Why am I not hearing the background music when I am playing the game?
There are a few possibilities that could be causing this. (1) Are your computers
speakers pluged in to the computer and turned on? If not, connect them and/or turn them on.
(2) Are your computers speakers turned up? If not, turn up the volume. (3) The BG Music
option in your games main menu may be turned off. Simply click on the option to turn it back
on. (4) You may have turned off all the song selections in the Jukebox menu screen. Either
clicking on a few song selections or the 'Default songs' button or the 'All songs active'
button should fix this. (5) There may be an audio control located somewhere in Windows that
has all the sound or just the midi sounds turned off. Locate the virtual control and turn
them on or up. It may be located at the icon on your Taskbar that looks like a yellow cone
with three small lines coming out the right side. (6) There is some safety code designed to
keep the Jukebox from causing a Stack Overflow Error from happening, if the Random Song
Picking routine should miss too many times. It may be kicking in and muting your audio. One
way to test this is to go to the Jukebox Menu Screen and click on the 'Random Musical Play'
button. If the options flicker with dots all over the place, then stop and a virtual red light
illuminates on the face, then this means that the safety code is kicking in. Choose to have
more songs playable to lessen the odds of this happening. (In testing, I've seen it take as
many as 150 tries to select a single song. However, the safety feature currently allows for
1500 chances. So, this problem should rarely happen.) (7) Some or all of the games midi files
may have become lost or corrupted. While this is an extremely rare situation, you can
locate replacement files in the 'Etc' section of this web site. There are listings of most of the web sites that host
these midi files in there. Downloading a fresh file of the same name and placing said file
in the games folder on your computer should fix the problem of a corrupted file. (Make sure
the name is exactly the same as the one you are replacing...or it won't play in the game.)
(8) None of these other options did the trick? Perhaps, your machine is being finicky with
the midi playing routine that the game uses. If so, you will simply have to do without
background music. Currently, the game does not support multiple modes for the midi jukebox
player. (And there is a good chance that it never will.)
Can I select my own music choices, instead of the game selecting them for me
during game play?
Yes. Once you press the start button, you can pause the game by clicking on the
power switch, which will take you to the Main Menu. From there, go to the Jukebox Menu
Screen and pick a song to play by clicking anywhere on the name. Then, exit the Jukebox
screen, choose to continue your game...and your selection will play out, then randomly
choose another, as usual.
How do I make cash in this game?
One way is to win it in a game of luck, that you can buy for a virtual buck at The Mini-Mart.
I don't like the game's music selection. How can I change them?
(PLEASE NOTE: This answer assumes that you are familiar with the use of
Windows Explorer. IF NOT: Do not try to do this.) While the game currently does not
support the addition or alteration of the background music, (This may become a future
version feature.) you can change the music selections by obtaining your own midi music
files from any location on the net that hosts them, download them into the games folder
and rename (It is recommended that you rename the original midi file first. For example:
The AfterMidnight music file is named 'midnight.mid'. Renaming it as 'midnight2.mid'
will make it easier to restore, if needed.) that downloaded file to the same name as one
of the game's original midi names. As long as the name is the same as what the game is
looking for, the file will be loaded and play. HOWEVER, IF the midi file you use
to replace an original one with has a different amount of time it takes to play, than
the jukebox engine will not recognize this and your new song will probably either have
a long pause of silence before the next song begins to play or the midi will be stopped
too soon and proceed onto another one. (Hince, why keeping the original midi file is
a useful option.) Keep in mind that only a true midi file should replace the original
midi file. Renaming a wave file with the .mid extension will most likely cause nothing
to happen. (However, a strange event or a game/computer crash might occur. Trying such
a thing is neither recommended, nor has it been tested for results.)
There is an MP3 file in the game directory called AudioTrack.mp3. What is
it for?
This is the sound file that supports all the sound effects used in the game.
It is recommended that you DO NOT TOUCH THIS. The game engine is keyed to locate certain
sections of this sound file for each and every sound effect and section of speech in the
game. If you change or alter this file in any way, the game may sound VERY DIFFERENT. The
game may even crash if it can't locate certain sections of the stock .MP3 file. However,
IF you are an expert at working with audio files and must make it sound as if KITT is
farting when Turbo Boost is used or your kid brother saying 'You're dead!' when KITTs laser
impacts with another vehicle, doing so is possible with the correct audio programs and
precise editing. While doing so is not recommended, it is far from impossible. Currently,
this web site does not supply a replacement MP3 file for the sound effects and no testing
has been performed to find out what happens to an altered MP3 file.
There is an MP3 file in the game directory called Knight_Rider-remix_2001.mp3.
What is it for?
This is the credits music. The engine has been keyed to run it during the credits
sequence. If, for some reason you do not like the tune, changing the file with another true
mp3 file should be OK to do. But, why do it. This tune is good and IT ISN'T MIDI. However,
changing this tune has not been tested to see what the results would be. Currently, this
web site does not supply a replacement MP3 file for the Knight_Rider-remix_2001.mp3 music
file.
What do I need this vitrual cash for?
The use for cash in this game has not yet been solved. However, there are lottery-type mini-games
that do work with the stuff.
How do I work with the lottery game Lucky Sand Grains?
The game was designed to be easy to work with, yet make the player work at making the card win
anything, if possible.
IMAGE NOT YET AVAILABLE.
First, walk Michael into a mini-store inside the city. Once in, buy a Lucky Sand Grains
lottery ticket.
To play: Take the top numbers and match them to the bottom ones. When you find a match, use
either the tab and enter keys or the mouse to click on top of the matching number. Keep doing
so until you have found as many matches as possible. (Orange blocks are unpicked. Violet ones
have been clicked on. Click on it again to unselect it.)
What operating systems/consoles can this game be played in?
Currently, this game is only supported on Windows 95, 98, Me, and maybe a few
other Windows OS environments. (Like NT.) By programming in VB, making it Windows compatible
is almost guaranteed. Other operating systems like Unix, Linux, the Mac OSes and others
probably will not run the game code without some sort of Windows emulator. And, even
then...who knows. This game may see the light of day on non-Windows computers, someday.
Anything is possible.
Why was this game made in Visual Basic? Aren't there better programming
languages out there to use?
Simply because I wanted to practice programming in the Visual Basic language
before I moved on to anything more complicated. This was basically a school project program
that went a little beyond my original expectations. Enjoy.
Why did I have to pay for this program if it is FreeWare?!?!?!
(With an exception for the price of obtaining the CD...) YOU PAID FOR THIS
PROGRAM!?!?!? FreeWare means FreeWare. The game costs nothing more than your time to
download it. This game was made by the so-called "Labor of Love" as a tribute for the
series it was based on. And, to whomever is profiting off of my hard work...SHAME ON
YOU!!! It wasn't yours to sell, in the first place.
One of the buttons/functions/etc isn't working like it is suppose to and none
of the answers here fit this problem. What is going on?
Hummmmmm...interesting. This is probably an undiscovered bug. Please report it
so that a solution can be worked out, ASAP. Please supply as detailed a description of the
bug as possible. (Where were you in the game? What doesn't work? What were the previous
steps you took to reach this bug? Things like that.) You can use the 'Report Bug button in
the menu at the top of this page to report the bug. Go to the top of
the page.
On December 17 of 2001, I ran into my first major program bug. It occurred as I was trying
to cause the program to crash by tricking the jukebox into doing a constant loop search
while trying to uncheck the only song it could select from, so as to cause an infinite
loop. The crash was more serious than I was going for and required a rebooting of the
machine. Known solution: Don't do it. To try is an abnormal procedure.
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