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DS video games.

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#1
zombiegleemax
May 14, 2007 9:54:39 I know that there's a couple out there, 2 I think but, are they worth playing?
Also, does anyone have or know of a working DS mod for NWN(2)? I saw pieces of a few but they never seem to be finished.
#2
j0lt
May 14, 2007 12:10:21 The DS games are REALLY old. I don't think they run properly on WinXP.
That being said, I've seen evidence of a new game being produced. If you search around a bit, I'm sure you can find something on it.
#3
zombiegleemax
May 14, 2007 14:49:22 The Dark Sun games, Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager, came out in 1993 and 1994 respectively. They do not work properly in Win95 or later as they were designed for DOS and run on conventional memory. You need to download DOSBox (and preferably the DFend front end for it) in order to run those games on your computer. Shattered Lands is definitely worth playing, though it is a bit primitive by modern standards. Wake of the Ravager is horrible... and that's BEFORE I start talking about "the bug."
#4
zombiegleemax
May 14, 2007 15:17:56 Anyone seem this in action or used it?
http://www.athasreborn.com/forum/
I'll keep looking for more.
#5
zombiegleemax
May 14, 2007 19:54:48 Shattered Lands is one of my favorite games ever. It is indeed a bit outdated, but is still an excellent game if you like RPGs. There's tons of little things that you can just keep discovering. I've had the game for ten years, and I've played through it a dozen times, and I still find little tidbits that I'd missed before.

Wake of the Ravager isn't as good, it has several bugs (Though I've never stumbled onto any of them somehow), and the graphics seem to have less effort put into them, yet I like the story a helluvalot more. However, there don't seem to be many cool little hidden things like its predecessor... unless I keep missing them.

And yes, you need to use DosBox, though they always ran fine on my old win98 system.
#6
nomadicc
May 15, 2007 4:28:11 -Shattered Lands- is a classic, hands down.

-Wake of the Ravager- was awful... not so much as a D&D computer game, but the story authors missed the Dark Sun boat by a mile... umber hulks, cloud giants and the like, if I remember right...
#7
zombiegleemax
May 15, 2007 10:20:26
-Shattered Lands- is a classic, hands down.

-Wake of the Ravager- was awful... not so much as a D&D computer game, but the story authors missed the Dark Sun boat by a mile... umber hulks, cloud giants and the like, if I remember right...

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The whole feel of the game was absolutely awful. The story was equally bad in my opinion: oh, look, the Lord Warrior is trying to summon THE TARRASQUE behind the Dragon's back while the Dragon is trying to claim Tyr for himself now that Kalak is dead! Feh. Shattered Lands had a much better plot in my opinion, something that was at least more believable.
#8
j0lt
May 15, 2007 11:31:34
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The whole feel of the game was absolutely awful. The story was equally bad in my opinion: oh, look, the Lord Warrior is trying to summon THE TARRASQUE behind the Dragon's back while the Dragon is trying to claim Tyr for himself now that Kalak is dead! Feh. Shattered Lands had a much better plot in my opinion, something that was at least more believable.

Assuming that the setting allows such things, what is the "lord warrior" expecting the Tarrasque to do against the Dragon?
#9
nomadicc
May 15, 2007 15:22:09 -Shattered Lands- just hit the setting right on the mark, IMO. Start out as slaves in the fighting pits of Draj, make your escape into the deserts and join the slave tribe... I'd like to go play it again, just talking about it!

Worth noting also that many of the critters found in the Terrors of Athas compendium originally came from the game: psurlons, tari, mastyrials, dune reapers... Dagolar slimes!!
#10
heretic_apostate
May 15, 2007 22:25:51 One thing with Wake of the Ravager:

It runs at a speed based on the clock speed of your computer. And it was designed when computers ran a LOT slower. So the timed events (e.g., the fight in the volcano) are kind of impossible.
#11
j0lt
May 16, 2007 0:26:48
-Shattered Lands- just hit the setting right on the mark, IMO. Start out as slaves in the fighting pits of Draj, make your escape into the deserts and join the slave tribe... I'd like to go play it again, just talking about it!

I found a website that's hosting the files as abandonware, but the .zip is corrupted. Anyone know where else I can find it?
#12
megido_dup
May 16, 2007 22:15:28 Darksun 1 and 2 for PC
http://dso.zidev.com/downloads.html
#13
Jaysyn
May 17, 2007 8:22:56
Anyone seem this in action or used it?
http://www.athasreborn.com/forum/
I'll keep looking for more.

While at the moment it's down because of a power supply failure, I'm actually a builder on this persistent world & have been actively playing there for over 2 years. At Athas Reborn we are striving to stay as close as possible in NWN to 3.5 Edition Dark Sun while maintaining a fun environment for RP & PvP.

