https://mega.nz/file/Yss2EKKB#DDi8R1tyNUCQ0Js9RhyyQUftuZWroANXQJPULOjZRlw
Here scroll speed is with 2x multiplier
Hi again. The Enemy Mission 1 seems to work fine, and the intro works fine for mission 2 - Egypt, but the game itself doesn't come up. I tried pressing F1 but it wont advance to the next level. I tried copying files over from a PC version, General.NOD, Conquer.mix (2mb) and Sounds.mix (2mb) are now copied to that folder, but seems they make no difference to the game. If helicopters are not meant to auto-rearm then I guess thats how it was meant to be. The scroll speed bar doesn't seem to work for me in the game. If x1 is too slow on my PPC setup, perhaps vampire would be the same. Will try your new x2 speed file and report back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJHac1GhpaA
With the scrolling it is the acceleration speed which is the main issue for me, rather than the scroll speed itself. It is hard to show on a video, but above is a link to a video I made today. The first half shows the current version which is publicly available, uploaded 8 days ago. If you ignore the part where the scrolling goes crazy, I managed to complete the friendly game with this setup, and it seemed ok. The second half of the video shows X2 speed version. Again it is sometimes hard to stop the screen on a certain spot, and it is slow to scroll and move around quickly. So while X4 is too quick, X2 still feels a bit slow. X4 felt a bit too sensitive, but X2 feels a bit slow? Can't really explain it and is difficult to see in the video (which is still processing). I think you do amazing work, and the game no longer feels unstable, so there is definitely progress, and maybe 80% complete now. I notice the game is being talked about in this weeks The Retro Hour, which might be interesting? :)
Perhaps the black area of the video is not being noticed by my emulator anymore, as it usually crops this off and stretches the image to full screen size.. I guess it sees the black border as part of the mpeg, and refuses to crop it.?
Here are stills of the intro anim.
The first one with the big border is the latest mp2 X2 build. The one below that is the older 0.98 build.
I notice with the older build, there is more contrast in the image, and it seems bigger and centred?
It's not a huge deal, it just seems odd that there is a huge border. Perhaps it is simply a limitation of Riva?
Yea, Riva doesn't stretch video. Maybe there is option to do it, haven't checked. I have re-uploaded movies with better quality , 1500k vs 1250k. Also I archive is smaller because there were videos from RA somehow, lol.
EDIT: RIVA can stretch if I run it from WB.
EDIT2: Here video is played in Fullscreen without any black borders at all. https://mega.nz/file/I81x1YgI#EYVeRLngQj82tDNuuOV30qwfTgWlULRErMqtIus0D3E
https://mega.nz/file/4xVBXQJa#h5LeFsTgeIhLqIhV0CrWC7lcoxpjkT86LEWhbLp4Qdk
It would be great for fans to have a fully working game, and I've heard a lot of things about the NOD missions and the story line, so I think many will be interested in those. I downloaded XCC Mixer but it said I need the C&C CD. I only have the ZIP files from the abandoneware sites online, and I dont have a clue about editing games, I just play them. :) The FMVs you sent in that first update were for both scenarios, and so those cant be viewed. Is is possible please to update the main game archive file to include the missing NOD files? I'm sure all of this stuff is copyright free by now.
With Riva, I got the latest one from Animet. The screen being double in size is almost like it is meant to be in interlace? Or like it is showing a PAL screen on an NTSC setup. Heroes of Might and Magic 2 plays fine with all cut scenes so not sure what to suggest there.
Just tried the latest EXE you sent, but now everything is messed up. The FMVs play in a small window over the top of the main screen, I'd guess maybe Riva was meant to be set to full screen instead of windowed mode?
I couldn't load in any missions as the game just quit with an error/software failure. #80000026
Last update for today. ;)
These Riva settings seem to work to get the videos playing full screen:
Riva movies/intro2.mpg display=pip fullpip
If you have a 16:9 display, the movies play back in 16:9. If you have a 4:3 display (like me), they play back in 4:3.
Hopefully this looks good for you? :) Unfortunately I can't fix the sound issues, even with lower audio settings, so I guess this is a limitation. I tried HQAudio but this can make the audio go out of sync. I also tried AHI mode, but this also seems to not be much better.
YAY! :) :)
I can confirm the NOD missions are working. For some reason, the movies are so quiet they are almost silent. Not sure why.
The scrolling speed was much better before, it is still very slow even with scroll speed set at full. Perhaps x3 times faster than normal would be better than x2.
Just wondering about key shortcuts. I tried CTRL+1 to set a group, then pressed 1 to select the group, but nothing happened.
Not much to report back this week.
-The game still randomly freezes sometimes at startup, before the intro screen comes up. Most of the time it will skip the title and go to the intro anim. You know about this already and I guess there isn't much can be done about this. Not really a big issue.
-The cut scenes are still at the top of the screen, with a black border. If you say you tried the PIP method, is that the one where it chopped off the bottom of the image? The audio isn't working for the most part, and it just clicks.
- This is a long standing bug which I forgot to mention. Sometimes if you save the game while a harvester is in the refinery, and then quit and reload that save without quitting the game first, sometimes the harvester gets stuck in the refinery and doesn't come out. This can be fixed by quitting the emulator, and starting it again, and then most of the time the harvester leaves the refinery. But then, sometimes if you save the game here, and come back to it, the harvester doesn't harvest anymore. Here is a save file of that happening:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S2pp8qpR9EQFxH91SII2AHz-b61hSbeq/view?usp=shari...
- The map area leaves the green border on the screen when moving around, which eventually covers the map in green. Clicking on the map area fixes this and refreshes the display. This could be an issue with the emulator?, as the same thing happens with Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
I just beat the whole game. Thanks a lot for this conversion ! :)
"The cut scenes are still at the top of the screen, with a black border. If you say you tried the PIP method"
There is alternative, you can use ffplay with :
"FFPlay -quiet -gui 0 -fs -autoexit"
or FroggerNG:
"FroggerNG.68k FS AUTOSTART autoexit freqdiv=1"
You need to set Channel to 2 i Unit 0 in AHI for audio in players.
"...sometimes the harvester gets stuck in the refinery and doesn't come out..."
hmm, I haven't noticed that...
"The map area leaves the green border on the screen when moving around, which eventually covers the map in green"
Yeah noticed, doesn't happen on v4. I'll see if I can fix this next week.
"I just beat the whole game"
Woohoo! game can be finished, yeah ! :)
