Midtown Madness

What you have to bring

This site ships the player only. No part of the game is included here and nothing is downloaded from us: to play, you supply two files from your own copy of the game.

1. A disc image of your retail Midtown Madness CD — .img or .bin with the .cue sheet next to it (the sheet is what names the music tracks), or a plain .iso. It carries the cities, the cars, the interface and the music.
2. The patched program midtown.exe from Microsoft's Midtown Madness 1.2 update (build 1589). The copy on the disc is SafeDisc-protected and cannot run.

Both files are read inside your browser and stored only in this browser's private storage (OPFS). Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and this site never redistributes game data. See the game copyright notice and what this project is.

Install Midtown Madness in this browser. You need the two files listed under “What you have to bring”. Choose them in this order — the install starts as soon as both are chosen:

1. Your disc image (.iso, .img or .bin — select the .cue sheet next to it as well, if there is one, so the music can be extracted).
2. The patched program midtown.exe from Microsoft's Midtown Madness 1.2 update, build 1589 (the copy on the disc is copy-protected and cannot run).

Choose the disc image first. The install writes about 600 MB into this browser's private storage; it takes under a minute in Chrome, Edge and Safari and about three minutes in Firefox.

How do I make a disc image from my CD?

• Windows: insert the game CD, then in a free disc tool such as AnyBurn choose “Copy disc to image file” and save it as an .iso file.
• Mac: in Disk Utility choose File → New Image → Image from the CD, with the format “DVD/CD master”, then rename the .cdr file to .iso.
• Linux: dd if=/dev/sr0 of=midtown.iso bs=2048 status=progress

No CD drive? A USB CD/DVD drive works. The image never leaves your computer: this page reads it inside your browser.

Saved games

Your progress is kept only in this browser. Back it up to keep it safe or to carry it to another browser or computer — the backup is a ZIP file written to your computer, nothing is uploaded anywhere. It mirrors the game's own folder: players\players.dir (the profiles on this machine), players\player0.cfg and players\player0.sav (a profile's settings and progress), the driver tables under players\chicago\ (the game writes them again when it starts) and your settings from the registry key the game itself uses, …\Microsoft Games\Midtown Madness\1.0. Restoring also accepts those profile files on their own, taken from a Windows installation of the game.

These are the options of the game's original Launcher. Changes are saved as you make them and apply the next time you press Play.

Display

Screen resolution Detailed shadows Distance clipping (faster on slow computers) Near Far

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Controller

Click a binding, then press a key, or press a controller button or move a stick. A stick moved for one direction also covers the opposite one (Move Up also gives Move Down). × clears a binding.

Mouse

Mouse camera control (click the game to capture the mouse) Sensitivity Mouse wheel switches character Left button Right button Middle button

Browser

Substitute Esc key

Browsers keep Esc for leaving fullscreen and releasing the mouse (Chrome and Edge let the game have it in fullscreen). This key works as Esc in the game everywhere.