Chaos Project - Nemesis´ Wrath™ (Final Demo) Beta testers needed

[Arrow]

Jaehss, es troo...

[Pixie]

Jaehss, es troo...

I think...everybody figured that out by now.
Well, I hope they did. Otherwise I'm going to be rude and point and laugh. >_>

[Arrow]

I'll help!

[Pixie]

Yay!

I think I've had way too much sugar today. I've never been this energetic/giggly/weird in a long time.

[Arrow]

Heh. I got like that once, but people got sick of it REEEEAL fast.

[Pixie]

You were only like that once? I used to be like that in school all the time. I must have been so annoying!

[Ericmor]

O-kay, the image name is REALLY mispelled on the event, and the game crashes. Was able to play on from there.
But the savefile overwrite crash continues - i have to manually delete the saves if i ever hope to save beyond 8 slots!
About the Game.EXE overwrite:
Mmm... overwriting the original GAME.EXE with an game.exe from my RMXP makes it work, but then the opening screens crashes because of that SAME image mispelling... and i didn't find the opening script that defines it.

[Tsunokiette]

If you open the script editor after getting the error, it should take you directly to where the error took place.

[GilgameshRO]

I should probably get around to actually testing this.

[Pixie]

O-kay, the image name is REALLY mispelled on the event, and the game crashes. Was able to play on from there.
But the savefile overwrite crash continues - i have to manually delete the saves if i ever hope to save beyond 8 slots!
About the Game.EXE overwrite:
Mmm... overwriting the original GAME.EXE with an game.exe from my RMXP makes it work, but then the opening screens crashes because of that SAME image mispelling... and i didn't find the opening script that defines it.

How come you seem to be having so many problems? I've had...a few but none of them took me more than 5 minutes to fix.
And you're still having problems with the save, and that one Nemesis title image?

[Winged]

You guyz mgith also wanna edit the "Gold Crash" common event, the transition isn't there (well for first version of the demo, if its been fixed I'll hid in my little corner here...).

~Winged

[Ericmor]

O-kay, the image name is REALLY mispelled on the event, and the game crashes. Was able to play on from there.
But the savefile overwrite crash continues - i have to manually delete the saves if i ever hope to save beyond 8 slots!
About the Game.EXE overwrite:
Mmm... overwriting the original GAME.EXE with an game.exe from my RMXP makes it work, but then the opening screens crashes because of that SAME image mispelling... and i didn't find the opening script that defines it.

How come you seem to be having so many problems? I've had...a few but none of them took me more than 5 minutes to fix.
And you're still having problems with the save, and that one Nemesis title image?

...Make a new project on your RMXP. Take the game.exe, and overwrite Blizzard's .exe. Now, WITH RMXP EDITOR CLOSED, try to run the game.
If it works:
-During the first part of the game, try to save your game on top of another saved slot, instead of an empty one.

If you open the script editor after getting the error, it should take you directly to where the error took place.

- NOT if you are NOT running from RMXP editor - the intro error happens only when you run the game.exe, with the EDITOR CLOSED. Actually, the game.exe has a full intro, differently from running the game from inside the editor. Try it, see what i mean.
Blizzard found a way to skip the intro if you are in test mode, so we don't see the intro inside the RMXP editor.

[Blizzard]

Stop the testing for now. I´ll upload a fixed beta version tomorrow. You won´t experience the resources errors anymore. It happens, because I used non-ASCII characters in the resource names.

@Ericmor: Can you tell me where the "Fonts" folder in you WINNT folder is?

BTW to skip something in the editor mode, just use the $DEBUG flag inside the scripts. It´s ALWAYS true if you start the game from within the editor.

[Ericmor]

Right, Blizzard: My windows Fonts directory is...

C:\WINNT\Fonts

...i think your game actually found the directory - the structure should be the same for all win2000 versions - so the crash, teorically, shouldn't happen... or so i think, since it happened anyway 

[Blizzard]

Ok, I PMed everybody of you the new version of the game. I checked the resource names and now all of them only include ASCII character, so there should be no problems like before. The font installer will now try to install the font files only once. If it crashes, it will not try to install the fonts again, except you delete the Settings.bcx file in the Saves folder.
Four more things:

1. If you go beyond the Final Demo, you will get the next mode unlocked when you enter the Warp Portal in the Tower of Memories.
2. Test Absorb HP/MP abilities and the Relecting status effect as much as you can. They aren't buggin, but sometimes they glitch and those are hard to identify and to find, since they have a quite random pattern.
3. You can use your savegame from the other beta without problems.
4. There are several "unfinished things" beyond the Final Demo like a wrong background in the Ice Temple, no seperate skill set for Siegfried (he uses Leximus' for now) etc.

