[Martin Howe]

I have been looking at RoTT recently; I have got it, but never played through it and am trying to find out more about it. What caught my attention is the freaky command line parameters, particularly that warp is supposed to start the game in the level specified afterwards; however, the source code contradicts the readme file; it takes three parameters and seems to do something with the player's x,y positions and angle. Certainly "warp 1" does nothing on the command line with ICC RoTT.

Please can anyone more familiar with the internals of the game and who has played it through, explain this to me? Or is this a case of the source release not being exactly the same as the original game (despite the readme seeming to say that it is)? I am somewhat confused

[deus-ex]

Martin Howe, on 12 August 2020 - 11:31 PM, said:

I have been looking at RoTT recently; I have got it, but never played through it and am trying to find out more about it. What caught my attention is the freaky command line parameters, particularly that warp is supposed to start the game in the level specified afterwards; however, the source code contradicts the readme file; it takes three parameters and seems to do something with the player's x,y positions and angle. Certainly "warp 1" does nothing on the command line with ICC RoTT.

Please can anyone more familiar with the internals of the game and who has played it through, explain this to me? Or is this a case of the source release not being exactly the same as the original game (despite the readme seeming to say that it is)? I am somewhat confused

Your post inspired me to try for myself. Indeed the command "warp" appears to be non-working, and there is no further explanation about this specific command to be found on the internet. So I went and tried several combinations of level numbers on the command line, checked the ROTT config files, etc., but all to no avail. Then I noticed that for the cheat codes in-game like level warping "\GTL" to actually function, you have to enable cheat codes with "\ECC" first. So I figured, maybe something similar is required to be entered at the command line, too? But alas, there is no command line parameter similar to "\ECC" available.

Later on trying some command-line parameters, that I had never used before, I got an idea. So I combined some commands, and hooray, it finally works!!! Figuring out the numbers for all the available levels was piece-of-cake then.

To start ROTT at a specific level use the following command line:
rott.exe now warp # (# = level number 1-37)

Rise of the Triad: Dark War (Registered) levels:
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Spoiler

Episode 1: Approach
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1 The Thick of it
2 Winding Way
3 Burned and amazed
4 Too much Room
5 Two Key return
6 Spring Surprise
7 General Darian
8 Turn of the Screw

Episode 2: Monastery
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9 Into the Castle
10 Great Halls of Fire
11 The Room
12 Spiraling in
13 Rocky Plateau
14 Four Way Chamber
15 Sebastian Krist
16 Elevator Trouble

Episode 3: Caves below
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17 Robotricks
18 Down & Over
19 Dead in five Seconds
20 Clear and present Dangers
21 The angry Quilt
22 Movin' Walls
23 Know thine NME
24 Eight Ways to Hell

Episode 4: The Slow and the Dead
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25 "Monky" Business
26 Fire and Brimstone
27 Crushing Defeat
28 Diamonds & Rust
29 Backfire
30 Circles of Fire
31 Lair of El Oscuro
32 Switched around
33 Canyon Chase
34 In the dark Nest

Warp only Levels (Registered only)
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35 Dead in two Seconds
36 The Vomitorium
37 This causes an Error! (Joke Level)

[Martin Howe]

Thanks very much; I though now was a command that just warps to level 1 - had no idea it was meant to be a prefix when warp is used.