tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post8833349819151714755..comments2024-03-19T02:45:56.380-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: The Black Gate: Open Your EyesCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-59240109582341300982020-05-18T11:50:51.814-04:002020-05-18T11:50:51.814-04:00Sorry for butting in but the Guano Apes song is fr...Sorry for butting in but the Guano Apes song is from 1997. Andy_Panthro refers to that one:<br />https://genius.com/Black-box-open-your-eyes-lyricsEddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18011114950206155472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-56297784993556088682020-05-18T11:50:16.429-04:002020-05-18T11:50:16.429-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18011114950206155472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-83041961154516329032020-05-17T07:40:28.014-04:002020-05-17T07:40:28.014-04:00If I can chime in, Exult ports a lot of things fro...If I can chime in, Exult ports a lot of things from SI to BG so I understand sticking to BG, but for SI there is due to this very few "innovation" if any, and a bazillion bug fix. SI was famously hard to finish due to bugs.Narwhal, the Wargaming Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05808952600298482923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-47737612727585370232020-05-17T05:45:19.223-04:002020-05-17T05:45:19.223-04:00You initially start in Trinsic with a single bottl...You initially start in Trinsic with a single bottle of ale in your backpack, so you may be right that having six of them was perhaps a first sign of trouble!Andy_Panthrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231815646876343380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-73499644577834408522020-05-16T20:53:54.349-04:002020-05-16T20:53:54.349-04:00Yeah, 16MB is luxurious for the era. Definitely th...Yeah, 16MB is luxurious for the era. Definitely the game then. It sounds like the game save files are permanently corrupted too. Ugh...<br /><br />How many companions did you have at the time the bug started? I think I've never had more than five (Iolo, Shamino, Dupre, Spark and Jaana) because I found a party of six as much as I could manage.Adamantyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962009901412877763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-78043932585553192032020-05-16T20:27:07.830-04:002020-05-16T20:27:07.830-04:00I bought the GOG version and just went with its co...I bought the GOG version and just went with its configuration. (Except for changing from full screen to windowed. I can't stand that they set all their games to full screen.) It's set to 16 MB of RAM, emables XMS, and disables EMS.<br /><br />I tried dumping the inventory. Tried dismissing all my companions. I think I've tried everything. Nothing restores objects to Britain and the castle.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-44591201603674327322020-05-16T20:22:43.795-04:002020-05-16T20:22:43.795-04:00No.No.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39280962137383119132020-05-16T20:20:15.034-04:002020-05-16T20:20:15.034-04:00So, what you're saying is when you get to 2000...So, what you're saying is when you get to 2000 you'll play this again with Exult?Twibathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872080022551062309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-43635129841270187242020-05-16T18:33:50.022-04:002020-05-16T18:33:50.022-04:00The cheat mode isn't exactly intuitive to acti...The cheat mode isn't exactly intuitive to activate, even with a guide. I left a guide (in rot13) on one of the earlier entries.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025511634630902101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-19341644179614001832020-05-16T17:35:57.802-04:002020-05-16T17:35:57.802-04:00Otoh, I would be surprised if Addict does not dedu...Otoh, I would be surprised if Addict does not deduct points for frustrating, freeform-game-breaking bugs in the game.Tolemacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-22433092729403267882020-05-16T17:24:11.959-04:002020-05-16T17:24:11.959-04:00I found some pages that mention the "disappea...I found some pages that mention the "disappearing item" bug in the original version. Apparently there is a patch for the floppy disk version of the game (1.1) that "fixes" it. The GOG version should be up to date with this though.<br /><br />One noted that it happens because you're carrying too many items and when entering a new area, it runs out of memory to render the static objects. Of course the way to test that would be to unload your NPC's inventory somewhere isolated then go back to the areas that were missing items and see if they reappear.<br /><br />Also, what configuration is DOSBox set to in terms of memory? Even though U7 uses its own memory manager I wonder if the default settings are a little on the low side for a DOS era machine in terms of how much expanded memory is available to the game.Adamantyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962009901412877763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-32826821324021160992020-05-16T13:44:38.004-04:002020-05-16T13:44:38.004-04:00I remember the game having a pretty robust cheat s...I remember the game having a pretty robust cheat system, including the ability to create any items you want, so you can probably solve something like the missing lenses.<br /><br />https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Ultima_VII_Create_Item_List<br /><br />On the other hand, the problem may get worse. I don't know.asimpkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-91624224240238072872020-05-16T12:38:41.804-04:002020-05-16T12:38:41.804-04:00I don't know. When I was "cleaning up&quo...I don't know. When I was "cleaning up" Cove, I put maybe 20-25 things in the barrel. Throughout the rest of the game, the Avatar and his party would have organically picked up five or six times that number of things. <br /><br />I've tried various solutions, but nothing seems to work. But I was wrong about the extent of the damage. The disappearances seem to be confined to Britannia and Lord British's Castle. On the other hand, they include the lenses, which I'm pretty sure I need later.