FEATURES
Options Index
Changelog
Optional Content
Options Index
These are all the MegaMod specific options in the game. They range from cosmetic changes to cheats and even to alternate storylines. All of these options have a CLI trigger as well. Run the app with -? for more info.
- Platform UI New!
- Choose between DOS, 3DO, or UQM to change the UI scaling to match your option of choice.
- DOS has an aspect ratio 16:10 (320x200/1280x800) and form fits the UI to look just like the DOS version
- 3DO has an aspect ratio of 4:3 and adds padding to all sides and compensates the viewing area to match the look and feel of the 3DO version
- UQM uses the full 4:3 aspect ratio just like vanilla UQM
- Melee Zoom (Android Only)
- For Android the Melee Zoom option has been 'enhanced' to allow the user to choose which melee scaler to improve game speed. The choices are between Step, Nearest, Bilinear, and Trilinear. The lowest option is a step zoom and will be the fastest on all devices. The 'Nearest' scaler will be the fastest for Smooth Scaling melee. Your mileage may vary depending on your device.
- Flagship Engine Color
- Switch between the Green (PC) variant or Red (3DO) variant engined Flagship.
- Screen Transitions
- This option allows the user to switch between DOS blended/instant transitions and 3DO crossfaded transitions. There is no performance difference between the two.
- Oscilloscope Style
- Choose between PC or 3DO oscilloscope display during conversations
- Choose between DOS, 3DO, or UQM to change the UI scaling to match your option of choice.
- Planet Style
- This option allows the user to choose between either PC or 3DO styled planets for interplanetary view. PC planets seem to have more contrast and color than the 3DO planets. Only works when Textured Planets is disabled.
- Star Background
- This option lets you choose between PC, 3DO, or UQM star backgrounds in interplanetary. Superceded by Custom Seed.
- Stats Display
- Choose scan stats style between DOS text, 3DO pictograms, Project 6014 styled DOS text, or Project 6014 styled 3DO pictograms.
- Scanning Style
- Choose between PC style static scan where nodes* pop up seemingly at random or 3DO style which sweeps down the planet map revealing nodes in order. (*Nodes are minerals, bios, and energy)
- Sphere Style
- Choose between DOS, 3DO, or UQM styled planet spheres on the scan screen.
- Sphere Scan Overlay
- Choose to have the spinning sphere shown during scan to be colored or plain.
- Lander View Style
- Choose between PC or 3DO lander views. For PC the lander viewport is at the bottom-right of the screen with the lander details to the left of the planet map. For 3DO the lander viewport is above the planet map with the lander details at the bottom-right of the screen.
- Date Format
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Has four options which changes the way the date is displayed.
- Original: MMM DD.YYYY (FEB 17.2155)
- MM.DD.YYYY (02.17.2155)
- DD MMM.YYYY (17 FEB.2155)
- DD.MM.YYYY (17.02.2155)
- Custom Border
- Enables a custom UI overlay based on Clay's "sc2redo" mock-up.
- Show Whole Fuel Value
- When enabled shows you the full fuel value in decimal format.
- Fuel Range Indicators
- Choose between default fuel range, an extra dotted circle that shows fuel range at the destination, an extra ellipse that depicts the point of no return from Sol, or all fuel range indicators at once.
- Animated HyperSpace Stars
- HD-only: Enables the legacy HD-mod animated HyperSpace stars. When disabled it switches to recreated faithful designs of the originals.
- Alternate Orz Font
- Enables the use of a secondary font for the Orz subtitles when the computer has difficulties translating.
- Non-Stop Oscilloscope
- Enable the conversation oscilloscope to switch to music when nobody is talking (When speech is enabled).
- Show Nebulae
- Shows pre-rendered nebulae on the background of solar systems and the encounter screen when enabled.
- Nebulae Brightness
- A slider that adjusts the opacity of the pre-rendered nebulae..
- Unscaled View
- Orbit lines and background stars aren't scaled up in HD, mimics classic HD-mod look.