Some of Athas Reborn's features:

Gladiators, Psions & Draqomen as prestige classes.

Half-giant, thri-kreen, aarakocra, tari, etc player races.

A Defiling system based on 3.5 Dark Sun.

New elemental & Templar domains.

A water/thirst system.

Epic level challenges.

Hundreds of changes to existing classes, monsters, & spells.

If anyone is interested I will post again when the repairs are complete.
#14
j0lt
May 17, 2007 10:50:16
Darksun 1 and 2 for PC
http://dso.zidev.com/downloads.html

That's the one with the bad .zip files.
#15
Jaysyn
May 17, 2007 11:07:10
That's the one with the bad .zip files.

What's bad about them? I just extracted them with WinRAR with no problems.
#16
j0lt
May 17, 2007 21:39:06 Every time I try, I get an error message.
#17
megido_dup
May 18, 2007 0:27:27
Every time I try, I get an error message.

Their connection is a bit sporratic. Try dowloading it again. Possibly with a download manager.
#18
j0lt
May 18, 2007 0:55:02 The download is fine, but the file doesn't seem to want to decompress.
I'll try again...
#19
zombiegleemax
May 18, 2007 9:08:21 If anyone is interested I will post again when the repairs are complete.
Of course I'm interested. Let me know, please.
#20
zombiegleemax
May 18, 2007 9:10:26 Of course I'm interested, let me know when it's up and running please. :D
#21
Jaysyn
May 23, 2007 5:33:03 Athas Reborn is back up & running. You can find it on Gamespy in PW Story or direct connect @ this IP address 69.180.93.208:5121.

Come say hi between your pen & paper sessions.
#22
zombiegleemax
May 28, 2007 1:13:16 I DL'ed everything of the "forum" and installed them but, the game wasnt up. Did i do something wrong?
#23
Jaysyn
May 29, 2007 21:28:20 I'm not sure, I've been playing most of the day & it's up right now. Did you try to Direct Connect?
#24
zombiegleemax
May 30, 2007 7:47:06 I'll try again, this weekend, thanks.
#25
zombiegleemax
Jun 02, 2007 0:56:41 I tried to direct connect but it keeps telling me the server's timed out. Any way around this?
#26
Jaysyn
Jun 02, 2007 2:23:53
I tried to direct connect but it keeps telling me the server's timed out. Any way around this?

It's up right now, I've been killing off Hamanu's half-giant shock troops for most of the evening. :D I'm not sure why you are having such a hard time connecting.

