Keen: Modding

Interesting. Glad to hear the game does the same. I tried removing the extra byte then extracting those tiles and it turns out they're the number font: http://www.shikadi.net/pckf/ddave_vgatiles_148-157.png Perhaps the game treats them differently? I wonder whether that initial zero byte is like a f...

Hi all (especially Levellass), Does anyone have any tools that can undo the RLE format used by Dangerous Dave 1, and apparently also Keen 1-3? The reason I ask is that (prompted by the other thread) I checked to see how far I had gotten with my DDave1 editing code and realised that it's getting stuc...

Oh sorry, I had forgotten that there are CSS styles I had to copy across from the KeenWiki too. Hopefully it will work once the CSS cache gets flushed. With the duplication of data it's not too important which wiki it appears on, although I have a slight preference of putting file formats and other ...

Can you point me to an example where <patch> isn't working as expected? It's the exact same code as used on the KeenWiki (literally - both wikis load the same PHP file) so they should appear the same. The categories are intended for all games, however if you find something that doesn't fit in the ex...

Ok I've added <patch> to the ModdingWiki as well as the Patch namespace. I think, to cope with different games, we will have to have some kind of rule, e.g. all patch pages have the game name in brackets, e.g. "Patch:Ammo (Bio Menace)". Alternatively subpages could be used, like "Patc...

Yes, there should be no change (other than having to use a different tag on new pages) and I'll be doing a bulk update to existing pages.

I don't really want to add a 'patch' link to the ModdingWiki sidebar as I have tried to structure it so that your "path" to information is via the game you want to edit, rather than what you want to change. So if you want Bio Menace patches, you should go to the Bio Menace page first, then...

Patch:Gameplay is probably the most accurate, unless there are enough to create some subcategories, e.g. Patch:Environment.

As fun as it would be, Patch:Lemm would go against the wiki's policy of not creating pages for fans/users/modders ;-)

I've got plans to eventually extend CKPatch into a universal patcher one day, once Camoto is at the stage where you can use it to edit more than one game. Probably the easiest way to avoid patching the wrong version is to make it print a CRC of the .exe file which you then stick into your %version c...

If it's possible to squeeze it in as a side note then the KeenWiki would be ok, but I'd much rather keep it limited to Commander Keen only. I think the ModdingWiki would be much better. Of course there you will need to include "Bio Menace" in any page titles to avoid confusion with any oth...

I'd probably go with "Vorticon (Keen x)" otherwise you might be modding an episode and have to think really hard about what the Vorticon was called there.

You can always create a redirect page to point the other common names to whichever one you decide to use.

Aside from the technical issues, it wouldn't be any different from a player's perspective than a normal EGA mod where all the sprites only use four colours. So if you did a mod, make sure you don't get annoyed when nobody is interested in playing it because it looks bad ;-) Maybe a one-level mod as ...

Are the patch behaviours specific to an episode? Because if you've got a patch for (say) Keen 4, 5 and 6 where the code is different for each episode, but it does the same thing on all of them, I would put that on the same page - describe the behaviour and any issues at the top, then have three subh...

I've had a look at the program and it looks like it inserts the terminating null automatically. What happens if you use one character less than the limit, just in case it's off by one?

Just a guess, but I imagine you must finish your text with a 'null' character (ASCII code 0), otherwise the game will just keep reading until it happens to come across the next null. I'm not sure whether this is inserted automatically by the program, but given your problem, perhaps not!