How to play original Diamond Caves II level sets (dc2 files)?

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How to play original Diamond Caves II level sets (dc2 files)?

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ACME wrote:
Holger wrote: Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:19 pm Are you looking for the original Diamond Caves II levels (to be played in DC2), or for converted levels that can be played in R'n'D? (In fact they don't need conversion, as R'n'D can load and play the original DC2 level format, but they need some wrapping with "levelinfo.conf" file etc. to be recognized by R'n'D.)
How to play DC2 levels in R'n'D?

Anybody here? hello :D
Playing original DC2 level files (from Diamond Caves II) in R'n'D is in fact very easy -- just throw the file (like "Jewels15.dc2") in a new directory and add a file "levelinfo.conf" which looks like this:

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name:                         Jewels 15

levels:                       99
first_level:                  1
That's it -- R'n'D will automatically find the DC2 file, so you can select and play it in the game. :D
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Re: How to play original Diamond Caves II level sets (dc2 files)?

Post by ACME »

Thank you. I realized later how it works. Initially I tried dc3 and noticed that R'n'D does not support these files.

I added it this way:

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name:                           Jevels15

levels:                         99
first_level:                    1

filename:                       Jewels15.dc2
filetype:                       DC2
I just need to fix the amoeba speed because it's insanely fast!

PS. I have the Diamond Caves 2/3 games plus the latest crappy steam version but I prefer the R'n'D interface. :)
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Re: How to play original Diamond Caves II level sets (dc2 files)?

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Back to dc2. I'm a little disappointed with the jewels levels, there are many mail envelope messages that are wrong (example: next level is 36 and you are at level 16). A lot of reused levels are mixed... it's a mess.
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Re: How to play original Diamond Caves II level sets (dc2 files)?

Post by ACME »

In Z.dc2 levels 04, 16, 25, 33, 41, are almost identical... I don't know why level creators did such a thing in those days.
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