Getting the game data

Demo

Download arx_demo_english.zip or arxdemoenglish.zip (md5sum: 3c59a5799e1237b1b181c96e8c09155a)

The following files work without a login and don't wrap the .zip file in an annoying .exe at the time of this writing.

• http://www.cnet.com.au/apps/arx-fatalis-updated-demo-10229017/
• http://www.fileplanet.com/85489/80000/fileinfo/Arx-Fatalis-Demo-%5BEnglish---Updated%5D
• http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Arx-Fatalis.shtml
• http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/38003/arx-fatalis-demo
• http://www.shacknews.com/file/1145/arx-fatalis-demo-v113
• http://www.gamershell.com/download_137.shtml

You can either install the demo using windows or wine or use cabextract to extract the data files.

There is a helper script in the scripts directory of the Arx Libertatis source code:

scripts/install-demo <zipfile> bin/

Manually extract the data

First, extract the .zip file: mkdir demo && cd demo && unzip ../arx_demo_english.zip

Now extract the three .capfiles

cd demo
cabextract Setup1.cab
cabextract Setup2.cab
cabextract Setup3.cab

This should extract the files

If data is your destination directory, create a data/misc directory and copy the following files:

• demo/bin/Arx.ttf to data/misc/arx.ttf
• demo/bin/data2.pak to data/data2.pak
• demo/bin/LOC.pak to data/loc.pak
• demo/bin/Logo.bmp to data/misc/logo.bmp
• demo/data.pak to data/data.pak
• demo/SFX.pak to data/sfx.pak
• demo/SPEECH.pak to data/speech.pak

Note: Renaming the files to lowercase is not strictly necessary as the game will try to do so on the first run.

You should end up with the following files / md5 checksums (cd data && find * -type f | sort | xargs md5sum):

958b78f8f370b06d769843137138c461  data2.pak
5d7ba6e6c79ebf7fbb232eaced9e8ad9  data.pak
2ae16d3925c597dca70f960f175def3a  loc.pak
9a95ff96795c034524ba1c2e94ea12c7  misc/arx.ttf
aa3dfbd4bc9c863d10a0c5345ae5a4c9  misc/logo.bmp
ea1b3e6d6f4906905d4a34f07e9a59ac  sfx.pak
62ca7b1751c0615ee131a94f0856b389  speech.pak