Yes you read that right....I used custom rides only. Not even a little merry-go-round.

I was given this green-infested-water toxic waste dump, and I had to make it a fun amusement park! The pollution was really bad, so bad that their hats and t-shirts got contaminated with green radioactive waste. When it rains, even their umbrellas get soaked neon green! Too bad the air pollution was so bad all the balloons disintegrated at the warehouse. (translation: I forgot them!)

Normally, I use lots of flat rides and prebuilts. But not this time! I wanted to make every ride my very own creation. This is also my first time focusing on using special track like steep twists, and trying to get rides to look complex yet not messy. The woodies and steelies are synchronized for excitement rating, though not designed to stay in sync the whole ride. However I was able to make them interact with each other nicely.

This was a fun park to build. The goal of $200,000 park value was reasonable, and there was plenty of usable space. I liked the green goo, barren landscape, and dead trees all over the park. The spaceship crash was a nice touch, though I wish it was in the park boundaries.

Scroll the gallery to se all the rides and stats. I hope you enjoy it!

Note: Click the image to zoom in and view a Giant Screenshot with ride stats!

Wanted to challenge different aspects of my building skills (building in a contained area, colorful paint jobs, interlocked wood and steel coasters, simple yet elegant designs), and finally won Octagon Park!

Downlod the park and all the rides HERE.
[The link points to a directory on github. Click the file you want to download, and click "view raw" to open the Save dialog box.]

My first park to take scenery seriously.

A woodie with major theming .... and a few minor coasters thrown in it.

Click Here to download this park
[The link points to github. Click "view raw" to open the download dialog box.]

Having a wooden and a steel roller coaster interwoven together has always been a fascination for me. But then I thought, what if they were not only intertwined, but they had two interlocking loops, one in each direction? That is what WonderWood and SuperSteel are for!

At first, The stations and lift hills start in sync. I tried to precisely mirror the track so the trains would sync up as much as possible. You can see some of these efforts in the first two pictures. However, when running into limits such as park boundaries, other rides and footpath, and clearance limits, let alone the trains travel at different speeds, the idea of syncing was given up about halfway through.

Previous to building these two coasters, I built a Flying Coaster that served as a high-speed tour of the entire park. It interacts with the track of all the rides, and has inversions. Since it has a lot of long straight sections, I include it here, since it is not worth its own post.

Download WonderWood HERE.
Download SuperSteel HERE.
Download Octagon Park Flying Tours HERE.
[The links go to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

Here are two different types of roller coasters that are related in two ways. First, they are virtually mirror images of each other, except for minor tweaks to make sure the cars can complete the circuit. I first built the Wooden Reverser (on the right of the first image), mirrored it with the TD4Changer utility, then re-tracked the mirror image to be a side-friction roller coaster.

Second, they share the same rainbow-colored motif, with Side Friction Heat being hot colors and Chillin in Reverse being cold colors. To bump up the excitement of the Side Friction Heat coaster, I had to use scenery items. I tried to make the nearby scenery objects the same colors as the rainbow section of track. (For the keen eyed yes, I used snowballs on the Heat side, but hey they were white!)

Tried to make the rainbow with curved bands of color, similar to a real rainbow, except for the hot colors and cold colors divide the rainbow in two.

Download Side Friction Heat HERE.
Download Chillin in Reverse HERE.
[The links go to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

For some time, I have wanted to create complex wood and steel roller coasters intertwined together in the same footprint. Therefore, I have created the Wacky Wood Twister and Screwy Steel Twister roller coasters.

I started out by building the stations and synchronizing them. I then created parallel lift hills, and two helices that have track from the other coaster going through it. Remembering that wood roller coasters have a vertical loop, I was SHOCKED that the wood twister coaster does not! So I just put straight track through the steel twister's loop. I at first wanted each ride to race and duel each other, but being that they were two different rides with totally different track pieces, I gave up keeping them in sync, and just tried to create two complex rides that interact with each other's track as much as possible. To my suprise, their times are within 20 seconds of each other.

Most of the coasters in this park seem to hit an excitement ceiling in the 7's, these have an excitement of 8 and 9!

Additionally, I wanted to create a long coaster that had a simple track layout, and had a defined overall shape. Therefore, I created the Bermuda Triangle Water Coaster. It is shaped like a triangle in the corner of the park, makes use of lots of diagonal track, and has a very simple layout, basically four lift hills and four splashes of water. I basically needed a lift hill after every splash because water is VERY GOOD at being a natural brake! No need to worry about the dreaded station brakes fault.

