MCM2: Reborn

MCM2:Reborn

Motocross Madness 2 (Rainbow Studios, 2000), rebuilt to run and play well on today's PCs. It has modern menus, a new race HUD, an OpenGL renderer, online play for 30 riders, lap leaderboards and proper gamepad support. Gameplay and visual options include the original's behaviour; controllers use the modern input system.

Installing

1. Download MCM2Reborn-Launcher.exe from the latest release.
2. Run it. It looks for a copy of the game on your PC: a retail install, a portable copy, or the CD. If you don't have one, pick DOWNLOAD MOTOCROSS MADNESS 2 and it fetches the game.
3. Type your rider's name and press INSTALL. MCM2:Reborn goes in its own folder, with desktop and Start menu shortcuts.
4. A short setup sets the picture quality, vsync, your controller and the look. Then press PLAY.

The launcher keeps MCM2:Reborn up to date by itself and shows how many riders are online. Your settings are kept across updates.

Linux / Steam Deck: run the launcher and the game through GE-Proton (the latest), which has what the game needs; stock Proton does not.

What's new

Racing

• Up to 30 riders on the gate, in single races and online.
• The bike's physics behave the same at any frame rate, and computer riders move smoothly.
• The Pro Circuit's rider gear is in every event.
• Add as many of your own skins as you like: every .tga in RIDERS\ and BIKES\ is its own choice.
• Track pickers have All, Base Game and Custom filters for every event, in single player and hosted multiplayer.

Online

• Lobbies through Epic Online Services, up to 30 riders each, found from the game's Internet screen.
• If you're missing the host's track or another rider's skins, the lobby offers to download them.
• Each rider's ping and a ready count show in the lobby. If the host's game drops, the session ends cleanly.

Leaderboards

• Live boards shared by every player, for every track, event (Baja and Enduro by route, Nationals, Supercross) and bike class. Custom tracks show by name even if you do not have them.
• Your best lap from the second lap on counts, with one entry per rider. It changes only when you beat it. In Nationals and Supercross, more than two seconds off the course voids that lap.
• Open them from the main menu or the multiplayer panel. Laps wait on your PC until the server has them (tools/leaderboard-worker, a Cloudflare Worker).

Picture

• Modern menus and HUD, widescreen at your desktop's resolution.
• Anti-aliasing, texture filtering, vsync and a frame-rate limit.
• Edge smoothing (FXAA), sharpening, colour vibrance, brightness and bloom.

Controls

• Xbox/XInput and native DualShock 4/DualSense gamepads steer by their sticks, with response, sensitivity, smoothing and dead-zone settings.
• Connect or reconnect a pad at startup, in menus or during a race.
• Navigate menus with the stick or D-pad, select with A/Cross, and go back with B/Circle. Start/Options pauses.
• Every action can be bound to any button or trigger: click it, then press the button.
• Alt-tabbing no longer flips the camera or locks the controls.

For the 0.3.8 fixes, automated checks and remaining hardware validation, see the update notes.

Settings

Everything is in the game's Options, under REBORN and GAMEPAD. The same settings are kept in MCM2Reborn.ini beside the game. The launcher's SETUP button changes the main ones in one go.

Building it

MCM2:Reborn is built from the retail executable. The game is disassembled, reassembled and relinked by its own toolchain, and new code is linked in beside it. So the game runs from the first build, and any function can be replaced by C and checked against the original.

sh tools/ghidra/reimport.sh    # build the Ghidra database from Mcm2.exe (once)
sh tools/ghidra/cycle.sh       # export -> port -> assemble -> compile -> link -> verify
sh tools/deploy_dev.sh         # copy the build into a game folder
py tools/build_launcher.py     # the launcher
py tools/release.py            # the release package, build/release/
py tools/base_package.py       # the base game's package, from a clean copy

• Unchanged sections: the rebuilt game's .text, .rdata and .data match retail byte for byte, so every pointer in its data stays right.
• Our code: it lives in a section of its own after the game's. The link refuses any build in which one of the game's sections moved or grew.
• Ports: a function marked PORT(address) replaces the game's own. tools/verify.py accepts no difference from retail other than the calls redirected to it.
• Rendering: the game gets DirectDraw 7 and Direct3D 7 objects written on OpenGL, so it needs no wrapper.
• The dev build: MCM2:Reborn's own features are built under OPENMCM2_DEV.

The Ghidra workspace lives at C:\mcm2ghidra\, outside OneDrive and with no spaces in its path. OneDrive corrupts Ghidra's project files, and analyzeHeadless.bat splits its arguments on spaces.

code/mcm2/	what is linked into the game: start-up, the renderer, the menus' code and the ported functions
code/dev/	MCM2:Reborn's features: HUD, gamepads, leaderboards, cameras, online, settings
code/eos/	the Epic Online Services helper (64-bit, beside the game)
launcher/	the launcher (C#, .NET Framework 4.8)
tools/	the build, the release packages, and the checks against retail
tools/modern/	the modern menus' layouts and art
docs/	measured facts about the game: start with binary.md and harness.md