Twisted Metal 2
saves your games in the Windows95 system registry so in order for you to
edit your games you will
need to go to the Start button on your
task bar, click it then go to Run and click that. Then type in regedit.
This will start
the system registry editor. The first
thing you should do is to go to the Registry menu at the top and export
the registry
file to a safe location, another hard
drive or floppy disk, just in case you mess something up. This is a good
idea to do on
a regular basis in case your registry
becomes corrupt which does happen from time to time. If you need to restore
your
registry you can start Windows in safe
mode, run regedit and import the registry file from wherever you saved
it. To
edit the saved games click the +
sign beside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Then click the + sign beside SOFTWARE.
Next scroll down to the + beside SONY
INTERACTIVE and click it. Then click the + beside Twisted Metal 2. This
should leave you with a folder that
is labeled 1.0.1 ( it may be different on your machine if you downloaded
and applied
the patch from Sony ). Clicking on the
folder opens up all the information about TM2 in the right hand window.
Down
towards the bottom you should see Slot1-Slot6
depending on how many games you have saved, note you MUST have a
game saved in order to edit it. At this
time your screen should look like this. screen
shot Choose the slot that you want
to edit, the slots are in the same order
as they appear in the save game/load game screens when TM2 is running.
Click
the slot to highlight it then go to
the top of the editor and click Edit, Modify. This should give you a window
that looks
like this.
screen shot 2 Scroll to the bottom of this window to get to the
items that you wish to edit. The things that I
have figured out so far are the level
you are on, the car you are driving, and the number of lives left. To edit
the number
of lives left place your cursor just
in front of the value that is in the red square in this image.
The value
in the red square is the number of lives that are left in the game. To
edit it hit the delete key , NOT the back
space key, on your keyboard, then type in 06, that's numeral
0 not letter O, then OK. Just so you know any value over
6 is not accepted in the game itself though you can enter
09 but you will only get 3 lives when you are playing. If you
enter 06 then start playing the game it only shows that you
have 3 lives left, but if you get killed once it will show 4 lives
left. To edit the level you are on place your cursor in front
of the value that is in the red square in this image.
Again to edit it hit the delete key
then type in the new value, valid numbers are 01-08. 01 is the LA level,
02 is the
Moscow level, 03 is the Paris level,
04 is the Amazon level, 05 is the New York level, 06 is the Antartica level,
07 is the
Holland level, and 08 is the Hong Kong
level. Anything other than 01-08 results in an empty saved game slot. I
knowthat there are 3 secret levels in
the game but they are two player levels and they can't be accessed in this
manner.
Now for the last edit that I have discovered
and in my opinion the coolest one of all. This is the car edit. To edit
this
place your cursor in front of the value
in the red square in this image.
Once again to edit this value hit the
delete key and type in the new value. Valid numbers are 00-0E, just so
you know
these values are in hexadecimal 10 comes
AFTER 0F, which comes after 0E, and is not included in the valid range.
The
corresponding car values are,
00=Hammerhead
01=Outlaw
02=Warthog
03=Mr. Grimm
04=Grasshopper
05=Thumper
06=Spectre
07=Roadkill
08=Twister
09=Axel
0A=Mr. Slam
0B=Shadow
0C=Sweettooth
0D=Minion
0E=Darktooth
To save all of your changes just simply
hit the OK button then exit out of regedit. For those of you who don't
know
Minion is the Boss from Twisted Metal
1 which was only available on the Sony Playstation.
