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TDI wins

There is a file mirror for a torrent version here:

http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=4215

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The Ultima VI remake for Dungeon Siege has apparently been released, although the site is down due to high traffic so I haven't seen it with my own eyes yet.

Slashdot article

www.u6project.com

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He'd also just been cooped up on a boat with the Avatar and companions in a fantasy world that likely predates soap. Maybe he just has scurvy? I haven't seen a lot of citrus fruit in Britannia.

Then of course he immediately got hit by lightning, so he's got that going for him.

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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/30/richa ... unar-land/

This is a much better version of the story. Stupid Slashdot....

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http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 29/2037239

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http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 29/2037239

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That last one looks crazy awesome. CRAZY awesome I say!

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Sounds like you fixed your problem, so I'm kind of too little too late on this, but you don't take Gwenno's body to Monk Isle yourself. Using the hourglass is the Isle of Crypts next to Gwenno's body summons Thoxa and she takes Gwenno away herself.

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Congratulations sir. You win the internet! Very awesome!

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I wonder if this is how Doctor Frankenstein felt... I think the Frankenstein story would have been totally different if he had a forum to post in. "Look, I made a monster mod!" "Dude, your filehost sucks" "I don't like the bolts on his neck, also, he should be orange not gr...

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That's much better than the gargoyle gump I made way back when, you're welcome to hijack any parts of mine if you want. I just made him for fun. http://home.comcast.net/~lathlas/exult/gargump.png http://home.comcast.net/~lathlas/exult/gargoylearms00.png http://home.comcast.net/~lathlas/exult/gargoyl...

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I can't help with the flags unfortunately, but you should really be using the latest 1.4x snapshot instead of 1.2

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The Codex Coin, The Book of Prophecy, The Book of Truth, The Bell of Courage and The Candle of Love all already exist in other mods.

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Not that you asked about mine, but I'm still doing my faces. It's just time consuming and aggravating. Easy though, if I can keep from bashing my face into the keyboard every ten minutes.

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Wow, this has now become my favorite humor board on the internet.

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@Madoc, That may be the most unintentionally hilarious thing I have ever seen on the internet. Thank you for swallowing your whole foot down to the knee for our amusement.

I'm Stormcrow Dragon, I just don't use the name anymore. Maybe I'll add it back to my sig.

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Well, for what it's worth I like the DS engine. I can already see what the Serpent Isle looks like in exult, and Lazarus has definitely replaced SI as my favorite Ultima game of all time.

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Minor although horrible is a pretty accurate description. I guess I'll just skip testing with ipack for now.

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I redid all the palettes one at a time to see if I can save any of them and I think only a handful of portraits are totally botched. Now I have a slightly different palette issue. If I use Exult Studio to add in my new portraits one at a time they seem to work fine, but if I use ipack to create a ne...

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Thanks, but I have the U7 palette and know how to use it, that isn't the problem. For some reason all of my files got saved with the wrong palette, even ones that were fine from several months ago and I haven't edited since. I need to go back over them one at a time, which is the part that sucks. I ...

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So, I just attempted to make a new 'faces.vga' file with ipack and noticed that the palette on EVERY single file I've created is totally screwed up for some reason. This basically means that I have to start over from scratch... AGAIN! So, this time I'm just going to make all of the portraits in full...

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Something that hasn't been explicitly stated yet and I think Garamond might not be fully understanding. The Latitude/Longitude questions aren't just an annoying feature of the game, they are copy protection. They are there specifically to make sure that you have a legitimate retail copy of the game,...

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Updated, including Shamino since everyone but me hated him.

http://home.comcast.net/~exult/bg_faces.html

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For the record, using a different picture for already finished portarits isn't a priority for me. I'll go back over some of them later for sure, definitely Shamino.

Anyone who has pictures or suggestions for any of the unfinished portraits is more than welcome to chime in.

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Ok, I'm mad. Apparently FileZilla doesn't like directories with a lot of files in them. I switched clients and BOOM, no problem. I swapped the slashes, hope everybody can see it fine now. I'm going to maintain this link, until something else breaks on me. http://home.comcast.net/~exult/bg_faces.html

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I hate using real people if I can avoid, shifting the palette from real skin into something that will display in exult is a nightmare. Whether Firefox likes my slashes or not, my FTP access is fubar. Normally I get this when I try to log in or access a directory: Command: LIST Response: 150 Opening ...

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There is apparently something badly wrong with my files or directory structure. Every time I upload a 'faces' directory it completely fails to ever let me in again. I can access every file and directory in four different upload spaces except for 'faces' and any file inside that directory.

