/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1410473]

Checked the catalog 3 times.
Why the fuck no one talks about demo here?

[Anonymous No.1410497]

[Anonymous No.1410501]

[Anonymous No.1410504]

[Anonymous No.1410516]

>>1410497
>>1410501
>>1410504
Look, compress your images. 4chan is too slow for 2mb screenshots, and what's the point? It's 1996 game.

[Anonymous No.1410521]

What is the name of this mod?

[Anonymous No.1410529]

>2 MB
You save those as bitmaps and then change the extension to png? Get your shit together, Tyrone.

[Anonymous No.1410535]

>>1410521

Not so long ago it was basically known as "diablo hd", now it's codename is Belzebub.

For now there is a closed beta (for like... 8 people?) plus a demo featuring first 4 levels.

[Anonymous No.1410542]

Thanks for sharing the mod, thats looks awesome.

Lets talk about Diablo 1!

How the shrines were permenent and sometimes bad

The gold that took up space in your inv

diablo2 is for pussies who don't appreciate a good roguelike

[Anonymous No.1410553]

>>1410542

In this mod gold takes up one inventory space.
There are new shrines, and you see buff icon with timer when you activate them (similar to mana shield on screen).

[Anonymous No.1410561]

There are also new spells added.
Or rather - imported from D2.

Classes also have skills as you saw.
I know that Warrior gets cleave, charge, and shieldwall, plus some other one.

[Anonymous No.1410567]

>>1410542
>modern roguelike fad
>nobody tried to make proper isometric,Diablo-styled roguelike\lite
It's weird, like really weird. Seems like the most obvious thing to do.

[Anonymous No.1410574]

There is also gheed npc with gamble, but for now I'm too fucking poor to gamble anything.

Magic items with negative suffices / affixes are a lot more common then they were, and there is no identify spellbook.

That means you constantly pay 100 gold for identifying items that sell for 0, and it sucks your funds early game. Also god damn spellbooks.

[Anonymous No.1410585]

>>1410567

I find it horribly wrong that - up to now - the best games in this genre are either mods (MedianXL, this Belzebub thing), or games made by indie devs (PoE).

It should be easy to make a simple, good game like that. Yet there are almost none attempts made.

[Anonymous No.1410593]

>>1410574
Why can't they just let the game run at higher resolutions? Why turn the game into Diablo 2 when you could just play Diablo 2 for that?
Though I have to say that even a larger view would be different from the original experience since you can aim significantly farther instead of firing blindly.

[Anonymous No.1410613]

>>1410593

You can just "zoom in" and have the same sight range as you had in the original Diablo. Though the enemies will STILL have much longer sight range (no, I'm not wearing too much +light radius items).

And about the resolution:
This game is sprites, and sprites only. To make it "higher resolution" without zooming out you'd have to REMAKE all the sprites and animations in game in higher resolution.

This is the shit i've talked about.
Shitloads of such items. I like it.

[Anonymous No.1410614]

Ask someone who was in the closed alpha anything.

[Anonymous No.1410623]

>>1410614
Was the online avaiable?

[Anonymous No.1410627]

Sweet. SPAMMING TIME.

>>1410614
For a second I wanted to ask if the guys who make this want to put some cooldown on teleport spell. But then I remembered that Phasing does not have a cooldown, so the iconic SPAM-teleport-SPAM-teleport sorcerer gameplay isn't endangered.

I will never forgive retarded blizzard for making cd on teleport in d3 (because they dislike fucking ENIGMA in LoD).

[Anonymous No.1410660]

This is probably as close to Emerald ring of the Zodiac as I will get in the demo.

[Anonymous No.1410883]

>>1410623
No online was not available, purely single player seeing as during various stages of the alpha you could not progress past the church, then to the catacombs etc as they were added in.

>>1410627
I don't see why they would. During the alpha until the beta all of this was accomplished by one guy. For some reason he is extremely secretive and paranoid that Blizzard will drop a lawsuit on his ass. As far as I know now he is working with a veteran D1 modder so it's a two man project at the moment.

