GOLDMODE

Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Sun May 28, 2000 11:50 am

GOLDMODE

When you type in gold then press 0, in hardware mode it makes a screenshot of the current screen and saves it to your hard disk as a RAW File.It is not known how to open this RAW File though.I dont know if any one has tried this yet but say you where playing MTM2 in 640x480 and took a screenshot by pressing 0 after typing in gold mode.Wouldn't the screen size be 640x480.Then in PSP you could just type in 640 for the width & 480 for the height.I havent tried this because i dont have a 3D Card yet!So can someone please try this & get back to me about whether it worked or not.It could also be 640x480 minus the size of the menu up the top if it is on.I dont know if this works but it very well could.

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Post by **Phineus** » Sun May 28, 2000 2:16 pm

I can't remember all the details, but the pic size can be calculated something along the lines of...

if 4k = 64x64
and 64k = 256x256
then 900k should equal ???

It's all academic anyway since you're forced to use metalcr2.act or the track palette, and the picture quality is extremely poor.

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Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Tue May 30, 2000 11:26 am

Can u please send me a ZIP file of a screenshot in 3d mode as i dont have a 3d card.I'll try & figure it out.

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Gromit@TRI · Post by **Gromit@TRI** » Tue May 30, 2000 11:53 am

It is a true color 24-bit .RAW file (so no external palette). The size in bytes is 640x480x3. I dunno about PSP but here is what you enter in PShop to open it:

Dimensions
Width: 640 pixels
Height: 480 pixels

Channels
Count: 3
Interleaved (Yes)
Depth: 8 Bits

Header
Size: 0 bytes

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MIYH · Post by **MIYH** » Wed May 31, 2000 2:56 pm

Thanks for the info Gromit

Winterkill had sent me a pic that looked very screwed up when I tried to open it in PS. I was guessing a bad palette (since I had never heard of a 3 channel .raw file, which I just learned PS Help explains hehe) and didn't know what PS was trying to use for a palette anyway. When I tried capturing a screenshot from Gold Mode on my comp, I was able to view mine in PS, which just confused me more.

I tried opening the pic Winterkill sent me again as Gromit suggested and now I think I understand.

By selecting the 3 channels when openinig the file in PS, you end up using 8 bits for each of the three RGB channels (red, green, blue). You can look at each channel separately in PS.

Unfortunately, the original pic Winterkill sent me appears to have a 'bad' green channel, this may have been the only problem viewing the file all along, I had never even considered the file might be corrupt.

AIR_Wipeout · Post by **AIR_Wipeout** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 3:18 am

I was never able to find out where GOLD Mode screenshots were saved to. What directory is it? MTM2 Dir? Temp?

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Post by **Phineus** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 4:14 am

Screen shots are saved in the same folder as the monster.exe file. For example:

\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Monster Truck Madness 2\

They are named vel0001.pcx or vel0001.raw.

arcticblizz0 · Post by **arcticblizz0** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 2:35 pm

I don't know if this will mean anything to you guys but I bought a digital camera for $400 Can. That's like 2 cents for you Americans, anyway a software came with it. I installed it and whenever I took screenshots from mtm2 I just had to click on the icon and there it was. Maybe I don't understand what you guys are trying to do, but I thought I'd share this with you.

Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 3:08 pm

Well i dont know what u r talking about either arcticblizz0 but this GOLD MODE is a cheat that you can do in MTM2 and one of the gold mode cheats is a screenshot thingy with many possibilities. Hope that helps. Whats that about some camera software? that could be very handy

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Post by **Phineus** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 3:22 pm

Cheat (http://www.dictionary.com/)

cheat (cht)
v. cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats.
v. tr.

1.To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers by overcharging them for purchases.
2.To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.
3.To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye.
4.To elude; escape: cheat death.

v. intr.

1.To act dishonestly; practice fraud.
2.To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: accused of cheating at cards.

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Gold Mode (http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Co ... 8/gold.htm)

to take screen shots
to better view your track

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I don't think it's the same thing.

My guess is that his program is similar to hypersnap.

Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 3:32 pm

Yeah i guess so....

Now for something else....

Where can i get hypersnap from????

I've got alot of utilities for my site and that is not one of them :C. So can u plz give me the url so i can download it?

Heres the directory to all of my utilities but i'm still uploading but here is how many i have so go check it out here....
http://members.xoom.com/HMTM2/Utils

I've gone back to XOOM as well

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EmceeMart · Post by **EmceeMart** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 4:21 pm

You can get it here

Hypersnap

about halfway down the page.

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Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Thu Aug 31, 2000 4:31 pm

Thanks mc.

Whatcha think of the BOIG utilities directory?

Are you going to enter my contest?

Just curious cu all l8ter

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