[MUA1] How To: Change the starting map

[Maegawa]

So, I was experimenting with some maps, and discovered how to change the game's starting map.

On the "data" folder there is a file named zoneinfo.engb, if you decompile it you'll see something like this:

XMLB zoneinfo {
   zone {
   act = 4 ;
   build = normal ;
   name = test/swim ;
   savename = Swimming Test ;
   state = 2 ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 2 ;
   build = normal ;
   name = test/enemies ;
   savename = Arcade Enemies Test ;
   state = 2 ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 4 ;
   build = normal ;
   name = work/scampbell/combattest1 ;
   savename = Stats Test Map 1 ;
   state = 1 ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 4 ;
   build = normal ;
   name = work/scampbell/combattest2 ;
   savename = Stats Test Map 2 ;
   state = 1 ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 1 ;
   build = normal demo2 ;
   extraction = true ;
   name = act1/stark/stark1 ;
   objective_category = act1_stark ;
   savename = Stark Tower ;
   state = 2 ;
   texture = textures/zoneshot/act1_extract1 ;
   towncenter = true ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 1 ;
   build = normal demo2 ;
   name = act1/stark/stark2 ;
   objective_category = act1_stark ;
   savename = Iron Man Lab ;
   state = 2 ;
   }

   zone {
   act = 1 ;
   build = normal demo1 demo2 ;
   name = act1/heli/heli1 ;
   objective_category = act1_heli ;
   savename = Flight Deck ;
   start_game = true ;
   state = 2 ;
   }

and it goes on...

As you may have noticed, it includes the info for all the game's maps, hence "zone" and "info". Anyway, if you look at the red line, you'll see that the entry it is assiciated with is heli1, which just so happens to be the game's starting level.

With that said, changing the starting level is as simple as changing one line; cut the start_game = true line from the heli1 entry and paste it into the entry of the map you want to start!

For example, if I want to start the game on the Attilan map, I'll paste the start_game = true line in the attilan1 entry, which should look like this:

   zone {
   act = 4 ;
   build = normal demo1 ;
   extraction = true ;
   name = act4/attilan/attilan1 ;
   objective_category = act4_attilan ;
   savename = Royal Library ;
   start_game = true ;
   state = 2 ;
   texture = textures/zoneshot/act4_extract1 ;
   towncenter = true ;
   }

[BaconWizard17]

This is good to know

[Outsider]

Excellent find. Now I can truly test the 28 Roster Limit Hack without playing through the entire game. Nice work.

[Teancum]

You can also just force load a map with new_game.py.

[Maegawa]

You can also just force load a map with new_game.py.

So, it is indeed possible to change it through script editing... I was wondering how but couldn't figure it out, thanks for celaring it up, Teancum!

[Kaiko]

I always found a problem in loading a map in new_game.py for some reason so i went into heli1.py and deleted all the text in there and typed 'loadMapKeepTeam("act0/tutorial/tutorial1")' that is what i did in XML2 To MUA but this find mite help me get rid of all them files that i don't need xD.