Official Characters 1.

3 FINAL

This pack contains every character that appeared in any version of Marvel: Ultimate
Alliance. Namely, these are:
- Next-Gen exclusives: Colossus and Moon Knight (including an exclusive fourth
skin for Moon Knight);
- Xbox 360 Gold Edition Characters: Cyclops, Hawkeye, Hulk, Nightcrawler, Dr.
Doom, Magneto, Sabretooth and Venom;
- PSP exclusives: Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Ronin (as Hawkeye is included in
his Xbox 360 incarnation);
- PSP exclusive Comic Book missions for Hawkeye and Captain Marvel;
- PC exclusive Comic Book missions for Hulk, Silver Surfer and Moon Knight;
- PC exclusive skins for Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd, The Keeper, Silver Savage);
The pack also includes Heroselect, a program that will allow you to swap out
characters (as there is a hardcoded maximum limit of 27 characters in-game).
Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Hulk and Moon Knight come pre-installed. Use Heroselect to
swap them out if you wish.

Installation Instructions:
To install the mod correctly:
0. To unpack the mod, get the excellent and free 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org)
1. Back up your files - the mod overwrites many important game files, including
herostat. It will also reset your heroselect to include only the officials, so you
will have to manually add other characters to heroselect.
2. Place OfficialChars_1.3.7z in ..\Activision\Marvel - Ultimate Alliance
3a. If you are using a localized version of MUA (e.g. Italian), do the following:
- backup all files in your original "\scripts\act2\murder\murder2\" directory
- backup your original "\packages\generated\maps\act2\murder\murder2.pkgb" file
3b. If you are using the English version of the game, right click on
OfficialChars_1.3.7z and click "Extract Here".
4. If it asks you to "confirm file replace", click "Yes to all", assuming that you
have backed up your files already. If you haven't backed up your files, then click
"No to all" and back up your files now.
5. Wait for it to unpack.
6a. If you are using a localized version of MUA (e.g. Italian), restore the files
you backed up during step 3a.
6b. The mod is now ready. Some changes might not work correctly until you start a
new game.
7. The default herostat contains Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Hulk and Moon Knight. You
can swap in other characters with Heroselect or use NRCompiler to manually
decompile the herostat.engb file, open it in a text editor, change your desired
characters and recompile the text file back into herostat.engb. You can find
NRCompiler along with the herostat entries of other "Official" characters in
herostat.CFG in the "heroselect" folder.

Known issues:
- Some comic book mission discs
is caused by limitations of the
effects of this problem.
- Some unique conversations may
game. For details see "Notes on
will reappear in-game after being collected. This
game engine. There are no known negative side
not work in localized (non-English) versions of the
unique conversations" at the end of this file.

Changelog:

Release 1.3:
- Sharper textures for Black Widow, Ronin and Captain Marvel
- Slightly tweaked models for Ronin
- Updated some sounds for Ronin
- Fixed the issue with certain character effects not appearing on Low Particle
Detail setting
- Minor tweaks to some character effects
- Updated model and icon for Thunderbolts Venom

Release 1.2:
- Added PSP exclusive Comic Book missions for Hawkeye and Captain Marvel (replacing
Paibok and Super Skrull missions)
- Added PC exclusive Comic Book missions for Hulk, Moon Knight and Silver Surfer
made by BliZZ (replacing Thunderball and Scorpion missions)
- Added unique item dropouts for Captain Marvel
- Added more menu sounds for non-official characters
- Updated Dr Strange's Mannequin

Release 1.1:
-"New" models with HD textures for Cyclops
- Added new model and hud icon for Silver Savage
- Added flight sounds for Captain Marvel
- Added menu sounds for non-official characters from Teancum's x_voice.zss
- Changed sounds for some of Magneto's powers
- Fixed a problem with Doom's grab_smash sounds
- Fixed the problem with unique conversations not working on Italian MUA
- Minor herostat changes

