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You might need to install this patch. As I recall, the gauntlet password functionality was not in the game out of the box, but Origin released this patch on their BBS some time after the game was out.

AD, yep, that looks exactly the kind of hex-patterns i would expect to see on an 8-bit sprite/texture. Looks like that tool you found does the job very nicely as well! Alright, i uploaded the Visual Studio C++ project here. A couple of notes: - My VS project goes looking for zlib on the...

The Privateer 2 version sold here in Portugal does not have subtitles either. It is actually a regular English version of the game, the only difference being the game manual, which was translated to Portuguese. The box text might have been translated as well (not completely sure about this).

Hey all! Sorry for not keeping an eye on the Forums as often as i should, i'll make an effort to keep up... Lin Kuei, love your editing tool, great work! :) Due to past e-mail exchanges with AD i took another (very quick) look at the Def! chunks in P2. I made a quick program to test...

One of the ChickenBoy catalogs i've been looking at lists WC4 3DO as "Coming Soon". I'm assuming it never reached completion though. Also marked as "Coming Soon" are WC3 and WC4 for the Sega Saturn. Guessing wildly, i'd bet these would probably use a more reduced engine such as the 3DO's (or...

Hey, more WC3 goodness :D I like this set of images a lot, as you can see how detailed the spaceflight models were meant to be. Makes sense the guys at Origin tried to make the game as detailed as possible, but then scaled details down when they couldn't get an acceptable framerate on the...

WOW thanks a lot! You made me a happy man :D Some random comments: The early web-like shield effects made me remember the effects on WC3 Demo, where you were fighting against a group of Dralthi. The shields on the demo probably had some blue "electrical discharge" effects on them, but I seem...

Wedge, thanks :) I think most of the pictures posted so far (well, except that WC3 Dralthi in Armada... WOW!) might have showed up at various computer magazines previewing these games at the time. I definitely remember seeing that arrow / Kilrathi capship screenshot some magazine before. It's...

Hey great find!:) This high-res picture made me remember those old ChickenBoy Origin e-catalogs from the 90s, where some high(er) resolution pictures from WC3/4 were often found. Maybe this image was meant for inclusion in such a catalog? After a peek on my old WC CDs I did find one such...

Hmm good question, i'm not sure i recall anything resembling conventional .inf files on PC WC1 (although it's been a while since i looked). If i had to guess, however, it would say that it is possible that some internal Origin tool was used to convert .inf files into .if2. There are indications...

Thanks guys! :) Wedge, agreed, when the number of voices is relatively low, you can treat the entire file as audio and cut the resulting static manually. However, this is not practical when the number of files is large. In the case of Sega WC1, there are over 2500 snippets of speech in the...

Hey guys, Good thread! I was looking at the WC3 3DO files, but ended up making a small detour to look into the Sega CD files and was able to make a quick extractor for the game voices. You can find it on my site, along with a few extracted samples. Madman you were definitely on the...

Sordid, i managed to reproduce the issues you're having. Installing mpeg2dec seems to correct both issues (the codec pack i had installed included mpeg2dec, which is why i never encountered these problems in the first place). (Do a search on the CIC for mpeg2dec, you should find a download...

Derailed, glad it is working now! Indeed, you need to complete the installation procedure, the game will not run without a few register keys added at installation time. Sordid, thanks for the explanation. Something is going on there, as you should not be seeing those black bars on the left and...

I don't see any interlacing artifacts in either of my systems, either XP or Vista. Still, i will try uninstalling the codec pack i currently have installed and install ffdshow only, to see if i can reproduce the issue you are reporting. If i can, maybe i can tweak the WCP DLL a bit further...

The skipping bug was definitely there, thanks for reporting it. It didn't show up on my main machine (which still runs XP), which is why it went unnoticed, but after testing it on a Vista machine i did manage to reproduce this problem. Here is a new DLL that should fix this, i'm sorry for the...

Here is a new version of the WCP DVD patch, please give it a try and let me know if it solves your problems. New features: - Some bugfixes - Should work fine with the OpenGL driver, both in full screen and windowed mode. - Looks for movies both on the installation directory and on the DVD drive...

Heya, (Sorry for being away, things have been complicated for me ...) The problem you describe is definitely not standard behavior. The movies should be full screen, adjusted to your monitor geometry: if the monitor is 4:3, the widescreen video should be centered, and if it is widescreen a...

Oooh i made a small editor for this... some 10 years ago! It's still on my site at the Archive: http://hcl.wcrevival.de/archive/wca-gaun.zip Place it on the Gamedat directory and run wca-g.exe. This was a really simple program, actually. It read the gauntlet file, displayed the...

Just got home and started downloading! :D Capn, i'd like to thank you for your generosity donating these CDs :) These are truly great developments for our community. Mario