Really Obscure RPGs

[Kedar]

This is a really good RPG and it's entirely off-the-wall. It qualifies as a real RPG but it is extremely funny at the same time and never takes itself too seriously. Turn based combat and real RPG system too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/597220/West_of_Loathing/

There's also a Lovecraft-themed follow-up called Shadows over Loathing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1939160/Shadows_Over_Loathing/

Abu Antar is right though, West of Loathing is pretty popular.

 

[muds_animal_friend]

I had an Amiga as a kid, and I never once in my life saw a legitimate game with my own eyes.

Ì fantasied about owning an Amiga as a teenager. Far more than getting laid. By the time I could afford one they were irrelevant.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Intro to World of Chaos. I haven't found an option to change language yet so only shit eating g*rmans are going to understand it. Whatever shit video editor I used fucked up the quality, but I won't stop figuring this out until it's playable for me and I can do a Let's Play or at least record a playthrough.

I suppose the torrent was no help either?

dead torrent, 0 peers 0 seeds. the best i can do is a russian version, which i have at least decent understanding in, and can translate, but i guess english version is just lost to the void

 

[Ravielsk]

Intro to World of Chaos. I haven't found an option to change language yet so only shit eating g*rmans are going to understand it. Whatever shit video editor I used fucked up the quality, but I won't stop figuring this out until it's playable for me and I can do a Let's Play or at least record a playthrough.

I suppose the torrent was no help either?

dead torrent, 0 peers 0 seeds. the best i can do is a russian version, which i have at least decent understanding in, and can translate, but i guess english version is just lost to the void

Could you then upload the german iso?

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Intro to World of Chaos. I haven't found an option to change language yet so only shit eating g*rmans are going to understand it. Whatever shit video editor I used fucked up the quality, but I won't stop figuring this out until it's playable for me and I can do a Let's Play or at least record a playthrough.

I suppose the torrent was no help either?

dead torrent, 0 peers 0 seeds. the best i can do is a russian version, which i have at least decent understanding in, and can translate, but i guess english version is just lost to the void

Could you then upload the german iso?

https://archive.org/details/world-of-chaos.iso

Let me know if this works.

 

[mondblut]

Ì fantasied about owning an Amiga as a teenager. Far more than getting laid. By the time I could afford one they were irrelevant.

Happens to the best of us.

Oh, you meant the computer...

 

[Lord_Potato]

I had Amiga 500 when I was a kid. Amazing half a megabyte of RAM, no hard drive. But the games... oh, what games it could run!

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

World of Chaos - Original Copy (German)

Front Cover

Back Cover

Inside Cover

Inside Case

There was also the disc case but it's the same as the cover. Best pictures I could take with my shit phone at the moment.

Any Russian speakers willing to help me with translating cutscenes from Russian to English for Let's Play of this game? My Russian is decent enough (~B2 level), so I'll translate dialogue but I wanna get down the intro cutscene and other longer things that don't have subtitles (my listening skills are pretty trash). It's even more fucked up cause the Russian version I have just has the Russian dialogue on top of the German, so it's a fucking mess.

 

[Ravielsk]

Intro to World of Chaos. I haven't found an option to change language yet so only shit eating g*rmans are going to understand it. Whatever shit video editor I used fucked up the quality, but I won't stop figuring this out until it's playable for me and I can do a Let's Play or at least record a playthrough.

I suppose the torrent was no help either?

dead torrent, 0 peers 0 seeds. the best i can do is a russian version, which i have at least decent understanding in, and can translate, but i guess english version is just lost to the void

Could you then upload the german iso?

https://archive.org/details/world-of-chaos.iso

Let me know if this works.

Thanks it worked just great. Weirdly enough it only offers 4:3 resolution options in the configuration but changing the config file to render at 1080p seemed to work just fine. Even the UI elements scaled properly.

 

[bandersnatch]

This is still my favorite thread on the Dex because you just know everyone in here is will be 45+ years old and from a time when RPGs were not woke.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Intro to World of Chaos. I haven't found an option to change language yet so only shit eating g*rmans are going to understand it. Whatever shit video editor I used fucked up the quality, but I won't stop figuring this out until it's playable for me and I can do a Let's Play or at least record a playthrough.

I suppose the torrent was no help either?

dead torrent, 0 peers 0 seeds. the best i can do is a russian version, which i have at least decent understanding in, and can translate, but i guess english version is just lost to the void

Could you then upload the german iso?

https://archive.org/details/world-of-chaos.iso

Let me know if this works.

Thanks it worked just great. Weirdly enough it only offers 4:3 resolution options in the configuration but changing the config file to render at 1080p seemed to work just fine. Even the UI elements scaled properly.

Can't find it, which file did you go to? That'll help me a lot especially with recording.

 

[Ravielsk]

Can't find it, which file did you go to? That'll help me a lot especially with recording.

Its in the root folder with the .exe. Options.xml is the file you are looking for. This is how mine looks:

Spoiler

<root>)
    <VideoSize width="1920" height="1080" bpp="32" fullscreen="1" refreshrate="60" gamma="129" detail="2" anisothropic="16" mousesensitivity="65" />
    <Shadow type="ALL_SHADOW" />
    <Water type="ALL_REFLECTION" />
    <FXVolume fxvolume="85" />
    <MUSICVolume musicvolume="44" />
    <OverSampling enable="FALSE" />
    <InverseAxis enable="FALSE" />
    <SubTitle enable="FALSE" />
</root>

I only touched the resolution part but if you are feeling adventurous you might want to play with the other options.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

World of Chaos - Original Copy (German)

Front Cover

Back Cover

Inside Cover

Inside Case

There was also the disc case but it's the same as the cover. Best pictures I could take with my shit phone at the moment.

