Quick bug fix
This is just a quick bug fix that should hopefully prevent the media corruption people have been reporting. It should also fix the bug reported by Brian (thanks for the crash dump).
This is just a quick bug fix that should hopefully prevent the media corruption people have been reporting. It should also fix the bug reported by Brian (thanks for the crash dump).
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August 5th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Cool, thanks for the quick response. I’m trying it out now.
Just to give you a little more feedback, I found that when I moved my dscent files to the root folder the problem went away, so I’m checking to see if this problem still exists in the bugfix.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Problem fixed. Thanks kayvenm, you rock.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:38 am
I set up DScent alpha 4.1 in my R4DS. I just had everything in a folder called DScent. The R4DS auto-patches the DLDI as of firmware version 1.10, so I didn’t DLDI patch it manually. I did get a save game error twice during the 3rd level, but the game never crashed and then seemed to work fine and save fine after that. I was having a lot of fun with it and played until the 5th level. I saved my game and shut down.
When I rebooted my R4, it hung at the loading screen. I discovered that it corrupted the _DS_MENU.DAT and/or the _DS_MENU.SYS files, because when I replaced those files on the card, it loaded again. I was worried that there may be further corruption, so I preceded to delete everything from the card. As I was doing that, theme09 in my R4’s _system_ folder refused to delete. It kept saying something about the folder not being empty or some such thing. I was forced to format the card to clear it. Luckily, I keep a backup of my entire card’s contents and was able to recover all my other stuff.
I’ve never had a problem with card corruption before.
I’m not complaining, I just thought you would like to be advised of problems with your excellent Descent port in the hopes that you will be able to debug the problem.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Small update to my issues with the game crashing..
I was having exception after exception, crashes mentioning various *.c components and resource file errors… Then I disabled music.
I have yet *after 2 days* to have a single error or so much as a hiccup. I’ve loaded maps 1 - 8, 12, 15, and 27 and they all work great. One word of advice to any who try this- every time you run the game you must turn the music up in options and back down, even though it saves the position of the volume slider. Otherwise the music will play as normal.
I don’t know if this will work for others [ I’m running off the GnM card ] or if it hardware-specific to me, but I’m amazed at how stable this game is now!
August 6th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Had another crash today while loading a savegame for level 16. I wasn’t in a position to be able to take down the crash dump, and it didn’t re-occur later on. Hopefully knowing that it occurred during the load of a savegame will help.
-Brian
August 6th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Have a new dump for you. This happened while I was colliding with one of those red robots that gets in your face, and makes very little noise.
PC: 020720D4 ADDR: 0000000C
R0: 02091C98 R8: 000002C4
R1: 00000000 R9: 02220EB4
R2: 0001B05C R10: 021FB35C
R3: 00000001 R11: 02091C98
R4: 00000000 R12: 00000000
R5: 0000003B SP: 0B00388C
R6: 02220BF0 LR: 0205E834
R7: 00000000 PC: 020720DC
0B00388C: 023082A0 0001B05C
0B003894: 00000000 000001B6
0B00389C: 020924F4 020730A8
0B0038A4: 00000000 02082F38
0B0038AC: 000001B6 0206FC60
0B0038B4: 00003D49 021FB564
0B0038BC: 02091C98 00000004
0B0038C4: 021FD688 000002C4
0B0038CC: 021FB35C 02073C4C
0B0038D4: 02221668 02091C98
August 6th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
And another, this while trying to load level 27 (I haven’t made it this far, I was just curious what the level looks like):
PC: 020720D4 ADDR: 0000000C
R0: 02091C98 R8: 000000C0
R1: 00000000 R9: 02220CB0
R2: 00010D38 R10: 021FB35C
R3: 00000001 R11: 02091C98
R4: 00000000 R12: 00000000
R5: 00000010 SP: 0B002DDC
R6: 02220BF0 LR: 0205E8E4
R7: 00000000 PC: 020720DC
0B002DDC: 021FD638 00010D38
0B002DE4: 00000000 000001B6
0B002DEC: 020924F4 020730A8
0B002DF4: 00000000 02082F38
0B002DFC: 000001B6 00012800
0B002E04: 00004000 021FB564
0B002E0C: 02091C98 00000004
0B002E14: 021FD688 000000C0
0B002E1C: 021FB35C 02073C4C
0B002E24: 0000A800 02091C98
August 7th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I know this is completely off-topic and way too early to be talking about this, but my god how sweet would it be to implement elements down the road from the descent II engine to run campaigns from both games?…. Okay I’ll shut up and provide useful information in the future like Brian