.COMMANDER KEEN Invasion of the Vorticons: Keen 1: Marooned on Mars Keen 2: The Earth Explodes Keen 3: Keen Must Die! Goodbye, Galaxy! Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter Keen 7: Keen Dreams ============================================================================================== Key cipher guide to the "Standard Galactic Alphabet". This key can be found in the secret areas of the secret levels in games 3 and 6. A B C D E F G H I J K L M # # # #### # # ##### # ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # ### ### # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ### # #### # # # # # # # ## N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # # ## # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ### # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # For example, in game 1, level 1, the three signs say "This is neat", "Die", and "Exit". ============================================================================================== Invasion of the Vorticons (my version: v1.31 19900123 shareware) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This info should work for Keen 1,2,3. On the MAP screen, walk to a city and press Ctrl to enter it. If you have God Mode on, you can walk anywhere on the MAP. Keys ---- Ctrl Jump Alt Pogo Stick (if you have it) Ctrl+Alt Fire (if you have raygun charges) Space Status Cheats ------ All cheats have to be re-activated each time you enter a level. They will work on both the shareware and registered versions. G+O+D Jump Cheat and God Mode (you can still die by falling down a hole or drowning) C+T+Space Hold down C and T then press Space. Gives you keycards, pogo stick, and 100 raygun charges. These 2 are supposed to do something (don't work for me): F8 * some funny stuff * Shift+tab * finish level * Jump Cheat: You need to get the Pogo Stick, then turn on God Mode (in any order). By pressing Ctrl, you fly upwards. Apogee says: [shift] [tab] - Pass through an unplayed level on world map. Try TAB by itself as well When KEEN2.EXE or KEEN3.EXE is started with the "/LEVEL" parameter, the file "TEDLEVEL.CK2" or "TEDLEVEL.CK3" is read (if it exists). The first byte of this file is interpreted as the level number. ============================================================================================== Goodbye Galaxy and Aliens Ate My Babysitter ------------------------------------------- From the Main Menu, you can play Paddle War (Ping Pong). The winner is the first to 21. To reset the high scores, delete CONFIG.CKn (n = 4,5,6), this will also kill your hardware settings. F9 Boss mode (esc to get back to the game) F1 Help Pause Pause F2/3/4/5/6/7 Control Panel Esc Control Panel Enter Status ^Q Instant quit Press E+N+D to see the ending sequence Press T+A+B for all keys, 99 shots and an extra Keen. Hold the keys down until you have 99 Keens. Does not work on v1.0 of Aliens Ate My Babysitter. Press A+2+Enter to enter Debug Mode. (Not needed on v1.0 versions) Once there, press F10+B change border colour (0-15) (3 is original) F10+C number of objects (active and inactive) F10+D record a demo F10+E end level F10+G god mode (you still die by falling down a pit) (turns off when you die) F10+I extra items F10+J jump cheat F10+M memory usage F10+N no clipping (walk through walls) (make sure you don't fall off the bottom of the screen) F10+P pause without the message F10+S slow motion F10+T sprite test F10+V add VBLs (0-8) F10+W warp to level (1-18) F10+Y reveal hidden areas (shows where you can go) Command-line parameters ----------------------- NOWAIT Don't stop at the initial config screen, don't show ad when quitting TEDLEVEL n Go straight to level n+1, crashes when you quit COMP Turn on SVGA compatibility NOCOMP Turn off SVGA compatibility HIDDENCARD Don't try to detect video card NOPAN ?? nojoys ignore joystick nomouse ignore mouse noems don't use ems noxms don't use xms noal ignore adlib card jerk prevent sideways scroll from jerking too much *************** Notes for Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle -------------------------------------- In Border Village, when underground, turn on Jump Cheat. You can jump up and gets lots of extra lives. Then exit through secret door above slug statue. In the pyramid with the black/red sun on it, jump above the oracle and walk to the left through the wall. You will find 5 extra lives. Keens rear end -------------- When you enter the Pyramid of the Moons, go past all the poles, and you will see a faint moon crescent on the floor. Let Keen stand there and he may briefly drop his pants. It doesn't always happen; just once in a blue moon (so to speak). From someone else: Go to the level entitled "Pyramid of the Moons," and from there, to the half moons painted on the floor. If you stand on these and do nothing for a while, Keen will moon you, instead of his usual idle activity of reading a book. This will only happen once per game, however. Hex editing: ----------- Uncompress KEEN4.EXE, for unlimited bullets, look for FF 0E D7 77 change to 90 90 90 90 for unlimited life, look for FF 0E E9 77 change to 90 90 90 90. Finding the secret level: ------------------------ Enter the Pyramid of the Moons. Go down 2nd-last pole, through door. Float down and to the right and get the gem. Go back to the poles. Go down 2nd pole from the left, turn right, put gem in holder, go in room, operate switch. Find the 12 worms, they will follow you. When they get together, they turn into a large white foot in the air. Jump up to touch the foot. You will be transported to the secret pyramid. From someone else: To get to the Pyramid of the Forbidden (the hidden pyramid with the hand on it), go to the Pyramid of the Moons level, get the yellow crystal and go to the room that has twelve inchworms in it. To the left is an open passageway with some inchworms to the left of it. All the way to the right of this bottom room is a door that needs the yellow crystal. Go through the door and flip the switch