A personal MTM 1 truck project

Cale · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:28 pm **Posts:** 618

Only I would ever be interested in this sort of upgrade, but I'm trying to make MTM1 trucks look more correct without losing that "made in Deluxe Paint" aesthetic that they have. The Grave Digger graphics I took from the old Monster Wars toy that has a 3 color representation of the graveyard scene that somehow looks perfect with this.

I haven't podded these up yet to see how they look in game, and don't know if I'll release them proper, but over Christmas I'll see how I like them. The only other trucks I have a dying need to correct are really a small edit to Monster Patrol, fixing Snake Bite's KC lights, and maybe Boogey Van and Samson. If I like how it goes then perhaps I look at adding Equalizer, Predator, etc...

SparkTB11 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:07 pm

Love em!

I just wish MTM1 would work probably on my PC, it's not quite like MTM2 on newer PCs albeit to some degree.

Cale · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:28 pm **Posts:** 618

Tried to make it look as much like TRI made it as I could...now I have an idea of what I'm doing for the other 5 or 6 trucks I'd like to do.

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Kmaster · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2025 2:55 pm

new paintjobs look great. please do Power Wheels. Also, the LUND racerback looks amazing on these.

Cale · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:28 pm **Posts:** 618

A truck that really should have been in the game. A bunch to tweak on this but I'm happy with how it's coming out. I feel like I'm sticking the landing on the art style for the most part, at least it won't look so out of place in game.

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SparkTB11 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:52 am

I'm curious Cale, do you use PCem to play MTM1? If so, I'm intrigued to know your configuration settings for the virtual machine. Maybe even a personal download package with PCem and MTM1 would be nice too.

Cale · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:28 pm **Posts:** 618

Honestly, I just play it on regular Windows 11 with dgVoodoo. It's actually less pretty with the hardware acceleration but it runs at full 1440x1080.

SparkTB11 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2025 3:45 am

I see.

I run MTM1 on Windows 11 with the 640 X 480 resolution enabled through compatibility mode, no hardware acceleration. It works decently well, but the AI is absolute rubbish, particularly on the Drag tracks, either they are slow to stage, not stage at all, or even worse on the J tracks, they can't complete a sharp turn and go out of bounds, or exceed the time limit.

Mind you, it has led to new Army Armstrong voice line discoveries, especially my favourite... "I heard of stopping to smell old roses, but this is ridiculous!".

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