cannot climb ladders in double dragon

[_ThEcRoW]

Hello friends, i have experiencing problems in the double dragon game, whenever i try to step up a ladder in the game it starts but cannot finish, i mean i cannot reach the upper level of the screen with the ladder. I has happened me in latest winuae as well on my real 500!!!. I have used the three adf that are on planetemu, the one without trainer, and the two with the ackerlight ones, and in the three happens the same!. Is there any known bug on this game, or is it simply that is a way to finish off the ladder climbing by a key that i don´t know???
Please help!!! I want to play again this classic!!!!

[Konrad]

That's the disk I have:
Double Dragon II (1990)(Virgin Games)[cr Oracle][t +2 Oracle].adf
I also have the WHDLoad version. Both work fine. No problem climbing ladders .

[_ThEcRoW]

I have referring to double dragon 1, not the second part. but now that you mention double dragon II, it has benn unplayable on winuae and on my real 500 with some glitches when the game is loaded. I never can played it.
Do you know the cause??.

[_ThEcRoW]

Anyone with the same experiences with this game?. I´m referring to the first part (double dragon), not double dragon II.

[Konrad]

Woops, sorry about that. Never played the 1st part.

[Bamiga2002]

@_ThEcRoW:
I think that's a trained & cracked version of Double Dragon you're playing because i've played it too . But there's the WHDLoad version of DD (http://amiga.magix.name/index.php) in which you can climb the ladders all the way up.

There's one other difference in the game too: you can't hit enemies from a distance as in the cracked version, you have to be quite close to them...shame

[andreas]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

but now that you mention double dragon II, it has benn unplayable on winuae and on my real 500 with some glitches when the game is loaded. I never can played it.
Do you know the cause??

HOL does.
It's now in the DD II notes, since it has been asked a dozen times.

[_ThEcRoW]

Ok andreas, so i need to look out the 4.01 version of dd2 for the fien graphics. As for the double dragon 1, thanks bamiga, but i need a floppy version to play it on my real 500, so the whdload version isn´t of use to me.
Is out there a good condition double dragon 1 floppy adf that someone could put in the zone, or perhaps a link on to where download it???

[Overdoc]

I don't think it is a bug. Must be some other reason because I finished DD1 loooong ago without any problems on a real A-500 with 512KB chip and 512kb trapdoor-ram.

About DD2: You only need a 8371 Agnus chip instead of the 8372A which is probably working in your A-500. After exchange the game will run.

[_ThEcRoW]

Thanks for the replies.
I don´t think that game needs 1 mb of ram as it is pretty old. By the way i only have 512kb, but is a rev 6a motherboard, so i assume that it has ecs, so it have to work. I still think that it´s a software problem, that i have checked it in my configurations on winuae (ocs, ecs and full ecs) and none of them works. I really want to play this game on my real machine!!!!

[demoniac]

On DD1, could you climb the ladder after you die?

[_ThEcRoW]

No. In a play i got life out and try to climb up the ladder but without succes.
Is really a protection on the game or simply a bad dump?, seems that all of the adf´s in the tosec have this behaviour (i have all of them), so isn´t out there a working 100x100 version?. It´s really very strange, but i get frustrated as this game was a old time favourite in my early days with video games and want to play it again.
Thanks!!

[demoniac]

No, I recently completed this game off a TOSEC dump. The game originally ran on a 512MB KS1.2 A500.

I know this isn't too helpful but you can simply emulate the original on mame, unless you're looking for the conversion feeling. This game never ran on my A500+ even with relokick so I don't know about the ladder problem. I couldn't get that far.

[StarEye]

I remember having trouble climbing the ladder too. Sometimes it worked perfectly throughout the game, other times it just won't go all the way up. I think you have to place yourself pretty accurately on the ladder to get all the way up.

[andreas]

You do not need the ladders to complete DD1.
Overdoc, that might be the reason why you said you "completed the game".
It's a gimmick ... but not needed to solve the game IMHO.

@StarEye: I have NEVER been able to climb ANY of those ladders with the cracks floating around.

[demoniac]

Originally Posted by andreas

You do not need the ladders to complete DD1.

@StarEye: I have NEVER been able to climb ANY of those ladders with the cracks floating around.

I'll have to re-visit this sometime. Hopefully soon, but work is occupying too much of my time.

[_ThEcRoW]

The ladders are neccesay!!!!!!!, at the first stage, you need to pass one to go for the next level.
Isn´t anyone with the solution to this problem?, iwant to play this game on my 500!!!!

[Bamiga2002]

U must have an akward version then, both versions i've played can be completed, the "no-ladder climbing" & "ladder-climbing" version.

[demoniac]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

The ladders are neccesay!!!!!!!, at the first stage, you need to pass one to go for the next level.
Isn´t anyone with the solution to this problem?, iwant to play this game on my 500!!!!

Umm, you don't need to climb the ladders to finish Mission 1. You need to keep going right after killing everyone. I think the ladder problem is a result of the coding. Thus, it's a feature.