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[prospero]

Hi i can get, colour of money/ bejewled/deal or no deal and million pound drop to work on w7/xp itbox, crystal maze just goes to a black screen for a few secs then closes.



Same here on xp. No luck with battlecards either. Its almost like they dont see the emulator. Still trying lol.

[jim2311]

uploading million pound drop mate.

dont seem to be getting much feedback about trying to get the non working ones working ? especially crystal maze

I have been unsuccessful in trying to get Crystal Maze to work...
"XGPI: Failed to find or load DLL from 3 files " gets written in the log with each failed attempt. I have spent time changing things, but I still get the same error. I thought I would try and reproduce the same error in another game by removing files, but that "Brilliant Idea" also failed to get a result.
One would think that if some of the games work then the rest should. The only difference I see with Crystal Maze is that it states that Touch Screen Mode must be set to Drawing, and as I'm not using a touch screen I don't know if that would make a difference.

I'm using XP so can't shed any light on you guys using Windows7, but it might help others to help you if you give more details on what you have tried, other than just saying it won't work...for example have you tried using the Compatibility Mode. Screen display problems...have you tried adjusting the Hardware Acceleration or refresh rate. I had poor colour with Monopoly Streets Ahead and it was simply a case of changing the value of the "ShowColour=16" to 32 in the DISPLAY settings in the Game file, and as I stated in an earlier post you can add ShowCursor=1 to games with a DISPLAY LIST and it will show the cursor.

[widget2k4]

cheers for the input jim

i have my touchscreen set at drawing so its not that thats stopping crystal maze working, i also noticed the 3 missing dll's in the log, i am hoping with uploading them dll's someone can shed some light on the mystery non booting crystal maze but its beyond my skills lol

[seedyrom]

hi seedyrom im on windows 7 and it works fine for me have u tried putting the game compatabillity to windows 2000 and then use the clipcursor so u have a cursor

Thanks for the reply goodwin alas changing the compatibility mode doesn't seem to make a difference, strange it's only the graphics in the middle of the screen (where the coloured machines would be) are messed up, at the bottom of the screen with Mr Tarrant and top with amounts both dispay fine:) will see if i can try it on someones elses PC;) cheers

[martfarmer]

i had probs with colour of money on itbox had to change res to 800 x 600 on display setting, and i disabled the onboard graphics because it was using to much ram and running slow [ only got 300ish in it] but fine now, bejewelled still slow will add more ram later

[elcondor]

Once I added the contents of the 'Bin' to the System32 directory on my VM, I got different errors, one talking about a series of dlls with names starting mm_ , and the other talking about not connecting to GMInterface.dll correctly. I can't try these out at the moment, but has someone tried the INDE cursor program from the Repro on these, I wondered if the different INDE sims have different compatibilities.

[gordon1988]

Could these games be played on a mac by any chance

[elcondor]

Only through Parallels or Boot camp - they rely heavily on Windows runtimes.

[prospero]

Hi. Has anyone got the inde versions of TOTP2 or battlecards to work?

[prospero]

sorry on xp?

[jim2311]

Hi. Has anyone got the inde versions of TOTP2 or battlecards to work?

Yes. See post #153

[widget2k4]

Once I added the contents of the 'Bin' to the System32 directory on my VM, I got different errors, one talking about a series of dlls with names starting mm_ , and the other talking about not connecting to GMInterface.dll correctly. I can't try these out at the moment, but has someone tried the INDE cursor program from the Repro on these, I wondered if the different INDE sims have different compatibilities.

makes no difference using sonar if thats the cursor program you are referring to mate ?

it has to be something simple stopping them from talking to the emulator surely ?

[viscousv6]

I managed to get Monster Cash working by changing the binkw32.dll file as it kept crashing and this file was in the eror report, the replacement one is a lot smaller in size. I'm using XPsp3. Its playable but the game board keeps flickering and you can't see it properly. Can anybody offer any further help? Thanks again martfarmer for the uploads!!!

[jim2311]

I managed to get Monster Cash working by changing the binkw32.dll file as it kept crashing and this file was in the eror report, the replacement one is a lot smaller in size. I'm using XPsp3. Its playable but the game board keeps flickering and you can't see it properly. Can anybody offer any further help? Thanks again martfarmer for the uploads!!!

All I needed to do with this game was to change the "ShowCursor" to "ClipCursor" and use the itbxsev. It's working fine, and I too am using XP.
It may need the original binkw32 file, I was going to send over a copy of mine incase yours was corrupt but it won't let me

[viscousv6]

All I needed to do with this game was to change the "ShowCursor" to "ClipCursor" and use the itbxsev. It's working fine, and I too am using XP.
It may need the original binkw32 file, I was going to send over a copy of mine incase yours was corrupt but it won't let me

thanks for the reply Jim. I've already changed the curser, and it works with both itbxserv and itbox emu, with the new binkw32 file which is version 1.9.99.0 and is only 221 mb. I thought the original one might be corrupt so downloaded an identical one but it still came up with the window "monstercash.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" I'm sure its the binkw32 file as this shows up on the error report. It is still flickering and crashes eventually no matter which one I use!

[gordon1988]

cliffs repo is down at the moment

could someone please upload the files which are required to go into the system folder as I Haven,t yet put them in

and regarding that hex edit thing XiV 132 could someone please put up a clip on Youtube showing how this is done as I can,t seem to find the part of each EXE that needs to be changed

thanks in advance

oh and one more thing

what percentage of games does the hex editor work with

[widget2k4]

still no luck with crystal maze on inde sim

is there a good programmer out there that could get the itbox version to work with the inde sim ? or is that just not possible?

[viscousv6]

Hi could someone please list the binkw32 file for Monster Cash as I think mine is corrupted

[prospero]

Hi Bink32.dll for monster cash .  BinkW32.rar   113.8KB   32 downloads. Hope it helps.

[jim2311]

Just a heads up guys. A friend asked me for a copy of the games and I duly obliged. However, several of the games would not work correctly on his pc that had been playing fine on mine.
For example, Cops n Robbers paragon played but was all messed up similar to some descriptions of faults posted on here with other games. He is using XP Pro the same as myself and his Computor Specs are CPU 2.93g with 512mb. I alway use an old PC when downloading and changing things then trasfer them to my better model when I'm happy that it will do no damage and is virus free etc. and as I'm using a 2.4g CPU and 256mb I thought it can't be that. Then I noticed he wasn't using a Graphics Card, so I put mine in and installed the drivers and BINGO... the games all worked.
I then tried mine without the graphic card and the games would run but where not playable.