
Lost Legends

Copyright (c) 2005 - 2006, Ghost Wood Games

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Table of Contents
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1. Story
2. New Features
3. Minimum System Requirements
4. Installation
5. Quickstart: How to Play
6. Keyboard and mouse controls
7. Additional Play Notes
   - 7.1 Shrines
   - 7.2 Trading (buying and selling)
   - 7.3 Unidentified items
   - 7.4 Death
   - 7.5 Completing quests
   - 7.6 Primary and secondary attacks (left and right mouse buttons) and Talents
8. Recommended System
9. Player Data: save games, screenshots, options, and stuff
10. Common Problems & Support
   - 10.1 Installation Problems
   - 10.2 DirectX Problems
   - 10.3 Resetting to default install options
   - 10.4 Game crashes
   - 10.5 Middle mouse button
11. Installed File List
12. Contact info

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1. Story
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Journey across a world of darkness and chaos; a world of monsters and mysteries.
               Prove your worthiness through action and deed.
      Only you can decide how your legend is recalled in times to come.


2. New Features
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* Single player quests
* Wizard and Warrior classes
* Quest areas: dungeons, forests, desert oases
* Player leveling up to 7th level


3. Minimum System Requirements
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Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later
800 MHz or faster CPU
128 MB memory
DirectX 9 compatible graphics card, with 8 MB memory
2 button mouse
260 MB free hard drive space - 105 MB for download, 155 MB for installation


4. Installation
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Unzip the llegends0100.zip file into a directory on your hard drive.  There are 
multiple directories in the .zip file, so please be sure they are correctly 
created on your hard drive or the game will not run.  There is a complete file 
and directory list below under the Installed File List section.


5. Quickstart: How to Play
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Run llegends.exe to play Lost Legends.

To start a game, select "Single Player".

Choose the Warrior or Wizard class, and enter a name for your character.  Select 
Play.

Each dagger in the world map is a different quest location and reward.  Moving 
your mouse cursor over a dagger will show where the quest takes place and what 
the reward is. Left click on a dagger to select and play the quest.

Use the left mouse button to attack monsters, pickup items, and smash crates 
and barrels.

Once you complete your quest, you may return to the world map and take on your 
next quest.


6. Keyboard and mouse controls
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Left mouse button ... attack the monster under the cursor with your primary attack
                  ... open the crate, barrel, etc under the cursor
                  ... activate the lever, switch, trader, etc under the cursor
                  ... walk to the location if clicking on the floor

Right mouse button ... attack the monster under the cursor with your secondary attack
                   ... walk to the location if clicking on the floor
                   ... immediately consume a potion in your inventory
                   
Middle mouse button ... use selected inventory item
                   
SHIFT + Left mouse button ... stand ground and fire primary attack

SHIFT + Right mouse button ... stand ground and fire secondary attack

Mouse wheel up/down ... scroll through inventory items

Ctrl + Middle mouse button ... Camera zoom

Moving mouse to left or right edge of screen ... Rotate the world view

Mouse button 4 ... Use a mana potion in your inventory

Mouse button 5 ... Use a health potion in your inventory

A ... Rotate camera left
C ... Character skills
D ... Rotate camera right
H ... Use a health potion in your inventory
I ... Inventory
J ... Journal
M ... Masteries
N ... Use a mana potion in your inventory
Q ... Quests
S ... Swap held weapon and shield with the weapon and shield on your back
R ... Change between walk and run
T ... Talents

3 ... Return camera zoom to default height

[ ] ... Scroll through inventory items
Enter ... Select inventory item for use
Escape .... Options menu
Tab ... Display area map and compass
Home ... Return camera zoom to default height

Keyboard + ... zooms camera out a little at a time 
Keyboard - ... zooms camera in a little at a time 
Numeric + ... zooms camera out
Numeric - ... zooms camera in



7. Additional Play Notes
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7.1 Shrines
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Shrines located throughout the world give your character temporary improvement 
bonuses, or provide you with magical assistance.


7.2 Trading (buying and selling)
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Trade cabinets can be found during each of your adventures.  You can buy and 
sell items at the trade cabinet.  Magically, the items available for sale will
change over time.


7.3 Unidentified items
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Some items, especially magical ones, are unidentified.  Unidentified items can 
be identified by placing them on your character or using them.  They can also be 
identified using an Identification spell.  Identification shrines will identify 
all unidentified items in your inventory.

Unidentified items will usually sell for less when trading.

Care should be taken in handling unidentified items as although it's rare, they 
could be cursed in some way which you may find unfortunate.

7.4 Death
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You won't actually ever die.  If your health reaches zero you'll be knocked out,
and you'll automatically lose a percentage of your experience and gold.

Also, mobs may choose to loot your rotting corpse.  Turn about is fair play.
Finding and killing the mob with your loot allows you to retrieve those items.

7.5 Completing quests
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For item quests whose reward is an item, the item is located in a special treasure
chest.  The treasure chest should be easily identified, because it will already be
emitting golden magic particles when you approach it.  Opening the treasure chest
will reveal your reward, and some various other items.

Opening the treasure chest also enables the Travel button which allows you to 
fully complete your quest and travel back to the world map.

7.6 Primary and secondary attacks (left and right mouse buttons) and Talents
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When you start Lost Legends, the left mouse button (primary attack) is set to
attack using the weapon in your character's hand.  You can change this by 
clicking on the attack icon located to the right of the character stats and 
run button.