- NPC Ship Orientation
- Turn on/off whether NPC ships face their direction of travel.
- Hazard Colors
- Enables/disables colored text for planet hazards based on severity.
- Planet Map Textures
- Switch between 3DO or UQM planet textures and node locations (minerals and bios). Added bonus when set to 3DO is that the node locations are identical to the PC version as well. Option superceded by Custom Seed.
Music
- Volasaurus' Remixes
- Toggles on or off remixes made by Volasaurus. Only applicable if you have Volasaurus' Remix or Space Music package installed.
- Interplanetary Alien Ambience
- This option can turn on or off music that plays when inside the Sphere of Influence (while in a solar system) of an alien race.
- Music Resume New!
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Resumes music from where it last left off.
- Disabled: Music starts from the beginning as it did in the original games
- 5 Minutes: Keeps tabs on each piece of music and resets it to the beginning if it hasn't been active within 5 minutes
- Indefinite: Resumes the music no matter when it last was heard
Controls
- Control Display
- Change the on-screen control display between Keyboard, Xbox, or Playstation 4 controls. Make sure that when you choose Xbox or PS4 display to change the Bottom Player layout accordingly.
- Difficulty
- Toggles between Normal, Easy, and Hard difficulties while the 4th option lets you pick a difficulty every New Game. Hard Difficulty should not be played by beginners.
- Extended Lore
- Enables extra lore provided by 0xDEC0DE's UQM-Extended mod plus a whole slew of extra content provided by Kruzen, Tarp, Murus, and Myself.
- Nomad Mode
- Enables a survival version of the gameplay where you do not have access to the Earth Starbase.
- Slaughter Mode
- Enables the ability to affect select alien race's Sphere of Influence by destroying their ships in battle. WARNING: Affected SOI perists in saved games even when disabled.
- Custom Seed
- A text input option that allows you to change the universe seed. Changing the seed generates new star patterns, planet order, planet type, and number of planets where applicable, moon type, number of moons, and Quasispace portal exits. Planets and moons included in 'spoken' lore do not change order but can be different types that are similar to their original type.
- Skip Intro
- Skips the Logo (if the Extra Cutscene option is active) and the Intro
- Partial Pickup
- Allows you to pick up minerals partially if the mineral is bigger than the remaining size of your lander hold. Leaving the rest of the mineral on the surface for you to pick up later. Also Biological data will not be picked up if the data is larger than the remaining limit of the Lander's hold.
- Game Over Cutscenes
- When enabled shows cinematic slide shows for various game over scenarios.
- In-Game Help Menus
- Shows mineral values while using the lander and shows star map keys while looking at the star map.
- Smart Auto-Pilot
- Enables Auto-Pilot to find the shortest distance outside of the current solar system. Also displays the destination and distance to destination at the top of the screen.
- Advanced Auto-Pilot New!
- Finds the cheapest route (fuel-wise) through HyperSpace or QuasiSpace and pilots the ship for you on that route.
- Show Visited Stars
- When enabled stars that you have visited will be dimmed and their names will be encapsulated by parenthesis.
- Super-Melee Ship Descriptions New!
- Show Star Control 1-styled short ship descriptions at the bottom of the main Super-Melee menu while picking a ship for your fleet. WARNING: Only works in "UQM" Platform UI
- Kohr Stahp
- The Kohr-Ah will be frozen on the spot and will not move forward with the cleansing. This cheat literally stops the Kohr-Ah in their tracks when activated.
- Kohr-Ah DeCleansing
- When enabled this option pushes the Death March 100 years into the future. Does not work if the Death March is in progress, use Kohr-Stahp or Time Dilation as an alternative.
- God Modes
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Choose between Disabled, Infinite Energy, No Damage, or Infinite Energy & No Damage.