Release 1.0:
-Fixed Magneto's conversation bugs
-Fixed Sabretooth's conversation bugs
-Fixed Cyclops's conversation bugs
-Fixed problems caused by Black Widow interacting with her NPC version
-Fixed Black Widow's, Ronin's, Captain Marvel's and Doom's sounds not looping on
certain powers
-Fixed the issue with Arcade's androids not copying some character models
-Fixed a bug with Hawkeye's pain sound
-Integrated latest changes from Dark_Mark's Magneto, Venom and Hulk mods (new
models, conversations and Mephisto battle)
-Integrated new character models from Dark_Mark's Converted Characters pack (new
models for PSP/Wii exclusives)
-Reskinned all Cyclops's models to better match their XBox 360 counterparts
-Reskinned all Hawkeye's models to better match their XBox 360 counterparts
-Added unique conversations for Magneto, Sabretooth, Venom, Cyclops and Dr. Doom
-Added new voice and power sounds for Dr. Doom
-Added new voice and power sounds for Venom
-Added new voice and power sounds for Hulk
-Added new power sounds for Cyclops
-Added new power sounds for Ronin
-Added new power sounds for Black Widow
-Added new power sounds for Captain Marvel
-Added new power sounds for Nightcrawler
-Added new power sounds for Sabretooth
-Added missing sounds for Colossus
-Added voiceovers for Sabretooth-Arcade conversation
-Added voiceovers for Venom-Rhino conversation
-Added voiceovers for Venom-Mysterio conversation
-Added voiceovers for Magneto-Foom conversation
-Added voiceovers for Magneto-Xavier conversation
-Added voiceover for Doom-Winter Soldier conversation
-Added new character loadscreens
-Updated Sabretooth's mannequin
-Updated Moon Knight's HUD icons
-Corrected Venom's loadscreen
-Numerous bugfixes

Beta v4:
-Major overhauls to Hulk, Magneto, Hawkeye, and Silver Surfer
-New version of heroselect
-Various new mannequins
-Nightcrawler's sword bug fixed
-Sabretooth bug fix
-Cyclops boost sounds fixed
-Hulk is now unlocked by beating M.O.D.O.K., to avoid Bruce Banner meeting Hulk on
first playthrough

Beta v3:
-Dr. Doom and Venom now included
-Hulk now has sounds
-x_voice updates (you'll now hear menu callouts and goodbye sounds for all XML1/2
characters + the ones in this pack)
-Posed Hawkeye, Hulk and Nightcrawler mannequins
-Re-converted PSP sounds
-Black Widow update - new models, boltons, and mannequin, fightstyle
-Nightcrawler's boltons updated - he'll have swords on his back for all of his
skins
-Updated herostat.cfg

Notes on unique conversations in localized versions of the game:

Because of the way the game was built, there is very little space in it left for
custom scripts and dialogue. The scripts and conversations in this mod were made
and tested for the English version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. In localized (e.g.
Italian) versions, the size of normal game packages is different, which leaves even
less space for custom ones. This is why some special conversations will not work in
localized MUA.

Credits:
-Raven Software/Vicarious Visions: The original games (Vicarious Visions did the
PSP port)
-Neversoft: For Venom's voice (from the PS1 Spider-Man game)
-THX: for starting and hosting marvelmods.com
-BliZZ: for heading up the mod for a long time, doing the bulk of the character
conversions, converting PSP exclusive missions for Hawkeye and Captain Marvel,
making Comic Book missions for Hulk, Silver Surfer and Moon Knight, Dr Strange's
Mannequin
-Tommyboy2002: for his overall work on character models for MUA, as well as his Dr.
Doom mannequin
-Dark_Mark: Venom, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Ronin and Magneto
models/mannequins, Cyclops models/skins, Silver Savage model/hud icon, Sabretooth
mannequin, Swordsman model, Super Skrull skin, converting Xbox 360 Gold Edition
unique character conversations, Venom, Hulk's and Hawkeye's power sounds, revised
power sounds for Dr. Doom, Cyclops, Ronin and Nightcrawler, Black Widow fixes,
alternative Murderworld storyline, preparation and compilation of versions 1.0 to
1.3
-Iammingy: For incredible skins, fixing of effects, new boltons and the Black Widow
mannequin
-Norrin Radd: For Heroselect, the additional 3 Dr Doom skins, the Original
Sabretooth skin, research on looping sounds in zsm's and other misc
-Winstrol: for ZSMEditor, without which we wouldn't have sounds
-Teancum: Converting character sounds, capturing Xbox 360 conversations and
character voices, compiling of beta 3
-Overload: For the posed Cyclops and Nightcrawler mannequins
-Burning Rage, darkmythology: initial 360 conversion research
-Noelemahc: invaluable research on game texture formats
-LarsAlexandersson: converting more PSP sounds for Ronin
-Venom: RC1 testing
-Anyone else I forgot: Thanks