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I need a tutorial on making a chapter out of custom maps. Specifically, Ones that are unlocked from a new file, so you don't need to beat the game, or beat a specific chapter to play the new chapter. I have 4 arena/crazy maps I made, and I wanna make a chapter out of them for fun. I won't release it, but I want to know. So, help?

If you mean through Dr. Light's Laboratory, then that's pretty tough to do seeing as you can't modify it.
If you mean making a new mode, you can just look at Powered Up Expansion and figure out how.

OK, so no luck on making a new chapter. BUT I was tihnking about that expansion. Maybe i'll download it and change it to work with what I want it to do. I will post when that works if I can at least get it to work.

Um, where is the download?

Here's how you do it.

First, you need to create an entry in SLADE called "MAPINFO". Here's what the MAPINFO in Powered Up contains:



If you want to add something, you add it after "CREDMAP".

Line 1: Put "episode" then the stage you want it to start at. The map rotation is defined in seperate MAPINFO files (which Ivory made a tutorial on somewhere, if you need it I can link it.)
Line 2: Put "name" then the name of the option. For example, "Powered Up Campaign".
Line 3: Putting "noskillmenu" prevents you from choosing the difficulty, because I'm pretty sure difficulty is weird in MM8BDM.

As for the actual stages, you'll need to create a file called "CMPGNINFO":



mapname = Code of the map. Duh.
gamemode = Don't change. Sets the gamemode of course.
fraglimit = Choose how many frags you want the game to end at.
dmflags = Don't touch.
dmflags2 = Don't touch.
compatflags = Don't touch
bot[x] = Choose which bots you want to add. You need to put each bot on a seperate line.

IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU MERGE THE ORIGINAL CMPGNINFO AND YOUR NEW ONE. OTHERWISE THE MAIN CAMPAIGN WILL SCREW UP.

Hope this helps!

-HD

OK, but I will still need to find the download for the powered up expansion. I feel like i'm half there.

FOUND IT! If I have anymore trouble, I will speak on a different topic. Lock it.