This topic is for issues you encounter in the Demo Disc, and also any questions you have about the disc.
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FAQ:

Q: Does this run on an actual Playstation 1?

A: No these games are all built on and for modern hardware. The demo disc will be a downloadable game for Windows PC's and not a physical disc. Unfortunately due to the high development and testing requirements of releasing 25 separate executables on windows we also will not be able to release for Mac or Linux.

Q: Will there ever be a Physical Release of Demo Disc 2020 or 2021?

A: No. While we have received a lot of messages over the last year about people enthusiastic to help us do a physical release of the first demo disc, we have thought long and hard about it and decided that no matter what a physical release would involve money which would inherently conflict with the goals of the HPS1 remaining a free community run for the love of low-fi 3D games. However this year we are looking at providing digital materials for dedicated fans to produce their own DIY physical copies. 

Q: Are all of the demos for full games?

A: While we cannot guarantee all of the games will make it to a full release, they are all currently intended to be full releases eventually.

Q: Do all the demos have PS1 inspired graphics and are they all horror games?

A: Not Quite. Despite the name the HPS1 is a community where we try to accept all low-fi and retro art directions. As such not every game has to be 3D or have the particular visual quirks of any specific hardware. In a similar way we do not require the games to have a strict horror theme, instead they can be atmospheric, have a slight unnerving twist or even just feel so of the era that we can't resist loving them and wanting them in the collection.

Q: Was this a game Jam?

A: No, this isn't a game jam, while some of the projects may have been in development for short periods of time, there are also many that are just neat vertical slices of longer term passion projects from members of our community.

Q: Who is involved in the creation of the Demo Disc 2021?

A: There are at least 44 members of our community involved in the production of the disc and the demos they are all credited in the disc itself and as many as possible are credited in this Twitter thread.

playing peebs with a controller from freeplay opens up other demos when you're playing. alt tabbed and i had 30 different demos open. should mention this happened multiple times. had to restart because things just kept opening. happened 2 different times

The book on the ground floor isn't opening for me

I got really far along in The Chameleon, but when I tried punching the electrical box covered in electricity, I died (yeah, it wasn't a great idea, but I wasn't sure what to do, haha). When I had died previously, the game reset me to a checkpoint just fine, but this time I'm stuck on a black screen. I can use my abilities and watch my energy bar go down and hear the sound effects of them and my environment, but I can't see anything besides the UI overlay, and I can't seem to punch either. I tried opening the menu to swap the graphics settings around, but it didn't help.

Super fun game though, I had a ton of fun!

• Playing Mummy Sandbox, my camera was stuck in a constant rotation. Thought this was some bizarre intentional game design before I looked up other people playing it, haha. Played with a mouse and not through Freeplay, for context
  
• Lorn's Lure end-level tally screen disappears way too fast to be read.
• Not so sure on this one but what triggers the music in The Chameleon? I think I heard maybe two pieces of music in my entire playthrough, and when I watched someone else's vidoe they had stuff playing I never heard.

Hello, when I play the game "Walk", it can't be fullscreen, what should I do?

when i try open it,, it says 

Failed to load PlayerSettings (internal index #0).

Most likely data file is corrupted, or built with mismatching

editor and platform support versions.

When will the discord open back up to new members? I know the Twitter said 1-2 weeks but it’s a little over that now.

I downloaded the demo disc and ,though I haven't opened every game yet, the games that I've opened from the opening screen so far seem to work fine. But Walk doesn't seem to open? Every time I try to open the game it gives me the, 'switch to another tab screen' but the game never actually opens. Like I said, the other games that I've tried have given me no issue. I downloaded the demo disc specifically for my interest in walk so Its kind of ironic that its the only game I cant play haha. Have other people had this issue before? and more importantly, is there any way I can fix this? Other then that the disc is great! Very fun and well done!

I'm using ps4 controller with usb to try to play the game but the controller has mapped weird on both of the two games I've played. The camera wildly spins to the right because I think the right camera control is mapped weird and all the buttons are a bit off (Square is select, R2 is pause etc). I had similar issues before on some games I bought through steam but I was able to fix that by setting steam to recognize my controller. I checked if I could do the same thing through the itch app and I can't find an option to.

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Whenever I try to launch the "video" from the password-locked computer my game transitions to a pure black screen. If I click the wsad keys I can hear my character moving around; I tried looking for an exit that might trigger a loading sequence and restore the visuals, but no dice.. If anybody could help me fix this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Same problem as a few others, Walk launches as a small window sadly and alt+enter or F11 don't work sadly :(

Hey everyone! First ... great project;) I think its super cool!

Can you somehow establish contact with the dev teams?

I am an environment artist myself and would like to offer help and participate on projects like these.

 Cheers 

Nico

btw. i hope this is the right way for questions like these^^

Why was this Game is Built  4GB whyy i just want to an demo of toree 3D  :(

Protagoras Bleeds looked very cool and when I went to download the application to play the game, the game showed the launch screen, but then put me back in the hallway with the soda machine. 

Has anybody actually had an issue fixed in here? Anyway, I launched Walk and like the others I can't make it go full screen, but worse than that I can't get the menu to respond to any input at all. WSAD, Arrow keys, numpad, mouse, nothing works except the Enter key which makes me exit because Exit is highlighted by default. Wish this was available in some form outside of the demo disc launcher.

It’s been brought up before but Walk does not launch in full screen and neither F11 nor alt+enter seem to work. Has there been a fix to this yet?

I tried playing with a PS5 controller and there doesn’t seem to be a way to crouch. I tried clicking in the left stick like it says on the control page but nothing happens. 

anyway to invert the y axis?

Whenever I start the game, there is no audio.  My speakers work fine and the max volume for the game is set to max.

My download keeps cancelling and saying "forbidden" do i have to do something?

What do I do? 

It just says fatal error 

Hello. I have a problem with the game. Everything was fine before, but after reinstalling Windows, the games simply stopped running. That is, the launcher starts up but the games inside the museum do not work. I go up, press E and nothing.

Does the demo disk work on things like a retro pie emulator?

possibly an issue on my end but downloading the game says it is forbidden and cant be run

Tallyho friends! I'm in the process of creating my own physical versions of these wonderful discs, and on the site it's claimed the 2021 disc size is around 4 GB. When downloaded it's 5,13GB (not unpacked). Is there a way to fit this onto a DVD-r or is this just too big? Can I perhaps split it up onto two discs somehow? Thanks!

Edit: I ended up splitting the zip file into two archives (which is surprisingly easy to do with the command line :o)!

I'm having trouble downloading the demo disc. The download repeatedly fails and won't start up again. I'm using firefox on windows 11