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This is turning out to be like the game that the WORLD and EVERYONE, BUT US forgot.  Even the german fansite (Very nice with Google Translate) is gone, and it was there only a couple of weeks ago. *Sighs* None of my bookmarks for Diggles work anymore.  Makes me sad. 

As for modding the game, I've messed around with some things, but always kept backups for everything I tried to get into. Can't tell you how to do it, sense I'm a mediorce programmer, at best. lol.  All I ever really figured out how to do is make the game work in most situations. Sorry guys.

PetGra, did you put the -console command line in your Diggles shortcut? Its the only way to activate the command line.

Alright, Petr Ga, and everyone else in the forum, I'll outline here how to break that 5fps limit and how to play the campaign with a decent system and the like.  Some of these tricks require you to change the registry files for the game, but it doesn't mess with anything else.

First off, install the game, set up a shortcut; and ad the -console command line to the shortcut.  It should look like: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Innonics\Diggles\Diggles.exe" -console in the Target text line.

Next, you can do two things here.  You can either start the campaign, in which as soon as you can you should open the console with the ` key, and type in 'gamesave (save name)'.  DO NOT USE THE SAVE GAME FEATURE IN THE MAIN MENU, IT WILL NOT WORK.

Now you can go back and exit the game, and we'll get on how to edit the .reg files.  Start a search for the regedit system in Windows (If you're using anything else, I really cannot help you), and open it up.  You'll find the Diggle files under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then Software, then under SekOst (Or just run a search for SekOst).

Okay, strictly for the framerate, click the Performance table and you'll find a option that says MaxFramerate, with the data value set to 5.  Just change that to whatever you're comfortable with. I use 60, myself.

From there you can close it out and start up the game again.  You can either play a free-play mission, or go back to the campaign.  From the Main Menu (DO NOT START A NEW GAME IN CAMPAIGN), open the console and type in 'gameload (save name)', and it'll load you right back to where you saved.  That should fix your framerate problem.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU USE THE BUILT-IN SETTING EDITOR. IT DOES NOT WORK; AND IT'LL RESET YOUR REGRISTRY FILES.

For other features, like turning up animation and adding the partical effects, go back to the Performance tab in regedit and look for AnimInterpolation and Particles.  Change both of those from 0 to 1.

To turn on or shut off MUSIC and SOUNDs, look in the Misc tab and turn them to 0 or 1, respectively.

To activate the game speed boost feature, go to Misc and set MaxGametimeFactor to something simple (I have it set to , so that when you're playing you can press the + and - keys to increase and decrease the gamespeed.  Normally you cannot continue playing like that, only watch, but if you set the NoGamespeedLock to 1 instead of 0, it'll aloow you to play, although you won't be able to see the gamespeed you're currenly running. 

That usually isn't a problem, as if your diggles get into a fight or something, the game will automatically go back to the default speed and give you a big-oh warning.

If anyone has any other questions, let me know and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities.

I just went back and checked for e veryone, and it seems that Strategy First has removed the entire forum that all of the information had been stored on.     I have no idea when they did it, as I hadn't needed to get on there in a while, but that's total B**********.     I'll see if I can find the forum again, otherwise I'll try to answer any questions you might have on the process of how to fix the 5FPS problem and the other nifty things you can do to make Diggles playable.

Lol. Sadly, I wasn't the one that started this thread, so I really cannot go about changing its name.  When the first bits of information came out about Dungeons, it really did seem like a full-out sequel to our favorite DK games.    But that wasn't too be.  They weren't able to get the DK liscense, so instead they invented a new game, with a new name, a new style, and some kick-ass gameplay (look at the screenshots).

So anyone who wants to be a dark, evil ruler, control goblins that'll build and mine out vast mazes and dungeons and rooms at your whim, and play nasty tricks on those hypocritical heroes in order to steal their soul power will love this game, period.   

Habbit.    Don't you know, you never directly link a good thing. 

Seriously though, I was half dead and heading to bed when I posted that. Lol. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I haven't touched a Mac PC sense I got out of highschool.  I absolutely hate the brand, mostly because of their massive expensive (4000$ laptop compared to a 800$ one with Win 7 with the same specs) and the like.  That and playing games on them at all is a hassle, so I'll never own one, unless it was strictly for work (which I doubt).

As for the ports, yea, it has gotten easier from say, PSOne's to PC at the time, but still, it is a hassle, and developement both systems at the same time can be both consuming and costly.

I still want Fable 3 for the PC, though!