Daria's Inferno

Daria's Inferno
Developers: Hypnotix, Westlake Interactive (Mac) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: November 20, 2000 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select.

An isometric point-and-click adventure game based on the MTV cartoon. It's as good as it sounds.

Unused Graphics

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tempstrt.smk appears to be a level select screen. Both Mega Multiplex Theatre and Degas Street 2 are greyed out for some reason.

Lineup.smk appears to be a cropped portion of an early version of Barch's сlassroom background.

Early	Final

The desks were a little larger, the right desk was shifted more to the left, and features a second exit sign above the left door that doesn't appear in the final background. As the name implies, it was intended to check the alignment of background objects.

Command Line Options

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The following command line options can be passed to the .exe:

/cd=

Tells the game which drive is the CD drive. Normally auto-configured by the installer.

/DontFade

Disables some special fade effects. This was added as a "fix" for graphics cards that would crash when these fade effects would be triggered. This is mentioned in the game's readme.

/C__D

Disables the CD check. The game won't have sound unless you chose the full install.

/ns

Disables sound in the game and prints a CD Check with the path of the CD (if combined with the previous parameter then it will say Invalid CD Path) to <path-to-game>\message.txt. Sometimes will also print errors.

Debug Options

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Inside the Windows executable is a Debug options menu with two options. There's no known way to access this menu at the time of this writing.

Porting Credit

The Mac application's owner resource, Dria 0, reads:

Macintosh conversion by Brad Oliver of Westlake Interactive

This text would be displayed in the Finder's Get Info box, but is overridden by a vers resource that simply says "1.0".

Westlake's involvement was not acknowledged anywhere else in the product, but was confirmed on their website.