DragonSlayer - Starbyte CDTV Demo

ransom1122 · 26 May 2020, 10:46

Hiya,

I was having a browse though various fakebook groups and came across a post from Eric Cubizolle from the Commodore Amiga group.

Dragon Slayer is an unreleased game which was ripped Christian Weber. Eric was kind enough to share the ISO publicly,

Eric's website which is where the ISO is stored is at

http://amigamuseum.emu-france.info

Inside the "Unreleased" section

I Hope Eric and or Christian are members here @ eab and pop in sometime to say hi

In the meantime Thanks to both guys

I have uploaded the ISO in the eab server under ransom1122

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 11:00

Nice one

fryguy · 26 May 2020, 18:13

Cool!

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 18:17

Very, very early tech demo. Nothing really playable. An endless sidescrolling level with disabled collisions as it seems.

NeoHippie2016 · 26 May 2020, 18:37

@ransom1122: cool!

Thank you very much for the link, the Upload and Informations!

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 19:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Very, very early tech demo. Nothing really playable. An endless sidescrolling level with disabled collisions as it seems.

In the game press the <Left Mouse Button> to skip to the next stage; so you'll be able to see more

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 19:28

Strange. Tried the mouse button click ingame and got a Amiga reset.

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 19:30

Ok, so have been messing around.

Seems the CD image is corrupt...

Reason I say this is that it's 213MB but there are no audio tracks. The data is only 4.36 MB.

Tried to convert from .ISO --> .BIN & .CUE but thousands of errors at about 5% of conversion...

Maybe there were audio tracks, but not any longer...

Anyway, the intro and game are in the following folders respectively:

WODINTRO [1.30 MB]
WODGAME [1.82 MB]

I've actually made a .HDF with just the Intro and Game.

It will run on KS 1.3 / 2.04 / 2.05 perfectly.

On AGA and with either KS 3.0 / 3.1, you need to use "KillAGA" before running either the intro or game; plus there is flickering on the menu screen of the intro.

Amigajay · 26 May 2020, 19:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ok, so have been messing around.

Seems the CD image is corrupt...

Reason I say this is that it's 213MB but there are no audio tracks. The data is only 4.36 MB.

Could just be CD padding

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 19:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Strange. Tried the mouse button click ingame and got a Amiga reset.

That is strange...

Tested with the original CD image via a CDTV configuration and the .HDF I've just created.

<Left Mouse Button> definitely skips through levels in the "game" part

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 19:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Could just be CD padding

Who knows, but you can't convert successfully to another format... errors everywhere.

Not important though; the data (WODGAME & WODINTRO) is intact

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 19:36

Not here, tried quickstart CDTV with most compatible setting.

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 19:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Not here, tried quickstart CDTV with most compatible setting.

Sorry, you are correct with a standard CDTV configuration...

When running from hard drive I noticed that it needs about 800KB Chip and 2300KB Fast RAM.

So, you need to add more RAM; say "4MB Fast" to be safe and then all is good

Here are the different levels:

There was a 5th one with a castle / monkey boss but usually the game exits before you see this... I've only seen twice, and the game exits within 2 seconds.

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 19:56

Ah ok, will tried that later.

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 22:30

Hmmm, playing around again...

I really hate setting non-real world / unrealistic configurations but it seems you need to with this game in order to see more.

It seems the game keeps stacking files into memory after each stage and doesn't clear the last stage's...

So, set 8MB Chip RAM and now I see the "Ape" stage followed by another "Dragon" stage:

...before the game crashes saying not enough Fast RAM:

If I try combinations of Chip & Fast RAM however, I can't get it to load the "Ape" stage before crashing...

Maybe someone can work the sweet RAM settings.

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 22:50

Hmmm, I also don't get speech like in this video:

[ Show youtube player ]

Seems I'll have to revisit my .HDF...

DamienD · 26 May 2020, 23:02

Well, there's definitely no speech using the .ISO that ransom1122 linked too with a CDTV configuration; no matter what crazy RAM I set.

Can one of our French members contact the author of this video to see how speech has been enabled?

