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First post, by CLimaPT

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Well, on prehistorik 2, when I reach like level 4, or 5 not sure, like middle of the level, the screen just goes weird and I can't the see guy or anything else.

About Prince of Persia 2, me and my friend have the same sets on both computers, but here it just skips the cutscenes for some reason, while on my friend's it doesn't (for example the flying carpet cutscene when you finish level 4 to go to level 5).

Hope you can help me! Thank you.

Reply 8 of 34, by CLimaPT

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pop2 cutscene skip: http://www.sendspace.com/file/slliuc
pre2 wierd screen: http://www.sendspace.com/file/azypj4
pre2 blinking difficult menu: http://www.sendspace.com/file/9ze1ao

I've uploaded these videos, so you can really see what are the problems.
About the messed up screen I told you about, in fact, it isn't in the same very place. I get it sometimes when I get hit by a monster, but if I walk around with the screen like that, for some time (even though I can't see myself and monsters), it manages to go back to normal somehow. You can see this in the 2nd link above, so you'll know what I'm talking about. Sorry for the huge size od the video, I don't really know how to manipulate it.

Reply 9 of 34, by wd

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Looks like a vga wrapping bug, but quite odd that it happens somewhen
during normal gameplay.
That intro scroller "blinking" is known, doubt that will be ever fixed but
it doesn't have any negative effects.

Got to see what prince2 does for me, but you said it happens on your pc
only and on some different pc the cutscenes are fine? Are you using the
exactly same version of the game, and the same dosbox version?

Reply 10 of 34, by CLimaPT

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yes 100% sure, I'm using DosBox 0.70 and Prince 1.0 so does my friend, but I'll get 1.1 to see what happens 😀

and yeah it just happens on my comp as i said

I played this ages ago (like in 1996 or something) and I went farther than the level that is buggy and as I remember there were no more bugs such as this one, the messed up screen. Might only be this level.

Reply 13 of 34, by wd

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And the cutscenes never occur? Like not only when you reload the game
but when playing it from the start?
No idea then. You could play with some of the dosbox.conf settings like
using core=dynamic and turning off the sound devices or so.

Reply 14 of 34, by Wintermute

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Actually I also had the cut scene problem some time ago. I wasn't able to solve it and since banished the game from my hard drive. (Unfortunately I don't remember the configuration I used.)

When I started a new game, the cut scenes still played, but sometime during gameplay they stopped showing up. I guess this had to somehow with the savegames, since once it stopped working from a specific savegame there was no chance of them reappearing with this save slot.

Reply 16 of 34, by CLimaPT

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I'm sorry I feel kind of pathetic right now, sorry for wasting your time wd.
It seems you were right after all. The version of prince I had, was the first version ever made known as initial realease, I didn't have 1.0 after all. I went to get 1.0 and now the cutscenes are working finally. 😁

Once again, sorry.

What about pre2 messed up screen on that level?

Reply 18 of 34, by CLimaPT

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I did that. The messed up screen didnt show up, but I don't know, 🤣. Maybe it was just luck. 😜

Please take a look at the video below. Is that blinking normal?

Reply 19 of 34, by wd

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Well it's not normal, but can't do anything about it at the moment.
They're using some vga register tricks that aren't supported by dosbox,
but it does not affect gameplay so well.

The screen corruption didn't happen for me yet.