Midway released a patch Wednesday for the missing music tracks issue in the
PC version of
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 included in the
Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition compilation. While
Midway calls the issue a "silent music issue" in their
issue tracker, the nearly
80 MB file to download in order to fix this issue reveals what caused the problem. The answer is simply all of the music tracks were left out of the game's installer. The patch adds every music track for every game in the
MAT2 collection, an unfortunate oversight.
Download the patch directly from
Midway here:
Mat2Music.exe (77.7MB)
While the addition of the music tracks adds a great deal of appeal back into
Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition, it simply puts it back on par to the console versions of
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and
Midway Arcade Treasures 3. Minor issues such as shadow flickering, poorly designed start and pause button mappings causing a major feature to be unreachable (Smoke battle, MK2), and a new minor issue of
Kitana's fan attack playing the "hit" sound when the projectile is blocked in
MKII, seem to weaken the chances for this
PC version to eclipse the almost 16 month old console release. If you have a current-generation console (
PS2,
Xbox,
GameCube), you would probably be better off finding
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 in a bargain bin somewhere as your console already features a controller capable of enjoying the
MAT versions of the classic
MK games to their fullest.