This is my first attempt at making a Marathon™ scenario. It's based in an unnamed colony with lots of social stress. I hope you'll forgive me if all the textures and lighting aren't perfect. If you've made a map yourself, you understand the ENDLESS loose ends that have to be tied up. It's been exhaustively tested, so I don't think you'll find any (glaring) errors. If you do, please let me know via e-mail.
IMPORTANT - These patches will ONLY work on the ORIGINAL Marathon™ files (or copies), and only on Version 1.2. The files to be patched cannot have the suffix "copy" i.e. you must patch "Shapes", not "Shapes copy".
You CANNOT use these patches on files that have been previously patched.
1. Be sure to make back-ups of your (again, ORIGINAL) "Sounds", "Shapes", and "Marathon v1.2™ (the application)" files BEFORE you apply the patches - the patches will over-write the orginals without making a copy. Put the backups in another folder (I call mine "Original Marathon ƒ")
2. Run the Shapes, Sounds, and Terminal Patch applications.
3. Remove the original Map file from the folder with the (updated) Marathon™ game application, and put it in the folder with the backups. Copy the Map file (and the Physics Model, if you want) that came with the Marathorn patches into its place.
4. Now you have (i hope) 2 folders - one with the updated files + the music, and one with your original files.
I know most of you know the technical steps, but I don't want anyone blaming me for corrupted files, crashing computers, or annoyed significant others. If you trash anything, please don't send me hate mail. I take no responsibility for anything that gets screwed up.
DIFFICULTY - I suggest Major Damage to start.
CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE:
• The helicopters ARE NOT my creation. You may recognize them if you've played the (excellent) Specuthon map by Dave Merck . All I did was reset the origin points to clean up the animation a bit, and add appropriate sound effects.
For more information on Specular Replicas, you can contact Specular by calling 1-800-433-SPEC, sending email to info@specular.com, or visiting their Web site at http://www.specular.com/
• Craig Mullins [ CMull86011@aol.com ], for the (awesome) splash screen art.
And last, but not least, thanx to:
• Steve Israelson, creator of Pfhorte!
• Michael Hecht, for the ResCompare utility
• Br'fin (Jeremy Parsons), Dan Johnson, and Lurker (Evan Harper), writers of Pfhred 1.3
• Kevin Bell, for Marathon Shapes Installer 2.0b1
...and of course, Bungie.
Marathon™ is a trademark of Bungie Software.
Hope you enjoy - let me know any suggestions... too hard, too easy, too much ammo,
