Probably the thing I have just discovered will be extremely interesting for all the Lands I fans and for anyone who would not mind to play it once again.
If you know Quake I, you may also know that there are 3 complexity levels (easy, normal, and hard), same as for Lands. But there is one more level not visible in the game menu. It is called "Nightmare" and you can set it only using a console command. Reanimator once supposed that Lands I also can have such mode, although he had no clues and proposed no ways for checking this.
Still he deserves respect as long as his prediction turned out to be correct.
Please spread this information as wide as you can:
There is "nightmare" mode in Lands I. In disk version to turn it on you should:
load the game or start a new one, set sounds, music, and floating cursor off, smooth scrolling on, monsters ferocious, and save the game. Then open the save-file with hex-editor, find position (all numbers are hexadecimal) 00000253 (or close to it) with the symbol 28 (character "(") and replace it with 38 (character "8"). Load the game and check game controls. There must be written that "Monsters are [Main menu]". Now restore the settings you like (except the "Monsters are" paragraph) and enjoy the nightmare!
(CD version probably allows this too but I am not sure about the symbol to find and the value to set. Going to find this out as soon as possible.)
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