I noticed when the first "shooting enemy" hits you at level 1 (at the beginning of the game), Maria may end up under the platform, so she falls under the screen. You can then move to the right (without the hero on the screen) until the end of the level. Then, since you're not there, you can't do anything else but reset.
Maybe one day, a member of the Z-Team has started very slowly with SGDK, and Earok the developer of the Scorpion Engine for Amiga is working on it for a possible export on Genesis/Megadrive ?
I can unpack the LHA but when running the game the Scorpion logo flashes up for a tiny moment and then it immediately exits back to workbench. This is same set up I run my real A1200 with but I haven't had a moment to move the LHA over to see if that works. I've tried backing the config down to 0MB slow and 4MB of fast RAM, turned off the FPU and removed DF1 but there was no difference.
I did get it to work in winUAE with a Quickstart A1200 config (2MB Chip, 4MB Fast) loaded. From there I booted with the workbench 3.1 disk (adf) then added the game's windows directory as DH1. From workbench the game now ran correctly. Possibly this is something to do with BetterWB though that seems unlikely and I don't have things installed on my physical A1200 atm.
Next I tried winUAE with my usual hardware config (above) but with a vanilla workbench 3.1 installation on DH0. The game ran fine this way. Perhaps there is something amiss with running this with BetterWB 4.3
Edit: Testing this with a real A1200 and the game boots fine under BetterWB
Ok. I have tracked down the issue here. My A1200 is set to one of the screen modes BetterWB provides "PAL High Res Laced 640x530" with 256 colours. If I set the colours to less to 32 (anything less than 64 actually) then the game runs perfectly.
I just tried this with a vanilla Workbench 3.1 with various screen modes and colours and these all worked fine.
So at a guess I'd say this might be something to do with how Scorpion sets the screen mode and palette and that seemingly does not play nicely some of what BetterWB provides.
I have the same issue but unfortunatley, even if I reduce the colours and put on low res, the game still crashes back to Workbnech after a split second. Pity. I really wanted to play.
If you put something eating RAM on your user-startup, then there is the chance you're running out of chip RAM when running the game. Try looking into your startup sequence to see if you can skip something for now. Maybe that BetterWB.
Yeah, good point. My startup is just the standard 3.1 startup but I do have a lot of harddrives mapped and those eat up memory. And I think the fancy icon set I'm using too might contribute
Ok, I've doublechecked this and I have 1.8Meg of Chip RAM available when trying to start. But I have found the culprit so I've updated my note above with the fix
Having the exact problem with my A500 Mini as well. Download had the lha and an instructions file, I followed the instructions but maybe I'm missing something 🤔
Yeah, had to do that so that I could use AGS 1.5 too. I will try another usb without AGS on just incase the settings for that are doing anything weird. (Not sure that should make any difference, but I don't know enough about how it works to confirm)
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Works good on the CD32, only thing I would suggest is a continue system or password, it really sucks playing the first levels over and over again.
+1. Good suggestion, please consider it for the next update.
Hello. Some bug reports
I noticed when the first "shooting enemy" hits you at level 1 (at the beginning of the game), Maria may end up under the platform, so she falls under the screen. You can then move to the right (without the hero on the screen) until the end of the level. Then, since you're not there, you can't do anything else but reset.
another issue. I couldn't understand if it's a bug or a feature: some times the hero 'doubles' itself, so I can play with two Marias on the screen.
thanks for playing and sorry for the bug, I'll fix it...
It's awesome to play. Btw, have you any email address we can use for further communication?
Hi, any plans for a Sega Genesis / Megadrive version soon ?
Maybe one day, a member of the Z-Team has started very slowly with SGDK, and Earok the developer of the Scorpion Engine for Amiga is working on it for a possible export on Genesis/Megadrive ?
I think I've found one bug under winUAE.
My usual winUAE config is
I can unpack the LHA but when running the game the Scorpion logo flashes up for a tiny moment and then it immediately exits back to workbench. This is same set up I run my real A1200 with but I haven't had a moment to move the LHA over to see if that works. I've tried backing the config down to 0MB slow and 4MB of fast RAM, turned off the FPU and removed DF1 but there was no difference.
