Monster Browser Instructions

Basic Usage

Select a game or mod from the drop-down list in the 'Game' section. To update the server list, press the 'Refresh all' button. This happens automatically at startup, or the first time each session you switch to a game. You can press 'Check for new' to synchronize the list of servers that Monster Browser queries with the master server. It's probably a good idea to do this once a day or so.

The filters and column sorting should be pretty straight forward to use. You can leave the filters on while doing a refresh, all the servers will be queried anyway.

To join a server, double click on it, or select it and press . If the server requires a password, a password dialog will pop up. To change the password, or add an optional password for servers with private slots, select 'Set password...' in the right-click menu.

Customizing the Game List

By clicking on the Edit button you can edit the list displayed in the drop- down list. The first game listed will be used as the default. If you remove this file, or clear its contents, Monster Browser will create a new one containing the default configuration.

Available Options:

• mod: This is matched against the game and gamename cvars, to allow for filtering on game or mod. Set to empty value (mod=) to disable filtering. Defaults to being the same as the section name.
• exePath: The full path to the game's executable. The default is the path set in Settings. This can be set a to shortcut (.lnk) or file (.bat) to get more flexibility. In batch files you have to pass MB's arguments to the executable on explicitly, like this: C:\TheGame\game.exe %*
• regKey: A registry key containing the path to the game. Useful for the games that have installers that set this. This will be tried before exePath.
• exeName: Combined with the value found through regKey to form the full path.
• masterServer: Defaults to master.quake3arena.com:27950.
• protocolVersion: Defaults to 68.
• gameTypes: List of game type names, separated by spaces.
• etColors: Set to true to enable Enemy Territory-style extended color codes (31 colors). See http://wolfwiki.anime.net/index.php/Color_Codes for more information.
• qstatMasterServerType: Defaults to q3m.
• qstatConfigFile: For setting Qstat's -cfg parameter.

Adding Extra Servers

If you want to query a server that isn't registered with the master server, you can click on 'Add...' to add it to the list. Normally, any servers not registered on the master will be removed from Monster Browser's list the next time you check for new servers. If you don't want this to happen, make sure 'Never remove this server automatically' is checked. The server will still be removed automatically if it times out too many times.

If you have more than a couple of servers to add, it's easier to add them directly to a file called '.extra' in the settings and data folder. If mod is set to nothing, use '