Release Serious Sam: First Encounter

[TeDaDeS]

Thank you for adding another classic to the Pandora library!

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

how old is that machine? the video card is of prime importance...

The laptop is ~10 years old, powered by an nVIDIA 8800 GTX M, with open source "nouveau" drivers...

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[atari_afternoon]

Thank you so much, ptitSeb, it works good on CC.
But do save often, it crashes about every 15 minutes
(I have latest firmw3are and all updates and tried some drivers, the first one of 1.4 seems to work best for me, less frequent crashes. Will report back in a few days.)

 

[Citizen_Lurker]

Thank you for your hard work! Another excellent port.

 

[Farox]

Just quick test on my CC @ 600 Mhz and seems working really nicely...there some slowdown but the first impression is good.

Just some quirks that i found testing the game:

First i have a italian CD (old version i think 1.00) that didn't seems recognised by the runscript...it search for " 1_00c.gro" file but on my local HD (where i have installed and patched to 1.05_European) i have "1_00_a.gro" after renaming its working good but the italian translation is partially recognised.

Second we (CC owners) need a Swap file because the game need more RAM than our Pandora have.

Thanks

 

[ptitSeb]

I can change the runscript to make it accept any 1_00*.gro file.

 

[Farox]

uhmm yes it help...but i noted another thing....no music...in intro/in game nothing...maybe have a corrupted install??...but on my PC works.

 

[ptitSeb]

and you copied all *.gro file and all folder (except Bin) ?

 

[Farox]

yes..
i have
1_00c.gro
1_00_music.gro
1_00_scripts.gro
1_00_Sounds_ITL.gro
1_00_Text_ITL.gro
1_04_patch.gro
and the others dir (less BIN directory)

 

[ptitSeb]

Looks good. I don't know what's going on, but probably something not handled by the opensource version of the engine.
For reference, here are the gro files I have (steam version):
1_00c.gro
1_00c_Logo.gro
1_00c_scripts.gro
1_00_ExtraTools.gro
1_00_music.gro
1_04_patch.gro

No need to rename the other files, the engine take *.gro, only the runscript check a specific file...

 

[hitbyambulance]

The laptop is ~10 years old, powered by an nVIDIA 8800 GTX M, with open source "nouveau" drivers...

you're out of luck there

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

@ptitSeb: I noticed A LOT of graphical glitches in the "Suburbs", mostly in the second part of that level (screen sometimes cut in two, with one side being upside down, etc...). Those glitches make that level harder to complete, and not very fun to play.

Could you please have a look ? I could provide you with some save games if need be.

Cheers, Magic Sam

P.S: I'm still playing TFE on a Rebirth unit, with SGX driver 4.10

 

[ptitSeb]

Mmm, I'm afraid this may be some incompatibilities with the Engine and not just a graphical glitch. I had witnesses such behavor with SE on 1st level one time for exemple.
I'm not yest at the suburbs is TFE. I'll play a bit more (was testing TSE now).
You can still package me a savestate, that's always usefull.
[doublepost=1460926501,1460906952][/doublepost]@Magic Sam : I have played to the Suburbs (after having Hundred of that small exploding bad guys jumping on me on Oasis, wihtout noticable slow down ) and had no issue.
I'm using latest build, using SDL2, may be I'll do a new beta with this build, to see if it works better (I think it work the same...). No I'm on the Sewers...

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

@ptitSeb : I'll test this new beta build ASAP !

Edit: are there any new bits from Croteam / Icculus github repositories ?

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ptitSeb]

@Magic Sam : the new beta build is in sync with icculus github, but it's mainly SDL2 migration, and some bits about that "Game Agent" that replace GameSpy.

 

[ptitSeb]

The new build on the repo.

Build 02
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• Updated sources
• Use SDL2 now
• Fixed the PXML

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all !

I'm now in Karnak

That game is SO great !

Cheers, Magic Sam
[doublepost=1461169434,1461163135][/doublepost]Karnak is done, now in Luxor !

I noticed some graphical glitches in Karnak: floating flags looked like they were blinking...no big deal though

And some keys are still not very responsive, it might even be worse now with that new SDL2 version...

Besides these few minor issues, this game really ROCKS !!!

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ptitSeb]

Graphical issues in Karnak? I'll check.

Which keys are unresponsive?

(And yes, I love those 2 games, they are awesome, both)

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

Which keys are unresponsive?

@ptitSeb : mostly [ENTER], which I mapped to both "use" and "Netrisca".
I always have to press that key twice for it to register.

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[ptitSeb]

But to Have Netricsa you need to press 2*Use