1 ‐ User's Manual

Preface

The Readme provides a brief introduction on how to use the basic functions of this project. For more details, please read this user's manual.

You will need a Windows OS to run this software. Windows XP and later platforms are recommended. The software is not guaranteed to run properly on earlier versions of Windows or on an emulator. No other system requirements are needed.

This project is free software, licensed under MIT License. Copyright (C) 2020-2024 Z.Sun

Contents

This project contains two parts:

• The patched TSW game program, TSW V1.2-rev

  For its usage, see 1.1 - Run TSW Game

• The game modifier, tswKai3

  For its usage, see 1.2 - Run tswKai3

In addition, if you are interested in the development of this project,

• See the 2 - Developers chapter

Download

It is recommended to download the all-in-one package.

Extract its contents into any path you like (preferably a permanent path), and no need to install. It will take up ~35 MB space.

Changelog

v3.1.5

• tswRev:
  • Improve keyboard control of player movement by shortening the delay when holding down an arrow key
  • Improve player / monster movement animation tweens, which are made much smoothier
  • Improve stair and door-opening animations by shortening the animation duration in fast / superfast speed modes
  • Improve battle animations such that animations for neighboring battle rounds are separated clearly
  • Fix the wrong GOLD income prompt after defeating a "strike-first" monster when holding the Lucky Gold (the income should double) and the wrong prompt after finishing the 40F boss battle
  • Improve positioning of the game window on the screen (On startup, will be positioned at the primary screen center; on size change, will try to grow / shrink the window with its center position preserved, but the window will not exceed the primary screen edges)
  • Improve default dialog window title and font
  • Bug fixes for the superfast speed mode: speed up epilog animation; reset timer interval after epilog; fix a bug of multiple menu item ticks for speed modes
• tswMod:
  • Add a configuration ($CONmsgOnTSWstartup) to turn off startup tutorial message box
  • If the multiplication factor for backside tower properties is changed (see below), the 45F merchant HP reward and the values in game tip texts will change accordingly
• tswKai:
  • Add an option to change the backside tower property multiplication factor
  • Add more specific operation instructions
  • Allow using arrow keys to navigate among items in the console
  • Allow using Enter / Space to cancel when the input is empty
  • Other minor fixes
• tswMovePoint:
  • Bug fix: GDI resource leak
  • Bug fix: In backside, after you see the on-map damage, if you press F8 after your HP/ATK/DEF/GOLD changes, the previous HP/ATK/DEF/GOLD would be incorrectly shown
  • Bug fix: Conflicts between mouse and keyboard control in absence of Orb of Flight (Currently, arrow keys will be disabled when hotkey is pressed)
• tswSaveLoad:
  • Bug fix: If a data is loaded in the middle of an event, there was a chance that the timer interval would not be correctly reset
• tswBGM:
  • Bug fix: If the "Enhance BGM playback" option is initially turned off, there was a bug that the current game would restart when this app quits

v3.1.0

• First stable release of Version 3