First post, by Crissaegrimm
Hi there, I'm a new poster who registered pretty much entirely for the purpose of trying to get this game to work 😒
I'm using DOSBox 0.74 on a Windows XP system.
Dracula's Shadow is a DOS/Windows Castlevania fan-game based on Simon's Quest. As such, it shares many of the features of Simon's Quest that aren't found in other Castlevania games, most notably the day/night cycle.
My problem is that the game works fine under DOSBox (or VDMSound for that matter) up until night falls, whereupon it crashes with the following message.
"Shutting down Allegro
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
Page fault at eip=000b5724, error=0004
eax=f689c354 ebx=0007583c ecx=00000014 edx=00075840
esi=00d30400 edi=00000003 ebp=002b62e8 esp=002b62dc
program=I:\DRACUL~1\DRACSH~1.EXE
cs: sel=00a7 base=10000000 limit=00d4ffff
ds: sel=00af base=10000000 limit=00d4ffff
es: sel=00af base=10000000 limit=00d4ffff
fs: sel=00af base=10000000 limit=00d4ffff
gs: sel=00bf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff
ss: sel=00af base=10000000 limit=00d4ffff
App stack: [002b63b8..002363b8] Exceptn stack: [00236310..002343d0]
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x000b5724
0x0004bb0f
0x00031447
0x0003069c
0x00010ce6
0x000b4a88"
There is also a Windows executable which doesn't seem to crash when night falls, but it is far less reliable in general and crashes often for what seems like no particular reason, so I still feel the DOS version is the better choice.
Before posting I checked to see if anybody else had been having problems with the same game, but I didn't find anything, so here I am.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
