User:Nehpys/Setting Up - The Older Scrolls: Arena

This instructional guide is the first in a four-part series on how to install the older series of games,, , , and .

''This article focuses on, the 1994 action-adventure role-playing fantasy game created by Bethesda Softworks. For its sequel, see Setting Up - The Older Scrolls II: Daggerfall.''

"It is said that hope flies on death's wings. Prepare then, for as the Elder Scrolls foretold, it will be here your adventure begins..."

- Arena 's Introduction

is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Softworks in March 25, 1994. Arena is the first installment action/adventure RPG fantasy video game series, taking place during the ten years of the Imperial Simulacrum of the Third Era.

Arena was one of the largest games created at the time of its release, if not the largest. In 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series, and must be run using a program called DOSBox

Despite what others may tell you, Arena is not difficult to install what-so-ever (especially compared to Daggerfall), it's more or less just time consuming.

This guide applies to setting up Arena by hand through a physical copy of the Floppy Disk/CD-ROM copy, or through the Floppy Disk release set free at ElderScrolls.Bethesda.net/en/Arena, the guide itself referring to installing the website-provided copy of Arena. Depending on your copy, these instructions may vary.

This guide also does not apply to the ArenaSetup.exe found from the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages Project (UESP)/the WiWiLand French Wiki Setup page.

Part 1 - Downloading Arena
Firstly, you should download your copy of Arena from the Elder Scrolls site.

Since Bethesda is trying to forget Arena ever existed in the first place the download link to Arena was removed from the page, it can be still directly downloaded here.

Once done so, the user will have a new file named "Arena106Setup.zip." This .ZIP file contains two things:


 * 1) A .EXE file containing the main assets for Arena.
 * 2) A setup guide.

The setup guide isn't necessary.

Place your "Arena106Setup" executable in the location where you want to install Arena (this location name cannot contain spaces). For example,.

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