Maybe he has another non-corrupt image... or...

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 23:03

This is probably a reading and auto-speech software, running in background. Doesn't sound like a human voice. There are no CDDA tracks on the disc.

alexh · 26 May 2020, 23:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

This is probably a reading and auto-speech software, running in background. Doesn't sound like a human voice.

No way. This quality is not possible with the 8-pit Paula and a 7MHz CPU. It's going to be a different ISO image with CDDA. Or edited in by the YouTube author.

Retro-Nerd · 26 May 2020, 23:12

I meant a PC software. Not something on the Amiga site of course. It's quite easy to do something like that these days.

26 May 2020, 10:46	#1
ransom1122 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Omnicorp Age: 45 Posts: 5,812	DragonSlayer - Starbyte CDTV Demo Hiya, I was having a browse though various fakebook groups and came across a post from Eric Cubizolle from the Commodore Amiga group. Dragon Slayer is an unreleased game which was ripped Christian Weber. Eric was kind enough to share the ISO publicly, Eric's website which is where the ISO is stored is at http://amigamuseum.emu-france.info Inside the "Unreleased" section I Hope Eric and or Christian are members here @ eab and pop in sometime to say hi In the meantime Thanks to both guys I have uploaded the ISO in the eab server under ransom1122

26 May 2020, 19:30	#8
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Ok, so have been messing around. Seems the CD image is corrupt... Reason I say this is that it's 213MB but there are no audio tracks. The data is only 4.36 MB. Tried to convert from .ISO --> .BIN & .CUE but thousands of errors at about 5% of conversion... Maybe there were audio tracks, but not any longer... Anyway, the intro and game are in the following folders respectively: WODINTRO [1.30 MB] WODGAME [1.82 MB] I've actually made a .HDF with just the Intro and Game. It will run on KS 1.3 / 2.04 / 2.05 perfectly. On AGA and with either KS 3.0 / 3.1, you need to use "KillAGA" before running either the intro or game; plus there is flickering on the menu screen of the intro.

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26 May 2020, 11:00	#2
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Nice one

26 May 2020, 18:13	#3
fryguy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Skarabörg, Sweden Age: 44 Posts: 1,019	Cool!

26 May 2020, 18:17	#4
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	Very, very early tech demo. Nothing really playable. An endless sidescrolling level with disabled collisions as it seems.

26 May 2020, 18:37	#5
NeoHippie2016 Freak Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Gladbeck Age: 47 Posts: 580	@ransom1122: cool! Thank you very much for the link, the Upload and Informations!

26 May 2020, 19:28	#7
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	Strange. Tried the mouse button click ingame and got a Amiga reset.

26 May 2020, 19:36	#12
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	Not here, tried quickstart CDTV with most compatible setting.

26 May 2020, 19:56	#14
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	Ah ok, will tried that later.

26 May 2020, 22:30	#15
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Hmmm, playing around again... I really hate setting non-real world / unrealistic configurations but it seems you need to with this game in order to see more. It seems the game keeps stacking files into memory after each stage and doesn't clear the last stage's... So, set 8MB Chip RAM and now I see the "Ape" stage followed by another "Dragon" stage: ...before the game crashes saying not enough Fast RAM: If I try combinations of Chip & Fast RAM however, I can't get it to load the "Ape" stage before crashing... Maybe someone can work the sweet RAM settings.

26 May 2020, 22:50	#16
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Hmmm, I also don't get speech like in this video: [ Show youtube player ] Seems I'll have to revisit my .HDF...

26 May 2020, 23:02	#17
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Well, there's definitely no speech using the .ISO that ransom1122 linked too with a CDTV configuration; no matter what crazy RAM I set. Can one of our French members contact the author of this video to see how speech has been enabled? Maybe he has another non-corrupt image... or...

26 May 2020, 23:03	#18
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	This is probably a reading and auto-speech software, running in background. Doesn't sound like a human voice. There are no CDDA tracks on the disc.

26 May 2020, 23:12	#20
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 12,435	I meant a PC software. Not something on the Amiga site of course. It's quite easy to do something like that these days.

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