The following is a list supplemental information not included in the Ripper manual. *Video Problems* Ripper allows you to play in four different video modes. You can select the mode that you wish to use in the Game Option's screen. The average system will run most effectively in the Mode Change mode. This is the most versatile video mode as it switches automatically between high and low resolution on the fly. If however you notice intermittent popping noises as the modes are switching or excessive delays between modes, you may wish to try running in the Small Window mode which runs the game interactions and cinematics in a smaller portion of the screen making for smoother transitions. The Interlaced and Full Screen modes will allow high end systems to take advantage of their hardware's capabilities. *Sound Problems* When you first run the SETUP program, the game attempts to load the appropriate drivers for your sound card. As good as it is, it may make a mistake. Check to see what your particular sound card is compatible with, and also check the I/O PORT, IRQ, and DMA settings. This information can be found in the documentation that came with your sound card/computer. Try manually loading this information in the setup program. In Windows '95, if the game is detecting your settings incorrectly, try using DOS mode to set up the parameters. From the Windows desktop, click on START, then SHUTDOWN, then RESTART IN MS-DOS MODE. Change to the directory where you have Ripper installed (example: C:\RIPPER) and then run the setup program. *VESA Driver* Ripper requires a VESA driver. If you are trying to run it without one, you will not even be able to get into the setup program for the game. If you do not have a VESA driver for your video card, check the software and documentation that you recieved with your hardware. If that fails, contact your the card's manufacturer. They should be able to supply you with the appropriate VESA driver for your card. There are several VESA drivers in the Software Libraries folder on VESA's America On Line area. Do a Keyword search by "VESA" to check it out. You may also wish to contact SciTech, the maker of the UniVBE universal VESA driver. You can reach them via the Internet at www.scitechsoft.com. For more information on using VESA drivers, consult the VESA FAQ which can be found on the Internet at http://www.vesa.org/faq.html. *Win '95 update.* Autoplay no longer supported. The Windows '95 Auto Play function described on page 4 of the game manual is no longer supported by Ripper. Instead, make a shortcut to run the game. To make a shorcut, RIGHT CLICK anywhere on your desktop. A menu will pop up. move your mouse to the word NEW, then, on the next menu, choose SHORTCUT. The first thing you will have to enter is the path to the game. If you used the default installation, type in C:\RIPPER\RIPPER.EXE then click on NEXT. The next menu asks you to name the shortcut, it most likely already says RIPPER. You can change the name if you want, then click on NEXT. Choose an icon from the choices shown, then click on FINISH. A new icon will appear on your desktop. You can simply double click this icon to run the game. *Don't Multi Task Ripper* We do not recommend trying to run other programs while you are playing Ripper. Instead, we would suggest that you save your game and exit Ripper completely before opening another window. *Game Interface updates.* New C-Space Mouse Cursor A new cursor has been added for negotiating the main Cyber Space interface. The deck port cursor acts in exactly the same way as the dagger cursor does in the real world, in that you can point it in the direction that you wish to scroll your view and then click your left mouse button. Remember that your cursor will only rest on C-Space WELLS that are currently active. *Ctrl +R to replay last scene.* A replay feature has been added to assist you in playing the game. If you press the "Ctrl" plus the "R" key, the last cinematic or excerpt of conversation that occurred in the game will be repeated so that you can take a closer look. *Screen Shots.* You can take a screen shot anywhere in the game by pressing CTRL + "P". The captured footage will be written to a PCX file in your Ripper directory where you can retrieve it later. The files will be named "SHOT####.PCX", and be numbered consecutively in the order that you took them. Take many Ripper screen shots and take them often. They make great wallpaper in your Windows once you've converted them to a BMP format. *Passwords automatically added to WAC.* To assist you in your quest to catch the Ripper, some C-Space WELL passwords will be added to your WAC notebook automatically when Jake Quinlan learns them. The passwords that are added in this way will be those that are given to you directly and not ones that you will have to decrypt or discover through solving a puzzle. In other words, a character will have to tell you directly, "The WELL address is such and such" for the password to be placed in your notebook. *Puzzle Difficulty does not always apply.* Even though you can set the difficulty levels for combats and puzzles in Ripper, there are some puzzles that, by their nature can not be altered to make them simpler or more complex. None of the puzzles are unsolvable how- ever, so take heart. We have taken great pains to make sure that the puzzles in Ripper are carefully integrated into the game environment. There is never a situation where the solution to a puzzle is something completely off the wall. The solutions are all there waiting for you to find them. *Game Hints.* As a general rule, we don't approve of giving out clues on our puzzles. We hate to ruin the sense of satisfaction that a player gets from solving a particularly heinous challenge without any outside assistance. That being said, the Ripper puzzle that gave the majority of our testers the most fits was Catherine's Crystals. There are just so many possibilities that we decided to bend the rules just this once. So, if you are a truly dedicated gamer who is determined to tough it out on your own, read no further. For those of you that can't resist, take a look at this: X X O X X X X X X O X X X X X X X X X X X O X X X O X X X X X X O X X X And that's all we're going to say! Enjoy the game. All of us here at Take 2 hope that you have as much fun playing it as we did putting it together for you. It's been an experience that none of us will ever forget, and if our hunch is right, neither will you. - The Take 2 Team --------------- VERSION HISTORY --------------- Changes from Ripper v1.03 to Ripper v1.05: [July 30 1996] - Added a workaround for a buggy CD-ROM driver (from Mitsumi) that mostly affected Compaq Presario and Hewlett Packard computers with S3 Trio video chipsets (this has nothing to do with the video card or chipset). - Added command line option to select your Ripper. To use, type one of: RIPPER /1 RIPPER /2 RIPPER /3 RIPPER /4 to start the game and use a particular Ripper. This can be combined with other command line options (i.e., RIPPER /1 /V3). Changes from Ripper v1.02 to Ripper v1.03: [March 29 1996] - Added command line options to INSTALL, SETUP, and RIPPER to disable support for Vesa 2.0, disable use of protected mode bank switching code, or both. Use /V1, /V2, or /V3 (respectively) to disable these features. Example: RIPPER /V3 This will run Ripper, disabling support for both Vesa 2.0 and protected mode bank switching code. You can still use the /V option to force Ripper to run in 480 line mode. If you experience black screens or apparent lock ups, try this: RIPPER /V /V3 - RIPPER now prints out the error number that DOS reports when it gets a CD read error. This should help Take 2's technical support staff to diagnose the problem. Changes from Ripper v1.01A to Ripper v1.02: [March 16, 1996] - Fixed restore game problem where it would delete the contents of the W.A.C. notebook. - Corrected problem that could cause graphic glitches behind the mouse cursor on Tseng video chips. Changes from Ripper v1.01 to Ripper v1.01A: [March 11, 1996] Changes from Ripper v1.0 to Ripper v1.01: [March 8, 1996] - Prints the version number when you quit the game. - Fixed problems relating to Vesa 2.0 drivers. This, in particular, caused various display problems for different parts of the game on the Matrox Millenia video card. - Fix various problems relating to bad values in C:\TAKE2.INI and RIPPER.INI. - Exit gracefully if there isn't a CD in the CD-ROM drive when you start the game. - Fixed several problems with the WAC Notebook. - Implemented ripper choice cycling. This will guarantee a different ripper each time you start a game until all 4 possible Rippers have been selected. Then it resets and randomly selects the next one (for the 5th new game). To have it randomly choose from all 4 suspects, delete the SETTINGS.DEF file. - Fixed up the INSTALL program to be friendlier about some problems (it checks for disk full when copying files and keeps the file date and time off of the CDs). - Repaired the README file.