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My thanks
Alright, first off, some background. The first video game I ever played (seriously) was Quest for Glory 2. Since that game, I have been an uber-diehard addict to the series, up until its cancelation after 5. Even after that. So, one day this week I did some cleaning and found my old copy of the Quest for Glory Anthology. Booted it up, laughed a bit, cried a bit, and remembered why I loved this series so much. Many an hours have been lost on me sneaking through someone's house to steal their jeweled slippers or whatnots.
So, I spend most of today perusing the internet and trying to figure out how to make QG4 work (ah, one of the best, and, yet, one of the most bugged..... and, as an aside, with a combination of NewRisingSun's patch and VDMSound, it indeed works once again!), and what would I find? That an industrious and purely awesome group of people are working hard at rebuilding the game that started my addiction to literally all things computer-based!
And, so, I have to tell you guys, thanks from the bottom of my heart. Words can't experess how awesome it is to see my first game brought up to the level of the VGA's, since it was the only one without vga-making. Again, thank you so much, and I can't wait for this to be finally released.
Cheers!
So, I spend most of today perusing the internet and trying to figure out how to make QG4 work (ah, one of the best, and, yet, one of the most bugged..... and, as an aside, with a combination of NewRisingSun's patch and VDMSound, it indeed works once again!), and what would I find? That an industrious and purely awesome group of people are working hard at rebuilding the game that started my addiction to literally all things computer-based!
And, so, I have to tell you guys, thanks from the bottom of my heart. Words can't experess how awesome it is to see my first game brought up to the level of the VGA's, since it was the only one without vga-making. Again, thank you so much, and I can't wait for this to be finally released.
Cheers!
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Gee, I bet the entire forum envies you! Everyone else around here has been twiddling their thumbs (and then some) for six years in anticipation of this particular remake. But you only just found out about it today, meaning that you have a relatively short wait in comparison.
I guess ignorance truly can be bliss. ;)
I guess ignorance truly can be bliss. ;)
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i need to say it too guys. the first game i've ever played was qfg 5 and i loved it so much, i played it over and over again. I asked my older brother if we had the other 4 games and he said we had the anthology, but we lost it. i looked for it for 3 years and finally found it last year, and almost cried from joy (i mean that quite literally). so, i say thank you to all the developers that are developing qfg 2.
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I disagree with Piotyr and DonQuixote. Personally, I appreciate any effort to bring free entertainment to the public. If something happened and the game never saw the light of day I will still be very thankful for the thousands of hours put into the game's production, the screenshots, the trailer, the discussions that keep us entertained... hell, even the inspiration for me to work on my own game, even though mine is a platformer genre.
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You've been playing QG4 with VDMS? I've been playing it as well, and for the most part it works fine. However, there are a couple of bugs, one of which is showstopping. At any combat scene, the moment my character attacks the other, the game freezes. Does it do the same for you? Also, I get some slight choppiness in some parts...
Anyways, I know that was off-topic, but I had to ask Thank you AGD team for the wonderful work you've done, and I, along with many others, anticipate patiently the release of QG2
Anyways, I know that was off-topic, but I had to ask Thank you AGD team for the wonderful work you've done, and I, along with many others, anticipate patiently the release of QG2
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\gamecreator wrote:I disagree with Piotyr and DonQuixote. Personally, I appreciate any effort to bring free entertainment to the public. If something happened and the game never saw the light of day I will still be very thankful for the thousands of hours put into the game's production, the screenshots, the trailer, the discussions that keep us entertained... hell, even the inspiration for me to work on my own game, even though mine is a platformer genre.
Free gaming is always wonderful and I do appreciate anyone who loves doing this stuff. What I was getting at is that with any other series, if it took long enough, I would most likely have lost interest by now. This game on the other, despite it's long gestation, I have no problem waiting on :)
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I thankfully have just been waiting for a little over a year...Anonymous Game Creator 2 wrote:Gee, I bet the entire forum envies you! Everyone else around here has been twiddling their thumbs (and then some) for six years in anticipation of this particular remake. But you only just found out about it today, meaning that you have a relatively short wait in comparison.