These abilities are enabled when "No Damage" or "Infinite Energy & No Damage" are selected- Orz marines do not harm you
- Syreen song does not affect you
- Melnorme confusion ray does not affect you
- VUX limpets do nothing
- The Shofixti Glory Device leaves not a scratch
- Infinite ranks of Orz Marines
- Infinite ranks of Ur-Quan fighters
This cheat only works against computer controlled opponents. - Time Dilation
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Slows down or speeds up the game clock depending on the option selected
- 0 = Normal game clock | IP = 30 seconds | HS = 5 seconds
- 1 = Slow game clock | IP = 3 minutes | HS = 30 seconds
- 2 = Fast game clock | IP = 5 seconds | HS = 1 second
- Bubble Warp
- Instantaneous travel to any point on the starmap. Uses up fuel.
- Head Start
- Gives you one radioactive, the Moon base in your devices, and Fwiffo in your fleet to start the game quickly.
- Unlock Ships
- While enabled this option gives you the ability to build any ship in the ShipYard.
- Unlock Upgrades
- Unlocks all of the Melnorme tech upgrades.
- Infinite RU
- Give you virtually infinite R.U. while the cheat is active. Does not persist through game saves.
- Infinite Fuel
- Does what it says on the tin. Fuel is no object, you'll have an infinity symbol where the fuel counter is. If you try to save the game with the cheat enabled it will save with the amount of fuel you had from the loaded save and if you save from a new game it will save with only 10 units of fuel.
- Add All Devices
- Self-explanatory. Give you all the devices.
- No HyperSpace Encounters
- When enabled you will encounter nobody in HyperSpace.
- No Melee Obstacles
- When enabled this option removes the planet and asteroids in Super Melee. Local play only.
Changelog (v0.8.3)
This is only a partial changelog pointing out the more meaty changes. For a full list check out the changelog file on Github
- Advanced Auto-Pilot option that auto-pilots the flagship on the shortest route through HyperSpace or QuasiSpace
- Option to resume all music where it last left off
- A map that shows Rainbow Worlds that have been currently discovered
- Option to show short tooltips at the bottom of the melee screen when picking a ship a la SC1 - Kruzen
- Ability to change graphics and music options without restarting
- Option to switch between DOS, 3DO, and UQM "Platform UI" (Making MegaMod look like those respective versions)
- Option to set a custom resolution via text input within the Setup Menu
- Option to choose between borderless and exclusive fullscreen (SDL2 builds only)
- SC1 style ship spins with new pop-up animation - Kruzen
- HD: Draw HD and custom border bevels dynamically
- All text on-screen is now drawn in-engine to help with modding and translations
- HD: New fonts made for various UI elements all across the game (SUPER-MELEE title, BATTLE! text, 3DO menu labels, etc...)
- HD: Ilwrath, Ur-Quan, and Spathi fonts fully remade
- Cleaned up the Setup Menu code to make it more readable - Kruzen
- Consolidate in-engine drawn shadow boxes
- HD: Separated all ambient animations into their own option (Hyper/QuasiSpace gravity wells and solar system suns) - Kruzen
- HD: Slides, Tiny, TinyBold, TinyCondensed, Player, StarCon, PlayMenu, Label, Lander, and Commander fonts updated
- HD: Enhance HyperSpace stars - Kruzen
- HD: HD content check now happens during game startup and within the setup menu (instead of on the main menu screen)
- HD: Now using Bummer6's Ilwrath Avenger concept art
- HD: Use color filters to change the colors of the flagship and hyperspace "Nngh" between Hyper and QuasiSpace - Kruzen
- Moved Starmap keys and mineral helpers to the Flagship status area (Top-right of the screen)
- Made the FPS counter show on-screen instead of in the console - Kruzen
- HD: Refined melee projectiles and assets - Kruzen