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-11777147093648591592020-05-16T12:32:00.555-04:002020-05-16T12:32:00.555-04:00Exult is not a 1992 game. It is a 2000 remake of a...<i>Exult</i> is not a 1992 game. It is a 2000 remake of a 1992 game. Those things that it "adds" means that the experience of playing it is fundamentally different fro the original. I might occasionally apply a patch or something, but Exult is completely rewritten.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-35296958474302155492020-05-16T11:15:53.042-04:002020-05-16T11:15:53.042-04:00I'm afraid you are all wrong. It must be a ref...I'm afraid you are all wrong. It must be a reference to the Guano Apes song of that name.Atantuohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853865245930951775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-62802238629358332020-05-16T10:09:56.414-04:002020-05-16T10:09:56.414-04:00Thus comment was before the next entryThus comment was before the next entryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39633686016093749312020-05-16T04:40:56.534-04:002020-05-16T04:40:56.534-04:00Just recently finished Amberstar (I gave it a try ...Just recently finished Amberstar (I gave it a try after finally finishing my Albion save that I started years ago). It has a few flaws but it's a lovely, enjoyable game.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-19099263098822322082020-05-16T03:09:11.671-04:002020-05-16T03:09:11.671-04:00"You can interact with everything in this gam..."You can interact with everything in this game!"<br /><br />"But please don't!"<br /><br />Nothing like item limit bugs to give players anxiety.Tristan Gallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769219573533545742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-79217243014372359192020-05-16T02:27:01.952-04:002020-05-16T02:27:01.952-04:00Quick correction, items and bodies of creatures I ...Quick correction, items and bodies of creatures I slew, like the bandits just outside Britain, were temporary.Adamantyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962009901412877763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-90726390492243211032020-05-16T02:26:10.868-04:002020-05-16T02:26:10.868-04:00I played and won both U7 and part 2 back in DOS wi...I played and won both U7 and part 2 back in DOS without having any bugs like this, so this is definitely something new.<br /><br />I remember discovering that unless I explicitly picked up items and put them in my pack or whatnot, they were "temporary" and would disappear after a short time. So it makes sense that cleaning up Lock Lake may have triggered an issue where all the stuff you picked up became "permanent". I remember during Exult's development that they mentioned discovering an item limit in the original engine which would start to over-write existing items.<br /><br />I'm not sure what you can do to fix this, short of restarting the game from scratch and leaving Lock Lake alone. Kind of a bummer. Adamantyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962009901412877763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53180615581139268122020-05-15T23:14:20.819-04:002020-05-15T23:14:20.819-04:00He's answered this before, I believe, wanting ...He's answered this before, I believe, wanting to play the game in as near as possible to the same condition it was when it came out in 1992?Bruce Brenneisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11322005049442981571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-62881234090220519962020-05-15T23:10:12.616-04:002020-05-15T23:10:12.616-04:00I will add to the praise about how great these U7 ...I will add to the praise about how great these U7 posts are, you are attacking the game in an order totally different to any time I have ever played it, and 9 posts in you still haven't really bothered with the main quest much. This is, of course, a massive strength of the game that people can approach it in any way they want.Mikrakovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359946565373258773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-33038989274520313292020-05-15T23:02:55.001-04:002020-05-15T23:02:55.001-04:00The theory that asimkins has for the bug seems qui...The theory that asimkins has for the bug seems quite likely, the lake cleanup tagged a number of containers as yours and you hit the item limit which is a known bug, especially occurring with "containers within containers". Sounds like you might need a restart (which shouldn't take you that long to catch up to where you were).Mikrakovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359946565373258773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-3870008577045215592020-05-15T21:47:37.089-04:002020-05-15T21:47:37.089-04:00Chet loving these Ultima 7 chapters, reminded me o...Chet loving these Ultima 7 chapters, reminded me of your Darklands entries<br />One question, how come you are using Dos Box instead of Exault? It not only has better fixes for the game but some upgrades to item and party managment tooRaul Vitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194073461128798356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-47425370662891432742020-05-15T19:49:56.307-04:002020-05-15T19:49:56.307-04:00Fair. An alternate Britannia seems a suitable way ...Fair. An alternate Britannia seems a suitable way to explain it away and reconcile it in my mind. Thanks ChetChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09555164129781347046noreply@blogger.com