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REX NEBULAR Bonus Disk --  Additional Cool Things List 
                                                     Updated by Rex 
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Here are a few more interesting  things you may want to try. All of these things involve "cheating" in one way or  another, so you may not want to read this until you have solved the game  normally; then you can play around with these "cheat" options. 

Watching The Closing  Animations: 
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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. 

Quotes 
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Select "Credits" and watch all the  names of the programmers.  Do not touch anything and wait until the  end.  Then go to Main Menu and choose "Quotes" and have  fun!!! 

Cheat Mode! 
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That's right. Rex Nebular does in  fact contain a special "cheat mode" that we 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, we 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). We  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 
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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 
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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 <KernelNoRoom> 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 
Probe view: 112 

Section 2: (Island) 
Island South: 212 
Island East: 208, 209,  203 
Island West: 207,  211, 210, 205 
Island  North: 202, 201 
Witch  Doctor: 214 
Twinkifruit: 215 
Watching hut: 216 
Teleporter: 213 

Section 3: (Underground City --  Medical Complex) 
Capture Scene: 301, 302, 303, 308, 309, 310, 311 
Death Scene: 304 
Air vent: 313, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391,  366 
Interrogation  Room: 318 
Doctor's  questions: 319 
Player's Cell (before havoc): 307 
Player's Cell (after havoc): 357, 358, 359,  360, 361 
Guard  station (before/after): 311/361 
Guard station desk: 320 
Gender Bender: 316 
In the Gender Bender:  321 
Intersection  (after): 354 
Vault  room (after): 352 
Teleporter room (after): 351 
In Teleporter: 322 

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 
In Teleporter: 409 

Section 5: (Machopolis  Lower) 
Arrive: 501,  551 
Security:  503 
Software  Store/Lab: 506, 507, 508 
Restaurant: 511, 512 
Elevator: 513 
In Teleporter: 502 
In Car: 504 
Map in Car: 505 

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 
Water Death: 605 

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 
In Teleporter:  707 
Binocular view:  710 

Section 8: (Space  Port) 
Control  Station: 801 
Landing  Pad One: 802 
Landing  Pad Two: 803 
Inside  Ship: 804 
Circuts:  805 

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 extremely 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! 

Object List 
0. Binoculars 
1. Burger 
2. Dead Fish 
3. Stuffed Fish 
4. Rebreather 
5. Timer 
6. Big Leaves 
7. Poison Darts 
8. Plant Stalk 
9. Blow Gun 
10. Twinkifruit 
11. Bone 
12. Chicken 
13. Scalpel 
14. Audio Tape 
15. Credit Chip 
16. Security Card 
17. Charging Cases 
18. Estrotoxin * 
19. Bomb 
20. Time Bomb 
21. Repair List 
22. Alien Liquor 
23. Target Module 
24. Shield Modulator 
25. Tape Player 
26. Phone Cells 
27. Pen Light 
28. Durafail Batteries 
29. Fake ID 
30. ID card 
31. Polycement 
32. Fishing Rod 
33. Fishing Line 
34. Padlock Key 
35. Door Key 
36. Rearview Mirror 
37. Compact Case 
38. Game * 
39. Detonators 
40. Bottle 
41. Chicken Bomb 
42. Vase 
43. Remote 
44. Computer Game * 
45. Phone Handset 
46. Bones 
47. Guard's Arm 
48. Log 
49. Bombs 
50. Note ** 
51. Combination ** 
52. Formaldehyde 
53. Petrox 
54. Lecithin 

* Does not appear in the  game 
** Appears only  on the Novice skill level 

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!). 

Other codes are: 
CTRL -  J                  Disables Cheat mode 
CTRL - ENTER      Disables Cheat  mode 
CTRL -  V                  Version Info 
CTRL -  L                  Teleporter codes 
CTRL  -  N                  Changes naughtiness level 
CTRL -  C                  Displays your position on the screen 
CTRL -  E                  *Try it* 
CTRL -  U                  Turn Rex 
CTRL -  I                    Moves mouse over inventory 
CTRL -  A                  Memory status 
CTRL -  S                  Play sounds by number 
CTRL -  D                 Changes difficulty setting 
CTRL -  Z                  Resets Screen 
CTRL -  X                 *hehehehe - have some fun with this one* 

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. 

Have fun! 
