this;\\iRacing\sound\spcc\* Once installed, launch the sim and go into the Sound Options and select the JJSP from the voicepack drop down list. If you don't see it there, 9 times out of 10 it's because the spotter folder was created in a place where the sim isn't looking for it. Reference the picture above, that's where it should go. The voicepacks listed in the sim come right from the folder names in that \\spcc folder.* After selecting it, you'll have to restart the sim before the pack will take effect.If you didn't know, you can customize the format that lap times are given to you. The default is the full time, down to the thousandth of a second. [MM:SS.XXX] I personally go with an abbreviated format [SS.XX] to replicate how Chad gives times. However way you prefer, this can be customized in the app.ini file. Look for the [SPCC] tag toward the bottom. This is what mine looks like.