[Anonymous No.1410903]

>>1410473
So what is this exactly? A fan-remake of diablo?

[Anonymous No.1411085]

>>1410516
Wow. What an autist.

[Anonymous No.1411098]

>>1410473
Diablo 2 isn't retro you fucking stupid nigger.

[Anonymous No.1411120]

>>1411085
What?

[Anonymous No.1411169]

>>1410529
>>1410516
It's 2014, stop using dial up and get with the times gramps.

[Anonymous No.1411189]

>>1411098
And this isn't Diablo 2 you fucking stupid nigger.

[Anonymous No.1411198]

>>1411189
It might as well be.
>>1411169
Why are you people so fucking stupid? It's 4chan's shit servers that are bottle necking, not our connections.

[Anonymous No.1411239]

>>1411098
That isn't Diablo 2 you stupid fucking nigger.

[Anonymous No.1411285]

>>1411098
you are the dumbest nigger of /vr/ right now, congratulations.

[Anonymous No.1411314]

>>1410473
Thanks for the news OP, somebody should have done this yeeearrrs ago. Check out Diablo - The Hell mod also, it is bvery good.

[Anonymous No.1411325]

>>1411198
Listen boy, I'm on a 2MB/second speed and they load up instantly for me. Git gud.

[Anonymous No.1411330]

>>1410473
Running the demo through wine now, It is fucking SICK. No sound though trying to fix that.

[Anonymous No.1411638]

>>1410473
I recommend this demo to anyone who is even a slight diablo 1/2 fan. It looks VERY promising. The game runs at a solid 60fps, there are various inventory functions that make the game less tedious (shift clicking to sell for example). The gameplay has been sped up by a slight margin to make playing smoother and more enjoyable. All of the additional content merges well with vanilla d1 and isn't too over the top and out of place.

Although some of the feel of the original game is lost; the atmosphere is still very much intact. When completed this mod will be a great way for people to experience diablo who were previously put off by the slower nature of the original.

Don't get me wrong i am a huge fan of vanilla d1, but something like this should have been created years ago.

[Anonymous No.1411670]

>>1410613
Didn't enemies have an unlimited range once activated in the original?
They certainly could shoot you before you could see them.

[Anonymous No.1411693]

So is OP going to announce what exactly this is or what?

[Anonymous No.1411696]

>>1411330

OP here.
I had no problems with sound, though my friend also lacks it, and it's on win 7.
There is openAI installler in the demo files, but didn't help him.

>>1410903
It's a mod for Diablo that brings the game up to modern times you could say. It adds bigger resolution, waypoints, stash, class skills, better hud... et cetera.

It also uses the content that was previously scrapped from Diablo (butcher cinematic for example).

It also fixes many things, like limit on spell sprites per map (no more dissapearing chain lightning) or difficulties in hitting with projectiles in north-south east-west directions.

[Anonymous No.1411701]

>>1411696
OP, don't be a faggot. Just tell us the name of the mod.

[Anonymous No.1411708]

>>1411701

Jesus christ I told that in 8th post.
Mod name is now "Belzebub".

http://mod.diablo1.eu.org/

This is the mod site, and yes, it's in polish.

Download Demo from site
Unpack It anywhere
Copy-paste DIABDAT.MPQ from Diablo cd into the demo folder
Install openAL (google or demo folder)
Play the demo.

[Anonymous No.1411707]

Since OP is an enormous faggot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PfLbMJCoA

You're welcome

[Anonymous No.1411737]

>>1411708
not that guy, but learn to OP man. if you want to talk about something dont wait 8 fucking posts to tell us what it is. how hard is that to understand

[Anonymous No.1411771]

>>1410585
it's probably because the genre is nothing more than a gigantic timesink in the vein of mmos with pretty significant backlash against any substantial monetary system based on that timesink design, primarily due to the genre's roots. It's built like an mmo but has much less potential profit.

