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- The rise and fall of Zalingra
- -----------------------------
-
- About 1000 years ago was the secrets of magic well known in the world of
- Zalingra.To secure peace and happiness for all times to come was the
- Mastercrown created.The mightiest magic weapon ever, the crown over
- all other crowns.The ultimate power.
- People was happy, no need to worry about anything anymore.
- This was the start of the declining years.
- Now 1000 years later is almost all knowledge of magic since a long time
- forgotten.The only remaining is some relics and the Mastercrown.
- The mastercrown was handled by the mastercrown guardians and they have
- tried to preserve the wisdom from the glorious days but all true
- understanding is gone.
- Recently the big catastrophe happen that the long ago forgotten timelock
- closed the gate to the mastercrown castle!
- To open the gate is 6 crystals needed which is in 6 castles.
- The castles has been deserted by the people of Zangrila and the secrets
- of them is forgotten.
- The guardians has tried to collect the crystals but no one has returned.
- The last hope is the young warrior Zanzi.
- Can he collect all six crystals needed to open the gate to the
- Mastercrown castle?
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- Some facts about Zalingra
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-
- Now 1000 years after the creation of the Mastercrown stays almost all
- friendly people in their villages.If you want to talk with a person in a
- village so go and face him and press Alt.
- It's dangerous outside the villages with lot of wild animals and giant
- insects.The brave can hunt and this is that the monsters can leave :
-
- Item left Is used to do
-
- gold coin money you can buy medicine and other things for
- money bag in the money bag is 3 gold coins
- golden money bag this holds 10 gold coins
- cherry restores some life power
- cheese restores even more life power
- meat restores all life power
- melon restore some magic power
- carrot restores more magic power than the apple
- apple restores all magic power
- arrow use the bow to shot enemies
- bomb select and use to fire (see section about inventory)
- clock paralyse all the monsters on the screen for 5 seconds
-
- Some doors in the castles is opened with iron and gold keys.The iron keys
- is held by the little blue fat man and the gold keys is protected by the
- big boss monsters.
- Other doors in the castles is opened by pushing a special block in one
- direction.The special blocks looks like any other block but can be pushed
- once in ONE direction.The special blocks is always alone with no close
- neighbouring block.
- The monsters controls some doors and those doors is only opened after all
- the monsters in the room is defeated.
- The castles is very old and some rooms has been closed by new walls those
- walls is weaker with cracks in it and can be blowned away with bombs.
- Be careful with bombs they can hurt you to!
- Other items Zanzi can come across is treasure chests and hearts.
- Treasure chests is automatic opened when Zanzi is near and then disappears.
- If Zanzi takes a heart is his max. life power storage increased and he is
- also healed.
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- The title screen
- ----------------
-
- The title screen is the first screen with the options start and quit.
- Move the rectangle to start or quit and press alt.
- More information about the game is displayed if you don't select
- anything in about 10 seconds.Pressing any key stops showing the additional
- information.
- Pressing I will immediately display the information.
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- The map
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-
- Every time Zanzi visits a new place is the location stored in the map.
- The black areas at the map is places where Zanzi hasn't been.
- It's different maps for the outside world and the castles.
- Press M to show the map and control, Alt or esc to return.
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- The Inventory
- -------------
-
- Press I to see the items Zanzi has with him.The items in the square
- named "Selectable" can be choosen.Move the outlined rectangle to an item
- and press Alt to select it.The selected item is showed at the lower left
- corner during game play and if the player press control so is the item
- used.
- In the inventory is also the crystals Zanzi has found and the items
- he is equipped with displayed.
- Zanzi can also come across items he don't know how to use and those
- items is displayed in the area marked "Other", perhaps someone other in
- the game can find any use for them?
- Control and Esc removes the inventory without doing any changes.
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- Status shown on the screen during gameplay
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-
- In the lower part of the screen is some status information displayed :
- the number of bombs and arrows, how much money Zanzi has and the
- selected item.
- The "Life" and "Magic" meters at the bottom of the screen displays the
- life power in red and magic power in white.The outlined rectangles
- shows the maximum ability.
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- If Zanzi is defeated
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-
- If Zanzis life power is gone does he wake up at the beginning of the
- castle or in the last visited village if he wasn't in a castle.
- Zanzi has also recovered some life and magic power when he wakes up.
- Since Zanzi wakes up at the same place as he would have been if the game
- was saved and loaded just before the last fight is it no need to save
- the game before you really want to quit.
- The monsters Zanzi killed before he was defeated has returned but all
- doors that was opened is still open.
- All Zanzis items and weapons is still in his possession but if he had any
- money has the unknown helpers taken half of it.
