One Must Fall: 2097

One Must Fall: 2097 is a fighting game for PC released in 1994 by Epic MegaGames. It became freeware in 1999.

Gameplay

The core of the game consists of the player controlling a human assisted robot (HAR) to fight against various opponents. The basic modes of gameplay are the single player, two player or the RPGesque tournament mode. The single player mode revolves around the employees of the WAR corporation trying to gain control of the Jupiter's moon, Ganymede for their own secret agendas and the development of a mysterious project only known as Nova. The player has to select from a pool of 10 possible pilots and HAR combinations and advance through a unique storyline for each pilot by defeating rival pilots. In the two player mode a single computer is used to host two player usually dividing the keyboard into halves. OMF also supports the use of Joysticks.

The longest mode with the most replay value is the tournament mode. The player can select a name and one of four avatars for their pilot, enter four possible tournaments of increasing difficulty, take classes to increase their own power, agility and endurance, buy parts to increase the efficiency of their HAR or exchange their HAR for a new one. The player can also connect to a friend's PC and pit their tournament characters against each other.

HARs

Characters

Single Player characters

Tournament characters

Other Characters

Tournaments

Arenas

	Stadium	This arena has no hazards, and is consequently the most popular arena for multiplayer combat.
	Danger Room	A spike comes out of the back wall and hits anyone in a small area around it.The spikes count as Light KD attacks and are unblockable. Note that these can do some serious damage, and although they can appear in succession, they'll never appear in two places at the same time.Flail can duck the spikes.
	Power Plant	When an airborne opponent is hit by a Medium or Heavy attack, he'll get knocked into the electric walls. Ironically, these walls do no damage, and they limit combos severely, so they can actually help you. Consider them a hazard to your opponent.
	Fire Pit	A globe will appear in the air and move around in curves quickly. If the globe is hit by either player, it causes Katana's Fireball move to come out of the floor right under the opponent and the globe disappears. (It will also disappear after a short time if it isn't hit.) If you've already beaten Fire in one-player mode the floor will be solid instead of a grille, and the globe will not appear.
	Desert	Fighter jets in groups of 1-4 planes strafe the arena vertically. The first few "hits" are on the ground, while the last hit is about 1/4 of the way up the screen, so the shots can be avoided by jumping. The shots count as Light AR attacks and are unblockable. As the rounds pass, it changes from daytime to night.

Cheats and Tips

Advanced Options

Start at main screen, or gameplay screen. Hold down the 2 0 9 and 7 buttons at the same time, release and go to Gameplay screen, there should be a new "Advanced Options" that contains a lot of options that affect gameplay, especially Rehit Mode is of interest.

Note: you can also get this menu by starting the game with "FILE0001.EXE ADVANCED" from DOS (or command prompt)

Once in the Advanced Options,

Rehit Mode: Off / On (Recommended On) Defensive Throws: Off / On (Recommended On)

Throw Range: 0% - 300% (Recommended default 100%)

Jump Height: 80% - 130% (Recommended default 100%)

Hit Pause: 0 - 10 (Recommended 0)

Vitality: 80% - 400% (Recommended 400%, does not affect Tournament mode)

Knock Down: None/Punches/Kicks/Both (Recommended None or Both)

Block Damage - 0% - 35% (Recommended 20%)

Sound Test

Start at main screen, or gameplay screen. Hold down the ALT key and S+F at the same time, release the keys and go to "Configuration" screen, there you should now have an option called: "Sound Test 0" You can press left and right keys to cycle between the 300 (0-299) sounds in the game, Just hit Enter or Punch button to listen to the selected number.

Hidden Difficulty 1

Start at gameplay screen, select the "CPU:" option, and press the Right Arrow Button until it says "CPU: Champion" which is the highest difficulty rating.

Now press the: Right Arrow Button, and press it down ca 10-15 times, until it display: "CPU: Deadly"

This is quite a bit harder than Champion.

Hidden Difficulty 2

Start at gameplay screen, select the "CPU:" option, it should now say: "CPU: Deadly" as it did in the previous post.

Press and hold down the buttons: O+M+F release the buttons and press the Right Arrow Button again, now it should say: "CPU: Ultimate"

More Scrap Metal

This code works from in game, so start a fight, for example a 2 player game, and any time during the fight, you can type in: B+I+G+1 (or B+I+G+2, or B+I+G+9) to have the amount of scrap metal that comes loose from each hit increase, or decrease. The BIG0 disables scarp metal completely, and BIG9 is the most scrap,

BIG1 is normal. bigger numbers can be very annoying in length.

To end this, change to BIG1 or exit the game, and start it again.

Scrap Rain

This code works from in game, so start a fight, for example a 2 player game, and any time during the fight, you can type in: R+E+I+N

Now all the scrap metal that is blown off a robot, will start to rain down from the top of the screen, this lasts for a few seconds per hit, and will stop raining if nobody hit each other.

To end this exit the game, and start it again.

Change colours in one/two player game

While on robot selection screen player one can press the 1,2,3 buttons to change colours.

Player two can press the 4,5,6 buttons in similar way to change he's colours.

The F9 button will reset the colours.

Victory screen replay (Tournament play)

After watching the tournament victory screen, press E to replay it, this works as long as you are ranked number 1 in the tournament.

Quick exit

Press F10. Pressing F10 immediately after a tournament mode loss causes the loss to be not registered.

Changing abilities in one/two player

This allows you to change how much Power, Agility and Endurance the pilot will have. You only change the already existing abilities, you do not add more.

Start on any character, and move the selector over every pilot (in no particular order). Then move to any pilot you want, and press and hold down the KICK button. Use arrow keys to change the abilities, right and left change the amount, and up and down change witch ability to change.

Playing Nova in one/two player

To play Nova in a one or two player game start on any bot, and move the selector over every bot (in no particular order). Then go to Katana, and press DOWN 11 times (or press 20 to be certain), go to the flail and press Punch or Kick.

You should now see the Nova instead of Flail in the loading hangar, if not press Escape and try again.

Fight Vs Kreissack first

You need to have selected Nova to do this. Use the tips for getting Nova in single player from above, then when you stand in the loading hangar with the nova, hit ESCape, you will return to robot selection screen. Now hit Punch or Kick again to go back to hangar and Kreissack will be your first opponent.

Note that you still have to fight the other 9 after you defeat Kreissack.

Recording: OMF.EXE REC (Filename/SAVE_REC)

This option allows you to "record" a fight, so you can replay the fight another time. very useful to show off your skills.

Simply start the game from the DOS prompt (or CMD) with the syntax: OMF REC (or FILE0001 REC) This will record the last fight you fight to the file: LAST.REC, so if you play OnePlayer game and fight against Crystal first, then against steffan, the fight against steffan will be recorded.

You can specify a filename like: OMF REC RAPTOR.REC to have the file named RAPTOR.REC automatically. Also by using the SAVE_REC command, you have record all fights you play. eks: OMF REC SAVE_REC will save every fight you play into files like OMF00001.REC, OMF00002.REC and so on.

To replay the .REC files type: OMF PLAY this will automatically replay the LAST.REC. Or you can specify a filename. example: OMF PLAY RAPTOR.REC which will of course replay the RAPTOR.REC fight.

Just press F10 to escape from replay mode, or wait for the fight to end, you can also use ESC button to select QUIT as well as most normal options inside game like speed and sound options.