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Season 5, Week 9: Tales of the Arabian Nights, C64; D64 'TALESOAN_07735_02'
Topic Started: 12 Nov 2006, 12:08 PM (3,595 Views)
Antiriad2097
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Week 9 returns us to the 8-bits with Interceptor's 1984 C64 hit, Tales of the Arabian Nights as nominated by Kaiserpc.

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To ensure we're all playing the same version of the game (as there will be noticeable differences between PAL and NTSC etc), please download and use this one. As a zipped D64 disc file, it should be usable with any C64 emulator.

For C64 emulation, my personal preference is VICE. Please check the VICE home page should you require documentation, though we will help out if you get stuck.
Windows users can direct download VICE from here
Not listed on that page is PSPVice. Note that I've not tested this game with the PSP port of VICE.

To load this game using VICE, please follow instructions provided by Kaiserpc:
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- extract the d64 file from the zip file and save somewhere apropriate
- double click on x64.exe
- go to file, and select autostart disk image
- browse to the directory you saved the d64 file, in step 1, and select it
- press space to bypass the intro screen
- press capslock to bypass the game information screen
- select "H" for highscore
- select "L" to load the highscore
- press "space" to get past the loading screen
- go to setting, joystick setting, and setup your joystick for port 2
- press fire to start the game


And some more general help once loaded:
Kaiserpc
 
couple of tips to get this working

setup your joystick for port 2

"capslock" is the run stop key, to get past the loading intro

obviously select "H"ighscore saver rather than trainer - we will not select infinite lives!

reset the highscore on 1st use, and then load each time after this

Alt+C lets you save your screenshot

If you saved your highscore on the table and then load it in next time your score will still be there. You can also just press "print screen", as well as Alt-c, also "P" pauses the emulator


Twin Galaxies has no score recorded for this game.

Default settings:
No settings to change.

No continues allowed, no auto-fire allowed, no trainers allowed

Scores to be in by 12:00 noon on 19/11/06.

Final Scores at 12:00 on 19/11/06

1) 25500 - Kaiserpc = 100.00 points
2) 23725 - Opa-Opa = 94.02 points
3) 22175 - Stomach = 88.48 points
4) 21350 - TK421 = 84.36 points
5) 17000 - SirClive = 73.33 points
6) 16675 - Leezer = 70.20 points
7) 14450 - Zaphod79 = 63.33 points
8) 10725 - RS200 = 53.53 points
9) 10025 - Necronom = 49.66 points
10) 9250 - MadroXounds = 45.64 points
11) 6950 - A.J.Green = 38.63 points
12) 4450 - Merman = 31.23 points
13) 4325 - Elgin_McQueen = 28.48 points
14) 4325 - Fairziff = 25.98 points
15) 3750 - Smurph = 22.35 points
16) 3050 - Sureshot = 18.48 points
17) 3000 - Ghostbiscuit = 15.88 points
18) 2550 - Markopoloman = 12.50 points
19) 1800 - Sshblack = 8.53 points
20) 1650 - Antiriad2097 = 5.74 points

[size=7]Congratulations Kaiserpc[/size]
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Sureshot
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Played the Arcade version a while back, hope this one's fun.
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Kaiserpc
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woohoo! haven't played this in ages, and wanted a good reason to go back to it. Classic platforming fun, and the worst speech you will ever hear in a computer games (apart from 180 by masteronic)
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Nov 12 2006, 12:09 PM
Played the Arcade version a while back, hope this one's fun.

didn't kno it was based on an Arcade game :o
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http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=6899
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Leezer
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could this be the shittest game ever ?

why cant you get down from where you have jumped up ?

is the 1st level even possible ?

why should anyone bother with trash like this ?????

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Nov 12 2006, 12:16 PM

the overall idea is the same (collecting letters to spell "Arabian"), but the level design is completely different
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Nov 12 2006, 12:45 PM
could this be the shittest game ever ?

why cant you get down from where you have jumped up ?

is the 1st level even possible ?

why should anyone bother with trash like this ?????

;)
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Nov 12 2006, 12:45 PM
could this be the shittest game ever ?

why cant you get down from where you have jumped up ?

is the 1st level even possible ?

why should anyone bother with trash like this ?????

In order

no

you can

obviously

no one is forcing you
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couple of tips to get this working

setup your joystick for port 2

"capslock" is the run stop key, to get past the loading intro

obviously select "H"ighscore saver rather than trainer - we will not select infinite lives!

reset the highscore on 1st use, and then load each time after this

Alt+C lets you save your screenshot
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Kaiserpc
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4150

very early score ;)
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stomach
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This is a blast from the past. I used to love this game on the C64, then again I was about 8 and remember being amazed that there was a game with 'speech', if you can call it that.

It can be frustrating, have got a first score of just over 4000, but was too slow to save the screenshot.
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but if you saved your highscore on the table (as I described in my posting earlier), and then load it in next time your score will still be there. You can also just press "print screen", as well as Alt-c, also "P" pauses the emulator

so you've got no excuses really ;)
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3600


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I've not played this before, not the sort of thing I used to play in my C64 days..
Not sure if I like it but I already know it's far from the best 64 game and it's all ready unfair and frustrating in place's.

Whats with the birds just randomly heading stright for you and killing you every time..?
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This is what my folder looks like, which of these should I be using to run it?


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x64.exe
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Elgin_McQueen
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After posting that I tried x64, how do I load this thing?
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Kaiserpc
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file -> autostart disk image -> pick and select the d64 file arabian nights (from where ever you saved Antiriad's D64 (not T64 Ant) file)
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Ah, thanks, i'm too used to MAME, hadn't extracted the image.
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Oh dear. Can't see me playing this too much. The birs on level 1 is annoying and level 2 seems pointless as you get hardly any points for it???
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K, got it working. Think i'll wait a while before playing this shit again though. Isn't there a rule againt making the first level of a game almost impossible?
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Help!!

Have installed the VICE emulator.

Have downloaded the zip folder of the game into the C64 folder.

how do I get the VICE to play the game???

looking very much forward to posting my first score.

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As I said to Elgin

- extract the d64 file from the zip file and save somewhere apropriate
- double click on x64.exe
- go to file, and select autostart disk image
- browse to the directory you saved the d64 file, in step 1, and select it
- press space to bypass the intro screen
- press capslock to bypass the game information screen
- select "H" for highscore
- select "L" to load the highscore
- press "space" to get past the loading screen
- go to setting, joystick setting, and setup your joystick for port 2
- press fire to start the game

see my other postings for saving screenshots

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Make sure you have extracted the game image from the zip file that Ant linked to.
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Won't be going back to this game much. rare you can die in a game and say to yourself, well there was nothing I could do to stop that.
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opa-opa
Nov 12 2006, 01:51 PM

Whats with the birds just randomly heading stright for you and killing you every time..?

That's what I find most frustrating. You complete the first level depending on whether or not hte birds decide to home in on you or fly overhead.
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8050

got to the flying carpet level ~
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Yipeee!

Looking forward to this :D
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Kaiserpc
Nov 12 2006, 03:16 PM
file -> autostart disk image -> pick and select the d64 file arabian nights (from where ever you saved Antiriad's D64 (not T64 Ant) file)

Oops. Sorry. Thought I'd asked for tape versions. Never noticed as GameBase pretty much takes care of this.

Thanks for the tech help, I'll update the first post to reflect your advice.
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Hmmmm

Got the game running, set up my keyboard settings and they don't work. The music made my ears bleed and that bird just hit me. Don't really get it. Do I have to have a joypad, cos no matter what I try I can't make the guy move.

Not a good start.
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Sshblack
Nov 12 2006, 04:32 PM
Got the game running, set up my keyboard settings and they don't work. The music made my ears bleed and that bird just hit me. Don't really get it. Do I have to have a joypad, cos no matter what I try I can't make the guy move.

In VICE, choose the Settings menu and select Joystick Settings. This will open a new window for the joystick configuration.

For Joystick in port #2, select Keyset A (or B ). You then need to press the Config Keyset A (or B ) button.

For most games, all you need to define here are the keys for North, South, East, West and Fire. You can ignore the diagonal definitions, though they can be useful for a few games (e.g. Way of the Exploding Fist)
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Yup, tried it again, am I missing something or is the first level the most horrendous level ever created? I thought games were supposed to be fun.

Criminals shouldn't get parole hearings, just give them the first level of this game and say, complete this and you can go.
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So how do you drop down off platforms?
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You can just jump off I think???

My space bar makes me jump not fire... is that right????
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Well I really like it :lol:

the crocs on the 2nd level are doing my head in though ....
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Nov 12 2006, 05:45 PM
You can just jump off I think???

If I jump off, I die.
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Can only drop down a certain distance, try jumping to other platforms. Or leaving certain letters for later.

yes there is no firing on the first level, only jumping.
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I can't decide whether I don't like it because I'm or It is rubbish.

Either way Sshblack's first score!!!

(not a good one but a score all the same!)

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and it shall be my last score for this game too.

ridiculous bird kept just going straight for me. Got to the crocs a couple of times and then got fed up by the randomness of it all.

not a happy gamer.

neither are a few others by the looks of it.

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Nov 12 2006, 05:37 PM
and it shall be my last score for this game too.

ridiculous bird kept just going straight for me. Got to the crocs a couple of times and then got fed up by the randomness of it all.

not a happy gamer.

neither are a few others by the looks of it.

Don't take this as an example of the league though, most are pretty good.

All this game is going to do is stregnthen the arguement for it to be MAME only (which I don't agree with by the way).
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I obviously will continue to participate in the league but I just think it's bad luck to come in to the league with this as a starter.

Now I have posted a score my recommendations can be entered so that's a plus.

Ok so the game wasn't for everyone, but I suppose the bigger the mix of games you have the fairer the league.

Good luck to all those with more patience than I!!!
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Nov 12 2006, 05:41 PM
Sshblack
Nov 12 2006, 05:37 PM
and it shall be my last score for this game too.

ridiculous bird kept just going straight for me. Got to the crocs a couple of times and then got fed up by the randomness of it all.

not a happy gamer.

neither are a few others by the looks of it.

Don't take this as an example of the league though, most are pretty good.

All this game is going to do is stregnthen the arguement for it to be MAME only (which I don't agree with by the way).

How do you figure this?

people like different games - it would be boring place if we all liked the samething.

how many complaints have there been about Mappy, and Mr Do's Castle?

A system does not determine if games are liked or not. I don't see how one c64 game, that isn't liked by a number of players, increases the possibility of a Mame only league.

That's like saying we should stop using mame games because of all the problems getting the right version of New Zealand Story

for the record I hated the one Spectrum game we had this season, Split Personalites, (I only played it once) but I didn't call for Spectrum games to be removed.
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I was always against MAME only too, but I still think this game sucks.
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I didn't say I wanted MAME only, I said the opposite.

But those who do will say that the last 2 non-mame games were shit, got the lowest number of entrants (cos I am sure this will do as bad as the speccy one) and suffer from being computer based so they don't need to have the immediacy of an arcade game.

I think its a shame it wasn't a better game that showcased the system, but as you say, it would be boring if everyone liked the same thing.
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Exactly, can't think of a game everybody liked. Don't think anybody has asked for this game to be removed yet either.
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think i`ll start posting a new score every hour or so to please the few moaning "ppl" who dont like me/big don etc.. from waiting till last min to finally post. (not that its got owt to do with them when i post)


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What a good idea :lol:

It just seems a bit 'off' when you keep hiding your top score until the last minute most weeks.

Now, can you let us all know how you got such a big score in New Zealand story?
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Still shit though


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I forgot how annoying this game!!

The donald duck lookalike seems to be like a magnet for that bloody eagle, I can see him coming and know he is going to kill me but most of the time there is no where to go.
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I honestly think i'm done for the week. Too stressful. Have fun everyone else.
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