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Title Pack is a Maniaplanet content pack that uses TrackMania² or ShootMania as a base. It allows you to freely use features of Maniaplanet games to create new game titles within the platform.
Title packs are stored as Pack.Gbx files (Pak format).
Customization
Title packs can be customized in various ways that are not otherwise available in official titles:
- Custom menu
- Solo gamemode
- Item content above 1MB per map (that would otherwise need to be embedded)
Base
Base is an officially released Maniaplanet game or a combination of multiple. A title pack can be based on one of these title bases:
- TMCanyon (TrackMania Canyon)
- TMStadium (TrackMania Stadium)
- TMValley (TrackMania Valley)
- TMLagoon (TrackMania Lagoon)
- TMAll (All Trackmania) - all TM2 environments within a single title
- SMStorm (ShootMania Storm)
Other combinations are not possible. You cannot combine just TMCanyon and TMStadium in a single title pack for example.
Creating a Title Pack
A title pack can made either by using a Title Maker (high-level) or by using the Edit Content Packs section (low-level).
A Title Maker can be installed from the Maniaplanet store. They usually mention the word "Maker". You can also click in the bottom right corner of an official title pack.
To create a title pack from scratch, go to Options, then Edit Content Packs.
Encryption
Title packs are user-made Pak files, which means they have some encryption involved in them.
To unlock a title pack, the main requirement is to send a request to the master server, which will respond with a partial key that the client will resolve into final two keys that allow the decryption process. Partial keys are then stored in Profile.Gbx, which allows offline access to the title packs.
Because of this, once the master server shuts down, title packs that were never installed will no longer be possible to play.
Trivia
- Trackmania 2020 runs on a title pack called Trackmania and it uses the TMStadium base.
- Nadeo has made an official TrackMania2 title pack supporting all TrackMania² environments from one menu, but since Maniaplanet 4 (which overhauled the whole title pack system), it was never updated, so it was later replaced with the community-made TrackMania² Multienvironment title pack.