Daria's Inferno

Daria's Inferno
Developer: Hypnotix Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive Platform: Windows Released in US: November 20, 2000 This game has hidden development-related text. 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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tempStart.smk appears to be a level select screen. Both Mega Multiplex Theatre & Degas Street 2 are greyed out for some odd reason.

Command Line Options

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

/cd=

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

Hidden ASCII Art

Present at 0x064518 of the executable is an eyeball.

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