Map Detectives: Data Files

A quick tour of the Map Detectives: Urban Mystery data files (SHA1 hashes). Let's see how this game is put together!

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Map Detectives: Quality of Life Improvements

One of the problems I encountered running Map Detectives: Urban Mystery on Windows 10 was that the game changed the screen resolution to 640×480 and did not restore it upon exiting. My laptop's natural resolution is 3240×2160 with 200% scaling, so having all my windows and icons rearranged to fit such a small screen size was very annoying. There are no display options within the game and the sherston.ini file located next to the game executable had no effect when edited. All is not lost, however — with a few small edits to the game's executable files these problems can be solved.

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