- Optimized DrawGalaxy() func that draws stars in melee and hyperspace - Kruzen
- HD: Stars in HD melee now resembles SD more that ever (with unscaled stamp option) - Kruzen
- Dying SoI now have a brief animation of the race's name to make it more noticeable - Kruzen
- HD: Circles appear with smooth edges (fake AA) - Kruzen
- Race names don't overlap and stack on top of each other now - Kruzen
- Draw bigger radar border in all non-3DO modes
- HD: Brighten orbit dots when nebulae are enabled
- HARDMODE: Moved remaining crew above the flagship to fit on-screen in all screen modes
- Graphics settings now activate immediately within the setup menu
- Sound slider improved and now you can hear the corresponding volume setting changes "live" - Kruzen
- Randomize nebulae using system seed when custom seed is set
- Set borderless fullscreen as the default on new installs
- HD: Reworked the mineral node graphics to be even more faithful to the originals
- Updated Windows installer to check for and delete old content when installing over another version of UQM
- HD: Added blue glow to bomb modules in DOS ending cutscene - Kruzen
- Random planets in HyperSpace encounters are now properly saved and loaded - Kruzen
- Randomize background nebulae based on system seed instead of star location
- Now using an updated version of Volasaurus' interplanetary space theme
- Fixed Unlock Ships cheat from showing a second Yehat Terminator
- Fixed loading of Core saves
- "Fixed" lander module display in outfit menu to correspond with current selection position - Kruzen
- Suppressed a metric ton of compiler warnings
- Fixes Syreen palette blend from all-black - Kruzen
- Added Tarp and Bummer6 to the credits
- HD: HyperSpace ambience (*Nnngn*) fixed - Kruzen
- HD: Fix Chenjesu intelligence crash
- Optimized fuel circles to prevent graphical glitches - Kruzen
- Fixed kerning when kerndata for a character equals zero
- Fix kerning when the kerndata only has the opening line
- Fixed a bug when some SoI circles sometimes disappear with big enough zoom-in - Kruzen
- HD: Fix oscilloscope lines and scale it to 60fps
- Fixed Procyon not generating the Chmmr homeworld in some custom seeds
- Fixed the Mother Ark star system from not generating the amount of planets necessary in some custom seeds
- Androsynth homestar will now have the appropriate amount of planets in Custom Seed thanks to jsd3306
- Content Bug #25 Squashed - Comma on the wrong page in Thraddash convo - Kruzen
- Code Bug #201 Temporarily Squashed - Slylandro Battlegroups causing crash in Hard Mode
- Captain and Flagship renaming will no longer become stuck (seemingly at random) on just naming the Flagship
- Black screen at the Load screen fixed when quitting to the Main Menu immediately after starting a new game
- HyperSpace coordinates glitching when traveling to the far edges of the map fixed
- Code Bug #165 Squashed - Laser collision is broken in HD for some ships - Kruzen
- Code Bug #166 Squashed - X-Form lasers should collide and spawn impact graphics - Kruzen
- Code Bug #156 Squashed - 3DO planet have a black 1px dot in the middle - Mysteriously disappeared over time
- Code Bug #162 Squashed - Selling Planet Landers Does Not Remove Sprite
- ANDROID: Fix directional joystick from instantly turning ship to the right on just a tap
- ANDROID: On-screen controls fixed in the Shipyard and Outfit screens
- Fixed dithering on planets from re-rolling their RNG resulting in a slightly changed texture - Kruzen
- Changed Peter MacMillan to Parker MacMillan in the credits
- - Keep time running while orbiting a planet & during a landing excursion
- - Limit the amount of crew one can buy, in total, to 1900 and lock the player out of buying crew until they revive the Shofixti
- - Added harder encounters at the Chmmr homeworld, Sun Device, Aqua Helix, Ur-Quan wreck, and Syreen vault - by Kruzen
