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Insttallation
1. To
T install thee game startts, just run setup.exe.
s
T
The installerr will allow us to choosse the langu
uage you waant
to seee the installlation.

2. The
T next scrreen you see will show
w a summaryy informatio
on about thee contents oof the installlation.
Highlight your Next.

3. Here,
H
we shoow more deetailed inform
mation, whiich we read
d to know what
w to do too play propeerly. Then we
w
click
k on the Neext button.

4. The
T followinng menu will we choose the compoonents you want to install the gam
me and inforrm us of thee
conttent and harrd disk spacce we need to
t have freee for decom
mpression. The game, onnce installed
d, takes up less
spacce (about abbout 17 gigss). Punctureed on the Neext button.

If we
w have not chosen anyy componentt, the installler will warrn us that the game conntent is not copied,
c
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but that it will bbe unzippedd some filess, such as a menu of op

ptions, a seriial number generator,aa mini imagee
and various doccuments (foolder # JIMB
BO).
w already have the coontent of thee game in a folder, but w
we lack thee shortcuts or
o
Thiss is only intteresting if we
regiistry values (essential tothe game to
t work) or want to add
d the custom
m menu or tthe contentss of the foldder #
JIM
MBO. If we cclick OK, go
g forward, otherwise reeturn to thee componentt selection m
menu.

4. On
O the next screen you can configu
ure the instaaller to automatically in
nstall the libbraries weth
he game
requ
uires (the. N
NET Framew
work are neecessary to ooperate the tool that faccilitates the creationded
dicated servvers)
and even turn ooff the compputer when finished, w
which is very
y useful, esp
pecially sincce note thatt the installaation
proccess is quitee long. Puncctured on th
he Next buttton.

5. Finally,
F
chooose the instaallation desttination andd will punctture on Instaall to start itt.

Firsst copy the ggame disk compressed.

c
.

And
d then comees his decom
mpression.

Thee installer shhall notify and

a inform us
u that the ddisappearance of the no
otice, you caan extract th
he source D
DVD
installation, sinnce the proccess will con
ntinue withoout access to it again.

nally, we wiill see that itt's over succcessfully. A

Also, if we choose
c
to turn off the coomputer
Fin
Afteer installatioon, it will be done (we will have 220 seconds to,
t if we wissh, cancel).

ying in locaal area netw

work (L.A.N.)
Play
To play,
p
alone or in compaany, it is im
mperative to use the min
ni image inccluded in thhis edition, so
s
reco
ommended ssee pages 13 and follow
wing this tuutorial which
h explains how.
h
Now w
we will
show
w how netw
work play.

Com
mmon requ
uirements

1. Mount
M
the m
mini image and
a make su
ure you're uusing differeent serial nu
umbers in eaach terminal. See
pages 13 et seqq.
2. Start
S
the gam
me using thee shortcut th
he installer ccreated or menu
m
option
n 1 file
"Op
ptions.cmd".

3. Already
A
in thhe game's main
m menu, we click onn Multiplayeer.

Now
w the steps aare differennt, as we waant to host thhe game or join
j
her.

Hossting a gam
me

1. Highlight
H
yoour news.

2. We
W named oour game annd make sure that the chhoice brand
d LAN Host. If you cheeck Internet, the
swittched LAN..

3. We
W selected and we clicck on Play mission.
m

4. We
W hope to jjoin us the rest
r of playeers and we cclick on OK
K.

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Joiining a Racce

1. In
n the multipplayer menuu, we make sure we aree looking on
nly in LAN games. If thhe button
botttom left of tthe screen inndicates Ad
ddress: Interrnet, press to read Addrress: LAN.

2. The
T game seerver shouldd appear to us.
u In this c ase, we marrk it and click on Join.

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If yo
ou do not seee the gamee, click in Remote.
R

In th
he Address box enter thhe I.P. Privaate server aand punctureed OK.

Now we just w
wait for the server to staart the gamee to appear on it.

