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[Zorlaf]

Where i can use this keys?

[Sinfex]

On the locked doors. Where else would you use them?

[Zorlaf]

But i,ve entered "level 9" and i don,t see locked doors.

[Jish]

You must be in the wrong area then. The entrace is the cave blocked by an armos at the far bottom left of the map. It's not the one on the beach where you start.

[LionStar]

I've finished Level 3, but I can't seem to find Level 4. I've been walking around for a long time looking for ways to get to another part of the overworld I haven't been to yet. Any help?

[Jish]

There's a hint cave in the level 3 area (between parts 1 and 2) that tells you where to go next.

[trudatman]

holy ****, duder! this looks awesome! wow. I can't wait until I can download this. the screenshots are great. I love the comments in the text:

"....I made the decision early on to make the quest in 1.90 because I wanted to prove that even with old software, games can still be made interesting and fun to play....don't judge the whole quest by the beginning. It was made three years ago and may not feature all the interesting tricks and such that are in the later parts of the quest....refrain from rating the quest....a 0 because you hated a certain, small part of it. That isn't fair. This quest is best played in 1.90. I strongly suggest you play it with that version unless your computer absolutely cannot run it. If that is the case, 1.92 is bearable. 2.10 is completely out of the question. You will encounter SEVERE bugs if you use 2.10...."

we have things in common.

I'm so glad somebody else is working in 1.90. I think mine was the only one updated in two years until this week. 1.90 rules! recognize; old-school perfection is coming for your fails!

edit: watched the movie. WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW. nominates you as "best with 1.90." I really liked the collecting the heart container while grappling by it. everything was good, but the side-scroller screens like the cave with fish and the big spider enemy where just PERFECT. you rule. awesome everything.

Edited by Trudatman, 30 January 2009 - 11:09 PM.

[Jish]

Yay for praise! I actually think I could have made the quest a lot better with some more effort (for example, I never edit the palettes at all except for one minor exception), but I think it turned out at least alright.

And I hope you're not disappointed by the fact that the last level is in 1.92. It was going to be 100% 1.90, and the only reason I changed it was because of the limitation on message strings. You can only have like 128 before you're unable to add any more (or edit any old ones - it crashes the whole string editor). And since level 9 alone required more than 128, we decided to just advance to a better version, and then I tried to use some of the new features in that one.

Anyway, I look forward to your feedback after playing it.

[trudatman]

that's good to know about the crashing string menu; I didn't know that. I must be near 100. time to start editing old ones instead of adding new ones. thanks!

I don't palette edit much, either. a little bit. did I mention I'm glad to see another 1.90 quest? now if we could get people back into it so we see more that one per year....

[Jish]

Yeah, I found that out the hard way. Nothing more fun than having everything up to level 9 completed, saving, and then finding that I can't add or edit strings. SOMEHOW I managed to have a backup made from not long before that, and so I was able to transfer the few things that were made after creating the backup. Really got lucky there. And so we planned on making the last level in a separate file, but then counted how many strings it would take for all the cutscenes and stuff, found that it went over the limit, and decided to just screw it and use 1.92, so the cutscenes would look better anyway.

Lesson from building this quest: games using old software can still be good, but don't try to make something more than it can handle. And if you lose something, don't find it. Because when you do find it, it will have rabies.

[trudatman]

stuck after level one. have 4 & 1/2 hearts, potion, boomerang, candle, bombs. figure I need two more heart pieces to get the sword. can't reach the gels with my boomerang....

also: there's a continue bug in the intro. if you die leaving level nine of the first adventure (I figure), you get stuck in a wall. the dude who gives you more bombs says "helscome my bonshop," which I figure is supposed to say "welcome to my bombshop." I also noticed in level one, three screens up and three screens left of the lower right corner room there is a tile error in the lower right corner of the room.

loving it, but stuck.

[Jish]

- You need to go to level 2. You say that you can't reach the gels, but you should be able to. You have the magic boomerang, right? Anyway, that's the correct place. The one with the water, dock you can't use, and the gels on the other end of the screen.

- I know about the continue bug and plan to fix it in the update.

- Helscome my bonshop is intentional - I'd never let typos like that slip past me. It's a reference to Homestar Runner.
http://www.homestarr.../mywedpage.html

- Never noticed that tiling area - I just added it to my list of things to fix.

[trudatman]

guess I don't know where the better boomerang is. hmm.

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[Jish]

That doesn't make too much sense to me. You get the magic boomerang by going through the candle half of Level 1. Clearly you went in there for at least a while, since you found that tiling error. But I guess you never finished it or something. That's the only thing I can think of.

[trudatman]

thanks. not sure how I missed it. I'll holler with more, I'm sure. thanks for being here with quick responses! if you are comfortable saying where you live (generally), PM me or reply. I would love to work with you; this quest is freaking awesome and it inspires me. have you played my quest?