Download Wacky Wood Twist HERE.
Download Screwy Steel Twist HERE.
Download Bermuda Triangle HERE.
[The links go to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

So I wanted to start creating roller coasters that had some aesthetic value, not just statistics alone. So I created this Virginia Reel with a red-white-and-blue motif! The ride alone had only a 6.20 excitement rating, so I beefed it up with some trees hidden under the ride, the Nothingburger to synchronize with it, and a loop-de-loop for the track to pass through.

Download Virginia Red White and Blue HERE.
[The links go to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

Two oldies but goodies-- The Wooden Reverser coaster and the Side Friction Coasters. Bringing us all the joys of building and designing them with limited track pieces, just to watch a car go flying off the track mid-way, and having to redesign the whole rest of your track just to get it to complete the circuit.

Believe it or not, both of these designs existed in real life. The Reverser operated at Saltair park in Manga, Utah, and the Vuoristorata is a Side Friction roller coaster operating at Linnanmäki in Finland.

I designed the Reverser coaster first. I did not have any plan for the design, just that I wanted it in a slanted corner of the park, and I wanted to be at least 4,000 feet long. Therefore, I just made a bunch of hills and reverser track all over the place, and made sure not to place the reversers in areas of too high speed to prevent excessive lateral G's. Found out that lateral G forces were not as bad as I thought they would be during the tight Reverser sections. I painted it white and blue, changing color each reversing section, a motif to the colored chips that get flipped in the game of Reversii.

Found out, to my surprise and confusion, Reverser trains can fly off the track! Makes no sense to me compared to the others. Bobsled and side friction trains are not bolted to the track so flying off is a real possibility, but reverser trains need a special wheel truck to turn the car around. These trucks seem to need to be bolted to the track, so I don't see how they can crash off the tops of hills.

I then designed the Side Friction roller coaster. Since it is so tricky getting a layout that goes at just the right speed to not fly off the track and not slow down too much, I thought I would just mirror the Reverser design and retrack to side friction! I used the TD4Changer hosted on RCTSpace to mirror the track, and then I re-laid the track piece by piece. I found out it worked except a few places need a bit of chainlift, and I added an additional chainlift hill to the track near the station for a needed speedup.

Download Reverser Reversii HERE
Download Side Friction Shuffle HERE
[The links go to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

The Suspended Roller Coaster .... That Arrow Dynamics ride that hangs tubs beneath the track and locks you in shoulder harnesses despite no loops. However, we all know they have strong lateral G's to swing the cars around, hence the need for harnesses.

To build this roller coaster, I made sure to include lots of helices and curves to swing the cars as much as possible. At first I had an Intensity of 16.00.....realized that initially my lateral G's would not only likely snap the cars off the track if it were real, but also the snap the heads off the necks of the guests. Yes, lateral G's are important, but within limits.

I then arrived at this design. Had to add tunnels and tons of trees to make the excitement over 7. In the end, there was just short of a mile of twisty turny track!
Estimated cost to build: $25,500

Download Suspended Swingvines HERE
[The link goes to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

Unlike any other roller coaster, airtime is BAD for bobsled roller coasters. While on wooden and steel roller coasters airtime adds excitement, for a bobsled roller coaster airtime adds a free trip to heaven for your guests. Though I want to go to heaven, certainly NOT on a roller coaster!

For Bobsled Bigspin, I tried to add as many curves and helices as I could, while avoiding straight, uphill track. Therefore, I only have two uphill sections when I absolutely needed them: one towards the middle of the ride, and one near the end where I must clear the helix below. The uphill piece in the middle was so sensitive that one piece below its current level will leave the train traveling fast enough to crash. Thankfully, the weight of the guests only adds 1 mph to its empty test speed of about 14mph, and does not cause any issues.

Cost to build on flatland: $21,000.

Download Bobsled Bigspin HERE.
[The link goes to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

So, this is my first video upload and ride spotlight upload. OBS Studio makes it SO easy to just do a Window Capture and remux to MP4.

Normally, when I design large roller coasters, they wind up sprawling all over the park and look heavily unrealistic. While they win the games, and can be fun to build, I wanted to see if I could do a more compact version.

So I set out to build a Standup. I knew this would be a very big challenge, since I knew that Stand up roller coasters were very intense and sensitive to lateral G forces. So I made sure to keep early-on turns as high up as I could so that they would be slower. I used just two loops so not too many G's from inversions. Made sure to bank every curve (except the first-drop curve which could not be banked).

I would build a few elements, close the circuit, and test to make sure what I had would complete the track. Since it was a good time since I build complex rides, I thought it would fail, but even after adding lots of track to make at least 4000 feet, it miraculously worked without stalling or crashing during test. Also liked how I was able to thread two loops with one S-curved run of track, and also to get two tracks through one of the loops! This is always so HARD for me.