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Mount the min

ni image on
n the physical DVD drrive
m
the gaame run smoothly proteection (the ffamous fadee, loss of sig
ght or messsages that
To make
deteeriorate illeggal copies) have
h
to trick the game into thinkin
ng that we have
h
the origginal DVD inserted intto
our reader. To do this we will
w use a mini
m image aand the prog
gram VirtuaalCD. Let's see:
1. In
n the folder # JIMBO the
t last DVD
D is the proogram's instaaller VirtualCD. We innstalled it, itt
configured so tthat images can be link
ked to DVD and allow hardware
h
to
o be associat
ated with
gram files thhat come byy default.
prog

2. Now
N it mounnt the mini image
i
to thee physical D
DVD. Theree are severaal ways to doo this, all vaalid:
A. You
Y can go to the foldeer "# JIMBO
O \ mini-imaage" of the directory where
w
you innstalled the game, clickk
with
h button
Righ
ht-click on the file "NS
S-A2OA_SR
R-poseden.vvc4", navig
gate to Insertt a virtual C
CD and click
k
on the
t unity off our DVD reader.
r

B. You
Y can clicck on the rigght mouse button
b
on thhe program icon on the taskbar, broowse
up our
o DVD pllayer, click on Insert seelected virtuual CD, locaate the file "NS-A2OA_
"
_SRposeeden.vc4 ", select it and click on th
he Insert buutton.

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C. You
Y can finaally go to Computer,
C
cllick with thhe right mou
use button on our DVD
D player,
Inseert selected down to virrtual CD, ass before, loccate the file "NS-A2OA
A_SR-posedden.vc4"select it and cllick
on the
t Insert buutton.

e
case eexposed, thee result shou
uld be, if wee look at eq
quipment thaat the icon oof our readeer
In either
DVD
D has changged, as if we
w had insertted a disc inn it. Thus it can be seen
n in the imaages
belo
ow.

Befo
fore :

After:

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Cha
ange the serial numbeer
w make usee of multiplaayer, make sure that thee various co
omputers th
hat want to cconnect
If we
each
h use differeent serial nuumbers. If not,
n the gam
me will appeear the following messaage, bleak, "the
"
illeg
gal copies ddeteriorate. " In any casse, we can oonly play in local area network
n
(LA
AN), but no
ot using
officcial internett servers beecause the game will coomplain thatt our serial number is w
wrong.
To check
c
our seerial numbeer and, if neecessary, chaange it, run
n the script "options.cm
"
md" (root follder
the fate of the iinstallation)) and choosee the last opption (numb
ber 3).

Thee serial num

mbers that wee are using is what youu first see on
n the screen
n (first two llines). The rest
r are
pred
defined serial numbers to be more comfortablle insertion..
To change
c
the sserial numbber can eitheer choose onne of the prredefined en
ntering a num
umber from 0 to 9, or
you
u can enter thhe number 10 and writte a differennt one.

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Thee latter optioon (using a predefined

p
serial numbber) is intended for the hypotheticaal case
we go
g to collecct more thann ten peoplee to take a nnetwork gam
me and we laack numberrs
series. It is in thhis case whhen we havee to use the kkey generattor included
d in the folde
der
on, we can ssafely skip the next secction.
# JIMBO. If wee are not in this situatio

ng a predeffined seriall number

Usin

1. Go
G to the follder # JIMB
BO and doub
ble click onn the file "keeygen.exe".

2. Itt will bring up the mennu shown in the image bbelow. We chose ArmA
A 2 on the ffirst down and
a
click
k on Generaate. The num
mbers in thee boxes on tthe right ch
hange. We are
a only inteerested in
low
wer number, which is whhat we need
d to copy.

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3. In
n the menu change seriial number (main
(
menuu option 3), introduce th
he number 10 to
not use a predeefined.

4. Now,
N
in the space we haave, we hav
ve to paste th
the serial nu
umber beforre copying. T
There are th
hirty numbeers
and letters
we appear
a
in grroups separrated by a sp
pace. We neeed to remove these spaaces have a unique string, such
as shown in thee image. Affter insertion
n, will presss the enter key.
k

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5. Then
T
repeat the above steps
s
for thee second serrial number you ask forr, but choossing
Arm
mA 2: OA (iinstead of ArmA
A
2) in the key gennerator.

Thee new serial numbers haave been sto

ored in the rregistry and
d verify thatt we have chhanged
acceessing backk to said mennu.
MBO
JIM

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