The MP Monitor or sometimes known as the Multiplayer Monitor is a application written for Populous that can load saved game (resync) files or read the game's memory and display information about the game statistics, spells and mana data for each player.

 

Version 1 and 2 written in VB6 back in early 2006 and since then has had many small updates as well as a major update. After finding out the offsets of how many shots each player had for each spell, "TedTycoon" came up with the idea of creating an application that could display it all no matter which player you were. When the program was released there was a lot of controversy on whether it was said to be cheating or not. Overall it is cheating in a way that you can apply new or different strategies after having the knowledge of what the other player has but this doesn't necessarily make it any easier to win.

 

Version 3 was re-written in Visual Basic .NET so that it was developed in a more modern language and could add could more features to it. Version 3 added the ability to open saved game (resync) files as well as reading the game memory, it could also display how much each spell is charged even if the spell is not currently charging. Other features included displaying the statistics of each player, the total count for each follower type and building type and the ally status.

 

 

The MP Sender was a separate application that was developed for all versions of the MP Monitor. The MP Sender reads the game's memory and then sends it via TCP to the MP Monitor to receive and display the game information.