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by Robot_Maker20
Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:01 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)
Replies: 11
Views: 2675

Re: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)

For the depth parameter, the scripts either hand in 1, 6 or 7 (driven by a couple of conditions - not sure on specifics but looks to be based on the current board state, possibly how many 'resets' the player has done, and also if you've visited the library book?). From what you said, this means the...
by Robot_Maker20
Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:05 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)
Replies: 11
Views: 2675

Re: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)

Ah, I think I can see that now. Thanks. I had instead got the notion that it was a recursive call of some sort, using the modulo of the turn number combined with the current depth to select where in the array it jumped to for the next turn a bit like an Enigma cipher, hence the pseudo-random aspect....
by Robot_Maker20
Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:28 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)
Replies: 11
Views: 2675

Re: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)

Why is the depth limit 20? That sounds awfully high; IIRC a depth of 3 is quite challenging enough for the average human, and the lookup table depths[] doesn't exceed it. It looks from the following code snippet as if the actual depth is supposed to vary between 1 and 3 for each move, jumping around...
by Robot_Maker20
Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:26 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)
Replies: 11
Views: 2675

Re: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)

The only thing which is scripted is the difficulty level which I assume, is either calculated or used as a setting somewhere deep in the scripts. Well, that's exactly it - feverishly wracking my brains some more to try to remember the details of what I read in that article 2-3 months ago*, I think ...
by Robot_Maker20
Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:47 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)
Replies: 11
Views: 2675

Current status of microscope puzzle difficulty in T7G (& possible feature request for Groovie engine)

Can anyone please tell me if the microscope puzzle difficulty in the 7th Guest is currently capped in any way, or is the code a direct reproduction of how the scripting functioned in the original release? I can't find the link now (I'm sorry, I swear I bookmarked it, but now I just can't find it eit...
by Robot_Maker20
Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Puzzle randomisation in Fate of Atlantis
Replies: 2
Views: 1637

Puzzle randomisation in Fate of Atlantis

This has likely been answered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find it: in Indy FoA, there seem two major gameplay branch points: the three "paths" you can freely choose when Sophia reads your fortune after finding the Lost Dialogue of Plato; and the particular location the Dialogue itself c...
by Robot_Maker20
Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:45 am
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: *UPDATES!* ESRGAN AI Upscaling (HiRes packs now possible!)
Replies: 153
Views: 309324

Re: ESRGAN: AI Neural Net Upscaling

Can this be applied to preprocess low-res FMV cutscenes? Maybe even ones with line-skipping like the Z-vision games?
by Robot_Maker20
Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ZVision status?
Replies: 12
Views: 9594

I'm normally loath to threadbump, but it has been nearly three years. Any chance anyone could take a look at this and see if it's feasible? Fullscreen Zork would simply be glorious. I'd do it myself if I were only remotely skilled enough.
by Robot_Maker20
Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: RIVEN: the sequel to Myst
Replies: 14
Views: 20141

Regarding image quality, it looks very much as if Cyan used some kind of diamond-shaped dithering effect on the rendered still shots in Riven, which will probably have looked a lot better on contemporary CRT monitors than it does on modern flatscreens. If we can find out what filter they used, un-di...
by Robot_Maker20
Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The top 10 adventure games of all time?
Replies: 62
Views: 133606

I can't boil all my favourites down into a top ten best, there are too many, but I can just about manage a top ten "classics you simply must try." In no particular order: Riven (for which Myst is a prerequisite, but not quite as good) Broken Sword 1 (the original release, not the recently ...
by Robot_Maker20
Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: Mike's pants
Replies: 2
Views: 4472

Mike's pants

SPOILERS: If the title of this post is baffling to you, then stop reading now! Can anyone tell me the cultural significance of Mike's Pants, as referenced in the easter egg in Grand Inquisitor? A web search turns up this cryptic blog https://mikespants.wordpress.com/, which clearly features said pan...
by Robot_Maker20
Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:57 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: How to abort race-game in Sam & Max?
Replies: 2
Views: 3595

It's the Q key, presumably short for "quit." If I remember correctly this is also the only way to zoom out from using the mounted binoculars. I can't remember if this was even in the manual, but I do remember this gave me problems playing the originals on DOS as a kid, because SCUMM games ...
by Robot_Maker20
Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Help identifying a couple of games?
Replies: 21
Views: 12210

Second one sounds like my kind of game, but I can't think which game it could be. Nightlong:Union City Conspiracy springs to mind, but the protagonist in that was bald. Ooh, or very possibly the Fifth Element game?
by Robot_Maker20
Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:48 am
Forum: Grim Fandango Deluxe
Topic: Grim Fandango Remastered being made by Double Fine!
Replies: 22
Views: 48897

Re: Grim Fandango Remastered being made by Double Fine!

I still think they look like calacas, I was just a bit alarmed at the idea of getting rid of the distinctive boxy shape of the characters, which I'm still fairly sure was intentional - other 3D games from 1998 already had significantly better 3D character models. I think I probably overreacted, thou...
by Robot_Maker20
Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:36 pm
Forum: Grim Fandango Deluxe
Topic: Grim Fandango Remastered being made by Double Fine!
Replies: 22
Views: 48897

Re: Grim Fandango Remastered being made by Double Fine!

It's not like anyone is going to complain that Manny's sleeve isn't a rectangle anymore I guess I'm that guy... :P Although I should clarify, I specifically meant Calaca marionettes - crude, blocky and squarish, with a boxy, hand-made carnival-float / papier mache toy sort of look. At least, that w...