The Last Express on GOG

[Elwro]

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/last_express_the

and it's for $5.99

 

[Jaesun]

Nice!

 

[asper]

Holy Shit !!!! Instant Buy

 

[Quilty]

Very cool.

 

[SCO]

I wonder if they stole my no-cd or did one themselves.

(there was no no-cd of TLE online before).

One of you guys that bought it there tell me the md5sum of the exe.
My edited one md5sum is
0f6b4492164672d41da89065ddad9e59 of file _le.exe

Not that i give a shit, just curious to know if they have a cracker inhouse or not.

 

[asper]

Goddamit, it's such a shame games like this are a thing of the past

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

One of you guys that bought it there tell me the md5sum of the exe.
My edited one md5sum is
0f6b4492164672d41da89065ddad9e59 of file _le.exe

Not that i give a shit, just curious to know if they have a cracker inhouse or not.

Their version has got EXPRESS.exe instead of _le.exe and the md5sum is different, too (e91af142619164286c3c7325ef384e36), so they're probably using a different crack. A nice release in any case.

 

[SCO]

Cool, so they got one.

Wait: EXPRESS.EXE is the dos version. Actually a good decision. The windows version has some compatibility problems.

Edit: Checked the dos version here md5 : e91af142619164286c3c7325ef384e36
Equal. They are using dosbox.

 

[SCO]

Now they have to get blade runner.

I give full permission for them to use my no-cd.
There isn't another anyway, and this game doesn't run on dos.

 

[Jaesun]

Now they have to get blade runner.

Yes! That would be great.

 

[Tolknaz]

inb4 some stupid fuck starts to complain about GOG stealing their abandonware again. Also: GOG needs to get Discworld games on sale ASAP.

 

[Gragt]

The windows version has some compatibility problems.

What sort of problems?

 

[Ladders & Snakes]

This is one of the games that were really underrated when they came out, but now they are being praised way too much.

 

[SCO]

The windows version has some compatibility problems.

What sort of problems?

Check the other thread. People are reporting the mouse cursor flashing and some kind of momentary freeze in the load/rewind screen. I haven't seen the freeze, but seen the mouse flashing on wine. It might also happen on windows if that guy that reported is using it. Probably because of color depth/resolution (fucked if i am going to edit xorg.conf to 16 bits to test that in linux, fuck that).

Not to worry, most versions (all except this new one that only has dos?) have both a DOS and windows exe

 

[Jaesun]

OK If I was reading a thread on another adventure forum correctly, the GOG version is the DOS version, and there is however another site like GOG but they sell the Windows version. What is the difference between the 2?

 

[Eyeball]

Played a demo of this back in the day. While visually appealing, the shitty voice acting and stop-motion type animation put me off playing it any further.

What's so good about it?

 

[SCO]

OK If I was reading a thread on another adventure forum correctly, the GOG version is the DOS version, and there is however another site like GOG but they sell the Windows version. What is the difference between the 2?

My old version has both executables. It wouldn't surprise me if they deleted the other version executables, but bro, pm me if that happens (if you decide to buy it and change where you want to run it).
The windows version has a mouse cursor blinking problem on wine. Anyone still using windows could comment more on the mouse with the original and my no-cd, but noone did yet. I don't think it matters, ie: it's either a wine problem, or a "recent windows problem" or a "recent windows config problem".

Since GoG is using the DOS executable (and by inference, dosbox) they didn't even do a exe or dll hack probably (since the DOS version works perfectly if configured as on my no-cd topic - the relevant steps, copy the datafiles, and configure a batch file).

I'd get the GoG version.

 

[SCO]

opss, spreading misinformation here.

 

[Gord]

AWAKE!



Bought the game during the insomnia spring sale. Game's pretty cool so far, but it seems I've got some strange issues (or maybe I'm just being stupid)?

I wanted to play it on my laptop, which runs Linux, but installing the GOG version using WINE is a no-brainer, of course.
Since using WINE to run Windows-DosBox seems stupid, I transferred the whole folder to my native DosBox folder, adjusted the .conf file a bit and can start it with no problems.
However, it seems that some stuff doesn't trigger properly? After meeting with Herr Schmitt for the first time, I went to meet Kronos and then the serbian(?) guy who tries to kill me in my room. After that not much seemed to happen anymore. Herr Schmitt just stays sitting in the dinning wagon, endlessly chatting with the waiter (for ~2 hours in-game time now), as do the russian aristocrats and Miss Wolff.
Except for them and the conductors, everyone seems to be in their compartments, the doors locked.
For some reason, Schmitt's animations are doubled - I see two animation frames above each other.
Eventually I checked some walkthrough and found that some other russian should have shown up in the smoking wagon, and Schmitt should start talking with Wolff, but that never happened for me, as far as I can tell.
Interestingly, when entering the smoking room, I very often hear someone excusing himself, as it usually happens when passing someone in the walkways along the compartments, even though nobody is to be seen.

Anyone noticed similar issues? I guess I'll just restart?

 

[Elwro]

I also had issues with things not activating, on Windows. The game's pretty weird like that.

 

[Gord]

Restarted it, now it seems to work. Train's much more lively, stuff actually happens and people do something.
Just hope that's not going to happen too often.