First post, by kosem
About the game Beasts and Bumpkins...
some dude wrote a msg:
Beasts & bumpkins (maptile.mfb error)
and other dude said this game works only on windows 95 or 98
is there any way to make it work on Win Xp?
About the game Beasts and Bumpkins...
some dude wrote a msg:
Beasts & bumpkins (maptile.mfb error)
and other dude said this game works only on windows 95 or 98
is there any way to make it work on Win Xp?
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How will he run it with DOSBox if it is a Windows game or am I missing something? 😕
Edit:
Now for the solution. I've found Beasts and Bumpkins on one of my old cds, it's a cd-rip by CLASS. I've done what it said in NFO and imported BEASTS.REG into registry. When I started BEASTS.EXE I got message "Could not open maptile.mfb". After some thinkering I've found solution, instead of HKEY_USERS\.Default the game searches in HKEY_CURRENT_USER so I changed the BEASTS.REG to point to that location in registry, this is how it should look like:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Worldweaver Productions]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Worldweaver Productions\Beasts and Bumpkins]
"Installed"=dword:00000001
"Language"=dword:00000000
"InstallDrive"="."
"InstallDir"="\\"
"Video"=".\\video.box"
"Audio"=".\\audio.box"
"Speech"=".\\speech0.box"
"Misc"=".\\misc.box"
"Missions"=".\\missions.box"
"MissionText"=".\\mistext0.box"
"Working"=".\\"
"CD"=""
"Link"="C:\\WIN95\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Beasts and Bumpkins\\Beasts and Bumpkins.lnk"
When I imported changed BEASTS.REG into registry and started BEASTS.EXE the game worked fine, perhaps a little to fast. Now this is solution for ripped version, but the same should apply to original cd release. This would be solution for original version: After installing the game go to registry HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software and export "Worldweaver Productions" key, than edit exported reg file, change HKEY_USERS\.Default with HKEY_CURRENT_USER and reimport reg file into registry. Also take care, thinkering with registry can blowup Windows. 😁