- - Druuge sell the Rosy Sphere on second deal - by Kruzen
- - No help before the final battle if the Pkunk are absorbed before triggering the Yehat rebellion - by Kruzen
- - Make the Sa-Matra battle more difficult - by Kruzen
- - Cut reinforcements in half where applicable - by Kruzen
- - Allow VUX to warp in close in Melee for the main game
- - The Kohr-Ah Death March happens one year earlier
- - Melnorme tech will increase in price as you buy more
- - The natural QuasiSpace portal is delayed by one year>
- - Remove Quasi portal randomizing
- - All Spathi escorts flee when they slave shield themselves
- - Starting crew is 31 to account for the epilogue story
- - Amount of Thraddash to defeat is 30 to become allied
- - Crew Cost is minimally reduced when the Shofixti are revived
- - Slylandro Probes dodge projectiles
- - Mineral worth for Exotics is brought down to 16
- - Slylandro Probes will orbit Rainbow Worlds, their numbers increase if left unchecked and will eventually vanish once you complete their quest
- - When using a custom seed the seed will be randomized on New Game
- - Rainbow World credit value cut in half
- - Weapon slots 2 & 3 take double energy
- - Auto tracking costs double energy
- - Evil Ones are now more dangerous. They move and seek the player out, as well as having 5 HP
- - Melnorme tech catalog spread out between the 9 Supergiants (No tech upgrades in Hyperspace)
- - Melnorme fuel cost upped to 10 credits per unit
- - Portal Spawner costs 20 whole units of fuel
- - Reduced viability of the Druuge/Melnorme fuel exploit
- - Selling more than 10 crew to the Druuge guarantees a price hike in crew cost and the immediate disapproval of the Commander
- - If player kills Tanaka they do not get a second chance with Katana
- - Can only build two of any ship at a time
- - Tanaka's Scout has full maneuvreability and main weapon system (Bomb still disabled)
- - The Kohr-Ah Death March is delayed by two years
- - Double mineral worth
- - Fwiffo starts with a full crew compliment
- - Amount of Thraddash to defeat is 15 to become allied
- - Tune down the battle difficulty to Weak Cyborg
- - Start with two landers
- - Rainbow World credit value doubled
- - Add a couple more fusion thrusters and turning jets for new game
- - Keep the Emergency Escape Warp Unit enabled after Chmmr Bomb installation
- - Portal Spawner costs 5 whole units of fuel
- - Player starts with 43.38 units of fuel (The difference between a full tank and the amount of fuel it takes to travel from Vela to Sol)
- - Player starts with an extra 2500 R.U.
- - Limit to the amount of crew to sell to the Druuge before crew cost hike is 200
- - Commander will tell you about the Melnorme and ZFP earlier than usual
- - Zex's Beast ferocity toned down
- - Applied unused Melnorme dialog when filling tanks to their full capacity
- - The Kohr-Ah lose a tiny fraction of their SOI when the Supox and Utwig attack them
- - Added ability to open up a HyperSpace portal in QuasiSpace to go right back to where you opened up the initial QuasiSpace portal
- - Ships exploding in Super Melee do not lose all velocity
- - Add small chance of weather and tectonic hazards to level 2
- - Give Admiral ZEX an alternate uniform and more medals differing him from other VUX - by Kruzen
- - Give the Kzer-Za their classic baton on the comm screen - by Kruzen
- - Use alternate color palette for the Ur-Quan's talking pet - by Kruzen
- - Show gas giant type on the scan screen (I.E. Blue Gas Giant)
- - Charon, the moon of Pluto, is now explorable
- - Charon also generates previously unused element "Charon Dust"
- - Unzervalt now has a single moon as per the intro artwork
- - Added the ability to fill Syreen crew to max in the Shipyard
- - Added the ability to tell the Ilwrath to GTFO of any star system in their SOI via Hyperwave Broadcaster a maximum of 5 times before they wise-up and attack you.
