Heretic chronicled the adventures of Corvus, a heroic Sidhe elf who challenged the forces of D'Sparil, the weakest of the three dimension-traveling Serpent Riders. The game was also ported to the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 consoles. Heretic, Hexen, and its expansion pack were later included in a compilation called Towers of Darkness: Heretic, Hexen and Beyond. The entirety of Hexen's soundtrack is not present on the CD, however, and many levels are associated to different songs depending on whether MIDI or Audio CD music is used.Īn expansion pack for Hexen was released in 1996, called Deathkings of the Dark Citadel. The tracks included on the Hexen CD are recordings of the Hexen music using a Roland Sound Canvas. Unlike previous games, which had relied purely on MIDI for music, Hexen can also play tracks from an audio CD. Ambient sounds are supported but instead of being hard-coded into the engine as in Heretic, they are script-based which allows the level designer to edit their action more freely. In addition, the game features doors and crushers that rotate or move horizontally (rather than vertically), pulsating lights and scripted level events. Hexen also features a " hub" system of maps which allowed the player to travel freely between several levels while preserving their state (monsters killed, puzzles solved, items collected, etc) between visits. The engine supports network play with up to eight players, the choice of three character classes and retains Heretic's ability to look up and down, and also adds the ability to jump. Hexen uses a modified version of the Heretic engine. The first Serpent Rider, D'Sparil, was the final boss of Heretic and the third, Eidolon, would later appear in Hexen II. The main goal of the game is the destruction of Korax, the second of a trio of demon brothers known as the Serpent Riders, who has taken over the world of Cronos. I think there may be flaws too.Hexen: Beyond Heretic (or Hexen) is a first-person shooter and fantasy adventure computer game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on October 30, 1995.
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Someone should test if the game saving also has bugs on the Chocolate Strife PC release. I wanna take a look at that but can't tell yet when I will have a fix for that. Instead, if you save a game using the stock code, it throws an error which you can't really see because the game screen overlays the error message but I have seen that there definitely is an error. It simply doesn't create a savegame file - not even the temporary savegame file which is first created and then copied into the respective savegame folder. When I tried using the stock code, the game doesn't even save.
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That was the case for my modified code which I initially used for the PSP and it worked without any issues so far on that console. Loading the previous saved game from slot 1 worked. But as soon as I tried loading the game from slot 2, it didn't really load the game. I then also saved a game into slot 2 which seemed to work. After a restart, I tried saving again and it worked for saving in slot 1. Yesterday when I tried to save a game on the Wii Strife port, it first crashed. It just looks like the code is buggy - not only my modification but also the stock code as well. I had lots of issues with the game saving code when even porting Strife to the PSP and finally got it to work by modifying. If this is a case of the songs being the same, and only how it sounds between the ports being the difference, then it may all just come down on how PrBOOM handles it's in game musick, compared to how Chocolate DOOM handles it.Īs for theres Musick pWads that you guys are talking about, be careful, some of those may consist of OGG, Flac, MX, or MP3 files as opposed to MIDI files converted to the proper DOOM format. Please correct me if I am wrong, I'm just trying to understand. If this is the case, are you guys running on the theory that there are superior or alternate musick files tucked within the PrBOOM core? And I am presuming that the core you are talking about is a WAD file, and that that is the source from which you are trying to acquire the alternate musick to create a wad from for Wii-DOOM?
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(RetroArch has not worked for me since the latest update so I can't test for my self.) All right, so are you guys suggesting that the musick under RA PrBOOM sound different than it does when playing DOOM under Wii-DOOM?