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As said, lionheart was full original we never had pirate Version of original games in France. We had one very big distributor called innelec here. Never mind loriciel and ubi soft too as distributors. They got hold of originals directly from deals with the publishers of the games. Last edited by dlfrsilver; 27 June 2023 at 19:40. |
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It's quite interesting that UK adverts for games very often list the price while on French adverts there almost never a price given. Example: https://hol.abime.net/2779/miscshot
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26 June 2023, 17:30 | #423 |
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Ahhh Yeah and a speedrun to celebrate Last edited by Djay; 27 June 2023 at 00:51. |
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Nice! Congrats
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27 June 2023, 10:58 | #425 |
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Nice to see some enjoyment of the new features and modes thanks for posting DJay.
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i think blaming people for copying the game is ridiculous the amiga was well dead by that point no one could have made a dime out of it but it was easier to resort to shaming the last remaining users and its kinda weird to do that 30 years later like we know the story and how things go, please live in the present
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Hey Muzza, a little feature request Would it possible to add an option to view highscore/speedrun times like the below pic? It would make the process of screen capturing a lot easier... tiny detail.. the gems for the secrets should be gold not silver also, how about a different suit colour for completing a speedrun in less than 30 minutes.. like maybe a black suit with silver trims or something (quick and dirty mock ups below) just some ideas anyway, thanks again Last edited by Djay; 28 June 2023 at 18:16. |
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That´s the spirit !
@ Bren McGuire I would love to still live in the 90s but i was talking about the fact that Thalion had put so much effort into Lionheart and yet (some) people did copy Lionheart instead of buying it; thats all. When i was asking "What do you think guys ?" I was talking about maybe playing Turrican 2 AGA for a Lemon challenge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In any case, Muzza´s Turrican 2 AGA is just fantastic, and i am so glad that i could help to make it even better. Turrican 2 AGA = one of my all time favorite AMIGA games Thank you so very much Muzza Last edited by Torti-the-Smurf; 28 June 2023 at 20:05. Reason: Better Text formation |
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1). Lionheart had no copy protection whatsoever. 2). Thalions distribution was TERRIBLE, and I mean DIRE! The reason why Psygnosis, Ocean, Domark, Electronic Arts did so well, is because their distribution was spot on, everywhere, all over the world. Team 17 were pretty good, but even they sought out Ocean to deal with because their distribution was so good. If people cannot find a game in the shops, they can't buy it, and by the time they do see it in the shops, the copied version has already found its way to them. Had Thalion sought out a better distribution partner in their early days (i.e. not fucking Grandslam!!!), they would likely have been more successful. They certainly didn't lack talent, and would have seen some of their games released on console as well. |
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The holy grail of copy protection is not to be unbreakable. It's to remain intact long enough for 90% of the people who are going to buy it to do so, before the pirated copies start to flood the market. No protected software remains uncracked.
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100% agree with Galahad & Dunny
Btw; I did a SpeedRun. One try,no autofire and no gold suit usage. 29:38 Greetings Torti Last edited by Torti-the-Smurf; 02 July 2023 at 13:24. |
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Just had a "Out of Chip Ram" crashed to workbench 3.1 error
WinUAE (with 8mb chip ram) 1.18 (WHDLoad version) New Game Plus 4th lap Crashed just after defeating Level 1-2 World Boss Lives - 48 Score - 8 and bit million |
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Damn. Hopefully you were able to continue using the saved progress. WHDLoad allocates a predefined amount of RAM at start-up (about 1.7MB in this case). So more Chip RAM in your system does not make a difference. It is likely memory fragmentation that only shows up after many play through's. The game does test for this and de-fragments, but this must be a scenario that was never tested until now. |
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Wow, didn't even know that the game saves your progress... just checked and indeed it displays continue game and it looks like its the level it crashed on! Very cool. I'll try to continue at some point and I'll let you know what happens. How do you go about saving your progress normally, is it restricted to NG+ only and i'm guessing if you start new game (other game mode) instead the progress is lost? Also do you plan on continuing development with T2AGA, i mean its a pretty complete and solid package already but is there anything you would like to add (or open to ideas)? Last edited by Djay; 29 June 2023 at 03:06. |
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Consider that when the player transitions from level A to B, some game assets are required in both (so are preserved in RAM), other game assets are no longer needed (so are free'd), and then new assets are allocated. Then when you go from level B to C, the same again, but different. Even the main display gets reallocated, for different colour/fetch modes. Having every level release all allocations, and then the next level re-load/re-create them would solve it, but at the expense of loading times. My less than ideal compromise was to check the largest free block size during each loading phase, and once it gets to a critical low point, do complete release and re-load of that level. It only really happens once you've done multiple play-through's of the game, and it seems I didn't tune it perfectly - although it is the first report of it in seven months of release so not all that common. |
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If you start a new game, the progress on your last game is lost, yes. I may re-visit it, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it beyond some minor bug fixes. Players did seem to appreciate the new features, but I think only a small number really played the new game modes. |
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