Hasbro Interactive's Nerf® ArenaBlast™ Release Notes © 1999 Hasbro Interactive, Inc. with Portions © 1999 Visionary Media, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimum System Requirements Operating System: Windows¨ 95/98 Processor: Pentium¨ 200 MHz MMX or higher Memory: 32 MB RAM Hard Disk Space: 120 MB Free CD-ROM Drive: 4X Speed Video: 2 MB Windows¨ 95/98 compatible SVGA video card* Sound: Soundblaster compatible sound card DirectX: DirectX version 6.1or higher (included) Modem: 57,600 baud (for modem/Internet play) 3d Card Optional Network: TCP/IP connection * Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX version 6.1 or higher. Recommended System Requirements Operating System: Windows¨ 95/98 Processor: Pentium¨ 233 MHz or higher Memory: 64 MB RAM Hard Disk Space: 275 MB Free CD-ROM Drive: 4X Speed Video: 3D accelerator * Sound: Windows¨ 95/98 compatible sound card* DirectX: DirectX version 6.1 (included) or higher (included) Modem: 57,600 baud (for modem/Internet play) * Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX version 6.1 or higher. Setup and Installation 1. Start Windows¨ 95/98. 2. Insert the Nerf ArenaBlast CD-ROM game disc into your CD-ROM drive. 3. If auto-play is enabled, a title screen should appear. If auto-play is not enabled, double-click on the "My Computer" icon on your Win95/98 desktop. 4. Next, double-click on your CD-ROM icon to install the game. If the install screen still does not appear at this point, locate the "setup.exe" file on the Nerf ArenaBlast CD-ROM and double-click on it. 5. Follow the remainder of the on-screen instructions to finish installing Nerf ArenaBlast. 6. Once installation is complete, click on the Start button at the bottom of the screen, and choose Programs/Atari /Nerf ArenaBlast/Play Nerf to start the game. You may also start the game by selecting PLAY from the title screen. Note: You must have the Nerf ArenaBlast CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive to play. Installation of Direct Draw 7.0 On most systems, the Nerf ArenaBlast CD-ROM requires DirectX 6.1 or higher in order to run. If you’re having problems running ArenaBlast and do not have DirectX 6.1 or higher installed on your computer, you can install Direct X 7.0 from theArenaBlast CDROM. To install Direct Draw 7.0, put the ArenaBlast CDROM into your computer's drive. Open "My Computer" on your desktop, select the ArenaBlast icon, right click and select "open" to open the disk without starting it. You'll see a number of folders and programs on the disk. Double click the DX70eng.exe program to start it. Follow the instructions and your system will be upgraded to Direct Draw 7.0. Problems with CD Music: Don't Hear Music, Music Too Soft or Loud The music that plays during the game is played from the ArenaBlast CD in your CDROM drive. In the in-game Set-up Menu under General Options, you can adjust the CD music volume and ArenaBlast's sound effects with separate controls, (hit the Esc button during the game to see the Setup Menu). This music control adjusts within the basic volume level set by Windows CD Audio volume control. If you adjust the game Menu control to full volume and still find you can't hear the music, or that it's too soft, you should adjust your basic CD Audio volume in Windows. The Windows CD Audio Volume Control can be accessed by double clicking on the small speaker in the "System Tray" of very small icons on the Taskbar. It can also be accessed by selecting Volume Control from the Programs->Accessories->Entertainment menu under your Start button Programs selection. Once the Volume Control is open, adjust the basic CD Audio Balance and Volume levels to suit your preferences. Note that, due to the hardware limitations of some brands of CDROM drives, the in-game Set-up Menu volume control is completely unable to adjust the volume of the music, and it can only be set from the Windows control, as described just above. You will not hear the music at all, or will hear it stop during play if you selected the minimal sized install to your hard drive (if you checked only "Install Nerf Game" and not "Install Game Content"). This is because with the minimum installation size, the game must frequently retrieve files from the CD, and is therefore unable to stream music for you to hear. If you decide you want to hear music in the game, you must re-install the game from your ArenaBlast CDROM with the option selected to load the Nerf Game and the Game Content to your hard drive. It's unnecessary to install the Video Clips to your hard drive to hear the game music. If you have other sound-related problems, try checking the Atari Troubleshooting Webpage given below. Problems Playing the Video Clips: Clips Won't Play or Play Unevenly If you the video clips play unevenly, this can be due to the characteristics of your computer memory, CPU speed, CDROM drive or hard drive. Frequently, on hard disks with fragmented space, you may get better results by defragmenting, or by re-installing the game from your ArenaBlast CDROM and choosing the option NOT to install the Video Clips on your hard drive. The clips can play very smoothly directly from CDROM on many machines. On the other hand, if your CDROM has an extremely slow transfer rate, the opposite may be true for your machine. A few video adapters don't support Direct Draw 320 mode, and on machines slower than 233 Mhz or with less than 64 meg of RAM, these the Video Clips may at first not play at all. These cards can, in limited cases, give an error and prevent game start-up. There are two work-arounds that will permit you to start the game if you encounter this situation. One is to double click on Nerf.exe in the System folder within your Nerf installation folder, or set a shortcut to