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Sierra manual check in older king's quest games


flexzi

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Hi there,

i have a small problem with kings quest 4, the perils of rosella.

the game starts up just fine, but since i want a bigbox experience with as few delays and meaningless notifications as possible, one thing came up. When the game is started it asks for a certain word out of the manual for the game. if you don't type this word, the game will shut down and bring you back to launch/big box. is there a way to circumvent this? i could easily look at the manual, find the word and type it in, but that kind of defeats the ideal of playing directly without any delays. i don't want to grab a manual or open it next to my running game to look up a word to type in EVERY time i play the game!

any solutions to this?

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Yeah understood, but if it is different every time its gonna be hard to automate that right? "When the game is started it asks for a certain word out of the manual for the game. if you don't type this word, the game will shut down and bring you back to launch/big box"

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yeah if it is different your best bet would to be start a text doc and put the word and the page number but depending on how random it may be that might not accomplish anything either. glad I only like consoles sounds like some more old school PC pain in the ass.

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Yeah it's a different word everytime. there's surprisingly only a handful of games. It's just that I'm running through my ScummVM emulator game-base and tried to optimize some of the video and resolutions that made me find some of these. 

 

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On 3/15/2018 at 9:01 AM, dragon57 said:

@flexzi You might be able to use ScummVM's autosave feature to get you past the initial prompt, then create a game specific override that from that point on saves to a different save slot.

hmmm this might just be a little harder than i thought. quest for glory actually uses the manual a few times through the game, at least that's what the introduction (including very angry disclaimer against copyright infringement) tells me, so that would at least be a 'no' on the savestate since you'd have to do it a couple (dunno how many) times and keep the manual close. I guess i'll just play the game with the manual if needed. 

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