: Hey, random unrelated question, but how did you guys get Marathon 1 to play
: cooperatively? It seems to work okay for Marathon 2 and Infinity, but with
: Marathon 1, when I try to set the game type to cooperative in the Gather
: screen, it shows an empty list of maps to play (i.e. Arrival doesn't show
: up in the list, and neither does anything else).
: Is there some trick to this?
Yes. We edited the map files to allow cooperative starts.
This had to be done for all three games-- even the ones that allow some levels to do coop starts don't allow all of them to do so, and we usually record only one or two levels at a time, so we scratch-started each level.
I did this with the java-based Aleph One editor JUICE because it can edit the map files in place, inside the app itself, and save the changes right back to the map file.
Weland is a much more full-featured editor, but it seems to want to export individual files even when making small changes like level attributes.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/juiceforge/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/weland/
