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NY00123 wrote:Hey,

robertl81 wrote:Even with cheats enabled in Level Base of unknow, I not understand how i to proceed on a regular basis, to arrive to the door at the top, (the one that leads into the room to take the special gem).
Also then, once walked in the under door (open it with the special gem), I see that we would need an additional special gem (not found anywhere), to be used to turn off the blocks to get to the card port rockets.
The gameplay, is easy mode.

There have been some hints given in this topic (if not the whole solution), but if you want just a few of this, then:
- Already found the way to the top-right door?
- Further checked out the HINTS.TXT file?

The door at the top right, you mean this door you see in the image?



If this is, I know how to get seen regularly.
But once you step inside this door, it makes you go down




But it is how to enter the door near the exit where you come down, I do not know how to do it.

The file HINTS.TXT I read it, but I do not seem to find any information about this level

robertl81 wrote:But it is how to enter the door near the exit where you come down, I do not know how to do it.

The file HINTS.TXT I read it, but I do not seem to find any information about this level

I'd add these for now:
- The path to the top-left door follows the path to the top-right door.
- Assuming you've found the way to the top-left door, recheck HINTS.TXT.

NY00123 wrote:

robertl81 wrote:But it is how to enter the door near the exit where you come down, I do not know how to do it.

The file HINTS.TXT I read it, but I do not seem to find any information about this level

I'd add these for now:
- The path to the top-left door follows the path to the top-right door.
- Assuming you've found the way to the top-left door, recheck HINTS.TXT.

No, I have not found the way to get the top-left door (unless I use the cheat)



Also i do not see any path from the door to the right to the left (as you can see from the image below into the top using the Ctrl + y), but only a small space at the top, where using the Jump cheat, keen can cling to, but if I do not use the Jump cheat, how do I get there?

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The way revealed by the cheat *is* the path, in fact. It can surely be done without the jump cheat, I've just tested. Basically, as Keen enters the right door, you should press-and-hold the "jump" *and* "move left" keys *before* Keen begins to fall down.

NY00123 wrote:The way revealed by the cheat *is* the path, in fact. It can surely be done without the jump cheat, I've just tested. Basically, as Keen enters the right door, you should press-and-hold the "jump" *and* "move left" keys *before* Keen begins to fall down.

Thanks for the tip.
Effectively, without your suggestion, I would not have ever come to have done so to get in the door at the top.
Now, the other problem is how to overcome the second barrier that allows you to get to the card rockets.
I saw that on the far right, after the barrier, there is another door card copn the rockets, but I do not know where you get there.
Also in this case, I would not know how to proceed without cheats.

robertl81 wrote:Thanks for the tip.
Effectively, without your suggestion, I would not have ever come to have done so to get in the door at the top.
Now, the other problem is how to overcome the second barrier that allows you to get to the card rockets.

HINTS.TXT should .. hint for the answer.

And people have the nerve to get mad at me when my levels aren't immediately obvious.

NY00123 wrote:

robertl81 wrote:Thanks for the tip.
Effectively, without your suggestion, I would not have ever come to have done so to get in the door at the top.
Now, the other problem is how to overcome the second barrier that allows you to get to the card rockets.

HINTS.TXT should .. hint for the answer.

Thank you, mystery solved.
Reality, I was aware of the thing that just come out of a door (or house in keen4) is keen invincible for 2 seconds, but only that I had not really thought of doing it in this case.

Levellass wrote:And people have the nerve to get mad at me when my levels aren't immediately obvious.

Maybe, because your levels, or your changes, are too difficult

Hi guys, so I'm currently doing a youtube playthrough of this mod. This is my 2nd playthrough of it. However, the only problem is that I cannot reach the area with the rocket passcard. I even killed the hidden cactoid in the first secret level. Then I got the gem it dropped and took it to open the door below the start. However, when I go in the door and come across a large room, those things are blocking the way to the passcard. I can't seem to figure out how to get to the passcard. I've read pretty much every message here in this thread, and I've tried several ways to approach it, but no clue.

I don't know what to do to get to the passcard. I know it's possible to reach it, even on Easy, which is what I'm playing on.

Does anybody have a clue how to reach that passcard?

One hint that I could give you when it comes to getting that pass card, is that whenever you exit a door, you will hold invincibility to any sort of hazards for a small amount of time. Making use of that feature is the key to getting the pass card.

Hello. My 5 year old son is desperate to play this game. But it keeps on crashing with "MM_GetPtr: Out of memory!".

I am pretty sure the problem is I am using the wrong version of the KEEN6 executable. I know I am supposed to use version 1.4, but I guess I must have some other version. (I run UNLZEXE but still get the MM_GetPtr error, in fact I get the same error whether I UNLZEXE or not.)

One thing that would help, would be if someone could provide hashes (such as MD5 or SHA1) and sizes for the various different versions of KEEN6.EXE.

This is the file I have uncompressed:
And after running UNLZEXE I then get:
Is there some kind of patching tool to patch that to the right file version? Could someone tell me the size/MD5/SHA1 of the working file?

Thank you very much
Simon

(If anyone can help me to get this working, there will be one very happy five year old, and one Dad who doesn't have to listen to nagging about it not working any more...)

KEEN6C.EXE is for the CGA version of Keen 6. You can only mod the EGA version (v1.4 only).

EDIT: Sorry, I made mistake. Keen6 CGA has KEEN6.EXE. Nevermind...

Welcome to the PCKF! The standard version of Keen 6 for patching purposes has these properties: There is a file named KEEN6C.EXE floating around that seems to be a "cracked" version, missing the creature naming question before starting/loading a game. There are probably plenty of sites where you can find downloads of other versions, but for reasons of legal safety we don't link to them on the forum.

hey there simmiekay82,
and welcome to the forums.

is this the first mod you've ever tested? if so, you could always download Keen 4 based mods instead. they should run out of the box cause the needed executable will be already included. Keen4 is shareware, you know.

but let's try to fix your issue:
There is indeed a patching tool to convert different versions of the executable. But before doing so, I'd like to know where you've got the Keen6.exe from? is it a copy of the Keen6 demo version? if so, this might have caused the issue.