Twisted Mettle Setup
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Version 2020
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http://knuckleschaotix.net/twisted/tm_2020a.zip

To setup the game, download the zip into a brand new folder on your
computer, unzip the file and run setup.exe. As the game has gone through the
setup proccess, go to the "TwistedMettle" catalog that was created and
doubleclick on the icon RPG_RT to start the game. Alt+F4 to quit the game,
as any usual windows program.


Version 2008
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1) Create a brand new empty folder on your harddrive, and create a subfolder in this folder.
Call these folders whatever you want.

2) You need these two files, put them into the first folder you created:

http://www.knuckleschaotix.info/twisted/TwistedMettle.lzh
http://www.knuckleschaotix.info/twisted/setup.zip

(The reason that the lzh-file isnt included into the zip-file is because it goes
corrupt when you zip it. I don't know why this happens, as that never happened before,
so unfortunately, you have to download this one separately.)

3) Unzip setup.zip into the first folder you created, and rename "TwistedMettle.lzh" to
"Twisted Mettle.lzh" (with a space between "Twisted" and "Mettle").
Then, let the .lhz file be as it is.

You should have the follwing files in the same catalog by now:

Twisted Mettle.lhz
setup.exe
setup.ini
UNLHA32.DLL
UNLHA32.TXT

4) Run setup.exe and as the installation screen has appeared (with a blue screen in
the background, you'll get a message to select path), select to install the game
into the subfolder which you created earlier (click the three dots, next to the
white field, to "browse" your computer for this folder).

5) The setup will run automatically from this point, and once the setup is completed,
go to the subfolder you created (for exampe with explorer). Another subfolder has
been created, called "Twisted Mettle". In this folder you'll find rpg_rt.exe.
This file will start the game.

The game has been tested by a few people and should work without any problems.
Alt+F4 to quit the game, as any usual windows program. If the game flashes while
playing (this could happen in Windows Vista), do not panic! Just press F4 to make
the game full-screen (I recommend this type of gameplay in any case, as the game
runs smoother full-screen mode, and makes it much easier to see whats happening!)
and this problem should vanish. Press F4 another time to go back to small-screen.

Just a warning: The game is about 37Mb, so make sure you have enough space on
your harddrive before you start downloading.

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Known problems:

Question: Most of the music in the game is working, but a few
specific songs don't play.  How do I make them play
again?

A. This may be caused by using WinAmp or some other
program to assign "RMI info" to the MIDI files to make
them display nicely in playlists.  This doesn't change
the filename of the song, but it modifies the MIDI
file so the game won't play it anymore.  Follow these
steps:

1. Look in the "Twisted Mettle\Music" folder where
your game is installed and find any .mid file with a
"Last Modified" date that is after the date you
installed the game.  These should be the songs that
aren't working.

2. Do NOT reinstall the game.  Install it again, but
in a different folder than you originally installed it
in.

3. Go into the "Twisted Mettle\Music" folder in the
new location, which should have no recently modified
files in it.  Copy all the .mid files that you
identified as not working in Step 1.

4. Paste the .mid files into the "Chaotix
Tomorrow\Music" folder in the old location.  Windows
will ask you if you want to replace recently modified
files with older ones that have the same name.  Click
"Yes".

5. Now the music should work.  In the future, don't
assign RMI info to the original MIDI files--make
copies in another location first.

(Thanks to Jennifer Neff for providing the information about the music)

For further info and help,

e-mail Magnus Andersson: rubens (dot) barrichello (at) gmx (dot) de
www.knuckleschaotix.info