/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4424553
What a coincidence, I literally started playing Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain today

I'll probably just torrent the rest tbqh

>>4424553
Probally because Blood Omen isn't as easly installed on Win 7+, anyway, Get them, there's way to get Blood Omen to work on Win 7+ and there's also a 60 fps patch for Soul Reaver

Is there a difference between the PC and Playstation version of Blood Omen? Does the PC version still have the long load times?

>>4424915
PC is pretty much instant, not to mention the top down view is larger

>>4424553
Blood Omen: PC version is better
Soul Reaver: PS1 or DC, each one has its drawbacks but DC has higher framerate.

Looks like with some fixes from the PCgamingwiki Blood Omen and Soul Reaver should play just fine on my modern machine. I'm guessing I don't need to worry too much about messing with the 6th gen games to get them working?

Don't bother playing with a controller. The port fucked up the controller input so if left alone Raziel starts running in a circle, sometimes even drying regular walking or combat.

>>4425109
>Soul Reaver should play just fine on my modern machine

The question is, should you really? The colors suck in the PC version and the dynamic midi music is gone.

>>4425196
>colors suck
what? how so?

>>4425268
PC port did not support multiple color lookup tables so you have more drab repeated textures plastered all over, and the lighting is mostly broken.

>>4425272
could you show me an example?

>>4424553
I bought them all. However getting Soul Reaver to work with hardware acceleration is pain in the ass. Some of the download link fixes are not available anymore. What do? Please help and paste some working links. I want the game look pretty.
I originally finished the game when it first came out but I don't want to relive that again, want something more modern.

>>4425857
Are you this stupid you expect people to spoonfeed you, millennial? Best version of Soul Reaver is on emulator.

>>4426952
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277667556

I was going to link you to Wrace's excellent guide that helped me run my own Soul Reaver properly on the newest patch that fixed most of hte issues with the PC version (sound stuttering and graphical clipping and massive taxing of a modern CPU for some reason), but for some reason it has been removed.

I'm gonna try and upload the files I downloaded from Wrace so that you can implement them. Give me a second, I need to figure out my Mega account again.

>>4426952
>>4426963
https://mega.nz/#F!zw103awC!XdMTMWhhJjnHNUweGpNdgQ

The above Mega link should be the latest version of Wrace's fixes that he published (April 2017) before his guide/files on Steamcommunity went poof.

>>4426956
easy with them words, I only asked for proof because I can't find anything about multiple color lookup tables, besides did you forget "anon delivers"?

>>4427147
I'm >>4425272 and >>4426956 is not me, but providing examples from similar scenarios and screens would require a bare minimum of time, so maybe what >>4426956 basically meant is that you could look at comparisons or different videos of both the PC version and the PS1/DC.
There's a DFRetro video about it, you could check that out.

>>4426974
Thank you, you are a true anon.

>>4426974
Looking at the files I completely forgot dgVoodoo and dgVoodoo2 wrappers existed. I don't use those very often but they really help with old games.
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html
It might complain about virus but that's a false positive.

>>4424553
>Also, why isn't the PC version of Blood Omen available for purchase when the PS1 version is on PSN?
Blood Omen 1 is in the middle of a clusterfuck of copyright between Activision and SquareEnix. The Playstation maintains its solid distribution rights from when the game was released and can sell it on the PSN all it wants. But for new distributors like GOG and Steam, they'll have to wait until a clear owner emerges who can legally grant them the ability to distribute.

>>4427316
So who gets the money if you buy Blood Omen on PSN? Square Enix?

>>4427328
I don't have a clue. Maybe Sony holds it in escrow or just deposits it into the defunct Silicon Knights bank account?

>>4424553

you're probably better off emulating the PS1 or dreamcast versions

PC ports sucked dick

Is there any way to fix the garbage gamepad implementation on Soul Reaver?

>>4427375
Look up the Steam guide for implementing an Xbox controller and use some adaptation software to rebind your woes.

For some reason when using SRHook for 60fps if I leave the textures filtered it runs like a dream but if I try to use unfiltered textures (which I prefer the look of for this game) it reverts back to 30fps. Anybody know what's up with this?

>>4425023
i thought dc was meant to be the definitive version, whats up with it?

>>4427429
Lighting is not perfectly 1:1 with the original PS1 by Crystal Dynamics, and some of the models, while with higher polycounts, do enter in the uncanny valley territory. Besides I like lowpoly Raziel more for some reason, he seems edgier.

>>4427453
>Low poly
>edgier

>>4427159
>>4425272
I see what you mean, tried it out.

>>4428098

>>4428098
>>4428101

I was thinking about how a HD remake might do this series some good, but then I remembered that Michael Bell is about 80 and probably wouldn't be up for it and Tony Jay has been dead for over a decade, not to mention that people would try to "improve" the story by making one of them black or forcing a new female vampire in.

Randomly found this image on my hdd. Must have downloaded it 6 years ago.

>>4428125
>not to mention that people would try to "improve" the story by making one of them black or forcing a new female vampire in.
>>>/pol/
Don't shit our board you low tier ledditor.

>>4428436
I'm black and I agree with him tho. Forced diversity is insulting

Also Reddit is ultra pro-diversity

God the first one looks like garbage on a psp screen fuck.

>>4428440
Post hand with time stamp

>>4425189
It works if you use DirectInput controller and can turn off, or switch with dpad, left analog stick.

I know it works with Logitech Rumblepad 2 and any F type controller in dx mode with stick switched. Maybe it is possible to use xbox controller after changing settings in xbox app.

>>4427453
>>4427470

>>4428436
Those were just common examples, I meant it more in a general "fix what ain't broke" sense. It would be Eidos, tell me with a straight face they wouldn't fuck something up.

Blood Omen best played on PS2 with fast disc speed turned ON before booting the game

Soul Reaver the Dreamcast Version is the definitive one, is done by Nixxes

>>4428820
Blood Omen on PC is better

BO - PC
SR - Dreamcast or PC, pros and cons to both
SR2 - PS2. PC version is fucked.
Defiance - PC
Don't play BO2

>>4428440
I didn't ask if you were black. I said that if you want to argue about "muh sjws!!111" take that shit to your containment board or at the very least /v/ you samefagging fake-nigger.
Also, pic related. Old reddit is neo 4chan (pol mostly), new reddit is just normies, they don't care about diversity they just care about upboats and appeasing everyone.
Which further proves you're a newfag old-redditor, faggot.

>>4428471
Every dithered psx game looks like garbage if you don't pass it through a composite cable/shader.

>>4426956
>emulator
>millennials calling each other millennials