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allen

using dungeons from forums & fileshares

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Hope I can get some info.. I just downloaded dmjava 1.05 for PC from this site a few days ago and is running just fine on my XP computer. but I downloaded a few dungeons from the forum & fileshares and can't seem to get them to run when I insert them into the "dungen" file of the game. I looked around and tryied a few things; big-endian, little-endiad (both programs from the utilities page), someone in one forum sugested useing the CSBuild to change it, But didn't work. (it did say "error reading file" and "unrecognized file" when I tried it on the original dungeon from the DMJ game.

So the question I guess is what kind of file format does my copy of DMJ 1.05 make and run on (useing dmedit), Compaired to the dungeons on the forum & fileshare which I presume are made by other players ?

And how can I convert them ?
I mean if the dungeons are made and submitted by others, I assume that some day I can do the same ( If I ever figure out what is going on)
so thanks for any help I can get.. AWF.
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Re: using dungeons from forums & fileshares

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dmjava is completely seperate clone from DM, so you cannot run DMuted/DMBuilt/CSBuilt dungeons through it
almost all of the dungeons (save one that is marked) that is shared here is for DM or CSB - hunt down to find the DM java dungeon

if you follow the forum link above to the DM JAva forum, you will find links to a few that other dungeons peopel have made...Balin's Tomb springs to mind, as does the original DM and CSB dungeons . EOTB 1 and 2 were made, but i don't know if the links are valid anymore
Was unable to (permenantly) kill off ian_scho (Haynuus), Ameena, oh_brother (Westian), money (Falkor), raixel (Petal) and Lord_Bones (Aurek) in the DM D&D game Time's Champions!

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allen

Re: using dungeons from forums & fileshares

Post by allen »

Thanks very much for the info... that clears it up for me.
I'll go to a DMJ site and look around for some dungeon down-loading
there. again thanks for the help.. allen
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