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( Topaz )

Hi Abyssal Spectre:

This is a rather unique feature of compared to other RPGMakers. No, you cannot walk from some tiles onto others. This is not an error but a deliberate unique feature. Look in

here:


Notice that the tiles are smeared. In this the tile "appears" to be one thing but is actually interpreted as the tile you "couched."

To try it yourself, make this on a map:

Now, as you know if the player starts out on the they will not be able to enter the and if they instead start on , they won't be able to walk on .

So how do those other Worldbuilders do it ?

It's really quite simple.
Pick the tile by either hitting to select it manually or by putting the cursor beneath one of the and hitting to pick Up that tile, which is a quicker way than having to select it from the list.

Make certain you can see no more than 7 tiles from top to bottom, the same number you see in Testplay. To ensure you are in this view mode, hit the backwards apostrophe (it is just to the left of your one key and above your key), and you will change camera zoom sizes ..
Note to self, in next release, allow keystrokes 1-4 to change zoom lens as well,
with "1" being full size.

Now go to each of the tiles and hit to Invert it (which makes it the "couched tile" and any "couched tile" now becomes the main one), which makes the tile appear shazy since the primary tile is now #00 or blank, and the to plot it.

You will get the smear and now hit the key to enter Testplay !
Notice that you can now walk on what appears to be a different tile, but not really !
Return back to the editor by hitting again and put the cursor over one of the smeared tiles. Notice that in the info window it appears as a tile with a smaller inserted just up and right of it. The smaller tile is always the "couched" tile and the larger tile is the actual definition of the tile. In this case, when you smear a tile (where you mix two tiles on the same map cel), the appearance of it changes to the "couched" one while in Testplay. There are many variations of this when you start to mix Hidden and/or Switches. For my list of 7 "laws" governing the way tiles are implemented and defined, click .

To get around this completely, for instance if you want to put a switch and sprite on there which can reverse the "viewed" tile, insert the Flow anywhere on the first page of your Sprite Message to have the player always allowed to enter this tile.

To reverse it, that is if you want the player to never be allowed to enter this tile, you can use the Block icon. Mind you, if you really need to prevent movement, the Mountains tile is generally "couched" to hide it's appearance and can never be passed by anything including transports. It is suggested to "couch" this tile in odd areas where you have stairs and other tiles that allow free movement to a new tile type such as Castle, City, Dungeon, and Temple. (for you veterans out there, you can no longer travel from any one tile to another with the SaveSpot as I am checking for a matching tile upon leaving.

Further there are special cases of tiles CloseDoor, Doorway, and Stairs allowing vertical movement only, and the special tile of Bed-1 allowing horizontal movement only.

The Throne originally prevented you from walking up when you are on it or down when you are entering it, but now does not. I may change this later as you really aren't supposed to bail over the back frame to sit in it.

Lastly, the tile Bridge is very unique indeed, where it becomes a bridge only if it is not connected to another and when the player enters it, they can only retreat the way they came or move forward, but they cannot change direction while on-top, making it an effective Bridge. The player will also appear to vanish under the bridge if they touch it while already traveling in Water.

Also, it's a good idead to get in the habit of hitting to enter and exit Testplay of your creation instantly.
This was a priority feature in my programming of to ensure What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get and you really should take advantage of it.

I have completed the programming in new for playing RealMedia music and Mp3s. Look for an engine update sometime tomorrow Thursday.

Hope This Helps !

( Topaz )

and have already unzipped the contents to a clean directory like C:\Scenario .

Once you have unzipped the contents you can run it one of a few ways.
(1) Click on the with your left-mouse button in the bottom-left-hand corner of your screen. From there select Run and in the input prompt type

followed by . (you may need to change what you type above to the location you unzipped in)

(2) From DOS, which you can reach also by clicking on Programs, MS-DOS Prompt. And from there type:

cd \scenario scen2

You will receive a brief notice about my Freeware contract, hit a key, and then starts to load !

After this you are up and running !
If a world file is not yet open, you will get my little Pyramax logo with some intro music. The screen will swirl and when the sprites enter the screen, you can hit a key for the first menu selection.

Now, from here if you just want to play Suzi's Quest, the default sample game that comes with the system, hit and then the music will change.

Now, depending upon the speed of your computer the world file will be decompressed. As with all programs on your computer, they tend to run better if you are not running a ton of other things in the background, like the internet, and other things. If you have a computer over 400mhz, it may not matter.

Once this completes,

L O A D - Y O U R - G A M E

You will see a cute little pixie fairy (her name is Xonia) hovering over the first save spot which should read (New Game!) and you can press here to start playing a New Game !

When you are tired of playing (or want to cheat like a minx!) hit any time you are walking on the map and you will be teleported directly to the map editor.

To player other Worldbuilder's worlds, you will need to use WinZip or PKUnZip to unpack the .ZIP file in the sub-directory \realm\ that is just located inside where you are running from.

(note to self, for future if the map editor is ever entered and a README.TXT file is present inside \realm\ then in returning to Testplay, forbid allowing the player to save the game in Testplay since they cheated and this world file is considered complete because of the found README.TXT).

I'll give you an example of unzipping someone's world file. From DOS type:

cd\scenario cd worlds pkunzip <<location where you downloaded the world file>> I.E. pkunzip \myfiles\scenques for instance where you downloaded Scenario Quest. If you do not have a copy of PKUNZIP you can download your copy by clicking When you are all done, type out, oncee again from this black DOS SHELL window: exit

Greets 1308.
Sorry, you don't get a proper Q & A box because this isn't a related question. Usually I ignore these but to let you and others know that I do receive and discard them, this is a good marker for others to avoid the same who have sent similar questions

To be honest, I haven't played Dragon Warrior 2 nor would I know how to extract the map. However, this is not to say someone hasn't extracted it already.

I suggest you (and everyone else) use GOOGLE.COM, perhaps one of the best search engines around to do a little investigation on any questions outside of .

Click to enter GOOGLE advanced search.

In your case, 1308, consider searching for "download dragon warrior 2 map"
GOOGLE is very intuitive and can find almost anything, not just game or RPG related.

I rely on it myself personally for finding rare and hard-to-find files, answers to difficult questions, and documents/files/images/music on other RPGMakers like RPG95/2000 in use by others, and RPGs from platforms such as SNES, and GBA since some of the imported graphics on these can be detailed and useful to Add-Ons.