Blood Patches

There have been several revisions of Blood and Blood shareware since they were released. The latest version both shareware and full version is 1.11. Below are all of the patches available. If you have not yet installed any other patches, you can simply download a patch that upgrades your original version to the latest version. If you have installed any patches previously, you will need to download additional patches to bring your version up to date. For more information on what a patch actually fixes, please refer to the readme.txt file that will appear in your Blood directory after the patch is installed.

Notice: If you have modified some of the Blood files (ie, the demos), you will get errors when the patch program attempts to patch them. They will NOT be patched to the newer version. If you want them to be patched, re-install the version and re-run the patch.

Note: That the Retail Shareware CD is version 0.99B. The full Registered Retail CD is version 1.0.

Note: If you have the European version of Blood, do not download any patches. The US patches will not work with the UK 1.02 version of Blood.

Note: Before downloading a patch, you should determine which version of Blood you actually have. If you're not sure which version you have, start up Blood and as the game loads you will see a red banner at the top of the screen. This red banner has the version number on it.

REGISTERED CD | REGISTERED CD 3DFX | REGISTERED SHAREWARE CD

SHAREWARE INTERNET | PLASMA PAK | CRYPTIC PASSAGE | ORIGINAL

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This should make any registered CDs of the full game to
Blood Version 1.11  If not use individual patches.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.
[Note: there is a T0002.exe patch that also updates the tools for use with version 1.02 of Blood]

The Special Edition patch will edit your Blood executable to add the parental lock option back in, letting you decide how much blood and gore you'll see.

The Special Edition of Blood! is essentially the same as Blood full version 1.0, except that the "Parental Lock" option has been removed. This leaves the game in a mode that is considerably less Bloody than usual. In order for you to upgrade to version 1.02, you must first upgrade to the full version of the game.

To update Blood! Special Edition to Blood Full Version:

Download the patch file (SPECIAL1.exe).

• From the folder or directory where you saved the patch file, double click on or type in SPECIAL1 [ENTER].
• Enter the name of the directory where you installed Blood. (Usually C:\BLOOD) and hit [ENTER]. The patching process will take several minutes.
• Start BLOOD normally.

Once the game starts up, select "OPTIONS" from the main Blood menu. At the very bottom of the list you will see the parental lock option. Highlight this option and hit [ENTER]. You can now toggle between "ON" and "OFF" using the [ENTER] key.

* Important * Windows 95/98 Users.
If you receive an error message that says, "fatal error: unable to load Glide DLL", right-click on the 3DFX.exe file and then choose properties. Click on the MEMORY tab at the top. At the bottom of the screen is a value called “MS-DOS Protected Mode”. In that field, type in "65535" and then click "OK". Now, just double-click on the 3DFX.exe file to start the game and play!

This patch will allow OUWB users to include 3DFX support. This will also run Cryptic Passage in 3DFX. See the RTCM Online document setup-dosboxemu-3dfx-blood.html for instructions on how to use it.

Note: You need the nGlide API Wrapper, you also need a DOSBox that supports Glide for 3DFX to work. See RTCM's general-tools-dosxp download section.

This patch will update your version of Blood Plasma Pak to include 3DFX support.

Note: You need an old Voodoo 3D graphics card or a Glide Emulator for 3DFX to work.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This patch will update your version of Blood Registered to include 3DFX support.

Note: You need an old Voodoo 3D graphics card or a Glide Emulator for 3DFX to work.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This patch will update your version of Blood Registered to include 3DFX support.

Note: You need an old Voodoo 3D graphics card or a Glide Emulator for 3DFX to work.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

This should make any Retail Shareware on CD to Retail Shareware CD Blood Version 1.11  If not use individual patch's below.

This is a self-installing patch. Just download and run it. However You must have  0.99b version FIRST before running this patch. Blood Patch .99c RELEASE NOTES NOTES: Blood version .99c net and modem play is not compatible with previous versions of Blood. This is due to significant compression and reduction in the overall size of transmitted packets. Blood version .99c saved games and demos are not compatible with previous versions of Blood.

Note: trying to access old saved games may cause game to crash after patch is applied.

This should make any registered CDs with this pack installed to Blood Plasma Version 1.11  If not use individual patches.

This patch also updates the mapedit and artedit tools.

An early 1.11 version of the Plasma Pack CD was released. (It will indicate v1.11) with a date of August 19th, 1997. If the date says September 23rd, 1997, then you already have the revised / latest 1.11 version.

This is a GT Interactive patch. [Possibly a re-branded Monolith patch] that Upgrades full version Plasma Pak CD 1.1 to 1.11.

Instructions on this upgrade:

• Install Blood, version 1.0.
• Install Cryptic Passage. (Cryptic will want to upgrade Blood to version 1.02). Follow the directions to do that.
• Now, apply the Cryptic Passage patch, CPPATCH.ZIP.
• Then, apply the Blood r0210.exe patch.
• Finally, apply the Blood r1011.exe patch to bring Blood up to the current version of 1.11 (non-Plasma).

Copy the files from your CD and dump these files into the same folder and run the batch files. (Comes with a patcher exe file).

Patches These files:
INSTALL.EXE
GAMER.EXE
CPPATCH.EXE
CRYPTIC.EXE
CPMULTI.EXE