[Anonymous No.1411828]

>>1410883
>As far as I know now he is working with a veteran D1 modder...

I really hope its the guy who's in charge of the Hell mod

[Anonymous No.1411920]

>>1411198
You would be right if you weren't wrong.
Your connection just sucks.

[Anonymous No.1411990]

>>1411696
I fixed my sound by ensuring that the game was using the native .dll file and not the wine one. Can he slide the sound bars in the sound menu? If they don't slide there is a problem with OpenAL, if they do slide then there is some other issue.

[Anonymous No.1411995]

This week i will attempt to either remove the level restriction on the demo so you can progress further (unlikely) or if that is not possible boot up normal d1 using this guys enhanced engine (practically impossible). The demo boots from the file of the full game so there is at least a chance of this happening. The polish dev is retard grade paranoid about releasing the source code so it will be tough.

[Anonymous No.1413078]

>>1411828
No, it is not Mordor. Mordor is a conservative faggot who has en ego the size of Russia despite what he claims because he doesn't want to die out like the old breed of modders who the community left because they were arrogant pricks (hence why The Dark Mod is no longer with us). Plus up until Beelzebub came out The Hell Mod was the dog dog in D1 modding, which is obviously not the case now.

The guy is working with a modder called Noktis who is responsible for the Diablo Awakening mod. I think his trust is well placed.

[Anonymous No.1413221]

So I just got Diablo (and Diablo 2, which I'm ignoring until I beat the first one). What patches/mods should I go get to make the game as smooth as possible without altering the core gameplay too much?

[Anonymous No.1413230]

>>1413221
Vanilla or nothing, man. Mods are for subsequent play-throughs.

[Anonymous No.1413234]

>>1413230
I didn't mean stuff to change weapons or money or difficulty. I meant stuff like visual mods or higher-definition music. Non-core gameplay stuff.

[Anonymous No.1413239]

>>1413078

well I dont know about Mordor that much, but I really appreciate his dedication for modding d1, and the Hell mod is still awesome.
However I have really high hopes for Belzebub, it has got really big potential, and what I saw in the demo got me very excited.
I mean crafting, resurrected quests, a lot of UI upgrade, etc... It seems the direction they are heading with the development is perfect.

[Anonymous No.1413241]

>>1413234
I was just giving you guff. That's totally acceptable. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Diablo mods.

[Anonymous No.1413246]

>>1413234

you only need a color fix (win7/vista, I dont think its not an issue on XP) and you are good to go

[Anonymous No.1413249]

>>1413078
stop using vargs picture as a fucking avatar you faggot.

[Anonymous No.1413252]

>>1413246
I was also reading something about the 1.09 patch deleting gold stacks. What should I be doing concerning these patches if I wanna make the game stable and not convince the game that it should fucking cannibalize all my progress just because Blizzard thinks it's fucking hilarious?

[Anonymous No.1413257]

>>1413252
its always a good idea to use the latest patch

after you beat D1 you should try Hellfire too, overall its a really great expansion

[Anonymous No.1413618]

Okay, I just downloaded the SniperX no-CD crack, and now when I open it the loader window appears so far down on the screen that all I can click is the "FSGS Gateways" button. I can't drag it and it won't open up a toolbar menu for me to do anything with.

What the hell happened and how do I fix this bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1413814]

>>1413221
http://lurkerlounge.com/forums/thread-15760-post-209532.html

[Anonymous No.1414137]

>>1413618
Nevermind, I guess I don't need the no-CD crack. I copied diabdat.mpq into the install directory and the game runs just fine sans CD as-is.

Which begs the question: why the hell is there a no-CD crack?

[Anonymous No.1414160]

>>1413814
I'm having a really annoying issue getting this mod you just suggested. The site will only let me download it if I'm logged in, and every time I try to log in, it acts like I logged in just fine, then it takes me back to the page that tells me to log in and acts like I never even fucking tried.