At first, I got surprised at the low excitement high intensity, but when I reviewed Marcel Vos's video on standup coasters , I feel I did pretty well with a first shot 6+ excitement/under 10 intensity (before I added scenery to make it over 7).

Cost: $23,424. After building the roller coaster and every last path piece, I had $0.60 in the bank. Charged $10 for the ride and opened the park. Even with one train, was able to recover fast enough to prevent the dreaded financial runaway that kills patience and scenarios!

Download Standing Ovation HERE.
[The link goes to github, click "view raw" to open download dialog box.]

You may know that Mega Park is unlocked by RCT1 when you beat all of the scenarios in the base game. Tycoon park is unlocked by RCT Classic when you complete all of the gemstones. However, many players want to play these scenarios in OpenRCT2.

Mega Park:

If you have RCT1, first, make sure you link RCT1 to OpenRCT2:
--->1.) Open the Options dialog from the button at the top right of the OpenRCT2 title screen
--->2.) Click the Wrench icon on the right, and check if the path to your RCT1 game is shown
--->3.) If it does not show, click the Browse button and find the folder where you installed RCT1.
On windows, it is probably C:\Program Files (x86)\GOGcom\RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe

If you have already linked RCT1 to Open RCT2, disable Progressive Unlocking:
--->1.) Open the Options dialog box in OpenRCT2
--->2.) Click on the Slide icon and uncheck "Enable Progressive Unlocking"
--->3.) Go to the Scenario browser, and click the RollerCoaster Tycoon tab on the top left
--->4.) Scroll to the bottom of the list, and Mega Park will be in the "other parks" group

If you do not have RCT1, and just want to play Mega Park by itself,
Mega Park is the file SC21.SC4. Download here and place in OpenRCT2 Scenario directory.
(when you click, you will be taken to GitHub. Click "view raw" to download the file)

Tycoon Park:

This scenario is from RCT Classic, so it is NOT linked to OpenRCT2. To play it,
Tycoon Park is the file tycoon park.sea. Download here and place in OpenRCT2 Scenario directory.
(when you click, you will be taken to GitHub. Click "view raw" to download the file)
This will appear in the “other parks” group of the Extras tab in the scenario browser.

I hope this helps anybody who has wanted to play these parks in OpenRCT2 and was having trouble.

Did you know that, back in the day, there was a time where Corkscrew Follies was the only expansion pack. The Loopy Landscapes combination pack came out later.

All modern distributions of RollerCoaster Tycoon come with CF and LL pre-bundled, and when my uncle bought me the CD-ROM version in the 2000's, the Loopy Landscapes version was being sold. But, I wondered, what was life like in Corkscrew Follies only land?

To find this out was not easy. Since there is no version of standalone CF that works with modern operating systems, I had to use a VirtualBox of Windows 98. I could not even use Windows XP because CF install gives a popup dialog box saying that it is not compatible with this version of Windows.

When I finally got the VM to work, I found out that the tabbed scenario menu was not implemented yet! It just showed a list of CF scenarios above the main scenarios.

After that, the game looked pretty normal. There were some minor differences, though. You could not set all stalls to one price. You had no path support design options. Also, you could not change the entry and exit buildings of rides. Also, saved games from an installation of RCT with LL installed will not open with the CF only edition, even when loading a CF scenario.

Did anybody play RCT1 with only CF? Are there any other differences between CF and LL? Any questions you have?

I recently heard somebody say that a spiral slide broke down the first time ever despite being a longtime player. Started up a RCT1 Forest Frontiers so that I could see how long it took for a slide to break down if unmaintained, and at the beginning of April 1 got the Most Disappointing Park Award! Had three slides and a roller coaster, plus food drink and bathrooms. Park rating 774. Guest opinions and coaster stats shown above.

I have had genuinely TERRIBLE parks with lost guests and low ratings that failed the goal by a country mile and never got the disappointing park award!

Park was in this state when I won the award, except the swinging ship was not there yet.

What gives?

UPDATE: If you want to download this park to analyze it, you can click here. You will be taken to github, click "view raw" to download.

Here is the Defibrillator at Funtopia, slightly modified. Obviously, the ride as designed by Chris Sawyer can complete the layout with only the first incline powered, but let's say you wanted to make a larger layout that ate up too much speed and needed an extra kick on the far side hill in order to return to the station. In the picture above, it is shown in yellow.

The real-life boomerang (very similar to Defibrillator) can do it, so it seems like there should be a way to do it in OpenRCT2.