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Bit Blot => Games => Topic started by: Zaratus on December 05, 2007, 07:34:53 am
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I figure this is the best place to post and ask this.
I've been getting the urge to play through Eternal Daughter again, maybe I'll actually kill the final boss this time too. But, my new computer now runs at a 1440x900 resolution, and the game runs in a small window with a big black border around the whole thing. Well, first, it starts off in the top left corner of my desktop, after adjusting the resolution. Then, if I click out of it, or alt-tab, and go back into it, it goes to the big black border. It's perfectly playable, but neither is very satisfactory (though the black border is the better of the two), and I was just wondering if there's a way I can get it to go bigger? If it helps any, I'm using Vista. Oh, and I'll include pictures of what it looks like. http://picasaweb.google.com/Zaratus/RandomScreens (http://picasaweb.google.com/Zaratus/RandomScreens)
I've tried a number of things, but maybe I've overlooked something. Or perhaps it's just not possible on this system to get it bigger. If not, no big deal, just I'd prefer to get that a bit larger.
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Can you change the display mode for your display? I know my monitor has a display mode with 3 options (1:1/Aspect/Fill) I had to set it to Fill for the screen to eliminate the black borders.
Now if it's an attached screen like a laptop, there may be similar options in your graphics control panel.
Hope this helps.
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When I run ED normally it just streatches the game over my screen. Then again, I am on XP.
If you told your monitor to not streatch stuff then that would be a problem.
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Well, I'm on a laptop with Vista. Hmm, I'll see if I can find some display properties somewhere else - I didn't see anything in the video card settings. The smallest resolution I can pick in the display properties is 800x600 however. My guess is that when I run the game, it's resizing the resolution, but it can't change it to a small enough resolution.
Nope, can't find anything new that I haven't tried already. It wouldn't be a problem if the border was small, but it's pretty large. About 2 1/4 inches on the top and bottom, and 4 1/4 inches on either side.
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Weird thing is that at the office, putting it fullscreen would make it 800x600, but keeping my 1280x1024 resolution!! So I would see a little window, surrounded by black.
But, at home, the fullscreen worked just fine!
As for the last boss thing... I made a cheat to do it... I'm not enough of a pro-gamer to kill that thing!! (It's just SO hard!!!!)
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Sorry, wish I could help... I'm actually surprised the game runs at all on Vista. :'(
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What kind of video card do you have? If you have an nVidia card, there's actually a separate nVidia control panel thingum; open that up, and find "Change Flat Panel Scaling" under the Display category. One of the options there might be able to help.
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Nope, I've already tried ALL of those. One of them successfully makes the game even SMALLER though. Thanks anyway though, I'll just have to play it like it is. Everything else seems to work fine on it.
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I still think this game needs to be remade for DS or something. Seriously, even if somebody just got it working on a flashcart or something I could die a happy man. I want to go through it again really bad, but for some reason the music speeds up and slows down slightly when I play it full screen, and it just sounds really strange. I'm still too busy with Aquaria to go back to it yet anyway, but I would truly love a portable version. I would pay for a portable version. If you make me a portable version, I will hand you moneys. Seriously.
... please?
Also, to be back on topic (sort of) I'm on XP and it works okay for me with the exception of that sound issue. Compatibility modes don't seem to work correctly, or they force it into a window. Not sure why that is.
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Hmmmm
Eternal Daughter Special Edition remake? :]
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Another way for Bit Blot to make money without having to do so much work! Except you'd probably have to share the proceeds with all those other guys. Still, I wouldn't mind an Alec-reimagining of the music from ED (which was quite good already).
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On DS? hmm...
That game is terribly hard to beat (I managed by cheating, I admit it! :D ) so I would love to see people crying over there DS while there being PWNED by Baphomet. XD
But a remake would really be appreciated! :P
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On DS? hmm...
That game is terribly hard to beat (I managed by cheating, I admit it! :D ) so I would love to see people crying over there DS while there being PWNED by Baphomet. XD
But a remake would really be appreciated! :P
Really...? How would one go about that? (Please say trainers.)