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For some reason I can't get into my current faces directory via FTP. I made a whole new account just for hosting Exult files though, so I'll continue using this mirror. Please disregard any older versions floating around.

http://home.comcast.net/~exult/faces/bg_faces.html

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Some of these are very rough drafts from before I lost everything, so some of them might be silly for now. I was kind of torn on the Data picture, the in-game description states that you can't see his face at all, so if I use a picture of Brent Spiner in a helmet, it will be better for the joke but ...

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So I got my new computer finally. Unfortunately my backup drive has also died in the interim so I lost a fair amount of my progress. Anything I uploaded already I just pulled back down, so in the long run I haven't lost all that much. I've started working on this again, although I can see that I hav...

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Thank you.

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I think I've managed to get at the data on my hard drive. I'm looking at it all right now, and I'm going to try and back it up before I repartition my drive and start over.

I'm just hoping that the data won't be corrupted when I copy it.

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So, my hard drive appears to be totally dead. I have a lot of my data backed up, but most of my recent progress on the faces is probably gone. I'm going to try some more recovery options (I know what I'm doing here) but I fully expect to lose all of my recent changes that I hadn't posted yet. Bummer.

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As I understand it, NO. Because Exult isn't a game itself, it plays two other games inside it. Unless you can legally install Ultima 7 on your IPhone, then there are no source files for Exult to read. Theoretically Exult itself could be ported onto anything, but it wouldn't have any games to run. If...

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I wasn't really objecting to you existing helmet, I was just messing around and figured I'd post it rather than delete it. I was originally trying to keep the same shape as your helmet, but make it seem more transparent. I got the impression from some kind of in-game dialogue (don't remember what ex...

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So, if it hasn't been obvious by my recent posting frenzies, I have a lot more free time on my hands these days. In addition to my Britannia map sprites and trying to make faces for BG, I've also been making random graphics that just looked cool. I figured I'd see if anyone wanted to use some of the...

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7 different kinds of awesome...

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Maybe the left channel on your speakers isn't working right?

I'm not sure if exult uses stereo channels, but it would be my first guess if you asked that same question about any other game.

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If you open Exult Studio and navigate to the map image in Sprites.vga (either in the main game, or your favorite mod) you can right click on the image and select "Import frame..." from there just choose whichever map image you want and save the changes and exit Exult Studio. Don't worry ab...

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Hmm, should I clean this thread further? I mean de-linking the "old" images? Your call Lathlas! :) Only if it bothers you. I don't really mind if people see the early attempts and have to scroll through discussion. As long as they can get to the current progress from the first post the re...

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I just noticed that the shape number for Marzo's avatar faces is diffrent between the Keyring and TFL mods. Is there any particular reason for that, and are there any other differences I'm not noticing? I'm trying to keep my files sorted for maximum compatibility and the different numbers gave me a ...

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Thank you.

I just noticed that I only swapped the Words of Power in my head apparently. I'll go fix that right now.

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The abandoned mine north of Minoc (old number one) isn't Covetous. The current Minoc mine is. There's an egg at the main eastern entrance saying "This is the Minoc Mine" and no egg at all at the western entrance. I think I'd leave the Minoc Mine egg alone, and put a Covetous egg at the wes...

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I realized that I had the wrong cave marked for Destard so I made some corrections. I also swapped around the words of power that Marzo was objecting to, seemed to be the consensus opinion. New PSD to reflect changes as well. http://home.comcast.net/~lathlas/exult/U7_v1_fixed.png http://home.comcast...

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Moving the Despise egg from the Sphere dungeon to the real Despise is pretty easy. It's usecode 0x621 for the egg, and quality 10 for Despise. There don't seem to be any party interjection tags for Wrong, Shame or Hythloth. Qualities 1,2,3 & 8 all seem to be blank so maybe the missing dungeons c...

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I just tooled around *ACTUAL* Despise for a minute. There are several teleporters that take you to some interesting locations. A couple of them do wind up in the Sphere Dungeon, but just as many wind up in other random spots. I guess that can just be a random annoyance. I'll look at doing some dialo...

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I meant exactly the same thing as you did, Lathlas.

I know you did, I was agreeing with you. I was just trying to pin down exactly what strings needed to be fixed.

What do you mean by "completing" the real Despise?

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First off, one of the "Despises" *is* named dungeon Shame, it's just the wrong one. Not sure what you'd have to fix. The string where your party member's say "This is Dungeon Shame/Despise", when the Time Lord tells you where the Sphere Generator is, and when Rudyom tells you whe...

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The Sphere dungeon is *supposed* to be Shame but it's not. That's where Shame is in every other Ultima. Origin just made a mistake with U7 and swapped Shame and Despise. Any in-game reference to Despise means the Sphere dungeon by Lost Lake. I'm pretty sure any maps or walkthroughs will refer to it ...

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