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How to run the Lethal Xcess Beta Version with STEem
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Please note that this guide is preliminary, it will be extended soon, to offer you a bit more help. Anyway let's start with a shopping list: What do I need to play Lethal Xcess Beta?
How do I set up all that stuff up?Hey are you serious? Download everything into a single directory, e.g. "C:/STEEM" and try the following actions:
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How do I activate and configure PASTI?After successfully copying the PASTI.DLL into your STEem folder you see the following alert box when starting STEem or STEem debug.
Now click onto the small disk symbol in your icon bar. The following window should open...
Now click onto the "Disk Manager Options" (the symbol with the small wrench) to open a menu. Activate the Option "Use Pasti" so it shows a little checkmark. Afterwards select the "Pasti Configuration" entry to enter the following screen.
Select the tab "Speed" and click onto the button "Max Accuracy". Afterwards press "OK" and enter the Image of the Lethal Xcess Beta Version before closing the disk options.
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What other STEem settings should I use?
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How do I patch Lethal Xcess Beta?First of all make sure you followed all instructions given above, then start STEem Debug and insert the STX of Lethal Xcess beta into drive a: Cold-Reset the machine but don't start it yet. Open a memory browser from the debug menu and let it start at $1814. Set a breakpoint at $1814 and fast forward the machine until it says that it has reached the breakpoint. (The protection is just about to jump onto the PSG address here, which would trigger a LINE-F exception on real hardware. We need to "emulate" that on STEem as well, since due to a bug it behaves differently) Now open a second memory browser at $0016. Enter the following three values for these addresses. (These are the values which would appear on the stack if the exception is triggered.) $16 = $2700 Set the PC=8 and the SP=$16 (These two are to adjust the program counter and the stack pointer to emulate a real machine.) Now you might save a memory dump to avoid patching it a 2nd time. If you did everything right, you are ready to Launch Lethal Xcess Beta. A black screen showing the words "The sleeper awakes" indicates your work was successful.
If it didn't work out and you crash again, just do a coldboot and repeat the procedure, the breakpoint should survive the reboot, so you just need to redo the patches. However since STEem debug is a bit slow, I recommend to use the normal STEem to play the game. It's quite easy if you keep both executables inside the same folder, you can just quit STEem debug and start STEem then. Enjoy...
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Thanks and CreditsLots of thanks have to go to Ijor for writing PaSTi and for pointing out why STEem doesn't work
with the disk image. In addition to that, I wish to thank him for sending me his
patch and some explanations for TOS 1.0, from there on it wasn't much effort to get to a TOS 2.06
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Isn't there an easier Way to play Lethal Xcess beta?Woah, wait you are a bit lazy eh? Anyway, if you have managed to set up your
STEem Engine like given above, I could provide a memory dump file to make life
less miserable for you. Just cry for it loud enough :) Another option would be
to wait until Russ will fix up STEem... |
