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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Commander Keen Forever

Key

|||| ----  One way link... go forward.
#### ####  two way link... go back and forth.
$J$$ $$K$  Secret link.... Press a key to Warp.
> <        Arrows -- which way a link points

Special Levels

WAR - The Secret Dopefish War
P#  - Password
MM  - Mortimer McMire and the Mangling Machine
B   - Boobus
W#  - Underwater level


Flowchart of Levels in Keen-4-Ever:
 
 |---------------------------<----------|
 |        |--->---|                     |
 |  1-->--|     $$2--->---3---->--------4--->---5--->----6    
 |  $       WAR$$ |                                      |
 |  $       $     |                                      | 
 |  1A-->--2C#<>#2B----3'----4'----5'                    |
 |  |                              |                     |
 |  |                              |                     |
 |--W1----->---W2---------->-----P1-----------------<----|
                                  |
                 |---<------------|
                 |                     |--->----|
          |--<---7--->---              |        |
          |      |      |              |        A-->--B
          U1     D1     R1             |              |
          |      |      |              |        C--<--|
          U2     D2     |              |        |
          |      |      |              |        |
          U3--<--D3     |       |-->--P2        |-->--D
          |             |       |                     |
          |------>------8--->---MM                    |--->---E
                        |                                     |
                        |--->---B--->---9--->---10-----<------|
                                                 |
      17--<--16--<--15--<--14--<--13--<--12--<--11
      |
      |-->--19-->--20-->--P3-->--21-->--22-->--(DIALOG)-->--23-->--THE END
And of course, All the Secrets you could ever want to know.....:
(in roughly chronological order)

"Level" -- Level # is as indicated on above map.
"Description" -- a short list of what you see on the level.
"Secrets" -- all the special stuff you can expect to find
K: J: L: -- press this key to activate the secret

Level   Description                Secrets

  1     Green platform, Slug       K: Warp to screen 1B
  1B    bounders, McMire heads     Exits: top to W1, bottom to 2C
  2     blue platforms             K: Warp to WAR; Up to 3, Down to 2B
  3     Purple Platforms           None
  4     Clouds, Mushroom, Water    Right to 5; Down to W1
  5     Moving Clouds              None
  6     Moving clouds/Teleporter   None; teleports to P1
  2B    Lick low, house high       Go in house for 11 lives; Right to 3'
  2C    In the house               Exit back to 2B
  3'    MCMire head, bus           None
  4'    Multi-Licks                Music changes to house song from 2C
  5'    Red Slugs                  Chocolate milk reappears after being taken
  W1    Underwater - 1 Dopefish    None
  W2    Underwater - 2 Dopefish    None
  P1    4 slicestars               Password BOSS
  7     'Round the Mountain' MIDI  Up to U1; Down to D1; Right to R1  
  R1    Laser/Slug/Mushroom        K: music change & stops laser  
  U1    Berkeloid, Donuts          None
  U2    Yorpy's                    K: Set score to 10,000
  U3    Flect                      K: Set bullets to 1,333 
  D1    Slug/Lick/Pest             K: makes noise
  D2    Bloogs                     None
  D3    Teleporter, platforms      None
  8     Bouncing V's               Right to B, Down to MM 
  B     Boobus Chamber             None
  9     Vorticon, Garg             L kills them but then they regenerate
  P2    Yorpy, Robots              Password EATFRUIT
  A     Meep, Green Guy            K: freezes green guy
  B     Vorticons Galore           K: Makes new Vorticon Elite Guard
  C     Arachnut                   None
  D     big pond                   L: safe landing on far side
  E     Gnosticene Ancient         L: doubles the Gnosticenes
                                   click on teleporter w/mouse: Keen moons u
  11    Princess                   Hint is "Try the Inch Worm"
  12    Rock                       None
  13    Berkeloid                  None
  14    Lots of worms              they meet & make a Foot
  15    Oracle                     K: makes another Sparky
  16    Techno background          K: makes another red sphere
  17    Robo Red                   None
  18    Shikadi; balls             K: reveals a secret message
  19    Mine, Globe, Shikadi       None
  20    Molly                      None
  P3    Keen6 background           Password KEEN6
  21    Same background as P3      None
  22    big red dude               None
  DIALOG SCREEN
  23    Mortimer (Matrouse)        None
  THE END 


This guide was compiled by Stephen D. Costa, aka pLeitorian.


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