behind it. The left trapdoor will close over allowing all the inchworms to gather. Get the twelve inchworms together in one spot. When you are near them, they will follow you; if they are off-screen, they'll lose track of you. When the twelve are gathered together, a foot will form above your head. Jump on the foot, and it will take you to the hidden pyramid. While you're in the hidden pyramid, you won't be allowed to play any other levels until you finish that one. When the hidden pyramid level is completed, the foot will be there again. Jump on it, and you'll be transported to the outside of the Pyramid of the Moons, and you can continue with your game. To get outside the Pyramid of the Moons, you need to go all the way to the left of the room where the inchworms are. There will be four guns in the ceiling shooting down. To the left of them is a hole in the ceiling you can jump into. Do that, and there will be a pole in there (that you can't see) that you can grab onto. Save your game, since it's easy to die in here. Follow the passageway and you'll see a door. You can go into that door if you want; there's a free life. Come back through and jump into the ceiling above that door, and follow a passageway in the wall. You'll come out to a doorway with a bunch of ice cream cones in front of it. Go through that door, and you're outside the pyramid. However, if you exit this level before going to the hidden pyramid, you won't be able to get to the hidden pyramid, since this level (Pyramid of the Moons) will be considered finished, and you won't be able to get back in. *************** Notes for Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine ---------------------------------------- Finding the secret level: ------------------------ Stand in the archway near the end of the level in the "Gravitional Dampening Hub". You will not be able to see yourself in there. You'll need to do the down jump maneuver, which is holding the down arrow and pressing jump. You will fall into the floor below you. You will then need to walk to the left, as far as you can go. Since you will not be able to see yourself, the only way to know it's working is if the screen starts moving. If, when you start moving left, you appear again next to the arch, you didn't do the down jump maneuver right. Once you walk to the leftmost part of the level, you'll fall all the way to the bottom of the level. Once you stop falling, walk to the right, and you'll appear again. SAVE YOUR GAME HERE! The passageway that you're in leads to a teleporter, which will take you to the secret level. There are no more secrets along the way here, but there is a LOT of stuff that will kill you, which is why you should save beforehand. Also, there is a bug in the secret level of Keen 5. Once you get there, if you look around hard enough, you'll find a transistor that you're supposed to pogo on and break. Sometimes you'll not be able to break it. Apogee never found why this happens. Sometimes it will work; sometimes it won't. If you do break it, the end game story will say that the Shikadi ship blew up; otherwise, it will say that it got away. *************** Notes for Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter ------------------------------------------ Finding the secret level: ------------------------ Right before the final level of the game, when you're on the world map, you'll see a somewhat large blue towering thing that looks like a cross between a hut and a mouth. If you look beyond it, you'll see a yellow fence. If you walk through the mouth and out the other side, you'll come to the fence (don't enter the level; going in the mouth and pressing space will put you into the level). Stay on the world map, and wait there a minute or two. A spaceship will come around, pick you up, and will take you to the secret level. When you're done with the secret level, wait for the ship again, and it will take you back. An English translation of the Galactic Alphabet is in a hidden area in this level. Hex editing: ----------- Uncompress KEEN6.EXE, for unlimited bullets, look for FF 0E 90 75 change to 90 90 90 90 for unlimited life, look for FF 0E A6 75 change to 90 90 90 90. ============================================================================================== KEEN DREAMS v1.4 ----------- To start, run START.EXE, the command-line parameters are passed on to KDREAMS.EXE While playing the game, these keys can be used. F1 Help F2 Select sound device F3 Define keys F4 New Game F5 Change Difficulty Setting F6 Save/Load Game F7 Sound on/off Space Inventory F10+G God Mode on/off (see below) F10+I Free Items! (Get Keys, Flower bombs, Boobus bombs) F10+J Jump Cheat on/off (Jump as high as you want) F10+P Pause without message F10+S Slow Motion on/off F10+W Warp to level (0-16) God Mode: Stops you being killed by vegetables, but you still die by drowning, falling down a hole, off a bridge etc. When you die, God Mode is turned off. In the menu, background music can be turned on and off, but no music plays. KDMEN.COM --------- Since you can still use up your 3 lives even in "GOD Mode", I have included a utility called "KDMEN.COM". After you save a game you exit out and run this from the prompt. It will add 255 men to your saved games. You may run multiple times with no effect to the rest of your saved game. With this and the cheat keys you should be invincible. Command-line parameters ----------------------- HIDDENCARD Override video card detection if program incorrectly setting video mode nojoys ignore joystick nomouse ignore mouse noal ignore adlib or soundblaster nosb ignore sound blaster nodr fixes problem if drive light stays on noss no sound source sst tandy ss1 lpt1 ss2 lpt2 ss3 lpt3 comp If using a Speedstar or other non-100% compatible VGA card to fix problem /VER version of LOADSCN.EXE TEDLEVEL n Go straight to level n+1 (in the game but doesn't work) ==============================================================================================