Clicking on the left attack icon shows a list of available attacks including any 
talents that you have.  Click on the attack or talent you want to use and it
is now bound to the left mouse button.

A similar system works for the right mouse button (secondary attack).  When you
start Lost Legends, the right mouse button is set to a throwing attack.  This 
throwing attack may be grayed out if your character doesn't start with a weapon
that can be thrown.  You can change this by clicking on the attack icon located
to the left the menu and journal buttons.

Clicking on the right attack icon shows a list of available attacks including any
talents that you have.  Click on the attack or talent you want to use and it
is now bound to the left mouse button.


8. Recommended System
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Windows XP or later
1 GHz CPU
256 MB memory
DirectX 9 compatible graphics card, with 32 MB memory
Sound Blaster compatible sound card with EAX 2.0
3 button mouse with scroll wheel
260 MB free hard drive space - 105 MB for download, 155 MB for installation


9. Player Data: save games, screenshots, options, and stuff
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Player modifiable files like save games, screenshots, options, and crash logs 
are stored separately from the game.

Under Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later operating system, player data is 
stored in the "My Documents\LostLegends" directory.

Under Windows 98 or Windows ME, player data is stored in the "Player" 
directory where the game is installed.


10. Common Problems & Support
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Make sure you have the latest sound drivers and graphics drivers for your system.

The Known Issues section (below) contains a list of known issues you may want 
to be aware of.

If you experience problems, please email the information on the problem and 
the version of Lost Legends you are using to mailto:bugs@ghostwoodgames.com.

You may also want to check out the forums at http://www.ghostwoodgames.com


10.1 Installation Problems
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The zip file contains multiple directories. Be sure to extract the files to 
preserve the directory structure.  Dragging the files out may not create the 
directories correctly causing the game not to run.  The Installed File List (below)
contains a list of all files you should find and the directories they should be in.

Also, please don't install the game on your desktop, or in the Windows system 
folder, as some of the files we use won't run properly (if at all) when installed
in those locations.


10.2 DirectX Problems
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If DirectX setup fails to run, you can run it manually by double-clicking the 
DXSETUP.EXE program in the dxsetup\ directory of the game.


10.3 Resetting to default install options
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To reset to default install options, or allow the automatic performance detection 
to run again, delete the game.cfg file from your player data directory.

Under Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later operating system, player data is stored 
in the "My Documents\LostLegends" directory. Under Windows 98 or Windows ME, player 
data is stored in the "Player" directory where the game is installed.


10.4 Game crashes
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If the game crashes, you may have a crash.mdmp file in your player data directory. 
Under Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later operating system, player data is stored 
in the "My Documents\LostLegends" directory.  Under Windows 98 or Windows ME, 
player data is stored in the "Player" directory where the game is installed.  
Please email the crash.mdmp file as an attachment to mailto:bugs@ghostwoodgames.com.
After you have emailed it, you may delete your copy.

10.5 Middle mouse button
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We use the middle mouse button to select and use an inventory item.

We've found that some mouse (mice?) software will change the the middle mouse
button at the operating system level to some other function.

You'll notice this if the middle mouse button doesn't work at all, or if it only
works when the control key is held down as well.

You can change this behavior in the Windows control panel. Just set the middle 
mouse button back to "default" or "middle mouse button".

We also use the [ and ] keys to scroll the inventory, and the Enter key to 
select and use an item.


11. Installed File List
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The following files are included in this release:

llegends.exe ................................ Lost Legends program file
eula.txt .................................... End user license agreement
_readme.txt ................................. The file you're reading or one eerily similar
_releasenotes.txt ........................... Information on major changes in each release
audibles.tmb ................................ Data file
audio.tmb ................................... Data file
database.tmb ................................ Data file
dungeon.tmb ................................. Data file
help.tmb .................................... Data file
materials.tmb ............................... Data file
mesh.tmb .................................... Data file
music.tmb ................................... Data file
particles.tmb ............................... Data file
scripts.tmb ................................. Data file
shaders.tmb ................................. Data file
sounds.tmb .................................. Data file
texturesEntity.tmb .......................... Data file
texturesEnv.tmb ............................. Data file
visuals.tmb ................................. Data file
dbghelp.dll ................................. Support file
granny2.dll ................................. Support file
msvcr71.dll ................................. Support file
ogg.dll ..................................... Support file
strings.dll ................................. Support file
unicows.dll ................................. Support file
config\game.cfg ............................. Default game options
config\game.con ............................. Default game key and mouse bindings
dxsetup\Dec2005_d3dx9_28_x86.cab ............ DirectX setup file
dxsetup\DirectX.cab ......................... DirectX setup file
dxsetup\DSETUP.dll .......................... DirectX setup file
dxsetup\dsetup32.dll ........................ DirectX setup file
dxsetup\dxdllreg_x86.cab .................... DirectX setup file
dxsetup\dxnt.cab ............................ DirectX setup file
dxsetup\DXSETUP.exe ......................... DirectX setup file
dxsetup\dxupdate.cab ........................ DirectX setup file
dxsetup\Oct2005_xinput_x86.cab .............. DirectX setup file

12. Contact Info
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General stuff .... mailto:lostlegends@ghostwoodgames.com
Bugs ............. mailto:bugs@ghostwoodgames.com

Forums ........... http://www.ghostwoodgames.com


