Can't win the fire scene

[vanfanel]

Hello there,

I was very surprised when I found out about this conversion, it's a fantastic idea and fits the PSX FMV capabilities so nicely! :)

Now, it happens that I can't win the "fire" room (the room that is set on fire by a bolt).
I use the same inputs I use on the laserdisc version (hypseus-singe emulator) or variations of it, but nothing seems to work: I can't get Dirk to exit the room by moving the table as I do in all other versions...

This is the scene I'm talking about, being played on the MiSTer PSX core (sorry for the low quality, that's all my cell phone can do):

PD: Any chance to get a version with better looking video? Using the original low-res Daphne dumps shouldn't be hard I guess?

[netyarouze]

Sorry, I ported the game from an old pc version instead of the original arcade, and as such you may find some scenes require more or even less inputs than usual. In the arcade game additional movements were required depending on the difficulty setting and at certain moments diagonal movements were also accepted unlike this homebrew port. In this ps1 version the movements are always the same no matter which difficulty has been selected. It's probably based on the hard difficulty setting from the arcade game. To escape that room the input sequence is RIGHT, UP, DOWN and LEFT. If you get stuck you can try the easy difficulty setting or enable the debug mode. To unlock it, enter the options menu, highlight the center screen option and press select 5 times. Then you can turn on the debug mode to enable an additional menu accesed by pausing the game.

A version with better quality video with higher framerate and sharper pictures is doable but it would require encoding all the movies and adjusting every single event and rumble moments. Sorry, but I'm not doing it. The reason I made this port was because the pc version featured a plain text script which triggered the different movies depending on the current frame being played which made it very easy to code. If someone else wants to make it the source should be easy to modify.