Do you see the server on GameSpy at all?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax May 14, 2007 9:54:39	I know that there's a couple out there, 2 I think but, are they worth playing? Also, does anyone have or know of a working DS mod for NWN(2)? I saw pieces of a few but they never seem to be finished.
#2 j0lt May 14, 2007 12:10:21	The DS games are REALLY old. I don't think they run properly on WinXP. That being said, I've seen evidence of a new game being produced. If you search around a bit, I'm sure you can find something on it.
#3 zombiegleemax May 14, 2007 14:49:22	The Dark Sun games, Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager, came out in 1993 and 1994 respectively. They do not work properly in Win95 or later as they were designed for DOS and run on conventional memory. You need to download DOSBox (and preferably the DFend front end for it) in order to run those games on your computer. Shattered Lands is definitely worth playing, though it is a bit primitive by modern standards. Wake of the Ravager is horrible... and that's BEFORE I start talking about "the bug."
#4 zombiegleemax May 14, 2007 15:17:56	Anyone seem this in action or used it? http://www.athasreborn.com/forum/ I'll keep looking for more.
#5 zombiegleemax May 14, 2007 19:54:48	Shattered Lands is one of my favorite games ever. It is indeed a bit outdated, but is still an excellent game if you like RPGs. There's tons of little things that you can just keep discovering. I've had the game for ten years, and I've played through it a dozen times, and I still find little tidbits that I'd missed before. Wake of the Ravager isn't as good, it has several bugs (Though I've never stumbled onto any of them somehow), and the graphics seem to have less effort put into them, yet I like the story a helluvalot more. However, there don't seem to be many cool little hidden things like its predecessor... unless I keep missing them. And yes, you need to use DosBox, though they always ran fine on my old win98 system.
#6 nomadicc May 15, 2007 4:28:11	-Shattered Lands- is a classic, hands down. -Wake of the Ravager- was awful... not so much as a D&D computer game, but the story authors missed the Dark Sun boat by a mile... umber hulks, cloud giants and the like, if I remember right...
#7 zombiegleemax May 15, 2007 10:20:26	-Shattered Lands- is a classic, hands down. -Wake of the Ravager- was awful... not so much as a D&D computer game, but the story authors missed the Dark Sun boat by a mile... umber hulks, cloud giants and the like, if I remember right... Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The whole feel of the game was absolutely awful. The story was equally bad in my opinion: oh, look, the Lord Warrior is trying to summon THE TARRASQUE behind the Dragon's back while the Dragon is trying to claim Tyr for himself now that Kalak is dead! Feh. Shattered Lands had a much better plot in my opinion, something that was at least more believable.
#8 j0lt May 15, 2007 11:31:34	Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The whole feel of the game was absolutely awful. The story was equally bad in my opinion: oh, look, the Lord Warrior is trying to summon THE TARRASQUE behind the Dragon's back while the Dragon is trying to claim Tyr for himself now that Kalak is dead! Feh. Shattered Lands had a much better plot in my opinion, something that was at least more believable. Assuming that the setting allows such things, what is the "lord warrior" expecting the Tarrasque to do against the Dragon?
#9 nomadicc May 15, 2007 15:22:09	-Shattered Lands- just hit the setting right on the mark, IMO. Start out as slaves in the fighting pits of Draj, make your escape into the deserts and join the slave tribe... I'd like to go play it again, just talking about it! Worth noting also that many of the critters found in the Terrors of Athas compendium originally came from the game: psurlons, tari, mastyrials, dune reapers... Dagolar slimes!!
#10 heretic_apostate May 15, 2007 22:25:51	One thing with Wake of the Ravager: It runs at a speed based on the clock speed of your computer. And it was designed when computers ran a LOT slower. So the timed events (e.g., the fight in the volcano) are kind of impossible.
#11 j0lt May 16, 2007 0:26:48	-Shattered Lands- just hit the setting right on the mark, IMO. Start out as slaves in the fighting pits of Draj, make your escape into the deserts and join the slave tribe... I'd like to go play it again, just talking about it! I found a website that's hosting the files as abandonware, but the .zip is corrupted. Anyone know where else I can find it?
#12 megido_dup May 16, 2007 22:15:28	Darksun 1 and 2 for PC http://dso.zidev.com/downloads.html
#13 Jaysyn May 17, 2007 8:22:56	Anyone seem this in action or used it? http://www.athasreborn.com/forum/ I'll keep looking for more. While at the moment it's down because of a power supply failure, I'm actually a builder on this persistent world & have been actively playing there for over 2 years. At Athas Reborn we are striving to stay as close as possible in NWN to 3.5 Edition Dark Sun while maintaining a fun environment for RP & PvP. Some of Athas Reborn's features: Gladiators, Psions & Draqomen as prestige classes. Half-giant, thri-kreen, aarakocra, tari, etc player races. A Defiling system based on 3.5 Dark Sun. New elemental & Templar domains. A water/thirst system. Epic level challenges. Hundreds of changes to existing classes, monsters, & spells. If anyone is interested I will post again when the repairs are complete.
#14 j0lt May 17, 2007 10:50:16	Darksun 1 and 2 for PC http://dso.zidev.com/downloads.html That's the one with the bad .zip files.
#15 Jaysyn May 17, 2007 11:07:10	That's the one with the bad .zip files. What's bad about them? I just extracted them with WinRAR with no problems.
#16 j0lt May 17, 2007 21:39:06	Every time I try, I get an error message.
#17 megido_dup May 18, 2007 0:27:27	Every time I try, I get an error message. Their connection is a bit sporratic. Try dowloading it again. Possibly with a download manager.
#18 j0lt May 18, 2007 0:55:02	The download is fine, but the file doesn't seem to want to decompress. I'll try again...
#19 zombiegleemax May 18, 2007 9:08:21	If anyone is interested I will post again when the repairs are complete. Of course I'm interested. Let me know, please.
#20 zombiegleemax May 18, 2007 9:10:26	Of course I'm interested, let me know when it's up and running please. :D
#21 Jaysyn May 23, 2007 5:33:03	Athas Reborn is back up & running. You can find it on Gamespy in PW Story or direct connect @ this IP address 69.180.93.208:5121. Come say hi between your pen & paper sessions.
#22 zombiegleemax May 28, 2007 1:13:16	I DL'ed everything of the "forum" and installed them but, the game wasnt up. Did i do something wrong?
#23 Jaysyn May 29, 2007 21:28:20	I'm not sure, I've been playing most of the day & it's up right now. Did you try to Direct Connect?
#24 zombiegleemax May 30, 2007 7:47:06	I'll try again, this weekend, thanks.
#25 zombiegleemax Jun 02, 2007 0:56:41	I tried to direct connect but it keeps telling me the server's timed out. Any way around this?
#26 Jaysyn Jun 02, 2007 2:23:53	I tried to direct connect but it keeps telling me the server's timed out. Any way around this? It's up right now, I've been killing off Hamanu's half-giant shock troops for most of the evening. :D I'm not sure why you are having such a hard time connecting. Do you see the server on GameSpy at all?