I did get it to work in winUAE with a Quickstart A1200 config (2MB Chip, 4MB Fast) loaded. From there I booted with the workbench 3.1 disk (adf) then added the game's windows directory as DH1. From workbench the game now ran correctly. Possibly this is something to do with BetterWB though that seems unlikely and I don't have things installed on my physical A1200 atm.
Next I tried winUAE with my usual hardware config (above) but with a vanilla workbench 3.1 installation on DH0. The game ran fine this way. Perhaps there is something amiss with running this with BetterWB 4.3
Edit: Testing this with a real A1200 and the game boots fine under BetterWB
sorry, I don't use BetterWB 4.3...
Ok. I have tracked down the issue here. My A1200 is set to one of the screen modes BetterWB provides "PAL High Res Laced 640x530" with 256 colours. If I set the colours to less to 32 (anything less than 64 actually) then the game runs perfectly.
I just tried this with a vanilla Workbench 3.1 with various screen modes and colours and these all worked fine.
So at a guess I'd say this might be something to do with how Scorpion sets the screen mode and palette and that seemingly does not play nicely some of what BetterWB provides.
Hopefully this is useful for some folks.
I have the same issue but unfortunatley, even if I reduce the colours and put on low res, the game still crashes back to Workbnech after a split second. Pity. I really wanted to play.
Are you using emulation? Try just booting the workbench disk and playing from there.
I've fixed it by not having to change me screen mode. Just open CLI and boot it from there, rather than navigate through windows. I'm not emulating.
If you put something eating RAM on your user-startup, then there is the chance you're running out of chip RAM when running the game. Try looking into your startup sequence to see if you can skip something for now. Maybe that BetterWB.
Yeah, good point. My startup is just the standard 3.1 startup but I do have a lot of harddrives mapped and those eat up memory. And I think the fancy icon set I'm using too might contribute
Ok, I've doublechecked this and I have 1.8Meg of Chip RAM available when trying to start. But I have found the culprit so I've updated my note above with the fix
very good
Congrats, great work !! My 1200 is delighted - and so am I :)
Awesome work so I had to buy the game.
But I cant get the game to work on theA500mini. It only loads up the scorpion engine logo and then goes into a black screen.
Tried the a500mini download and every other with the settings of fast ram and full copper . Help please : )
Thanks, I tried it on mine, it works, I'm looking at my configuration tonight...
👍🏻 A500mini download only contains a single file (scorpion.lha) Maybe it's missing something or its my configuration setup 😁
Having the exact problem with my A500 Mini as well. Download had the lha and an instructions file, I followed the instructions but maybe I'm missing something 🤔
Have you updated to the latest versions of the A500 mini?
https://retrogames.biz/support/thea500-mini/whdload/
https://retrogames.biz/support/thea500-mini/upgrade/
Yeah, had to do that so that I could use AGS 1.5 too.
I will try another usb without AGS on just incase the settings for that are doing anything weird. (Not sure that should make any difference, but I don't know enough about how it works to confirm)
Yes, there is only one file.
Here is my working configuration.
Works like a charm now. awesome game.
Awesome Domkid !
I was waiting for this \(^o^)/
Thank you so very much ♥‿♥
This looks amazing, well done!
Awesome game!
Thanks
Congratulations for the release!! This is a great game!
Thanks
Holding off for the final! Can't wait :D
I like the new portrait, fits to the game much more than the manga one. Please replace it in the game title screen too.
thank you, it's done
Un Superbe Castelvania like, voici ma présentation de cette très belle démo qui promet du lourd :-)
merci, le jeu est terminé et bientôt sur Ich.io
very good
very good! Different scenarios, nice enemies, colors,thumbsup for me!
Keep going ;)
Nice game and plays well. But why is there such a long delay before I appear in the game again after killed? Nothing seems to be loading.
Awesome game!
thank's
looks very cool 🙂
Hi,
this all seem to be a amazing work. Keep it up.
Wish you Project and your just the best :)