tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post6280812537102592852..comments2024-03-28T20:51:01.807-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Dark Stone Ritual: Too XoonCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-63686487402621016432022-08-24T11:56:50.788-04:002022-08-24T11:56:50.788-04:00"Baran der Allwissende wants me to find his s..."Baran der Allwissende wants me to find his spellbook" -> For someone whose name is "the all-knowing" it's a bit embarassing not even to know where your own spellbook is... .Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-15077416107736775832022-06-28T22:15:04.061-04:002022-06-28T22:15:04.061-04:00Development times did the to be a lot shorter back...Development times did the to be a lot shorter back then; Wolfenstein 3D was only 4 months.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-44769332306341738532019-05-12T12:19:29.785-04:002019-05-12T12:19:29.785-04:00To phrase it better, when the game asks you for a ...To phrase it better, when the game asks you for a password, it doesn't neccessarily necessarily mean a single word. It's definitely confusing. I can't think of a good German translation for "passphrase", though. Maybe "Parole", but I think that implies a meaningful sentence.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53565296637355393652019-05-12T10:52:09.899-04:002019-05-12T10:52:09.899-04:00No, I had five--I just mis-counted. Thanks for the...No, I had five--I just mis-counted. Thanks for the help. I'm glad that it wasn't something that I missed, but I disagree that a "passWORD" isn't just a word. Five words strung together is a pass PHRASE.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39319042371805818712019-05-12T02:50:27.938-04:002019-05-12T02:50:27.938-04:00A password isn't neccessarily a single word. W...A password isn't neccessarily a single word. When you got the passwords, it said: "The first word is...", "The second word is...", "The third...".<br /><br />Also, you must have missed a hut in the very far east, which requires a "very special stone". Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-51269110980372077862019-05-11T19:16:41.799-04:002019-05-11T19:16:41.799-04:00Still stuck, dammit. I got the four stone plates a...Still stuck, dammit. I got the four stone plates and thus the four stones and the four passwords. But the only place I haven't been is in a small compound on a northern island (the island with all the powerful fountains). They're asking for a password, and none of the ones I have seem to do anything. Any hint appreciated.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-64438576554344001932019-05-11T17:29:45.857-04:002019-05-11T17:29:45.857-04:00Ah, fine, good luck with finishing the game then. ...Ah, fine, good luck with finishing the game then. You shouldn't be far from the end :)Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-29835543229987991432019-05-11T17:24:53.346-04:002019-05-11T17:24:53.346-04:00I think the burglary skill is just for disarming t...I think the burglary skill is just for disarming traps. The "manual" explicitly mentions that there are either locks or hidden buttons nearby, otherwise the doors cannot be opened. If you have the dark stone, I don't think there's any door you still need to open.<br /><br />The stone plates are important, I think I found them all by stepping on overland squares. Are you sure you stepped on all of them? Were you able to swim to other islands (all characters need the swimming skill)? Have you visited the island with the gate that requires a password, and the island with the four tents arranged in a square?<br /><br />Light spoiler regarding Mormo's diamond: Vg'f abg vzcbegnag gb svavfu gur tnzr, gur erjneq vf "Uryyfvpug" sbe nyy punenpgref.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-87825621375187853672019-05-11T17:23:17.472-04:002019-05-11T17:23:17.472-04:00Ah, never mind. I missed there were some additiona...Ah, never mind. I missed there were some additional areas to swim to.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-86284628738296602862019-05-11T17:05:38.627-04:002019-05-11T17:05:38.627-04:00Hey, Buck. Maybe you can help me. I'm stuck, b...Hey, Buck. Maybe you can help me. I'm stuck, but in a different way:<br /><br />I've mapped the entire land (and have all the skills necessary to explore all squares). I have explored the entire outdoors and every dungeon and city as fully as possible. I have the Dark Stone but don't know what to do with it. I never found two of the four steinplatten nor Mormo's diamond. Never found the "burglary" skill, so I have a lot of locked doors. Any hints as to what I missed?CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-46608638097468210232019-05-11T11:12:27.343-04:002019-05-11T11:12:27.343-04:00Making a game translatable isn't hard (especia...Making a game translatable isn't hard (especially nowadays), but it does require some effort. These guys had regular jobs and wrote games in their free time, I'm not surprised they never considered making the game translatable. They probably wouldn't have thought that this game would ever be played outside of Germany. Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-69312791359044981542019-05-09T09:53:49.428-04:002019-05-09T09:53:49.428-04:00Companies use proprietary file formats to protect ...Companies use proprietary file formats to protect files containing valuable proprietary assets, such as models, textures, sound, music, data, etc. Those assets are costly, since they require time, tools, and expertise to make (unless the assets are licensed, in which case they cost money to acquire and their copyrights are owned by a third party), thus those assets are valuable and game companies don't want unauthorized third parties piggybacking on their investments.<br /><br />In the early days, disk space and memory were also at a premium, so developers often came up with clever ideas to save a byte here and there, which usually doesn't lend itself to easily readable formats.<br /><br />That being said, <i>Dark Stone Ritual</i> does store some of its data in a readable format. Items are stored in two plain text files, one line each. Part of the dialog is kept in a simple ROT-5 obfuscated file, and maps are plain ASCII drawings.