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January 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 The Bat House (version 1.1) by Chippy
- for MM2 Brave New World (version 1.1) by Freddy
- for MM1 Art minds mansion (version 1.1) by Veronika
December 2024's updates of custom mansions are:
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- for MM1 Cheetah Castle Easy (version 1.2) and Cheetah Castle Normal (version 1.2) both by Catwoman.

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A brief history of the game
At first there was Midnight Mansion, now often called MM1. This game package was for Mac only and contained 8 mansions, each on easy, normal and hard level. Above that there was a builder included, so that customers could design mansions themselves.
Then there was Midnight Mansion HD, now abbreviated as MM1 HD for both Mac and Windows. It contained the 3x8 mansions from MM1 plus 3x a bonus mansion: Tomb of Princes. All in high definition!
Actionsoft's latest game, Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills, includes 28 mansions with a lot of new features. The 8 built-in mansions have 3 difficulties along with 4 extra custom mansions. Yes indeed, the MM2 package also has an included builder to create mansions!

Custom mansions

In the past decades several customers started experimenting with the builders. Creating rooms. Talking about it on the Midnight Mansion Forums. Sending their own designed mansions to other board members to test them. And finally sending them to the administrators of MMF.
Result? Nearly 200 extra mansions are downloadable from these boards and some of them have over 100 rooms.
If you like to download custom mansions, go to the General Custom Mansions Area (Mac and Windows) where you find the lists with all the download spots.

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Reply #30 - 15.03.2007 at 05:39:00
 
So now ....back to our topic: Helter Skullter

Yesterday I finally made it: I beat the mansion all the way thru....100% secrets !!

It's really a wonderful mansion, especially now that all the little problems of the earlier versions are ironed out !!

After I beat the "real" one, I played the easy version.....  Ohmygod, was that easy !!    Cheesy Grin  (Should have played that first...!)

But:  I found one small error, I think.
In room 13897, somewhere in the upper right corner (but below that caveat with the shield and the key), Jack used to be able to walk through, coming from the right on the uppermost path....but now it's not possible anymore, as there is a brick blocking his head.

Fortunately, I managed to get through the room on a different path.... but only with a pretty dangerous leap.

So something must have happened there: in all earlier versions, and in the released hard version it IS possible to pass that spot.

A few other, final, notes on the released versions:

The save pedestal is of much help, although I feel it comes a little too early in the game. (But it's probably one of the only spots where there was enough space to put it up, I suppose).

I always found it irritating, and still do, that in order to get all secrets, you have to take ALL moving platforms thru the lava, even if it's not necessary for the completion of the game, as you can get to the lower spots with the levers on a much shorter amd more direct way!  So if you want all secrets, you have to keep going back up and take the platforms throu the lava / ceiling several times.  Here I feel, one secret (maybe for the first platform), would have been enough.

In all versions there is a "mistake" in room 14297, ca. center left, near the left grey door. Once this door has been opened, the skull spider walks to the left (and remains there). This is a bad space for it, as it often results in Jack having to sacrifice a life in order to get to (or back from) the leftmost lever. I'm sure the skullspider was meant to stay in the gap  right of the grey door, so the player could jump over it.

Apart from these last 3 points (sorry Joe) I think it's a wonderful, perfect mansion !!
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Reply #31 - 07.11.2007 at 07:26:22
 
Help! I'm confused.

I'm working from save point one, and have just gotten 3 red keys and have gone into the dark room where the lamp is on the right. There are lots of spiders and evil invisible ledges that keep killing me, I don't know what to do. Do I need to get back to the beginning of the game to use my 3 red keys? Am I being stupid in this room?

Help would be appreciated.

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Reply #32 - 07.11.2007 at 18:48:31
 
Hi Lara,

You're on the right track. You're at the bottom of the room with the lantern, and you need to be careful in order to get it. But it is possible. Keep trying, and good luck.
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Reply #33 - 07.11.2007 at 21:35:58
 
Hey,

I'm not on the bottom left, more the middle left. I think I know how to get to the bottom left...

Anyone got any more explicit help?  Smiley
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Reply #34 - 15.11.2007 at 04:13:56
 
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Reply #35 - 15.11.2007 at 05:23:47
 
Lara, I just sent  you a PM with the answer.
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