Land of Genesis AGA lives left bug

[hexaae]

Is there a fix for this game UI? Nobody noticed that reports 1 life left two times before game over, instead of ...1, 0, game over?
Minor bug, yet annoying

[ross]

What is the exe to patch?
I noticed on ftp that Damien worked on it, so I'd like to use the right one

[ransom1122]

Yeah your right you can see it happen @5:20 here
[ Show youtube player ]

[ross]

Ok, try this.

EDIT: removed, see later messages

[hexaae]

It works (reports 0 now before game over!) but game freezes when it has to quit and re-load main menu…
Did you test it with official patch applied or with base game? I use patched version:

Land of Genesis FIX 1.0GT

Run the fix inside the "Genesis" directory

----------------------------------------------
- Fixed the intro bug on A4000
- The introduction run slower
- Difficulty calibrated
- The "Easy" option make the game more easy
- Implemented missile collision with the walls
- Support for joystick with two buttons
- Option screen memory
- Lower SoundFX volume
- Changed the final picture
----------------------------------------------

The sequence to avoid all the problems is:

0) Disable your RTG
1) Boot your system without startup-sequence
2) run the "setpatch" command
3) go in the Genesis directory
4) run "Gencli"

Maurizio Gemelli

P.s. I'm not responsible for 3th part software
that crash the game if it is inserted in our
startup-sequence.

-----------------------------------
This file has been downloaded from:
http://utenti.tripod.it/kublay
-----------------------------------

[hexaae]

N.B:
Backup your tabexchange.bin file before testing or it might get corrupted!

[ross]

No idea what version is
I've used an HDF prepared by DamienD.
Uploaded to the Zone, I leave to you to check status.
No freeze for me.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ross

No idea what version is
I've used an HDF prepared by DamienD.
Uploaded to the Zone, I leave to you to check status.
No freeze for me.

Which is the non-patched version really, as I only applied the "Changed the final picture" files and the "Trainer".

If I applied the complete patch the experience wasn't good for me, you can read more in this thread: [AmigaCD] Land of Genesis - .HDF & .LHA (for real Amiga users):

[ross]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Which is the non-patched version really, as I only applied the "Changed the final picture" files and the "Trainer".

Hi Damien, the uploaded version is working properly in your setup?

(I've removed the Trainer file from data folder)

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ross

Hi Damien, the uploaded version is working properly in your setup?

(I've removed the Trainer file from data folder)

I'll test now

[DamienD]

I had issues with your .HDF, when booting I received the following:



Figured out you are using an old .HDF without CD-ROM / audio track support.

Anyway, the patch in terms of "lives countdown" works fine.

After death though, the sounds goes funny on this screen:



I could however continue back to the main screen; but the sound was still messed up though.

I've put a file "Land of Genesis AmigaCD.rar" into The Zone! Test yourself by doing the following:

• As a backup of the original .HDF, rename the file "Land of Genesis AmigaCD.hdf" in the directory "C:\WinUAE\Games\Land of Genesis AmigaCD" to something else.
• Download / extract the archive from The Zone! into "C:\WinUAE\Games\Land of Genesis AmigaCD".

[ross]

Work properly for me. Also the audio

Probably a different config used by you.

I've set an A1200, Blizzard 1230IV, 32MB RAM, IDE HDD+CD
Very similar to the real one I had back in times.

[ross]

Finally I understood why I have no problem.
Since I didn't want to mess around with CD setup, I simply ticked CDFS automount option, I inserted the CD device as a slave in the A1200 standard IDE and I let WinUAE do everything for me.
Probably the game has broken support for CD audio play through real SCSI (in manual is mentioned only atapi.device),
maybe Toni may (or may not ) be interested in understanding which situation creates the problem.

[hexaae]

Works fine here on my cfg. I don't use CDFS automount and have instead a CD0 device loaded the usual way from DEVS:DOSDrivers (using CacheCDFS with uaescsi.device 0)… I mount the .nrg image from WinUAE's CD & Hard Drives section.
I use as CdROM.prf:

uaescsi.device 0 Work:Games/Genesis/ check normal null hardware

[ross]

Originally Posted by hexaae

Works fine here on my cfg. I don't use CDFS automount and have instead a CD0 device loaded the usual way from DEVSOSDrivers (using CacheCDFS with uaescsi.device 0)…
I use as CdROM.prf:

uaescsi.device 0 Work:Games/Genesis/ check normal null hardware

Yep , but the main idea is a separate HDF.
Now I give a try for your version.

[hexaae]

Ok, you could publish the patch for original and original+patched on Aminet then

[hexaae]

Originally Posted by DamienD

After death though, the sounds goes funny on this screen:



I could however continue back to the main screen; but the sound was still messed up though.

This is a problem of original game when using "hardware" option in CdROM.prf for audio output: sometimes randomly you'll have trashed sound in loop at Continue y/n? screen and main menu…
Using "device" though causes frequent freezes when loading and switching back/forth to OS, moreover I can't hear sounds in-game at all in audio.device mode.
See manual at paragraph Installation.

[ross]

Patch for the patch 1.0GT.

EDIT: removed, see subsequent messages

[hexaae]

Originally Posted by ross

Patch for the patch 1.0GT.

Countdown working, but I've noticed a bug playing without music (copy CLONE disk.info from CD in genesis dir and assign GenesisCD: to this dir):
when lives left = 0 you can hear voice saying "Game Over", then when you die last time it says "Player activated" instead of "Game Over"...

I use this script to launch the game with/without CDRom:

Set GenV `C:RequestChoice "Land of Genesis" "Do you want to play without CD music?" "Yes" "No, here is the CD"`
If $GenV EQ 1
 Assign Genesiscd: ""
Else
 Unset GenV
EndIf

CPU NOCACHE
;C:uae-configuration cachesize 8192 cpu_speed max cpu_throttle -900 cpu_compatible false cpu_multiplier 8 immediate_blits false
C:uae-configuration cachesize 0 cpu_speed real cpu_throttle -500 cpu_compatible false cpu_multiplier 4 immediate_blits false

stack 50000
gencli

S:BatchFiles/RestoreWUAE
CPU CACHE
Assign Genesiscd: REMOVE
endcli

[ross]

Originally Posted by hexaae

when lives left = 0 you can hear voice saying "Game Over", then when you die last time it says "Player activated" instead of "Game Over"...

LOL, this is amusing.
So this is the reason for the bug. The game programmer to avoid patching lives counters and related voices opted to not update last life
Surely he must have done something twisted to handle it otherwise the difficulty is not explainable.

How about displaying an "active life counter"?
Like, is you last life, display 1 and not zero (so all oldvalues+1).

I really don't want to go looking around for the code where it checks the sound effects usage...

Davvero oggi volevo fare altro

EDIT:
Seem to me or is the management of residual lives totally wrong? If in the options screen you select 3/4/5 actually in game you have 4/5/6!
I hadn't noticed it before because I thought default were 4.

Too many bugs ..