- - Make Beta Arae (933.3 : 093.7) an Orange Super Giant (Because there are no Orange Super Giants)
- - Start a new game with only 31 crew as per the Epilogue story
- - Gave the Chmmr and Syreen ruined planets and StarBases when "cleansed"
- - Moved around and added some dead Zoq-Fot-Pik colonies
- Beta Tucanae (393.7 : 562.5)
- Gamma Cassiopeiae (367.9 : 506.9)
- Beta Cassiopeiae (377.0 : 525.0)
- Beta Carinae (341.6 : 543.7)
- - Show Sa-Matra in background during penultimate battle - by Kruzen
- - Enable Sa-Matra sound effects - by Kruzen
- - New Androsynth excavation site on Alpha Lalande 1. Idea, art, and lander report - by Kruzen
- - New Precursor artifact on Alpha Apodis 4. Idea, art, and lander report - by Kruzen
- - Dead slave-shielded world and starbase @ Gamma Ophiuchi I (033.3 : 891.6)
- - "Pop" Gamma Ophiuchi's slave shield on Arilou destruction - by Kruzen
- - "Pop" Spathiwa's slave shield and generate 3-4 ruins on Orz destruction - by Kruzen
- - Set Zex's Beauty free upon the planet after it devours Zex - idea and lander report by Tarp
- - New reports for the Syreen and Chmmr when they are cleansed by the Kohr-Ah - by Tarp
- - The Melnorme will now disappear once the Death March starts
- - The Kohr-Ah will now respond to HyperSpace broadcasts during their Death March
- - Show the Sa-Matra as a planet on the penultimate battle screen
- - Use the Sa-Matra as a planet for the penultimate battle
- - Talk to Kohr-Ah when at the Sa-Matra during Death March
- - Allies will not chase you if you get close to their ships
- - Added an unused dialog option for the Supox (Only shows up after Alliance at their homeworld) - Kruzenshtern bug #56
- - Fixed the Thraddash SOI disappearing after Ilwrath war when allied
- - No longer possible to encounter random Ur-Quan ships in the Zoq-Fot-Pik home system, like their dialogs say (Bugzilla Bug #759)
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Destroyed Ur-Quan(*) / Kohr-Ah(+) starbases
- + Beta Reticuli (702.0 : 529.1)
- * Metis (570.8 : 460.4)
- * Gamma Cancri (500.6 : 501.1)
- * Alpha Lentilis (462.5 : 600.0)
- + Theta Chamaeleonis (514.5 : 695.8)
- + Antares (647.9 : 754.1)
- - The Syreen will have a Sphere of Influence at the completion of their Vault Quest
- - The Chmmr will have a Sphere of Influence once you help them complete their Process
- - Add a defunct Mother-Ark @ Delta Virginis IV
- - Add a stripped Precursor Starbase at Alpha Centauri
- - Add ruins and lore on Algol IV to match with the lore as told by the Melnorme
- - Add a Spathi erected monument to the peaceful negotiatons of colonization between them and the Mmrnmhrm on Beta Herculis II
- - The Thraddash will survive the Ilwrath war if you are allied with them. And they will let you take the AquaHelix peacefully while they are not at war.
- - New message report for the Earth Starbase when you try to dock
- - Player will no longer "pick up" the base on Luna
- - Emergency Warp Unit activated without needing to visit the Starbase
- - Add a starbase around Kyabetsu that will give the player a max of two Scouts after their quest is completed
- - Give player two extra jets and thrusters so as to not be completely outmatched in speed
- - Make Probes spawn at a reasonable rate so as to not annoy the player
- - When allied, Spathi ships can join your fleet when asked for a max of 3 ships in your fleet.
- - Player starts with 20 more units of fuel
How do I install the content?
For these examples I will be using the HD content package but this works for any of the content packages. To start, download the HD content package on the Download page and make note of where you downloaded it.
You will only need to install content separately when not using the Windows installer
Windows [Manual]
Copy the mm-0.8.3-hd-content.uqm file to your
addons directory. Which by default is
C:\Games\The Ur-Quan Masters MegaMod\content\addons\
After that you can load the MegaMod and opt to use the HD content in the setup menu within the graphics options.
macOS
Right click on the MegaMod app and select Show Package Contents
Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> content -> addons
Move or copy the mm-0.8.3-hd-content.uqm file into the addons folder.
After that you can load the MegaMod and opt to use the HD content in the setup menu within the graphics options.
GNU/Linux
To be honest I don't know of a decent, safe, and streamlined way to do this.
