As oft-mentioned before: getting the “extra” details (like a gold cockpit) in Falcon 3 required like 620K. I could do it, but only with QEMM and a lot of arcane memory shuffling/shadowing.
I don’t see it listed in the story, only for online.
I remember my wife had her BaK autoexec.bat/config.sys backed up on a 3.5 floppy; she guarded it as if it were the key to the very gates of Paradise.
As long as we’re talking about impossible-to-run classics, I wouldn’t mind seeing someone fix up the Crusader series. Those games did not play well (read: at all) with Windows, and running them in DOS was an exercise in futility.
I’d love to play them again, but I don’t relish messing with EMM386 or HiMem.sys.
peterb
1785
I bought Betrayal at Krondor when it came out. All I remember is that my party died within 15 minutes every time. I think the farthest I ever got was to the nearby mining town, by avoiding all combat.
Then I stepped into the mine and my party died.
Did you forget to feed them?
peterb
1787
No, little girly weak wilderness enemies just cut them to pieces. Presumably i was misunderstanding some key aspect of the combat.
Weird, I never had issues running BaK.
Oohhh yes plz. I would loooove to play the Crusader series again.
Spect
1790
It’s amazing to me that no one has done a restoration / remake / spiritual successor to the Crusader series. What an absolute waste of an IP when EA bought out Origin.
I did manage to get Crusader: No Regret running on one of the later versions of DOSBox but probably lost part of my soul in the process. I think I followed instructions from one of the DOSBox sites and dimly recall that the cutscenes still wouldn’t play.
In any case, this series is a prime candidate for the GOG treatment. I’d happily pay someone to do the fiddling for me (and I can’t find my Crusader: No Remorse CD, anyway).
I just bought Sin + Sin Emergence on Steam, and guess what.
“Buffer overrun detected”
uhhh…ok.
So Sin won’t run.GoG, wanna bring that one on board?
Anyone, do you have any idea what could I do to make it run? Please?
I still have my CDs. Awesome game. It had another patch only (relatively) recently, I think.
Squee
1795
http://zedo.hardwar.org.uk/
Hardwar goodness. Hardwar completely patched is my favorite Privateer-esque game. It would be an excellent game for GoG.
I’m afraid you’re in for a bit of a troubleshooting nightmare: Ritual is dead, Activision doesn’t have any info in their knowledge base and Valve won’t have anything to do with it. Your best bet is Ritualistic, the unofficial fan site, but that one’s been inactive ever since the MumboJumbo acquisition of Ritual.
I was googling, searching ritualistic, but I found ZERO results of crashing due to buffer overrun.I said fuck it and deleted the game, I was not gonna play it anyway.
I cry every night thinking that SIN: Emergence Episode 1 will not be continued! Fuck episodic gaming! :(
Well Emergence wasn’t completely bad, but it was quite frankly very, very mediocre…tbh I can’t remember any memorable moments from it, and I finished it two years ago.Also, the fact that they made Blade a mute…decider of this should get his ass kicked.
Absolutely. There are still those of us who gnash our teeth over the injustice of this game’s obscurity.
Funny, I gave Hardwar 3 stars in CGW. [slaps forehead]
And as for GoG’s current release: Mobile Forces? Really? From the sublime last week to the ridiculous now; familiar pattern.
Totally agreed, it’s one of the best games of its type, and yet hardly anyone seems to know about it. I’d honestly never heard of it when I bought my CD’s when it was first released, just read the box and thought “this is my kind of game kerplunk money”. Now you’d have to pry the CD’s out of my cold, dead hands.