I guess ignorance truly can be bliss. ;)
I'm still very much at that very thankful that someone is doing a remake and feel no need to rush those people...
I would rather wait another 2 or more years for a truely great game with no bugs... than have to deal with a truely great game that is as buggie as QFG3 or QFG4.
So... once again... thank you for taking you time...
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Yeah, I'm somehow able to play it in DOXBox without it recognizing the CD, but it lacks voices that way, which are a necessary part of the game for me (not every game, just QFG4) Do you remember what part of the configuration needs to be edited?MagusRogue wrote:yeah I had that problem too. I got tired of that, so I went looking around to find out how to make QG4 work on DOSBOX. It involved alot of copying things from the cd and editing the qg4 configuration file to match dosbox's mounting.
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Copy resource.aud from the CD to your QFG4 directory. (You may also want to copy another file, called something like flyby.mov, if you want to see the opening movie.) Resource.aud is the file all the speech is stored in.benjipenguin wrote:Yeah, I'm somehow able to play it in DOXBox without it recognizing the CD, but it lacks voices that way, which are a necessary part of the game for me (not every game, just QFG4) Do you remember what part of the configuration needs to be edited?MagusRogue wrote:yeah I had that problem too. I got tired of that, so I went looking around to find out how to make QG4 work on DOSBOX. It involved alot of copying things from the cd and editing the qg4 configuration file to match dosbox's mounting.
Edit your resource.cfg file (in your QFG4 directory) so that the path is "." (without the quotation marks) for resAUD. This will tell it to look in the directory the game is run from, regardless of what directory path that is (the latter is what can mess it up in DOSBox, if you mount anything but C:\ as drive C). You may also want to change the "resSFX" and "directory" paths to the same to make sure the sound effects will work in DOSBox (not sure if the directory path does anything but it can't hurt). If you're using NewRisingSun's patch (and you should!) add "." in for patchDir to make sure it can find those patch files.
Edit: Whoops, didn't read MagusRogue's reply close enough. It looks like he offers a slightly different solution though - I myself didn't realize the "." trick was possible until someone else pointed it out to me - so I suppose no harm done.
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GFG4 and this game
I just thought of a pretty funny method of releasing this game that has an awful lot to do with what we're all talking about right now.
In a nutshell, you could get all the codes fixed, but in the mean time, release a game that loads and shows only one page. The player takes a single step, then a giant sign says "ERROR 41!! Hold Your Horses! We're getting to it!"
In a nutshell, you could get all the codes fixed, but in the mean time, release a game that loads and shows only one page. The player takes a single step, then a giant sign says "ERROR 41!! Hold Your Horses! We're getting to it!"
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Hm, perhaps some reference to Error 52 as a new Silly Clown?natethomas wrote:In a nutshell, you could get all the codes fixed, but in the mean time, release a game that loads and shows only one page. The player takes a single step, then a giant sign says "ERROR 41!! Hold Your Horses! We're getting to it!"
Re: GFG4 and this game
I think that's one of those things that might sound funny in the abstract, but really wouldn't be remotely amusing in actual implementation.natethomas wrote:I just thought of a pretty funny method of releasing this game that has an awful lot to do with what we're all talking about right now.
In a nutshell, you could get all the codes fixed, but in the mean time, release a game that loads and shows only one page. The player takes a single step, then a giant sign says "ERROR 41!! Hold Your Horses! We're getting to it!"
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Re: GFG4 and this game
Those are the best kinds of funny, at least from a practical joke perspective. I suppose, though, the question eventually becomes who are you trying to amuse?adeyke wrote:I think that's one of those things that might sound funny in the abstract, but really wouldn't be remotely amusing in actual implementation.