start this program. This bypasses the initial video and starts the game directly. The second is to go into the Nerf System folder, edit the file named Vnerf.ini with a text editor and change Clock=210 to Clock=180 and Mem=48769 to Mem=20000. You should make no other changes to the file, and save it as a text file with the original name (no .txt extension). This will permit you to start the game in the usual way from the start menu and see the higher resolution video clips, but these video clips may play somewhat unevenly on your machine, depending on its characteristics. Graphic Hardware Issues Nerf ArenaBlast may experience display problems using the Nvidia RIVA 128 2X video display card, or on limited number of other adapters or configurations. On some graphic adapters that don't support Direct Draw 320x240 mode, you may receive an error that stops game start up. If you believe you may have this problem, see the second paragraph of instructions in the section above, Problems Playing Video Clips. Contact the Webpage given in the next section if you need further information on resolving graphic hardware issues. Other Hardware Issues and Atari's Troubleshooting Webpage If you have hardware problems while installing or playing Nerf ArenaBlast, go to the Atari troubleshooting site on the Web at: http://www.hasbro-interactive.com/atari/tech_support/index.cfm If Your Game Needs to Be "Reset" If a power interruption, system crash or other unusual circumstance leaves your game stuck in a state in which it won't start or play correctly, there's a couple of things you can do to reset it. One is to reinstall the game from your ArenaBlast CD. This can be done by placing your CD in the drive, starting the disk as described at the beginning of these notes, and selecting the Re-install option when it appears. This process is designed to save your existing games. A second method, which does not preserve your saved games, is to go into the Nerf\System folder and delete the User.ini and Nerf.ini files. Do not delete any other .ini files in the folder, (or you may need to re-install your game). Once these two files are deleted, you can start your game normally, and it will reset itself and start and play correctly. Game Play Framerate, Visual, Sound Quality and Speed Issues and Tips The framerate and speed with which your ArenaBlast game runs depends on a number of game settings and your computer's characteristics. When you first install and start up ArenaBlast, the installer detects the characteristics of your computer and sets the ArenaBlast's settings to best match it. Usually, these are the best settings for your computer. These settings, which include the screen resolution, the amount of texture detail shown and the sound quality set for the game, directly affect the framerate and responsiveness of your gameplay. The settings are also adjustable from within the Options section of ArenaBlast's in-game Set-up Menu, which you access by hitting the Esc button during gameplay. In general, the higher the resolution, texture and sound quality settings are, the slower the game responsiveness and framerate become. However, many capable computers can run smoothly with many or all of the settings fairly high. If you wish, you can experiment with the settings to find a combination that sets a balance of quality and speed that works for you. Another feature that gives you flexibility is the on-screen display that you see during ArenaBlast showing energy, points, ammo and your place in the competition. By pressing F5, you can cycle through various combinations of game information, clear your screen to see no information on-screen as you play, or see all the information at once. You'll find that clearing some elements of the on-screen display can speed the framerate of your game. Some may prefer this advantage or view, as opposed to the advantage of seeing all the information at once while you play. Setting Up an Internet Server You can set up an ArenaBlast server using the Multiplayer->Setup Server selection in your game menu. Note that if you choose to make your server Public, it can be seen from anywhere on the internet by anyone who has the same version of ArenaBlast that you do. Usually, this is not a problem. However, you should be aware that by making your server public, it becomes easier for potential hackers to locate your computer and potentially damage files on it. This risk can be lessened somewhat by making sure that your hard disks are not shared if you start a server. However, there is no way to completely eliminate hacking risk if you're connected to the internet, and risk from hacking is increased the more public and available your computer and its connection become. Activities like hosting a webpage or a game server both advertise your computer and provide a degree of access to it. Adding "Bots" (Computer Controlled Players) to Multiplayer LAN and Internet Games This is an advanced feature that some players may want to try. If you want to add Bots to multiplayer games, edit the Nerf.ini file in the Nerf\System folder. Search for "bMultiPlayerBots=False" and change it to "bMultiPlayerBots=True". The next time you start a multiplayer server, there will be computer controlled players in the game. To change their number, change "InitialBots=5" a few lines below to a different number. Note that, in some circumstances, this may affect the number of players in the regular ArenaBlast game. You can return to the original settings by changing the lines back to what they were originally. NerfEd Note: NerfEd, the editor used to build the Nerf ArenaBlast game has been included on your ArenaBlast CDROM as a free bonus for your enjoyment and exploration. 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