Genre: Racing
Release Year: 2004
Developer: Supersonic Software
Publisher: Empire Interactive
Age Rating: 12+
Playability Status: Unplayable
Tested On: Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64
Availability: Copyright retained - Out of print/unavailable
Cars, guns, playground insults and multiplayer madness. Mashed has all these ingredients in spades. Up to four players can duke it out on the racetrack and win by fair means or foul.
Installation
To install Mashed, do not use the autorun on the CD. Instead, explore the contents of the CD in Computer and double click on the “Setup.exe” file. Mashed will then install without any issues on modern PCs.
Running the game
The installer will create shortcuts to a file called “Launch.exe”. If you find that you cannot start the game, browse to the Mashed installation directory and try the “MASHED.exe” file instead. Unfortunately we were not able to get this title running on our Windows 8 or Windows 7 PC. The game would start, then lock up on a white screen. Forcing our way back to the desktop, the game displayed an error that it “could not find output pin!”. Typically this is a media player error and we suspect the game is failing when trying to play the introduction movie.
One workaround for this problem is to use a dual-boot system. We found that a copy of Windows XP, running on exactly the same hardware, was able to play Mashed without any issues. A 32 bit version of Windows 7 also ran the game, though in this operating system we had to browse to the games directory and run the “Mashed.exe” program in order to start the game.
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Hey I found out how to get the game working using windows 7 x64! In my copy, I replaced the .mpg files found in the TOASTART/PC/MOVIES directory with a .mpg movie I downloaded online (just a sample .mpg) and it works fine! Love this game!
Hi Tom, if that works it should be possible to re-encode the movies that are there to fix this problem, I will look into that.
Hi Tom, we just tried that and it didn’t work for us, any chance you can let me know what mpg movie you used?
Its works !!! only have to replace all *.mpg files into …\ToastArt\PC\MOVIES folder, with the file renderware.mpg.
I have this working on Windows 7 x64. But… I am still troubleshooting it. It appears that it has issues when some peripherals are attached – specifically my four Logitech Dual Analog gamepads. When they are attached, the game won’t start at all (no black or white screen, no log messages in mashed.log). When they are removed, it works fine. So, I’m going to try different combinations of controllers (and maybe other hardware that is plugged in – maybe it can’t handle having more than 4 input devices + keyboard available) and see if I can get it working again. Oddly, I used to play this on a laptop with Windows 7 x64 (and earlier Vista x64) and had no troubles at all – including with these same four controllers. At one point, I thought the reason I couldn’t play this was because of a graphics card incompatibility (laptop had NVIDIA, desktop had ATI), but I can’t prove or disprove this theory anymore. Good luck to anyone else trying to play this fantastic game (time for a remake? or at least a stable GoG release…).
Success! I removed a fifth controller that was connected (actually a virtualised controller) and now the game works fine on Windows 7 x64 with all four players using Logitech Dual Analog gamepads. Surprisingly, the game seemed to lag a little and show a fair amount of screen tearing on the highest resolution so I might need to drop it down a bit (this despite being on a brand new GTX 760).
Interesting, we were never able to get the game to progress after the first intro movie in Windows 7. On our XP installation it ran just fine though. Maybe try running the game on only one core to combat the lag, might not have any effect but I highly doubt it’s lagging due to your card not being able to cope. As for a sequel/remake, you can check out Wrecked: Revenge Revisited on the Xbox 360 or PS3, but I didn’t personally think it was as good as Mashed.
Error, every time I go through the setup it goes to 81% and says data2.cab has a data error (cyclic redundancy check) I checked the file and it showed empty for me… I tried deleting but the disk is a read-only file, I must also mention that I set up off the official disk. (Because I’m lucky :D)
Unfortunately that means your CD is damaged.
Ultrabloxx248 here,
I recently got a new Windows 8 laptop, when I attempted to install the game I got the same error! (data2.cab has a data error) but if I were to load it up on my Windows XP computer… It seems to work fine! But that PC has stopped working recently, and I’ve really wanted to play it! Any info please?
I have found the best workaround is to simply download a digital copy (In which there are many) and use that, it works on my laptop just fine. But I have no idea how to play this game with two keyboards! Since I use a laptop I already have built-in keyboard, but plugging another one in doesn’t actually add another functional controller, but instead just piggybacks on the controls, therefor I can’t actually use other keyboards to play the game, any ideas?
I have backup of Mashed from
good old times :-) in the form of cue and bin files. After mounting with Daemon Tools it installs and runs without problems. I have win7 64bit. If you want some files like videos from game I am able to upload somewhere. But it seems that issue is not in video files. I have install it in secondary hdd (non system) in Program Files (x86).
I think the issue could be the codecs I have on my PC, codecs always get a little messy in Windows.
is it possible to run this game multiplayer. I mean not split screan but with someone like over hamachi. is there any possibility?
Sorry for saying that no net multiplayer presented. Only splitscreen. But best splitscreen I have ever played !!!
Definitely a codec issue, see discussion here, with possible fix: http://steamcommunity.com/app/281280/discussions/0/558754259843970404/
Just ran the game fine (couldn’t use full widescreen max res on my screen though). All videos played. Am running Nvidia 980 card and no extra codec packages (except I installed Indeo 5 to get videos in RealMyst).
Got win xp 32-bit and couldnt start game, got the “Could not find output pin!” Error. uninstalled haali media splitter and then it worked. reinstalled it again and unchecking avi and mpeg and it still worked.
Nice find! I’ll have to have a go at that myself.
Comment:I dont know if this is going to help anyone. but the game works ( win 7 x32). I replaced all the mpgs with another mpg just like tom said. and it worked without unistalling any of the codecs and stuff.
I downloaded the video from http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/video/clips/
If anyone later wanted to play mashed even after 2018. just give it a try