  Agora's Legends
Minnasan Monogatari
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Full readme to be done. Instead, here's some basic and important information.
First of all, this beta is still in the earlier stages of development. Nearly everything is vastly incomplete, though what does work is beautiful.

As such, you must use parameters to access much of the settings of the program, as it does not read a user settings configuration file of any kind. Available parameters and their effects are listed in parameters.txt, in order to use them you must either make a shortcut to Agora.exe or write a batch file (as a plain txt document such as this one) containing "Agora" followed by your parameters (such as "Agora -mod VS") then rename it to .bat and run it.

Secondly, and probably someting you've either been wondering or stumbled into which is probably why you're reading this to begin with, Agora's Legends requires Cave Story's original data folder to run, which has not been included for the sake of copyright, space, and so on. The DXdata folder contains only patches and additions to Cave Story's folder, mostly information which was originally included in Cave Story's executable file, which is now replaced by Agora.exe. Agora's Legends has only been tested to run properly using the fully patched and translated English version of Doukutsu Monogatari (1.0.0.6), there are no guarantees that it will display correctly any Japanese characters or what other nonsense you might try. I have no plans to correct this in the near future.

Lastly, in order for other players to join your game over the internet when you select the "Host" menu option, you must have port 10284 forwarded from your router and Agora.exe unblocked from your firewall and such, otherwise they will be unable to join. This does not affect local area network play nor playing with multiple clients on the same machine (though only the active one would recieve input so there is little reason for you to try...) Networked play as a whole is currently still one of the least complete things in the game, inconsistency is very evident and players who aren't even on the same map or playing the same mod as you will still be shown. Not fully tested yet, possibily unstable.

Of course, there are still many bugs in other parts of the game, specificly the collision code. Feel free to report any bugs or inconsistencies with what you can do in Cave Story in the proper Echidna Tribe forum, as that's what it's there for.

Enjoy.
	~The Echidna Tribe
	http://JTE.KidRadd.org/AGL/
