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[smeggles]

Originally Posted by Guest: Mike

Yeah, the mouse is screwed up for this game. So, instead of using the mouse, press "Enter" instead. That should help.

Just noticed this post...will try that on the next one!!!

Originally Posted by defeodation

Ok...I took a little hiatus from this game cause it was driving me nuts, but I couldn't stay away...I had to finish every operation successfully. And I have...but the game is still trying to thwart me.

I finished the tumor op no problem...took a few tries and I accidentally sucked the guys brains out of the wrong spot once...but I got it and I am in the hall of fame. Hematoma operation is a snap...no problem at all.

I can get the aneurysm, clamp it off, close up the skull same as the tumor operation...but when I get done I get this message: "Shouldn't this operation have taken longer?"

Then I get booted out, and the chief tells me that if I hadn't been so worried about what I was making for dinner that night, or something, that I would have remembered to clamp off the aneurysm. But I did that! The clamp went on! I didn't get any message saying that I had done it successfully...but I did it! The clamp goes on and you can't take it off again. So I just removed the retractors and closed. Every time I finish the operation this is what happens!

So I've beaten this game...yet I haven't...because it's still giving me crap about not finishing the aneurysm. I want the satisfaction of having my name on that hall of fame plaque.

Has this happened to anyone else?

I'm having the exact same problem. If someone knows how to fix this, please post!

[Saccade]

A lot of these problems (the operation not working, the drill not stopping) are fixed by setting Dosbox's cycles lower, until the in-game time is the same as real-time (1 second = 1 second and not 1 irl = 10 ingame).

If you don't do this - you can't do everything fast enough and so can't complete the trickier operations.
As soon as you notice an emergency problem, if it's not fixed, you lose. That can be really annoying if you have a load of bleeders to look after or have to irrigate constantly.
The drill and other things, like the scalpel (big problem ) get stuck at too high cycles, too. That's even more annoying - especially when doing something intricate.

I hate to plug this again, but have you followed all the steps in this guide?
http://trgt.googlegroups.com/web/LAD...uide.pdf?hl=en
idk if it's ever going on site, but I need to add the cycles thing to the pdf guide.
I was pretty much set to beat my record of 10:39 for an aneyrism. I got to the bit (right at the end of the hard bit) where you have to take off the retractors and the brain closes back up and you do - what should be the NURSE'S job, I may add - the closing the scalp back up bit...

...AND THE FREAKING MOUSE STUCK AND I SCALPELED THE GUY'S BRAIN!!!


They ate pizza off his body.

I went and chatted with the psychologist computer about my failure as a brain surgeon being due to faulty equipment.
He kept asking me the same annoying questions, though.

Could've made less than 10 minutes, easy...

[Saccade]

lol

Originally Posted by review

3. This game is too hard!
It was designed to be hard, just keep trying and take a look at the walkthrough at
http://games.wikicities.com/wiki/Gui..._II:_The_Brain

is there nothing at that page? or is that only for me?
Maybe I should make it later...
Anyone want to help? Or, we could just put a link on the wiki to AB's LaD2 game page.

[dosraider]

This: http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Life_an...in/walkthrough ?

[Saccade]

Subdural Haematoma - 2:59 min -

Originally Posted by Oogles

I'm getting the crazy colors everywhere and sometimes crashing after suturing the bone flap during a tumor or aneurysm operation. I've tried running it in both DosBox 7.0 and 6.5. Of the people who are not running into this problem, are any of you using DosBox or are you guys running it in Windows or Pure Dos? I can't for the life of me figure out a solution.

Personally, I'm running this in Windows XP, thus I don't know about Vista which I presume is why you are using Dosbox in the first place. Here is my contribution as I'm having the same issues as you. The trick is to do the suturing for the bone flap after you're done with the operation. Put the bone flap back, then suture. It's not too late and the operation will still be considered a success.

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by Saccade

Subdural Haematoma - 2:59 min -

What a great punk band name

I've played hours since discovering this game and I have been searching lots of sites where the game is discussed and finally I have a few hints and one big question. But first things first:

It is still possible to find a copy of this game with installation files in it so that you can install life and death but its a bit tricky. Have to rename the given disk in the folder... After installing you download the game from abandonia and copy the .exe into your installed version. Thats the way to fix the sound problem. Works fine for me. Now I can hear the heart-rhythm of my "victims" and react quicker.

Then I tried different versions of dosbox to run the game and I have to say that 0.73 is not the best choice. On 0.65 it runs quite fine while on 0.73 I always had problems with my mouse

But I'll have to check out older versions of dosbox because there seems to be a major problem: whenever I try to cut the Dura Mater my game crashed - on dosbox 0.73. Every time I got to the final line for the diamond shape dosbox closed.
In 0.65 dosbox seems to be more stable, so no more crashes - but the mouse begins to behave crazy when I try to put the final cut. I can't control it any longer... And it's impossible to operate on with the keyboard because you have hardly control with the arrow keys...

Any suggestions to that matter?
Maybe an older dosbox version may help...

[Saccade]

I've never had problems on PC or Mac, on all versions of Dosbox and Boxer I have ever used, except for tweaking teh cycles.
Maybe run it in windowed mode instead, but decrease Window's display resolution so it's still big enough to play.

Wait - sometimes the mouse sticks and you drill into brain or skid it across the bone (and they let them die and HUMILIATE their corpses, just because you put a tiny ding - that they'd never even know was there if you didn't tell them - in their cranium?! Their head's gonna be sore anyway!).
That could be because of the dramatically reduced cycles, tho.

Use WinXP and latest Dosbox.
Vista sucks and Win7 scares me.