<br /><br />See here (spoilers of course): https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjMV8dgvxHDblLkO724XpVtGi3gH7gZardashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856007425128087340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-43207811224087731282019-05-08T06:37:58.856-04:002019-05-08T06:37:58.856-04:00What I find a shame is that many games, like this,...What I find a shame is that many games, like this, didn´t think of the possibility of ease to translate. If for example the dialogs all pointed back to a simple text file, then a wider audience could play the game, once translated, into their own language. No disrespect to programmers intended, but I´ve seen how often programs of all sorts are simply rushed to the table and so many tweaks and extensible things haven´t been thought through. Dan2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-11157431725381009622019-05-05T04:04:05.802-04:002019-05-05T04:04:05.802-04:00Never mind, I wasn't so far from the end after...Never mind, I wasn't so far from the end after all. I got stuck at a number lock for which I couldn't find a hint anywhere in the game, and searching the game files didn't produce any hint I missed either. I finally found it only by taking a memory snapshot and analyzing it. <br /><br />Maybe you'll find something, but in case you run into the same problem, here's the combination: Svir uhaqerq gvzrf gjb cyhf barBuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-36781930511421344302019-05-04T07:15:21.134-04:002019-05-04T07:15:21.134-04:00Two answers to the questions from your previous po...Two answers to the questions from your previous post:<br />- Attributes go up with your level, but you have to sleep before the "aktuell" value changes. The odd thing is that sleeping at a tavern doesn't do the trick. You have to rest in a dungeon or on the map.<br />- The ~ symbol, as well as * behind some items, indicates special properties (like increasing hit points) which you can check by identifying the item at a shop.<br /><br />I only reached the level of your characters quite a bit later in the game, but combat has still mostly been easy (just more frequent trips to the temple). There was one combat where I needed the strategic mode, because it was too hard in quick combat.<br /><br />Hope you finish this, since I'm stuck at what I think is at least 3/4th of the game.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-31923033923505795552019-05-02T19:37:44.264-04:002019-05-02T19:37:44.264-04:00In English we capitalize it and put asterisks betw...In English we capitalize it and put asterisks between the letters, e.g. W*E*R*D*N*AKurisuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132568197501054206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-81547355338130738822019-05-02T15:36:26.218-04:002019-05-02T15:36:26.218-04:00Where is your post about the book???Where is your post about the book???Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10192177511156934669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-31506373131068472762019-05-02T01:04:00.515-04:002019-05-02T01:04:00.515-04:00In German typography this is called Sperrsatz and ...In German typography this is called Sperrsatz and was mainly used for emphasizing with blackletter fonts since they don't have bold or italic. It was also commonly used with typewriters for the same reason.Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-74132202276101361872019-05-01T22:14:56.587-04:002019-05-01T22:14:56.587-04:00I appreciate the replies. In English, it is not at...I appreciate the replies. In English, it is not at all common to emphasize a word with extra spaces. I have seen extra spaces used to give some extra prominence, as in a title, but not to suggest emphasis or intensity when reading the text. We would use italics, bolding, or upper case for that.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-90491866840414128012019-05-01T22:11:03.676-04:002019-05-01T22:11:03.676-04:00Thanks! I thought that button was for cassettes. I...Thanks! I thought that button was for cassettes. Instead, it's the equivalent of "warp" in other emulators. That does make things a bit faster.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-36393483018678911942019-05-01T19:34:07.197-04:002019-05-01T19:34:07.197-04:00Imagine a sentence where "ONLY" would be...Imagine a sentence where "ONLY" would be an important information. Imagine further some kind of humor where it is importat to emphasis this.<br />It is similar with adding a "not" to a sentence (I had a great day. N O T.). So using the nur or NUR or N U R is adding a humoristic or sarcastic or ironic tone to these sentences.<br />If the writer only uses the word nur shows simply that he liked to use this tool, maybe a bit too much if he used it only with a single word. That is more or less all.Claus xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01014556581965934538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-46763543467180210082019-05-01T19:17:04.284-04:002019-05-01T19:17:04.284-04:00To be honest, I think it's equally amusing - o...To be honest, I think it's equally amusing - or not!Gerry Quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078394659680797175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-70564385503607215712019-05-01T18:35:59.291-04:002019-05-01T18:35:59.291-04:00It doesn't strike me as very odd that this wor...It doesn't strike me as very odd that this word is emphasized. It fits in with the overall weird humor of the game. Sentences like "Xoon likes grilled liver *only* when it's of human origin" become a bit funnier if the only is emphasized, no? JarlFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139422412722665286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-52653162928102014692019-05-01T15:32:03.503-04:002019-05-01T15:32:03.503-04:00Do you use Steem? There's a green fast-forward...Do you use Steem? There's a green fast-forward button on the top left which you can push down by double clicking. You can go through combats pretty quickly with that. Just make sure that you switch it off before combat is over. I found that combats happened every step when I left it on.<br /><br />The "manual" hints at a second part (which was apparently never made) so maybe that's why there are so many skills. Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-73451429006860979282019-05-01T15:24:09.879-04:002019-05-01T15:24:09.879-04:00The font/game engine/programming language/game its...The font/game engine/programming language/game itself might not be able to display bolded or italic text, leaving them few options to emphasize words.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025511634630902101noreply@blogger.com