That's odd it was taken down... I wonder who did that?

If it helps, my understanding is the contents were identical to the 1.0 release (at least the game itself) so you could just download that instead.

Haven't had much time to work on this lately due to some personal life stuff I've been sorting out, but in the mean time I have been thinking about a kind of conspiracy theory I want to discuss. Cxbx started pretty early in the Xbox's life. From what I've read , it was at the proof of concept stage,...

SONIC122 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:32 pm i think there is another one, from the fastest windows 98 PC videos that isnt in that album, i think it plays when you setup the "battle station"

edit: yeah what song plays on The QUEST For The ULTIMATE Windows 98 PC [Part 1] 07:58?

The song names are in the description of that video.

There is no "reset" function in XP, you must reinstall it from scratch to achieve the same result. Installing Windows XP is a fairly well-known process, if you look it up that way ("installing" rather than "resetting") you'll definitely find a guide.

Moved to MattKC Video Discussion.

You're looking for "Magic in the Air" from the School of Sorcery soundtrack.

-FMV's can stutter and one of the frames can get "stuck". The video will play on but the stuck frame will keep appearing always after a new frame. Ahh yes I'm aware of this. Not sure why yet, but will be addressed once the more critical gameplay stuff is out of the way. -If you alt tab yo...

Contrary to popular belief, water doesn't "just kill" electronics. What happens is the salts and minerals present in ordinary tap water can conduct electricity and cause a short circuit, sending that electricity where it's not supposed to go and damaging a component on the board. But obvio...

Ah my bad, the launcher didn't handle paths with spaces correctly. The latest build should do it.

Another reason why PS2 Version of B3 is better :P ReallyMad In all honesty, while PS2 ports generally are worse than their counterparts (due to the slightly less powerful and harder to write for hardware), I will say that Criterion - masters of the PS2 - did a great job making the two ports virtual...

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is my launcher is pretty much ready. It's available here (binaries can be downloaded from the "Actions" tab if you have a GitHub account). It only compiles for Windows, but runs well in Linux with Wine (use winetricks to install vcrun2...

I noticed from the video that the car doesn't make any sounds (except for the gear shift) like it turned into an electric car. Is this a bug from the original game or was it caused by nopping some of the functions you said? im 99% sure that is a cause from nopping the functions I'm not so sure, I h...

Okay fixed the crashing. It was, as always, more push buffer shenanigans. I've nopped it for now, and since I haven't encountered any other crashes yet, I think the game is pretty stable now. Here's some footage of Crash mode now that it works (ignore no audio until 0:04, that's a recording issue no...

CrabHead wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:36 pm i wonder how Crash works since well, you crash in it. Does it react the same (crashes the game) or something else occurs?

Just tested and yep, it just crashes when you crash again.

It's probably an easy fix, let me try to investigate that more...

I also noticed that the fog and lens flare are also absent which could connect to the reason why the environment is darker because it has something to do with the push buffer. Yeah I think it's safe to assume those are push buffer-based too and will require rewriting to port over. I wonder if there...

This is interesting, the road textures render correctly but the buildings partially aren't? Particles don't seem to work and the skybox is darker... Weird shenanigans. Yeah it's trippy to look at. I suspected there would be some texture corruption based on how the garage looks, but it's fascinating...

The Revival client supports this officially:

hahahahaha no fucking way

I couldn't exactly say yet, but I have a solid lead. Primarily that push buffer function I disabled that led to identical behavior as Cxbx on hardware. It seems the garage was technically drawing fine the whole time, there was just a push buffer-heavy function (whose purpose I haven't determined yet...

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This hasn't happened to me before, but it does seem pretty indicative of a GPU failure. It may not be the GPU specifically; if it only happens when the GPU gets warmer, it could be one of the few times a reball is warranted (the solder could be damaged and could only show up as the metal expands fro...