[Anonymous No.1414252]

>>1414160
http://a.pomf.se/zprdff.zip
http://a.pomf.se/hfjohs.zip

[Anonymous No.1414479]

>>1414252
Thank you, but now I'm not sure I installed this right because there's no set of proper fucking installation instructions anywhere.

I'm basing this on whether or not Wirt is moved next to the tree to the south instead of the dick-in-eyesocket-retarded distant tree to the north. I'm putting the files in every way I ca think of and Wirt still stays away from the town like it's just as infested as the church.

[Anonymous No.1414617]

>>1414479
Sorry anon but I'm too tired to write out a proper guide (or rather something comprehensible). The fact that english isn't my native language isn't helping either. I hope that picture is self-explainable enough though.

Also
>Make sure you run the game through 1.02's included loader.exe - if you don't, you won't see v1.02.A2 in the main menu as my changes won't be loaded correctly.
>v1.02.A2 in the main menu

[Anonymous No.1414621]

>>1414617
>Make sure you run the game through 1.02's included loader.exe
Shut up I totally knew to do that
No I didn't. I'm a fucking idiot. Thank you for putting up with my dumb ass.

[John Romero No.1414625]

>>1413249
But Anon, Varg is cool and the accusations against him are entirely debatable.

[Anonymous No.1414782]

Is there any way to make this game run widescreen?

[Anonymous No.1414918]

>>1411995
Godspeed, anon!
>>1414782
Diablo/Hellfire - not really. At least not in a sense of a proper widescreen (not simply stretching screen).
But you may try out the mentioned "Belzebub" mod. It has level restriction though so you won't be able to progress far enough.
Keep an eye on the thread, following >>1411995 anon may or may not manage to remove the cap or rather rip mod renderer and adapt it for the base game.
As for Diablo II
http://medianxl.com/t1716-guide-to-multi-res-w-plugy-for-diablo-ii/

[Anonymous No.1415861]

I need someone to give me some info on what this mod is. What is new? What is fixed? What is changed? What is the design philosophy here? Are they trying to make it more like Diablo II or refine the Diablo I experience?

[Anonymous No.1416149]

>>1414918
Thanks man. I pmed a guy from the lurkerlounge forums about what i'm trying to accomplish (he made a forum post saying he was poking around the demo files because the creater is so damn secretive about the source). He responded saying he only looked around for around an hour but he believes it is possible to enable all of the characters and progress past level 4. The tileset may be locked to the one featured in the demo but all of the enemies and level layouts should be there. He hasn't replied for a few days though, hoping he is still interested in this.

I'm learning what i can about the game but accomplishing this without help is probably a crapshoot. Learning a lot about assembler and code in general though. Pretty cool stuff.

[Anonymous No.1416210]

>>1415861
What mod?

[Anonymous No.1416379]

>>1416149
Alright /vr/. I know not many of you care but I finally unpacked the demo's .exe (was compressed using aspack2.12) then repaired the IAT to make it boot. I honestly don't know much about coding but right now it looks like i have an unprotected file that is ready for editing. If anyone knows how to edit this shit or find out what these ASCII strings are linked to i'd really appreciate it. The text in the screenshot is related to the waypoints, there is one every 2 levels.

inb4 mac sucks, this isn't my main

[Anonymous No.1416381]

>>1416379
looks promising, dont know anything about coding and stuff but I'll hope you'll get somewhere with that

[Anonymous No.1416467]

Thanks, me too. I also found a set of "console commands" that you can enter in the d1 chat. one is $PLAYERS (0-10) and the other is @PATHDEBUG (on/off). Players increases the strength of monsters and raises xp, really not sure what @pathdebug does. If you enter the command wrong a red message comes up saying SYS : blah blah blah you did it wrong as opposed to the normal message. Interesting... Seeing as it's 9am I'm out. I'll play with this more tomorrow.