Hi, thanks for dropping by.

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. We no longer provide technical support for the official Iron Maiden game "Ed Hunter".
You will have to go to the official Iron Maiden website and contact the fan club. They should be able to help you with any problems you may encounter. If they can't, you should try posting a question on the fan forum.

However, there are two common questions, so I shall answer them here.

1) It says that you can start the game from an advanced point once you have completed a level. It doesn't work!
Well, what it meant to say is that you can jump into the game at the start of a level after any level you have completed "without losing any lives". I know this makes it tough, but I also know a lot of fans who have managed to complete the whole game!
If you search on Google I believe somebody has a patch which hacks the code to remove this limitation. I have not tried this patch and I don't know if it works. If you are able to find it (if it exists) and you chose to use it, you do so at your own risk. I have nothing to do with it.

2) Ed Hunter doesn't work with Windows XP.
The "problem" here is that we didn't know, back in the 20th Century, that changes Microsoft would make to the Windows operating system would make our code (and many other programs) fail to run. This affected so many programs that Microsoft have built the solution into Windows. If you are using a version of Windows after Windows 2000, and your Ed Hunter doesn't run properly or at all, you may want to try the following;

Right click on the Ed Hunter icon on your desktop.
On the menu that appears, choose "properties".
Now select the "compatibility" tab.
Half way down the dialog box is a line that reads; "Run this program in compatibility mode for ..". Check the little box and choose Windows 2000 or Windows '98.

Now the program will run fine.

I hope this helped.