Whaaat? You can play Bejeweled inside WoW?! How? Why?
Lots of PopCap employees are also hardcore WoW players, who alt-tab during long flights or queues to kill time with Bejeweled. So when we learned we could actually implement Bejeweled inside WoW through an Add-On, we were intrigued. Soon the PopCap 'guild' was figuring out ways to make the mod even cooler and more comprehensive... and now it's ready to be unleashed!
FEATURES INCLUDE:
- Classic, Timed and Flight modes
- Incredible graphics, animation, sounds and explosions
- Customizable UI, with scaling, and auto-open, etc.
- Bejeweling 'tradeskill' ranks up with your achievements
- Persistent High Score lists: compete with friends and guild members
- FREE! Yes, absolutely Free!
Bejeweled Add-on for WoW installs like any other mod. Simply extract the file into your World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons directory then launch WoW!
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- Added a new option to the Options screen called "One score per person on high score lists." Turning this on will make it so only one score per person will be on your high score lists. No longer will the best player in your guild dominate your high score list, if you choose not to see it.
- Fixed an issue where players were being awarded the "Die from falling damage" achievement when they were actually surviving. That was not intended and has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where accepting a ready check in a raid was not triggering the achievement "Say yes to a raid ready check." It should now trigger when you say yes.
- Fixed an issue where trying to do the "Die from combat damage" achievement wouldn't trigger if damage done at any point might have been absorbed or blocked or anything else but a numeric value, resulting in an error and preventing this achievement from completing.
- Fixed an issue where game elements such as the power gem and hyper cubes would transfer over to new games if they existed in the prior game. This would include transferring empty jewels, waiting to explode jewels, and more, which would result in a variety of strange situations such as holes appearing in the game board, jewels exploding for no reason, and starting new games with special jewels already available.
- Fixed an issue where the minimap icon would not remember if it was hidden upon logging in and would automatically show itself.
- Fixed an issue where when the game window was shown without a game in progress, the "progress" bar would be slightly filled.
- Fixed an issue where the user could still click jewels while the game was paused.
- Fixed an issue where the guild high-score list would appear to be losing names if the guild roster was never opened before viewing the high scores.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...