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February 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 Sky Boxes (version 1.3) by Semi-Native
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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13.01.2008 at 19:23:22
 
Would it be possible to program mansion names that start with "The" to ignore that word? That way, the mansion name would show up alphabetically under the second, and more appropriate, name.

For example, "The Great Escape" would show up under G instead of T.
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Reply #1 - 13.01.2008 at 19:51:19
 
I have thoughts about this for years but didn't dare to suggest it. You native english speaking persons might get offended Wink.
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Reply #2 - 13.01.2008 at 20:01:29
 
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Reply #3 - 13.01.2008 at 21:28:44
 
I can't pretend that I didn't have this thought before, either.... but I still don't think it's such a good idea.
Through months and years of calling up mansion names in lists as they are now, it would rather add confusion than minimize it, should we suddenly change the name structure.

I'm simply used to look for "The Great escape" under "T" as it has always been there.....

The best solution, therefore, would be a facility / process where each user can decide whether he wants to change the name's display or not..... an individual solution, so to speak.

But wait.....  doesn't the Mac offer us that possibility already ?
You're free to change your mansions' names to whatever you want, including the deletion of the "The", just as you can with every other Mac file name.
You might not be able to access saved games, though, as long as you don't change the names in the saved files as well !
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Reply #4 - 13.01.2008 at 21:53:44
 
aquaMat wrote on 13.01.2008 at 21:28:44:
But wait.....  doesn't the Mac offer us that possibility already ?
You're free to change your mansions' names to whatever you want, including the deletion of the "The", just as you can with every other Mac file name.
You might not be able to access saved games, though, as long as you don't change the names in the saved files as well !


This is a smart man!!! Why didn't I think of it? I have occasionally changed the name to put the mansion on top of the others! Shocked
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Reply #5 - 14.01.2008 at 04:33:19
 
When you know that mansion have a "The" on the start then you can better find it!  Cool Tongue
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