Diadem of Maunstraut

[Holy_Diver]

Another odd thing I noticed. I dunno if this is supposed to happen, but when using the Star of Lore (and I think the Hell Hands) I gain MP (and possibly HP for the hands) whenever my magic connects. So like, if there are two giant plants next to one another, and I hit them with Chaos Lightning, I actually end up gaining more MP than the MP I needed to cast the spell (100MP) ...that just seems wrong. So I'm thinking, it would be better if these items only drained when using a weapon attack (and can SoM differentiate between the two, or is it just not that capable?)

Speaking of which, I get pretty depressed when I think about the state of SoM when it was released. I wonder if From never released patches. The fact that I have to reset that one button in the joypad config every time I turn it on is ridiculous. I can't remember if I got that to work by manually editing the config file way back (when I was playing Japanese SoM games without the tool) or not??

There are other such bugs, which just should not be there for a boxed product, unless they're just a side effect of Windows not being 100% backwards compatible to the time (speaking of which, Vista has a number of backwards compatibility options which I've yet to try with SoM executibles -- dunno if any of them might help)

PS: I also usually equip the ice armor when using CL, because the Truth Mirror guy/gal(?) says it amplifies magic (does it really work that way?)