You may recall that there is a tool called Rezycle that can be used to convert MM1 cm's to MM HD cm's. This does not work for MM2 cm's as MM HD cannot play those. Also, MM HD cm's cannot be converted to MM 2 cm's.
So the converting options are:
MM1 cm's to MM2 cm's via the MM2 level builder. The new format will be editable in the builder.
MM1 cm's to MM HD cm's via the Rezycle app. The new format is NOT editable.
2A3A2D2424480 wrote: ... Note: you'll see lots of the same numbers appear in the dialog repeatedly. This doesn't mean the process is
stuck
. This is normal. Conversion takes a while. ...
When the mansion is MM&M, 'a while is' a euphemism. Felt like more than a half hour. But that this is possible in such an easy way!
8-)
I detected a never before noticed double problem in room 15906 of MM2 - Midnight Mazes and Monsters. I created this room before I introduced ladder jumps further down in the same mansion. That is why I never realized that here it was possible to continue with taking the moving platform upward.
First problem is that Jack may die by falling from the wooden platform, something that absolutely not was supposed to be possible in this very easy room. After a jump to the left on the conveyor belt arises the other issue: a half Jack-stuck with Jack reappearing in the upper right corner. Or when he is stubborn even to a real Jack-stuck.
So for the very first time I dived into the MM2-builder to do an easy fix: making the ladder just a little bit longer to avoid the ladder jump.
I am in 'deep' trouble because I don't know what to do first: play, restore MM&M, posting at my design-blog or start to do something with my Brave New World ideas. And for the time being I only have MM-time on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
This morning I started MM1 HD - Nightmare Mansion normal. It has a brilliant setup, but only for players who are interested in revisiting a mansion. Walking through all rooms, picking up all money and finding all secrets in one visit is nearly impossible.
Alex Diener did two recorded visits and was afterwards convinced that in 'room 2 with the two purple doors' one had to make a choice between a left and a right path. And that further in this mansion it often felt like a guessing game.
He is right that at several places one has to make a choice without having any clue. But for me this is the challenge for this type of mansion. So this morning it gave me several hours of fun to get my Jack into the very first room of the red section with, I assume, all money and secrets. And a spare purple key. See image.
The last word isn't said about Nightmare Mansion normal, because I still have to resume this suspended game in room 17094.
I'm amazed that there's still activity in this forum, even though it seems like a one-man-show with perhaps no readers... until now
Found an old MacOS 10.6.8 Server and plugged it into my TV at home to download the original MM (since not all the great MM are HD) and logged in just for fun, to find this blog.
Nice to see I'm not the only one still enjoying this outstandingly great game!
Hi Freddy, brell and Olle, it's always good to see someone on here. I have my old Mac, but I haven't fired it up in a very long time. As far as I know, it's still working. I'll get around to it sometime. 8-)
6A5E494848552C0 wrote: ... The last word isn't said about Nightmare Mansion normal, because I still have to resume this suspended game in room 17094.
A few weekends ago I could finish MM1 HD - Nightmare Mansion normal with all secrets. But that is not the point. The question was: does the master puzzle with all those (one way) poles, doors and keys fit, so that it is possible to visit all rooms and find all money and secrets in one visit?
Well, it does. In the whole mansion I left six doors unopened and arrived at the exit gate: from three colours two doors each. At the finish of the mansion I noticed that I had four unused keys that correspondent with two of the three doorcolours.
My conclusion is that for the third colour it is absolutely necessary to keep two doors closed to be able to get everywhere. And that makes it a cool puzzle for players who don't mind to revisit a mansion as often as needed to solve the problem.
But when a player starts a mansion, he is not aware of this information, so I do understand that one may get frustrated during play and call it a day.
In MM1 HD - NMn I also found a good example to explain the importance of a good balance concerning the difficulty degree. After being very very busy on normal level in the previous 5 areas, Jack arrives in the final grey section of 12 consecutive rooms where he has nearly nothing to do. See the image. He even doesn't need to climb the ladders. I assume that the designer have had something in his mind, but it didn't work out for the players.
This grey area also exposes perfectly an issue that may be seen often, but not in this size, in the original mansions. I know that in the hard version of NM Jack has to do a lot of things in the very same rooms. But in the normal version it went wrong.
Early this morning I started to download all not-HD custom mansions from brell, Semi-Native and Olle the Greatest.
That will give me endless exploring fun and, meanwhile, an idea about how those mansions look in MM2. Yes indeed, I did convert them all.
@ Olle: I don't know how to get the downloads for Octopus Mansion 1.5 and Octopus Mansion hard working. Can you help me?
The first thing I did notice with the converted mansions is that the lava did change into green. Acid I assume. I better play the MM2 hint house first to figure out what the differences are between lava, acid and water. And then see if I may change water into wine. I mean acid into lava.
Anyway, when starting a new mansion from the empty lava room all lava will be orange.
The visit of the right path in the MM2 - Tutorial Mansion brings me to an other important design issue.
I always tried to deliver neat work while building and pretty soon I realized that the best/easiest/laziest way to do that is create framed rooms. When parts of the bottom floor or left and right walls are missing, weird things may happen.
Have a look at both added pictures from rooms in the mentioned tutorial.
On the first image you see a room where Jack fell into the gap at right. Because of the snow, not me!
;D
He felt to his death in the room that you see on the second image (screenshot later made from the map). Now, to start with, (far) to early the player gets a view of a room. In this case the knowledge of the saving point may influence the paths one is going to take.
But there are more important consequences. While falling you may catch money or shields or killing enemies. In rare situations you may 'fall' into a secret area! And most of all, sometimes Jack doesn't die because of hitting a pole or vine and later got stuck. So that is really something that a designer has to take care of when he decides to create unframed rooms.
For those who remember parts of MM&M, there were ... mazes in it and several had a lot of open rooms, things that I have to check during the restauration. works.
are HD
