Here are some modifications you can make to enhance the game.

Display Latency in Multi-Player
Change Your Horn Sound
Change Your Game Fonts
Install FIXALL.POD
Remove the Pre-Race Music

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Display Latency in Multi-Player - In the Multi-Player room, you have a colored bar that represents the "latency" of the other players (how well their computer is communicating with yours). The shorter the bar, the cleaner the communication and smoother the game. You can change the colored bar to a numerical value if you prefer precise readings.

1) Inside your Monster Truck Madness 2 folder is a sub-folder called system. Open it up and double-click the Monster.INI file.

2) Scroll down to the [Game] section and find the line that says latencyDisplay=2. Change this value to latencyDisplay=1

3) Save and close.

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Change your Horn Sound - Getting tired of "Dixie" all the time? Here's how to make horns sound (randomly) like an "Ah-ooga" horn, a toy horn, or Dixie.

1) Inside your Monster Truck Madness 2 folder is a sub-folder called system. Open it up and double-click the Monster.INI file.

2) Scroll down to the [Game] section and find the line that says kookyHornFlag=0. Change this value to kookyHornFlag=1

3) Save and close.

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Change your Game Fonts - Are the game fonts too big and/or ugly for you? You can change them!

1) Inside your Monster Truck Madness 2 folder is a sub-folder called system. Open it up and double-click the Monster.INI file.

2) Scroll down to the [Fonts] section near the bottom.

3) First, change gOSFontUseGlobal=0 to gOSFontUseGlobal=1. This turns off the default fonts and tells Monster Truck Madness that you want to define your own.

4) Now decide what fonts you want to change.

SmallLCD is used for your scoreboard (the "O" key)
Small is used for truck names (the "N" key) and the overhead map (TAB).
Medium is the font on the "Game Loading" screen
Large is the "Received Message" font.

For any you want to customize, go to the next section and change gOSFontUse_[FontSize]=0 to a value of 1.

FOR EXAMPLE: I want to change my SmallLCD font and my Small font, so the new lines would look like this: gOSFontUse_SmallLCD=1 gOSFontUse_Small=1 gOSFontUse_Medium=0 gOSFontUse_Large=0

5) Now we need to tell Monster Truck Madness which fonts to use. Pick a font that looks nice to you. I like the "System" font... it is small, bold, and easy to read. You will see on the next few lines that the default game fonts are Arial and Arial Bold. Simply go to the line you want to change (SmallLCD and Small in this example) and substitute your font for Arial. That would make my example look like this:

gOSFontName_SmallLCD=System,System,System gOSFontName_Small=System,System,System gOSFontName_Medium=Arial,Arial,Arial Bold gOSFontName_Large=Arial,Arial,Arial Bold

6) You're all done! SAVE and exit. Check out your changes in the game.

Click here for a preview of what my changes look like

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Install FIXALL.POD - Download and install FIXALL.POD (created by Yeastman) the same way you would install an add-on track. (Then you'll have to MANUALLY open your pod.ini file and move FIXALL.POD to the SECOND LINE, just after the number at top. Instructions are included with the download). Amongst other things, it fixes the "Hall of Mirrors" effect you see in the distance at high altitudes. But the nicest modification is that it changes water from that ugly gray to a pretty blue reminiscent of Monster Truck Madness 1. If it appears before your "sound.pod" file, then it will also kill the train horn - good or bad depending on how you look at it.  To keep the train horn but get nice blue water, here is the order of my POD.INI:

 

Before FIXALL.POD

After FIXALL.POD

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Remove the Pre-Race Music - Do you ever want to hear the game music, but just hate the repetitive pre-race music?  You can remove it!

The tool you will need is called WinPod.

1) Run WinPod and click the big OPEN button.

2) In the left window (the folder directory) locate your MTM2 folder.  Double click it to open.  Then in the right window, locate MUSIC.POD.  Double click it to open.

3) Now click the big EXTRACT button.

4) WinPod gives you a couple of file extraction options.  Select "Extract All Files" and "Extract Response File".  When you are ready for WinPod to do its magic, click the "Extract" button.  We are done with WinPod for a few moments now, so you can close it.

5) Your MTM2 folder now has several new files and folders inside.  (Don't worry; you haven't changed anything yet.)  Open up the SOUND folder and locate "SPLASH.KLP" and "SPLASH.WAV".  Delete both files (or move them someplace else for safekeeping in case you ever want them back.  Just make sure they are no longer inside your SOUND folder.)

6) Locate MUSIC.LST in your main MTM2 folder.  Open it with Notepad or any other text editor.

7) Delete SPLASH.KLP and SPLASH.WAV from the list, and tidy up the list again by taking out the spaces where they once were.  SAVE your changes.

8) Run WinPod again and click the big OPEN button.  This time we want to locate the LST file we just altered instead of a POD file, so the first thing we need to do is tell WinPod what to look for.  Select "Response File (*.lst)" in the lower right corner.

9) Now locate and select MUSIC.LST the same way you located MUSIC.POD earlier.

10) Click the big MAKE button.  You're done!  You should now be able to play game music without all that racket on the pre-race screens!