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[Undertaker]

Originally posted by Reanimator@Oct 30 2005, 12:43 PM
To Undertaker: If you want I can make three ... :whistle:

But, how...??

[Christian IV]

I posted in the troubleshooting sectoin but wanted to post here
too, I am trying to play Lands of Lore I, but cant get the
game to go past where you pick the character you want,
the screen goes black and just sits there.

I have Win 98 SE and 6 GB of Hdrive, 64 RAM, and
snd blaster snd integrated on a Pentium II, i can play
all sorts of other older games, including the kyranida series,
doom, all sorts.

I get the movie in the intro, with music but no voices.

Is something wrong with my sound set up? I selected
Snd Blaster, not sound blaster pro, ....

Any suggestoins would be great.
Chris k:

[Undertaker]

Hmm, I've heard the black screen problem before. I don't know the exact solution for this, but running this game in either Dosbox or VDMsound should fix all the problems. I'd recommend VDMsound for it's low system requirements. k:

As far as I know, first versions of Lands I had processor type checking which failed if you have Pentium or something better. There could be patches fixing it but if you don't find them you may try to change it by yourself:
Open main.exe using hex-editor. Find the symbols (in hex-code)
C3 74 13 66 B8 01
and replace them with
-- EB -- -- -- --
(address 0002919C in disk version and 00054FC2 in CD version).
Advice was taken directly from the Russian forums, and I think I have applied it once successfully.
Hope it doesn't break any laws.

Probably the thing I have just discovered will be extremely interesting for all the Lands I fans and for anyone who would not mind to play it once again.

If you know Quake I, you may also know that there are 3 complexity levels (easy, normal, and hard), same as for Lands. But there is one more level not visible in the game menu. It is called "Nightmare" and you can set it only using a console command. Reanimator once supposed that Lands I also can have such mode, although he had no clues and proposed no ways for checking this.
Still he deserves respect as long as his prediction turned out to be correct.

Please spread this information as wide as you can:

There is "nightmare" mode in Lands I. In disk version to turn it on you should:
load the game or start a new one, set sounds, music, and floating cursor off, smooth scrolling on, monsters ferocious, and save the game. Then open the save-file with hex-editor, find position (all numbers are hexadecimal) 00000253 (or close to it) with the symbol 28 (character "(") and replace it with 38 (character "8"). Load the game and check game controls. There must be written that "Monsters are [Main menu]". Now restore the settings you like (except the "Monsters are" paragraph) and enjoy the nightmare!

(CD version probably allows this too but I am not sure about the symbol to find and the value to set. Going to find this out as soon as possible.)

[Undertaker]

Really, your friend deserves great respect!! I really ought to check this out as soon as I can!!

In CD version this symbol is at position (hex)0000025E. With the default settings, it is 1B, with ferocious monsters - 2B and to make them nightmare-like you should set it to 3B.

Nightmare monsters in disk version strike fast like a hurricane, and in CD version their blows don't seem to miss.

[Undertaker]

Wow, they barely have recharge time? I got to try that out FAST!
:Titan: :karate:

[Undertaker]

Ehm, could someone give me a little help with hex-editing? I've opened the savegame with the correct options with the Freeware Hex Editor XVI32. Now I see a lot of fields. To the left there's a field with a vertical list of numbers: 0, 11, 22 etc. In the middle are a lot of fields with the usual stuff: 41, 6B, 21 etc. To the right is a weird field that has the name of my savegame, "Ak'shel Nightmare" and a lot of squares.

Now, I can't find the number (2B; I have the Cd version) you mentioned anywhere. I also don't understand what (hex)0000025E means. I suppose it has something to do with the left column, but it doens't have any 25E...

Any help would me much appreciated! k:

[Reanimator]

I always said!!! Nightmare EXISTS!!! :Brain:
THE GREATEST respects for Maerryji!

About multiple Scotia's: there isn't difficult to make this in any version of Lands but the method was discovered by Maerryji so let him explain it himself. By the way, this method lets you kill the 3rd Scotia's shape!!!
k:

Oh! I've just noticed that in CD version nightmare mode, discovered by Maerryji, is not so hard because your character's blows don't miss, too. So I don't like it. :eeeeeh: