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Message: [QUOTE="_oBSOLEte_, post: 156313, member: 39353"] So the game isn't very long, I got a bit more than 4 hours of gameplay out of it. It's fully playable emulated like that. Reminded me of Full Throttle, with maybe the same level of production quality for animations and graphics in 640x480. The story is a bit goofy like Warcraft 2 was, with a bit of cartoon humor. The gameplay is point and click à la Full Throttle, with pretty standard riddles. I never got stuck, always had a goal to work towards and after exploring the scenes I could guess what to do next. Only had a graphic glitch once, and no bug nor crash. The ending is satisfying and it didn't overstayed its welcome. All in all I had a good time. [MEDIA=youtube]Bm5QcDTZE7Q[/MEDIA] [HR][/HR] [SPOILER="Some early screenshots I found cool :"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="WCAshots2.jpg"]51220[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="WCAshots.jpg"]51221[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="WCAshots3.jpg"]51222[/ATTACH] [/SPOILER] [HR][/HR] There's maybe also a small tweak to add to the install, and that is to change where save files are located. By default the game will save in D: and that's not something I particularly like. The reason is that DosboxPure will basically use 3 files. [LIST] [*]"Windows 98 Second Edition.img" in the Retroarch System folder. That file is basically your C: drive when you launch any game, any ISO or ZIP file AND you choose to "Run preinstalled OS Win98". [*]"WarcraftAdventures.pure.zip" in the Retroarch Saves folder. Same filename than our game's ZIP file but with a ".pure" added in between. That file is where you'd usually get C: modifications if you were only using DOS. But in our case with Win98 games, this file seems to only contains DosBOX pure settings like the gamepad mappings. [*]"WarcraftAdventures-$$$$$$$$.sav" also in the Retroarch Saves folder. IME each time you shut Win98 correctly and close the core, a .sav file like this will be created. This is all the modifications this session applied to the D: drive. So the next time you launch the game, D: will be the result of a mix between our game WarcraftAdventures.zip and the last .sav file containing the modifications (like some kind of incremental backup). [/LIST] Why I dont like this setup? Because it seems that if it crashes or is not shut down properly, the third file is not created. Then all the modifications and all your saves for this session, are not saved. This is a very specific case to this game that the default path for saving is on D: anyway. We want the game to save in C:. To do that, in Win98 just open the book.ini file next to the game .exe and edit the line about "SaveDir=". [ATTACH type="full" alt="WCAshots4.jpg"]51228[/ATTACH] You can also use savestates and fastforward. By using savestates and the same config you could for example skip all the Win98 login and starting the game, and go directly at your last spot or in the title screen. Those savestates are independant of those three files and managed the same way as the other cores states in Retroarch. [ATTACH type="full" alt="WCAshots5.jpg"]51234[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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