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[Japo]

Hi Smashgorand, thanks for offering the manual. We have a FTP server for uploading, I'm sending you a PM with the login details in a minute. If you send me another PM when it's up, I'll put it on site immediately. How big is the PDF, that it comes in a separate CD (I'm guessing it's a post-release)?

[Smashgorand]

Uhm, honestly I can't remember the size. I'm going through my box of old CD's now to find the original discs. As far as I can remember there was only the PDF and an old version of Adobe PDF Reader install package on the manual disc.

[Smashgorand]

I have uploaded the game manual PDF to the FTP server now. Enjoy

[mortenesser]

That's great! I'm really excited to have a look at it

Thanks for uploading!

[Smashgorand]

My pleasure - enjoy the challenge

[kjps86]

This is pretty awesome. Are the CD Audio tracks any good for this game, and if so would you be willing to upload a BIN/CUE pair to enable those of us here to utilize them?

Thanks!

[Japo]

The manual and ISO can now be downloaded from the game page, from the extras section, above the review to the right.

I don't know if Smashgorand's CD has audio tracks. Does it? If so we'd prefer the bin/cue full format, as Kjps says; although if the total size were then above 300 MB, we wouldn't be able to host it directly, only in the ISO Cellar. We could also resample the tracks and add them to the music section.

[Smashgorand]

Hey guys. I took another look at my disc and there's only a single data track on it. I didnt find any additional tracks on the disc.
I know that the setup program lists "CD music" but there's nothing on the disc for some reason. Sorry guys.
The ISO that I already uploaded contains the complete MIDI music library that also comes with the game.

I'll do some digging and see if I can find some more info about possible CD music for the game.

[kjps86]

In my experience file managers often do not display CD audio tracks, particularly if they are encoded as redbook audio (for example I can't see the audio tracks when I use my Secret of Monkey Island 1+2 CD collection, but the music still plays in the game). Hence they might be there, even if they don't display.

Your best bet if you really want to check is to actually create a BIN/CUE pair; the resulting file size should make it pretty obvious what is available.

Just out of curiosity, when you play the game from the actual CD and select "CD Audio" in the setup, what do you end up with?

Thanks again for this upload, I've been hoping for a proper CD image for this game for a while

[Smashgorand]

No. File managers almost never show audio tracks on hybrid discs which is why I ran the disc through several of my CD/DVD apps to make sure there wasnt a hidden track anywhere.
The physical disc image is only ~40Mb big so there couldnt be any audio tracks - which would also be the reason why there's no music on and the drive idles, when I use the setup app to use CD music.
This could also account for the discount price I payed for the game back then, though it still puzzles me why they'd put two CD's in the package: one for the game and one for the manual (manual disc image is only ~10Mb with a single data track on it).

Anyways - I'll do some more digging. It was so many years ago but I think I remember having a different game CD than this one, so I might have the audio tracks on that disc if I still have it. I need to go through all my boxes at my storage facility though so it might take some time before I have a definite result on the audio tracks. I can't make any promises but I'll definately look through the boxes next time I go digging at the storage.

In the meantime we can enjoy having the full game and manual - that's at least something