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ED for GBA/DS was actually something that came up on the old Blackeye forums extremely soon after the game's release...I think the general consensus was that, due to MMF being a ridiculous monster of a language and so specifically engineered for PCs, a straight port would be essentially impossible. So it'd have to be a remake, from the ground up. This, I suspect, would lead Derek to choke nine, maybe ten thousand bitches.
Plus the GameFAQs messageboards would actually manage to break several physical laws by becoming even more retarded as the server groaned and eventually collapsed under the strain of the hundreds of new "omg how do u beet hume he is to hard!1!!!one!!" threads started every hour.
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Heh, that post made my night.
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Hmmmm
Eternal Daughter Special Edition remake? :]
Alec, thanks for Aquaria, bout to dig deeper into it after i finish ED
could Derek have MADE Eternal Daughter any harder? i'm just finishing it up now and the last boss is giving me an ulcer!
:)
Edit:
Finally beat that game. Got my butt kicked like 25 times then the 26th time is was like a piece of cake. WTF?
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Finally beat that game. Got my butt kicked like 25 times then the 26th time is was like a piece of cake. WTF?
Congratulations, you have reached a state of perfect harmony with nature. Remember when Fry (Futurama) drank the 100 cups of coffee and then suddenly had his epiphany of experience? It's pretty much like that.
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Finally beat that game. Got my butt kicked like 25 times then the 26th time is was like a piece of cake. WTF?
Congratulations, you have reached a state of perfect harmony with nature. Remember when Fry (Futurama) drank the 100 cups of coffee and then suddenly had his epiphany of experience? It's pretty much like that.
it was %100 like that. hah
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Same issue here, the screen is impossible small ;< I'd like to change the scaling, but it's CRT >_>
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ahem...
Posted on: December 23, 2007, 09:32:00 AM
Posted by: nuker311
Posted on: Today at 08:09:12 AM
Posted by: Kein
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And your very point?
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Stop reviving old posts while adding nothing to the topic you necromancer you~
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You're basically agreeing with something someone said three years ago. It's presumably customary forum etiquette not to do that.
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You're probably seeing things because I'm not "agreeing with someone", I'm upping this thread in hope that someone found a workaround for the spoken issue.
If this thread is dead like for 2 years that does not mean ED is dead too. Ppl still play it, ya'know. I'm serious.
Also, forum != chat, threads can be stored here for years. I find it rather hilarious when you're applying some kind of chat rules (?) to the forum.
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I see no question in your post, nor anything that adds anything to the topic.
Also this is a forum about Aquaria, if you want troubleshooting/help with that game I'd suggest, out of kindness, to go to such a board. Not to get rid of you.
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I see no question in your post
Says a guy who contributed to this thread something like:
Stop reviving old posts while adding nothing to the topic you necromancer you~
and still continue his offtopic.
What can i say... Awesum. Simple awesum >_>
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Hello, sorry to be a goon, but did anybody ever figure out a way to get FULLSCREEN in ED
I love this classic game, been playing since it came out way back on the first day of Summer '01. But now I have a friend who's interested, and he has Windows Vista, which only allows you to play in windowed mode (we've tried all the so-called "compatibility modes" when you right click the exe). Also I have Windows 7 and it's the same, only worse. Every once in a while the game will enter a serious lag and I will have to restart.
I know playing old MMF games is sorta like trying to revive a dead horse, and so is posting in this thread, but does anybody have any good advice?
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Sorry for the offtop, but I continue to get notification that someone replied in this thread since jot2b posted his reply. And when I visit the thread I see there is no reply.
Mods? Was some posts removed? Or someone broke the forums? ;<
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Lol, someone has definitely replied, but it's most likely a spambot and the post is removed before you come here.
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I just wanted to play ED on my VirtualBox WinXp and guess what happened? Exactly... -.-
So... I guess still nobody found out what to do to have it at least a bit bigger?
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Man, I feel like I'm necroposting or something, but I have the same issue with ED. I don't want to tweak it too much because it keeps crashing on me. What I wouldn't give for a patch to help it run on newer computers.