[Winged]

I found an error in your mapping from the last beta, but I'll check in the new one and I'm gonna tell ya if any bugs from the previous beta pops up again...*YAWN* I need some sleep...also here is a question, are you ment to lose some HP and MP when you teleport?

~Winged

[Blizzard]

Yes. That´s what I meant with "But careful! Teleporting will exhaust your party." So it makes no sense to teleport to a previous town, stay at the inn (because it´s cheaper) and teleport back. =P
All characters lose 50% of their max MP and their left HP will be divided by 3, but they can´t die.

[Pixie]

Thanks Blizzard. I'll get back to this testing again now.

Actually...it says the archive is either in an unknown format or damaged. So, hm.

[Ericmor]

Wonderfull work, Blizzard! This one is so well fixed that i'm actually playing directly from the game.exe, i didn't even opened RMXP!
One minor bug, thought: i only got two crashes when i first runned the game - one was the Font installer (as you mentioned, it crashes once and then runs normally), and the other was the lack of the standard MIDI BGMs from RTP - i copyed them to the audio/BGM folder, and everthing went out OK. It seem's there's a bug between RTP versions or something - better copy all data to the release folders.
----------------- COMENT:
Yes, is kinda dangerous- in my opinion - to depend of the RTP packs when releasing a game - people fell anoiyed to download a strange pack from a place to make a game run - so maybe is better to copy ALL files from RPMXP data to the game release folder.
Mmm... i remember trying to do that -  i copyied everething inside a test game folder, copressed it, them deleted the RTP pack from windows - and the game complained of the lack of the RTP the same way. Maybe i didn't copyied everthing? Or any RPMXP game checks for the existence of a register key, or something, left by the RTP instalation?
I need to check on that.

[Blizzard]

I removed the RTP BGMs on purpose (because of the size). I thought I already fixed that. I guess there was the one or another BGM still in the game. =/
Ok, if anybody has problems, just copy the RTP BGMs into the BGM folder of the game.

@Ericmor: Did the font installer warn you that it may crash? I put some code in it that is supposed to warn the user if his %SystemRoot% folder is WINNT.

[Ericmor]

In the very first time i've runned the game, the message appeared warning me that the game found problems with the font installer, then Crashed!
After this first time, every time i run the game the message appears - but it doesn't crash, the game runs smoothly.

[Blizzard]

I see. I will fix that later. It will only show it the first time. Did you install the fonts manually BTW?

[Ericmor]

That's the funny part - they where there all the time! It complains about a Tahoma.ttf that's right there - thence my confusion. Maybe is another ASCII mispelling error or something?
Maybe the font is named differently on my machine? Mmm... also, since the very first crash, i felt that your code FOUND the right windows directory - "WINNT" is a name i came up with during windows install (after reinstalling 345 times the operational system after crashes, you do something like that), so hardly anyone else will be using it.
The crash text POINTED the right directory, without pointing the existence of an existing font, if i remember correctly. 

[Blizzard]

Since Tahoma, Arial and Times New Roman are standard fonts in Windows I think I should remove them from the installer anyway.

Silly me forgot to remove a skill from Jason's initialization after hunting the reason for a very mean bug. Here are 3 update files. Like always, just extract them into the Data folder.

1.4b Update

[Naphe]

Alright I reviewed this game, and if your going to release this your going to have to give credits to the "exact" names of the producers of Ragnarok Online, Magic The Gathering, and any other companies of whom you ripped sprites from or else you will be in copyright infringement, even if you don't make a profit.

It's called fair use asshole. Yes, wether or not Blizzard's game falls under fair use or not is highly debatable, but if you want to go there then you're just being a fucking cock. Seriously, it's not like he is hurting anything or benefiting from it in anyways. If you're just trying to let him know, then it's all cool, but if you're calling him out that is simply malicious.

I'm just pointing it out, and you shouldn't go about harrassing someone for a simple "opinion", you might not know what will happen.