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As you may already have discovered, Rex's story has several possible endings, only one of which is a "happy"
one.You can watch each of these endings simply by typing the proper command from the DOS prompt: mainmenu -w:1
("A Quick Death") mainmenu -w:2 ("An Honorable Death") mainmenu -w:3 ("Victory!")mainmenu -w:4 ("The
Decompression Ending") The last of these (mainmenu -w:4) shows the epilogue only, since the decompression
itself is handled with special program code instead of an animation script. Be sure to play through the game
normally first, so that you won't spoil the ending for yourself. Then, use the command line options to bring
up "instant replays" for your friends
Cheat Mode! Rex Nebular does in fact contain a special "cheat mode" that was used during development. Now
you too can make use of this special, privileged set of keyboard commands. One word of warning, however,
before you begin: these cheat keys were designed to be used by experienced programmers (nyuk, nyuk). Mostly,
that means that if they are not used with great care, the cheat keys can cause the game to crash or cause Rex
to get permanently stuck somewhere. We'll tell you how to get into cheat mode and give you a few basic
pointers on how to use it, but the rest is entirely AT YOUR OWN RISK! Remember also that once you turn cheat
mode on in a game, it will remain on even when you save that game (so any damage that might have been done by
cheat mode will remain in effect for that game when you restore it). To turn cheat mode off, you must either
start a new game or restore an old game from before you started cheating Finally, I STRONGLY suggest that you
play Rex all the way through before turning on cheat mode. First and foremost, this prevents cheat mode from
spoiling the game for you Secondly, it gives you a better idea of the intended story line of Rex (so that when
you completely foul it up with cheat mode you will realize what is happening). I must emphasize that cheat mode
is really nothing more than a way to go bashing around the planet in the wrong order and at the wrong times.
How To Activate Cheat Mode To activate cheat mode, you must first either start a new game or restore an old
game. Next, press the [CTRL] key and hold it down. While continuing to hold down the [CTRL] key, type the
letters W, I, D, E, P, I, P, E in sequence. When you are finished, a grey box containing the message "Cheat-
ing Enabled" should appear (if it does not, try again from the beginning--you must have missed a key). Once
the grey box appears, you can release the [CTRL] key. Then, press the [SPACE] bar to clear the message from
the screen. You are now in cheat mode!
Cheat Mode Options Once you have entered cheat mode, you can teleport yourself to any location in the game.
To do this, press the [CTRL] - T key. A grey box will pop up and ask you where you want to go. Just type in
the proper room number and "poof"--you're there. The tricky part, of course, is finding out the proper room
number. If you type in an invalid room number, the game will abort with the error. Here is a
list of valid room numbers that you can try:
Section 1: (Underwater) Slippery Pig: 101, 102, 103 Underwater: 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109 Cave: 110, 111
Section 2: (Island) Island South: 212 Island East: 208, 209, 203 Island West: 207, 211, 210, 205 Island
North: 202, 201 Witch Doctor: 214 Twinkles: 215
Section 3: (Underground City -- Medical Complex) Capture Scene: 301 Death Scene: 304 Air vent: 313
Interrogation Room: 318 Player's Cell (before havoc): 307 Player's Cell (after havoc): 357 Guard station
(before/after): 311/361 Gender Bender: 316 Intersection (after): 354 Vault room (after): 352 Teleporter room
(after): 351
Section 4: (Underground City -- South Annex) Scanner Corridors: 401, 407 Other Corridors: 405, 406 Wanda's
Bar: 402 Armory: 408 Storage: 410 Laboratory: 411 Teleporter: 413
Section 5: (Machopolis Lower) Arrive: 501, 551 Security: 503 Software Store/Lab: 506, 507, 508 Restaurant:
511, 512 Elevator: 513
Section 6: (Machopolis Upper) Bruce's Place: 601, 602, 603 Sea Window: 604 Abdul's Auto: 607, 608 Buckluster
Video: 609, 610 Hermit: 611 Williams Bypass: 612
Section 7: (Machopolis Rim/Governor's) City Rim "before": 751, 752 City Rim "after": 701, 702 Sea Monster:
703 Bottle: 704 Outside Penthouse: 705 Governor's Penthouse: 706
Section 8: (Space Port) Control Station: 801 Landing Pad One: 802 Landing Pad Two: 803 Inside Ship: 804
You can find out what "room" you are in at any time by pressing [CTRL] - P. The grey box which appears will
tell you the current room number (among other things). The [CTRL] - O key allows you to move objects around.
When you press [CTRL] - O, you will be asked for an object number (valid numbers range from 0 to 54, with the
exceptions of 18, 38, and 44). You can then move the object to any desired location ("2" moves it to your own
inventory; "0" gets rid of it). Moving objects is ex- tremely risky, since typing an invalid object number is
almost guaranteed to crash the game. We'll let you figure out which objects are which by trial and error. We
will, however, give you one example: Press [CTRL] - O. Then type the number "39" (for detonators) and press
[ENTER]. Then type the number "2" (for player inventory) and press [ENTER]. You now have the detonators!
We recommend that you DO NOT attempt to use the [CTRL] - G option (to change global flags). Bad, horrible
things could happen. While Rex is walking somewhere, you can press the [SPACE] bar to scoot him along his path
quickly. The risk here is that occasionally you will get Rex "stuck" so that he can't move at all; if this
happens, press [CTRL] - Z. Pressing the [SPACE] bar occasionally has other bizarre effects (such as causing
all the people on the screen to disappear). These exciting bonus features can also generally be corrected by
pressing [CTRL] - Z (see, isn't cheat mode neat!) Several other strange and wonderful cheat options exist;
they have not been described here, but you may find them with a little experimentation. Use them at your own
risk!!! One of these features is the "frame by frame" mode which will be activated if you accidentally press
the [CTRL] - F key. The game will appear to "freeze up", but you can restart it by pressing [CTRL] - F again.
Hack Codes
Hex edit NEBULAR.EXE
Position: 91596 change into: 20 69 6E 63 6F 6E 76 65 6E 69 65 6E 63 65 20 79 6F 75
Position: 91742 change into: 49 4E 43 20 63 72 61 63 6B
Position: 91752 change into: 72 73 20
Position: 91760 change into: 4E 75 6C 6C 20 53 65 74 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 70 69 72 61 74 65 20 74 68 69 73 2C
00 00 00
Position: 430623 change into: EB 02 7B 7D
Position: 91594 change into: 74
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