Glitches

Glitches are bugs or unexpected behaviors within the Midnight Club series.

Midnight Club: Street Racing

• It is possible to lose arcade mode data when swapping memory cards, changing between careers, or at other times. It is advisable to copy game data files to a separate memory card periodically to avoid data loss.
• On rare occasions during a career, the city champion may fail to appear after 2 (or all 3) hookmen have been beaten. When this happens, the player is forced to restart career mode at the expense of losing previous career data. This usually happens when the player beats the final hookman through the phone and not after following them.
• Sometimes, the game may spontaneously freeze. When this happens, the PlayStation 2 console will have to be reset.
• New York Waypoint Race 10 may be repeated several times in Career mode if the player does not immediately choose the "Fly To London" (or "Instant Replay") option after winning the race the first time. Similarly, London Waypoint Race 10 may be repeated several times in Career mode if the player does not immediately choose the "Race The World Champ" (or "Instant Replay") option after winning the race the first time.
• An instant replay may spontaneously halt, as if the Start button was pressed.
• Occassionaly, a fully-damaged vehicle that should regenerate does not. This can happen to a vehicle during a Capture the Flag game, for example. Such vehicles may be regenerated if they receive additional damage.
• A vehicle may pass into/through an otherwise impenetrable wall or solid object. When this happens, the vehicle may be removed from the city (it may slide off the edge of the map, or may drop through the ground and fall away from the map). If a removed vehicle was controlled by a player, the game may halt and restart.
• Traffic vehicles may spontaneously appear or disappear at close range. On occasions, they may also spontaneously "teleport" up on to bridges from below. Traffic vehicles and pedestrians can also sometimes be pushed into/through walls or other solid objects.
• It may become impossible to switch between forward and rear views when the player's vehicle is shifted into reverse. This problem can be remedied by shifting the vehicle into a forward gear.
• During live games or instant replays, the camera viewpoint can occasionally drift into buildings and other solid objects.
• Pedestrians may not always appear in cities, even if the pedestrian density level is set to its highest value.
• Sometimes, parts of knocked-down objects (i.e. traffic-light poles) remain standing or hovering in mid-air.
• On rare occasions, the viewpoint of a player's vehicle will become distorted (e.g. the camera viewpoint begins to drift away or is reset to the wrong coordinates). This error tends to correct itself.
• Music and/or sounds may fade out, or are cut short or overlapped by other sound effects. This happens if the player switches between cars too fast.
• On infrequent occasions, a computer-controlled vehicle may become "lost" or "confused" during a game. When this happens, the vehicle may freeze in place with its engine running, may drive in circles continuously or drive in a direction opposite that of its intended goal, may attempt to force its way through impenetrable objects, or exhibit other types of similar behavior. Sometimes several computer-controlled vehicles become "lost" simultaneously.
• Minor visual glitches can usually occur, especially in London.
• The Zender Type-S, a hover vehicle, has a glitch where if landing from a big jump, it may fly higher and violently land on somewhere in the map, causing the car to damage out.

Midnight Club II

• As the player approaches the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood Hysteria, their position glitches, thus suddenly bringing them slightly forward.
• Sometimes the player's position may glitch in certain races, especially in Louvre Launch and Necro Modellista.
• A glitch exists in the PC version where the player may randomly unlock the Stadt early in the game, even before defeating Farid. This can happen from a corrupted assets_p.dat file or a modified unlockingrules.csv file, or some other non-serious bug.
• There is a strange bug in the game where sound effects from different places on the maps of Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo can get stuck playing constantly until the player quits the game. Usually, a sound of drums and a crowd cheering can be heard, and will only get louder and louder until the player quits the game. Those are possibly the sounds that originally come from certain nightclubs in Paris.
• If using third-party trainers, there is a chance the car might deform and violently bounce, thus causing the car to completely damage itself.
• There is a wall with no collision in Los Angeles near the freeway, allowing the player to access into areas that they are normally not supposed to.

The glitchy wall's location.

A Vortex 5 inside a normally inaccessible area after exploiting said glitch.

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

• A glitch occurred in which if the player bought a colored neon that costs $250, the other neons that were not bought would become listed as purchased. This glitch was fixed in the Remix version of the game.
• If the cops happen to lose sight of the player or another racer, they will re-spawn patrolling the streets somewhere ahead of them that is always within their race path, starting the police pursuit all over again. This may be a glitch in the game, or just a way to add more difficulty to the game.

Midnight Club: Los Angeles

• When using the Rate My Ride online feature, the game will frequently freeze the console. Any progress towards the Everyone's a Critic trophy for that session will be lost. This has been confirmed on PS3 with the latest (final) patches in place. In order to maintain progress towards the trophy, a workaround is to rate a single vehicle, then exit out of Rate My Ride and back to story mode. After returning to story mode, immediately enter the garage, then exit again, which prompts the game to save. Return to Rate My Ride again to rate another single car and repeat. This will ensure that each rated car is saved and counts towards the 25 car limit for the trophy.
• The game will occasionally freeze in story mode (confirmed on PS3). One symptom is if the radar does not show any colored objective dots. If this is observed while driving, immediately go to the garage and exit again. When leaving the garage do not move the vehicle until the radar shows the colored objective dots. Freezes also occur occasionally when driving at high speed at the same time that a police response is ending (a response where the police have searched a location but not found the player and are giving up).
• A glitch may occur in the Goal Attack mode of the game in which the player's completed goals will cease to register after a DLC Goal Attacks has been won prior to completing all regular Goal Attacks. This can keep the player from earning the "True Dedication" achievement.
  • The only workaround is to start a new game and play through until something fast enough is obtained, such as the Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster DUB Edition.