Keen 9: Battle of the Brains

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OH MY FUCL KEENGOD!!! IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111oneone
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About time. Playing now.
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*Keengasm* :barf

awesome.

i shall not deface this with my abhorrent signature!

EDIT: cool, chinese new year release.

EDIT2: BOTB seems to be looking for a certain KEEN5*.EXE, not sure where that is...
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I'm merely at the beginning but I have to say this is getting pretty annoying: I'm taking ages to figure out where to go on all levels. The layout seems to be much more complicated than the original levels. For example I'm in the shikadi tower (?) right now and I've found the keycard and pretty much most of the secrets. However I can't find the security door anywhere.

Also, the enemies that get only stunned temporarily are cool, but there isn't enough ammo to stun them again if you are to return to these areas. Really.

Either this, or I'm just an idiot/I somehow suddendly forgot how to play Keen

EDIT: Nevermind, I realized the door is right next to one of the bloogs. I actually thought that was a mere decoration... Looks like the second option applies then.
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yeah... how is everyone doing this? i have the 1.4 batch file, and the BOTB folder, yet i can't access the game. please pm me
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Keen9.bat wrote:

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F:\Programs\Keen 9 - Battle of the Brains\Keen 9 - Battle of the Brains>ck5patch
 patch5.pat
Bad command or file name
Error: Unrecognised version of KEEN5E.EXE
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just seen this

*downloads*
nothing usefull here
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CKeen wrote:Also, the enemies that get only stunned temporarily are cool, but there isn't enough ammo to stun them again if you are to return to these areas. Really.
Yeah, I second that. I give that to the hard difficulty. I'll see if this is the case in medium. Otherwise, in order to save ammo, I have to save the game every now and then. I'm forced to jump over enemies whenever I can... And when I found secret areas, almost all of the time there are 100, 200 etc pts, but no ammo.
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Post by Flaose »

I think SETUP.BAT may have been screwed up sometime recently...

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Unlzexe keen5e.exe
del keen5e.exe
rename keen5e.exeNEW Keen5e.exe
Seems...wrong. Trying to run Keen9.bat after gives me the error DHeadshot posted.

edit: Figured it out. Nothing wrong with the code, but running setup.bat in dosbox breaks the game.
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Post by guynietoren »

I found a hole at the very beginning of Shivonia City.
If you duck and jump while standing on that first tiny crystal you fall through one tile. Doesn't seem to have a purpose other than being how cool it is to stand in a hole.
I haven't tried to download it again, so it might be already fixed.
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Post by Syllypryde »

I just now discovered this was now released. I have a few things to take care of and I will download it soon. It will probably be a few days to a week before I can give a review. We have 12-15 inches of snow coming. I already spent hours snow blowing and shoveling this morning and more to come for the next day or two. Happy to finally see it released.
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Post by Nospike »

I've still had problems with the setup... just get a Keen 5 v1.4 exe, unlzexe it (but NOT with the supplied unlzexe) and copy the unpacked exe to the BOTB directory.
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wait, why can't there just be a 1.4 exe attached to the BOTB package?

i mean, it was allowed (i think...) for DITD.
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