I'm assuming that the level editor is going to be a separate app on the App Store available for purchase. This would be the best way to market this sort of tool for the game.<br />
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However, I tried to open an old custom mansion from inside of Beta 4 - I have both episode 1 and 2 enabled. It didn't say anything was wrong, after I selected the mansion it just came back to the menu and nothing happened. Is there a way to play custom mansions yet or is that going to be in a later update?

There's no hint about how to read the brown signposts, unless I missed it.<br />
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15902 - Question mark partially hidden by wall torch on the right.

Hey,<br />
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Only just realised this now, but I notice that the bottom of a lot of pillars look like it's cut-off.<br />
The example I have is from Tomb of Princes EASY.<br />
I've attached an image to show you<br />
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Cheers<br />
Leon

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Rob, Mapman, and Leon -- I'm very curious to know if beta 4 fixes your fullscreen slowdown issues. Fingers crossed!!

I'm getting ready to submit to the Mac App Store Saturday if possible. So at the moment I'm looking for big, show-stopper bugs. (Although do continue to report any bugs, even minor ones.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.actionsoft.com/files/temp/MidnightMansionHDBeta4.zip">www.actionsoft.com/files/temp/MidnightMansionHDBeta4.zip</a><br />
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BETA 4:<br />
- Fullscreen slowdown fix??? Try it and let me know!!<br />
- Fixed in-game map so the preview of the room Jack is currently in accurately reflects the exact state of that room (including zapper beams and grey doors).<br />
- Fixed halo (light/shadow effect) that follows Jack so it always remains in view properly, even if Jack dies in a lower part of the room.<br />
- Added <blockquote>suicide</blockquote> as a cheat code. But it doesn't count as cheating.<br />
- Fixed output to console like this:<br />
__NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x62bdf0 of class NSCFDictionary autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking<br />
- Added teaser screens.<br />
- Hint House has question marks over the hints now.<br />
- Updated Castle Doom, all versions, fixing room 16700 (no die in lava if you jump in near the shield), and fixed extra green key issue in easy. Also added use of new music midway through first region.<br />
- Mansion fixes to all version of Tomb of Princes, and minor fixes to a few other mansions.<br />
- Disabled <blockquote>Ladder Jumping</blockquote> on built-in mansions.<br />
- No fixes to The Great Escape yet... but all other mansions have all reported bugs fixed.

When Jack entered the room 16691 the music stops and I had the message you can see in the picture

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Here's a summary of mansions where I noted key issues. Keep in mind that some of these mansions have forks where you're intended to go one way or another, and it's not possible to get everything. So it may be intentional with some mansions. I'm pretty certain it was accidental with some mansions though.<br />
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Also, just because there is a key imbalance, doesn't necessarily mean problems.  I don't believe any of the imbalances result in stuck situations. I was looking at that in particular. Often a room can be approached from more than one direction. Too many keys can sometimes be harder than too few because they take up slots and there is no way to discard them, preventing Jack from carrying shields. I noted this in one case below. This really hurts in harder mansions where there are a lot of monsters.<br />
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Early on when I noticed imbalances I started checking  all mansions noting what the builder reported. It *might* be that some mansion contain spare, inaccessible rooms with keys that throw counts off. I checked this where I could, but it's  not easy to find such rooms in the builder with the huge grid of possible rooms.<br />
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It would be nice for all of these mansions to be played through again, with testers paying specific attention to key-related issues, and if something else is spotted along the way, then that would be a nice bonus.<br />
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<strong>Cathedral Towers EASY</strong><br />
* Keys: 9 blue, 6 green, 7 purple<br />
 * Doors: 8 blue, 4 green, 6 purple<br />
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<strong>Cathedral Towers NORMAL</strong><br />
 * Keys: 9 blue, 10 green, 6 yellow<br />
 * Doors: 10 blue, 11 green, 7 yellow<br />
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<strong>Cathedral Towers HARD</strong><br />
 * Keys: 8 red, 11 blue, 8 yellow<br />
 * Doors: 9 red, 12 blue, 9 yellow<br />
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<strong>Chateau de Medusa NORMAL</strong><br />
 * Keys: 6 green<br />
 * Doors: 5 green<br />
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<strong>Falcon Manor EASY:</strong><br />
 * keys: 12 red, 8 blue, 5 purple, 10 yellow<br />
 * doors: 16 red, 11 blue, 4 purple, 11 yellow<br />
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<strong>Falcon Manor NORMAL:</strong><br />
 * keys: 11 red, 8 blue, 15 green, 8 purple<br />
 * doors: 15 red, 11 blue, 16 green, 7 purple<br />
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<strong>Falcon Manor HARD:</strong><br />
 * keys: 13 red, 8 blue, 13 green, 14 yellow<br />
 * doors: 15 red, 10 blue, 15 green, 13 yellow<br />
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<strong>Knight Mansion EASY:</strong><br />
 * keys: 7 red, 11 blue, <br />
 * doors: 8 red, 10 blue<br />
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<strong>Knight Mansion HARD:</strong><br />
 * keys: 16 blue, <br />
 * doors: 15 blue<br />
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<strong>Nightmare mansion EASY</strong> <br />
  * Keys: 8 red, 12 purple, 11 yellow<br />
  * Doors 9 red, 13 purple, 12 yellow<br />
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<strong>Nightmare Mansion NORMAL</strong> <br />
  * Keys: 9 red<br />
  * Doors: 11 red<br />
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<strong>Nightmare Mansion HARD</strong> - one thing that made this mansion hard is you could very easily end up with lots of unused keys the lower you went which made things much trickier than they would normally be since, even with a backpack, I ended up with lots of keys, and didn't have room for shields which was rough with all the monsters. Well, no denying it was hard. I had to restart from saves twice.<br />
 * Keys: 11 red<br />
 * Doors: 12 red<br />
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<strong>Spider Mansion</strong> has red key imbalances - but it is necessary because of the design. It has areas where there is a choice of paths each behind a red door. Behind each red door there is another red key somewhere used for another pathway. The mansion starts with a red key out in the open that Jack begins with. If any red door didn't have a red key somewhere behind it, it would potentially result in a Jack stuck. This *might* be the situation in other mansions as well.<br />
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<strong>Update:</strong> Vern: If you need me to explain anything, feel free to ask. Hopefully I provided sufficient detail. I also have more than a few assembled maps of many (but not all) of the various mansions that I used to help me figure out some of the crazier mansions.

Could everyone also please post the version of MacOS X that you're running. Thanks.

I'm wondering if the slowdown some people are experiencing when fullscreen is related to having a non-ATI graphics card in their system.<br />
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All testers -- please post here what kind of graphics card you have, and whether you experience slowdowns fullscreen on that system. To find out, open up Applications / Utilities and then System Profiler. Click on Graphics/Displays on the left, and paste in the first line you see (in bold). For instance, mine is:<br />
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ATI Radeon X1600:

I reported this to Vern a long time ago, but he did not see the same thing I see.  I am getting this on both my Intel iMac and MacBook, and I want to see if any of the other testers see the same graphical glitch.<br />
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The actual sprites for the title screen match perfectly, but in the game there is a slight difference between the top and bottom halves of the mansion that is visible.  Observer the attached screenshot.<br />
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Anyone else see the same thing on their setup?

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