Re: Dune II HD port at last!

Posted on 2024-01-14, 18:03

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Fairly sure an AI House is activated once you first discover a unit of their House, yes. This is the reason almost all missions feature enemy unit drops into your base; it's a mechanism to get the conflict started, and to prevent the player from turtling too much and building up too much money and …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 22:35

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I've been madly addicted to Dangerous Dave since I bought John Romero's collection box of it a few months ago. Finally managed to record a full playthrough including all special areas, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U1Mg98gMX8

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Re: The Incredible Machine image resource reader

Posted on 2022-07-25, 22:08

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knt47 wrote on 2022-07-22, 20:51: Thanks, Nyerguds for the additional reverse engineering work for the TIM image format. It helped me a lot to fix a bug in the image decoder code. Sorry for the very late reply. Happy to help. I'm glad to see you digging further into these games 😀

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2022-02-16, 13:37

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Can't you just underclock DOSBox cycles to get that effect? :p

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2021-08-23, 17:57

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The favor i want to ask you (please) is if you can find a way to make the game use "goros lair" track (plus "goros lair finish round" track when finish a round) instead of "Throne Room" track for those 2 stages. Oof. Glad the tool was useful to you, but all I did was find the files tables with the …

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Re: The Incredible Machine image resource reader

Posted on 2021-07-28, 08:56

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Odd that you didn't actually link to the page where you put the research of this actual format... https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_image_format I dug deeper into it and identified some of the rules and quirks in the format, like the fact that at the start of a block of …

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Re: Dune II CD-ROM version - does it even work?

Posted on 2021-05-05, 15:00

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I'll attach my C source code here in case it's useful to anyone else. To use (from *nix -- YMMV): Just a note... I've been digging into this format, and identified the entries you indicated as chksum and flags in the file entries. uint8_t cksum[3]; // I think... uint8_t flags; // Usually either …

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Re: Dune II CD-ROM version - does it even work?

Posted on 2021-04-01, 11:23

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Hmm, got my own copy now, and I tested the application in DOSBox, but there is no "print" button on the main menu, and both clicking the button with the mouse and pressing "P" both work fine for actually running it. sn_001.png Also, the folder created on hard disc contains the entire game, not just …

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Re: Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos - play as Dawn

Posted on 2021-03-31, 22:16

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Seems possible but I took a quick look in the member list and I did not see a "Nyerguds" account without a "2". We rarely remove accounts (unless due to spam/abuse/etc.) so... looks like you could have registered "Nyerguds" if you wanted! Peculiar. I tried, and it didn't work. Otherwise I wouldn't …

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Re: Dune II CD-ROM version - does it even work?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 22:14

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MrFlibble told me that there was indeed some 1.07 US version going around that mysteriously had 34 extra bytes appended at the end for no reason. Seems we found the source of that version 😀

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Re: Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos - play as Dawn

Posted on 2021-03-13, 15:24

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oh hi Nyerguds2 ! I think my comment might have been a bit blunt and I'm sorry I was such careless mentioning Librarian and Westpak software. It did not occurred to me the author would read my post and I hope did not offend you talking about your software in such a way. Nah, no worries. I just …

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Re: Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos - play as Dawn

Posted on 2021-03-13, 01:08

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none of my attempt a messing up with westpak2 and librarian worked. Librarian was a tool I quickly cobbled together to extract files from a bunch of games to have test materials for the actual project I was working on - Engie File Converter , and re-insert reconverted versions into archives to test …

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Re: Is this a fake Lemmings disk?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 16:26

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I believe my Indy 500 and Lemmings disks came bundled in with a Sound blaster 2.0 boxed set: IMG20210306083806.jpg At least I think that's where they came from - I can't remember getting boxed versions of those two games. I have the same stuff! I don't know what happened to the Indy 500 disc, but I …

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Re: Dune II CD-ROM version - does it even work?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 09:31

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I've seen this CD on ebay but wondered what it was all about. What actually baffles me most is that the file size of the exe (367794 bytes) does not match any of the known Dune II versions I researched alongside MrFlibble: Gameplay demo with recorded actions played back in the game engine: (found on …

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Re: (Almost solved) Trying to run Command & Conquer without CD

Posted on 2020-01-27, 09:30

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by Nyerguds2

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Old topic, I know, but I just noticed this... Copy Aud.mix, Conquer.mix desert.mix, general.mix, scores.mix, sounds.mix, temperat.mix, movies.mix, setup.mix, zsounds.mix create a sub folder called c:\games\C&C CD\Aud1 and copy speech.mix run c&c -cdc:\games\c&c\cd The general.mix files of the two …

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-25, 07:00

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However as for recording of the best Mortal Kombat sound samples I must say if you want to remain true to the actual game I would use the MAME and record the MK1 audio from the game directly instead. I also have the MK CD if I wanted the purest sound. The MK1 Sega CD tracks seem to very often be …

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-12, 16:46

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Okay... this is getting completely bizarre. I actually tried replacing a .wav file, and playing with Gravis Ultrasound... and it seems my thoughts about it being midi were completely wrong. It actually played the replaced music. So this means that the GUS actually does some sort of post-processing …

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-11, 07:26

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I've been experimenting with replacing sound some more, and it does seem there are upper limits it can handle; when I replaced the main theme by the Sega CD version it crashed after the score screen. Too bad I couldn't find where the size component of the file struct was actually used when I …

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-10, 16:58

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by Nyerguds2

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Well, I don't know how DOSBox does its GUS emulation. I just know it sounds better 😀

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2017-07-10, 13:24

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Was just doing that :) http://www.mediafire.com/file/hffc3e3c51lpfce/MK1_SB_GUS_comparison.wav This is the start of the game's intro music. Just a 5-second sample, first from the SB version and then the same from the GUS version. Very audible difference. The SB wav versions sound very muffled when …

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