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- The sound/save/load/quit menu
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-
- If you press Esc during gameplay is a menu showed with four options :
-
- Sound -- lets you adjust the volume for sound effects and music in the game.
- You can also adjust the volume with the windows volume control.
- If you are using the DIGMID driver so is the volume of the music
- also affected by the volume control for the samples.
-
- Save -- saves the game in progress
-
- Load -- Loads the game and restores it from the place Zanzi would
- have been if he was defeated all the monsters has also returned.
-
- Quit -- quits to the title screen
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- Controls
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-
- You can use the keyboard or a joystick.
- The keyboard :
-
- up -- go up
- left -- go left
- right -- go right
- down -- go down
-
- The numeric keyboard can also be used (2,4,6 and 8).
-
- I -- brings up the inventory,
- shows information in the title screen
-
- M -- show the map
-
- Esc -- during gameplay brings this up a menu with
- sound, load, save, quit options
- can also be used to escape from menus
-
- Ctrl -- use selected item, escapes from menus,
- speeds up the text in dialogues.
- Alt -- attacks with the sword (if you have it!),
- select the chosen menu option,
- go further in longer dialogues.
- If you go near someone in a village and
- press alt are you able to talk to them.
-
- S -- save the current screen to the file "SNAP.BMP".
- This option is only available during gameplay
- and not when you examines the map or the
- inventory.
- You can't take snapshots when you are talking.
-
- If you want to use a joystick must you calibrate it with the setup
- program see the file setup.txt for details.
- After you have done this is the joystick buttons mapped as :
-
- button 1 -- same function as Alt
-
- button 2 -- same as Ctrl
-
- button 3 -- same as M (map)
-
- button 4 -- same function as I (inventory)
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- button 5 -- same as Esc
-
- Not all joystick has 5 buttons but you can combine the joystick with
- the keyboard keys.
- Once the joystick has been initiated correctly is it automatic detected.
- If you want to disable the joystick must you edit the "zanzi.cfg" and
- delete the joystick section or delete the whole file "zanzi.cfg".
- If you delete the file "zanzi.cfg" is the configuration you have done
- with the setup program lost.
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- The background music
- --------------------
-
- You can change the background music by replacing the midifiles.
- When in the game a midifile plays is depending of the name of the file.
- For example in castle one is "cas1.mid" played first and then
- "cas11.mid" up to eventually "cas19.mid".After the last filed is played
- starts things over with the first file.
- The complete scheme for the filenames :
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- Location filenames
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- Castle One "cas1.mid", "cas11.mid", ... , "cas19.mid"
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- Castle Two "cas2.mid", "cas21.mid", ... , "cas29.mid"
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- . .
- . .
- . .
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- Castle Seven "cas7.mid", "cas71.mid", ... , "cas79.mid"
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- South village "vills.mid", "vills1.mid", ... , "vills9.mid"
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- Central village "villc.mid", "villc1.mid", ... , "villc9.mid"
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- Southeast village "villse.mid", "villse1.mid", ... , "villse9.mid"
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- Hunters place "hunt.mid", "hunt1.mid", ... , "hunt9.mid"
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- Oasis "oas.mid", "oas1.mid", ... , "oas9.mid"
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- Victory music "vic.mid", "vic1.mid", ... , "vic9.mid"
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- Outside the villages "outmus.mid", "outmus1.mid", ... , "outmus9.mid"
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- Title screen "title.mid", "title1.mid", ... , "title9.mid"
-
- So if you for example has a midifile "rock.midi" and want this to be the
- one played first when Zanzi is in the central village do the following :
-
- 1.This step is only necessary if you haven't the midifiles in the
- midi subdirectory.
- Rename, move or delete the old "villc.mid"
-
- 2.Copy or move "rock.midi" to the "zanzi" directory
-
- 3.Rename "rock.midi" to "villc.mid"
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- Strategy and hints
- ------------------
-
- The following is some hopefully good advises about how to help Zanzi
- complete his quest:
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- * be curious and explore everything
-
- * use the map to see unvisited locations
-
- * talk to everybody you can talk to
-
- * don't use the medicine until it is necessary, remember Zanzi always
- wakes up if he is defeated
-
- * you don't have to kill every monster sometimes is it better to
- run than to fight
-
- * practise makes you better
-
- * take everything you can
-
- * buy the things you want as soon as you can
- (remember then Zanzi is defeated is his money decreased but
- the items he have is unaffected )
-
- * save some of the magic power and arrows for the boss monsters
-
- To really enjoy playing this adventure :
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- * don't play too long without any breaks
-
- * you don't have to save after every monster Zanzi has defeated
-
- * don't load every time some monster has hitted Zanzi
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- * relax and have fun!
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