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Marble Blast Gold v. 1.4 for Windows Release Notes
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Distributed by RealNetworks, Inc.
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Thank you for purchasing Marble Blast Gold and supporting independent
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game developers.
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Contents
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Overview
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Controls
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About the Torque Game Engine
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Problems and Questions
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Overview
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Roll your marble through a rich cartoon landscape of moving
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platforms and dangerous hazards. Along the way find power ups
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to increase your speed, jumping ability or flight power, and
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use them to collect the hidden gems and race to the finish for
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the fastest time.
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Controls
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All controls can be changed in the Options screen.
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Roll Marble Forward - W
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Roll Marble Backward - S
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Roll Marble Left - A
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Roll Marble Right - D
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Jump - Space Bar
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Use PowerUp - Left Mouse Button
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Change Camera direction - Move Mouse - or
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Look Up - Up Arrow
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Look Down - Down Arrow
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Turn Left - Left Arrow
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Turn Right - Right Arrow
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Free-Look Camera - Right Mouse Button
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You can turn free look on by default from the
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Options->Controls->Mouse screen.
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About the Torque Game Engine
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The Torque Game Engine (TGE) is a full featured AAA title
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engine with the latest in scripting, geometry, particle effects,
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animation and texturing, as well as award winning multi-player
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networking code. For $100 per programmer, you get the source to
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the engine that powers Marble Blast, Orbz, Sierra's Tribes 2,
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and many other titles currently in development.
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Problems and Questions
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Listed below are some common questions and troubleshooting issues,
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as well as possible solutions or workarounds:
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Problem: How do I use my Logitech WingMan RumblePad controller with Marble Blast?
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Solution: Bring up the console by hitting ~ (tilde) and type:
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enableJoystick(); followed by <ENTER>. You can hide the console by
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hitting ~ again. To disable the gamepad support bring up the console
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and type disableJoystick();
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Problem: I don't have a WingMan, but I do have gamepad XYZ... will that
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work?
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Solution: Quite possibly! Your gamepad must have two analog sticks - and
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the controls for jumping and using powerups are by default mapped to
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the trigger buttons. If you're a scripting whiz, you can look in
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the file marble/client/scripts/default.bind.cs
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Problem: The game brings up a dialog saying it can't find a
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compatible display device.
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Solution: Make sure the drivers for you graphics card are up to
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date. Marble Blast requires an OpenGL or D3D compatible graphics accelerator.
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Problem: I turned on stencil shadows, and my frame rate is
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terrible!
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Solution: Make sure your desktop bit depth is set to 32 bits.
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If your frame rate problems persist, turn off stencil shadows.
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Problem: I get clicks and pops in the sounds when the marble is
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rolling around.
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Solution: Some on-board sound processors have problems with
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Marble Blast. Try updating your audio drivers or get a new
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sound card.
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Problem: I have a really big/wide monitor and Marble Blast doesn't
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let me access all the different resolution settings of my monitor!!!
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Solution: You can manually set your fullscreen resolution from the
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in-game console. Press the tilde key (~) to access the console, and
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then type:
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listResolutions();
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This should display a list of all the resolutions your monitor and
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video card support. You can then set the resolution manually with
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the setResolution() command like:
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setResolution(1600, 1200, 32);
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Pressing the ~ again will cause the console to go away.
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Problem: Your easy listening music is cramping my marble style...
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how do I play my own rockin' tunes in this game?
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Solution: Marble Blast looks for files with the .ogg extension
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in subdirectories of the "My Games/Marble Blast Gold/marble"
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directory. To play your own tunes, just drop any ogg/vorbis encoded file (.ogg)
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into the "My Games/Marble Blast Gold/marble" directory.
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If you want to get rid of the music that ships with the game, remove the
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.ogg files from the "My Games/Marble Blast Gold/marble/data/sound"
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directory.
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Problem: The Gold Time on level XYZ is way too low! It is clearly
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impossible to get such a low time!
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Solution: Try again. All of the gold times are possible to achieve
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without cheating... but some of them are VERY hard to get.
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Problem: I have some other problem not listed above.
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Solution: Check the RealOne Arcade support site at:
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http://www.realarcade.com
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