bat file you can simply launch the CD version from Steam’s desktop icon, Windows menu, or Steam’s quick launch. You are now done, and are ready to play Arena CD version on Steam.

Final Stepsįollow the guide but instead of placing the files into the DOSBox-0.74 folder place them in Arena-CD folder.

For example the jump keys won’t work properly to the point that you may not be able to jump at all. You can always go back and change the cycles to be higher, but from my own testing having the cycles over 40000 the game will sometimes have issues running properly. In the nf scroll down to CPU, and look for the line cycles=fixed 20000Ĭhange cycles=fixed 20000 to cycles=fixed 35000 Now we will change the default cycles settings for DOSBox so that the game will run faster. Note you may need to change Steam’s default screenshot key as the default hotkey may cause a conflict with ether a default game keybind, or DOSBox’s built in hotkeys. This will allow Steam’s Overlay to work in DOSBox, and thus allow you to take screenshots. Now open the nf file with notepad, or notepad++, and look for output=surfaceĬhange the output=surface to output=opengl

Open the Arena-CD folder, and look for a file named nf. Editing DOSBox Configīefore we launch the game in Steam it’s time to edit the DOSBox config for Arena-CD. bat files Steam will be able to launch the CD version of Arena. bat files in the event that Steam replaces it during a verified files check. This way you can always restore the edited. Make sure to keep this extra copy outside of Steam’s installed folder. Also create a backup copy of the edited bat file. Make sure to save the bat file with the new lines of text. Now copy the following text, and replace the lines in the bat OFFĭosbox.exe -noconsole -conf nf -fullscreen

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