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- DARKLANDS ACCELERATOR
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- INFORMATION
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- If you are one of the unfortunate souls who played DARKLANDS,
- and had to start over because of **BUGS**. This may be of
- interest to you. It accelerates the process.
-
- This archive contains a saved DARKLANDS game:
-
- ++ Four customized characters with advanced skills
- in various areas
- ++ Pre-established repuations in various cities
- ++ A huge "slush fund" to get things rolling
- ++ Excellent gear
-
- In all other respects, the SAVE is virgin game:
-
- ++ No quests are undertaken
- ++ Characters do not know any saints
- ++ No raubritters have been defeated,
- ++ etc, etc
-
-
- TO INSTALL
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-
- As a matter of convenience, this save has been called DKSAVE0.SAV -
- if you already have such a game in your \SAVES directory, you have
- three options:
-
- 1. Simply overlay your save with my save
- 2. Rename your save
- 3. Rename my save
-
- In all events, my save must reside in your \SAVES directory. Then
- load it as you would any other saved game.
-
- WARNING
- -------
-
- This saved game was made with version 483.06. I have used it
- myself throughout (Sabbat, Knockers, Monastary, etc) and it
- seems to work. No guarantees. No promises. No nothing that
- it will work with your configuration.
-
- NOTES
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-
- As an avid RPG player, DARKLANDS, is the buggiest game I ever
- played. MPS demands, in my opinion, too much from its customers.
- At any rate, here are some tips and bug workarounds:
-
- 1. If you crash because DARKLANDS cannot find xmobglad.pic
- (happy people) or some other silly pic file, just select
- one and copy it into the missing file. My xmobglad.pic
- shows a wolf attack - with no harmful side effects.
- Can be humorous.
-
- 2. If you try to carry more than 255 of any item, if you
- try to carry more than 255 items, or if you leave more
- than 255 items at an inn, you will have forever corrupted
- your game. You must start over!
-
- 3. If you apply ESSENCE of GRACE inside an interior scenario
- near a CHEST (on ADVANCED level), you will probably have
- to reboot. This could mean ANY potion, but I can predict
- the bug and MAKE it happen in the above case. Be careful.
-
- 4. If you ever open a CHEST and it contains NOTHING at the
- GET menu (not the bloodstained chest, but when you see
- an empty menu), or if you ever trade with a merchant
- and get an empty menu - this means that your game has
- already entered another orbit - time to reboot, saving
- it will only propagate the bug into later games!
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- 5. After a crash, MPS leaves several working files around
- in your directory. These, of course, tend to screw up
- the game when you try to do the same thing again -
- not to even think about manners.
-
- I delete any file with an ENM or TMP extension before
- restarting. If I get near to a place where the crash
- appears, I change the level to BASIC. I think MPS
- did most of the testing on BASIC, and in general,
- has less bugs.
-
- 6. If you are getting an assignment from the Fuggers or
- Medici, and you see something weird like "the $$NamedOne$$
- lives North of Koln", you may not get credit for your
- task - in fact, the banker at that particular city
- may never speak to you again. You have to reload
- and try again.
-
- 7. As a last warning: DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT enter the
- residence of a merchant at night unless you have
- a specific assignment and expect something to be there.
- Any game saved after this happens is CORRUPT!!!
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