Help! Advice on where to start with modding

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Fri May 13, 2011 4:06 am

If you get a bad/illegal command, that means the .exe you are trying to run (modkeen) is not in the current directory.

Type: dir /p to verify that modkeen.exe is in the directory.

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Fri May 13, 2011 9:18 am

Yes, modkeen is in the dosbox. So i tried typing it in. This is what i typed:
cd desktop/modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"
but dosbox came up with a message that said:
unable to change to: desktop/modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir=graphics
Any ideas?

Post by **Ceilick** » Fri May 13, 2011 8:48 pm

If you are running modkeen through dosbox, you do not use "cd desktop/"

After opening modkeen in dosbox, only type:

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modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Fri May 13, 2011 9:10 pm

right, you're trying to do two different steps at once.

First you need to change to the directory in which modkeen resides.

so

first type: cd dektop/modkeen/

then once you're in the directory, type modkeen -episode=4 etc etc

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Sun May 15, 2011 12:09 am

I think i might know the problem.
My DosBox has "drive c mounted as local directory" to one of my folders. would this effect it at all?

Copying modkeen into dosbox = illegal command

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Sun May 15, 2011 12:49 am

well... which directory on your computer is mounted as drive C in dosbox? You must find that out, then use the cd command to navigate to your modkeen directory

once you are in your modkeen directory, then you type modkeen etc etc to run the modkeen

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Sun May 15, 2011 6:18 am

I copied modkeen and the zip file into the folder that dosbox uses.
I then typed in the command and dosbox gave me the reply:
"Load error: No DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip"

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Sun May 15, 2011 9:09 pm

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/sim ... WSDPMI.EXE

Put this into your modkeen directory.

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:26 am

thanks.
Whats meant to happen if all goes well in dosbox.
What will show up in dosbox?

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:49 pm

A few lines of text will come up telling you that everything has been extracted.

All of the game's graphics will be exported to .bmp files in the folder you designated for output.

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Tue May 17, 2011 11:18 am

When i do everything it comes up with a "fault" when decompressing and then followed by a heap of random stuff (0s and other numbers)

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Fri May 27, 2011 10:11 am

I will just wait until I get a new computer (within a week).
And i can almost garentee that Ill need help again with that.

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Sat May 28, 2011 4:01 am

bubbatom wrote:When i do everything it comes up with a "fault" when decompressing and then followed by a heap of random stuff (0s and other numbers)

I don't know. I've never seen that happen before.

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:07 pm

Hi everyone got a new computer and tried putting modkeen into dosbox with csdmi*b and it finally worked!
Ill keep going with the tutorial but im sure ill need help sooner or later...
Thanks.

bubbatom · Post by **bubbatom** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:46 am

Hi, I do have another problem:
In section 3 with patch files and batch files:
After you've made sure Mymod.bat runs fine, open up mymod.pat.
I cant open this file because "windows cannot open this file"...
any suggestions as to what i do next?