Yeah, the Chaos books (mostly the first five) are a whole lot of fun. It is not high literature, but as pulp fantasy, they have a lot of creative energy to them.

Never played the game, since it is such a depressing story. As I understand it, the devs were fucked by their German publisher, who forced them to ship an incomplete, buggy mess to meet some quarterly financial target they had.

I actually found the project manager's name while scrubbing the internet for a copy, talked to him about his time back in the days of the creation, and he recently sent out a shipment of an extra original copy he had lying around.

Will see how buggy it actually is, I might do a Let's Play on it. Hopefully there will be a language setting for English or Russian so I can actually understand a bit.

Looking forward to that LP if you ever get to that!

World of Chaos (English Translated) Let's Play has begun: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/lets-play-world-of-chaos-english-translated.146126/

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

pirated of course

naturally

Frankly I don't give a damn.
I'm a lifelong pirate Yarrr mfers!

M.E. Hart???
Oh man watch out for D.P!!!


Maybe they should have made copies.


Now DP, Look at these fags. They steal everything ...... but at least they didn't copy.



What the fuck is it with niggers and them aping out stealing shit? One security guard with a minigun could have stopped that.

 

[octavius]

Tsk! Tsk! You should avoid words like "niggers" and "aping". Someone could go bananas if they hear you.

 

[长江雾渡]

truely old school

 

[octavius]

Tried to install Theldrow. Since I'm no hipster, I don't have a Mac (or any Apple product for that matter) so I tried to install Basilisk, which is considered the easiest emulator.
But why the Bill Gates is it not possible to get an emulator ready to run, instead of having to run through hoops downloading all kinds of unzippers and ROMs and blank disks and whatnot?

I'm too old for this crap.

 

[flyingjohn]

Tried to install Theldrow. Since I'm no hipster, I don't have a Mac (or any Apple product for that matter) so I tried to install Basilisk, which is considered the easiest emulator.
But why the Bill Gates is it not possible to get an emulator ready to run, instead of having to run through hoops downloading all kinds of unzippers and ROMs and blank disks and whatnot?

I'm too old for this crap.

Step 1: Get game you want, it will probably be in the sit format( mac zip format)
Step 2:Get Basilisk
Step 3:Get machine ROM. Any old world quadra ROM will suffice.
Step 4: Install 7.5(do not get 7.5.6) os or get a hdd with preinstalled OS and utilities here:
https://www.savagetaylor.com/downloads/downloads-macintosh/
Download 7.5.5 drive under blue.
Step 5: Start basilisk and configure the ROM and mount the hdd image
Step 6: A:
If what you have downloaded is a floppy, mount it in Basilisk and use the stuffit expander to unzip it into your virtual mac hdd and play the game.
B:
Use one of my tools in my mac link in the emulation thread to try to get a normal floppy from sit. This has several problems:
-Most sit files are actually game files so you would still have to move them into the virtual MAC OS anyway.
-Sometimes the files get broken and are useless since they were designed to be unzipped into a MAC environment

You see how easy that was. Now excuse me, i am just gonna throw a cd into retroarch dos and start a game.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Tried to install Theldrow. Since I'm no hipster, I don't have a Mac (or any Apple product for that matter) so I tried to install Basilisk, which is considered the easiest emulator.
But why the Bill Gates is it not possible to get an emulator ready to run, instead of having to run through hoops downloading all kinds of unzippers and ROMs and blank disks and whatnot?

I'm too old for this crap.

Step 1: Get game you want, it will probably be in the sit format( mac zip format)
Step 2:Get Basilisk
Step 3:Get machine ROM. Any old world quadra ROM will suffice.
Step 4: Install 7.5(do not get 7.5.6) os or get a hdd with preinstalled OS and utilities here:
https://www.savagetaylor.com/downloads/downloads-macintosh/
Download 7.5.5 drive under blue.
Step 5: Start basilisk and configure the ROM and mount the hdd image
Step 6: A:
If what you have downloaded is a floppy, mount it in Basilisk and use the stuffit expander to unzip it into your virtual mac hdd and play the game.
B:
Use one of my tools in my mac link in the emulation thread to try to get a normal floppy from sit. This has several problems:
-Most sit files are actually game files so you would still have to move them into the virtual MAC OS anyway.
-Sometimes the files get broken and are useless since they were designed to be unzipped into a MAC environment

You see how easy that was. Now excuse me, i am just gonna throw a cd into retroarch dos and start a game.

Ok... will try this. Fucking MAC emu annoys me too. I await vids/pics of you getting it working.

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

Tried to install Theldrow. Since I'm no hipster, I don't have a Mac (or any Apple product for that matter) so I tried to install Basilisk, which is considered the easiest emulator.
But why the Bill Gates is it not possible to get an emulator ready to run, instead of having to run through hoops downloading all kinds of unzippers and ROMs and blank disks and whatnot?

I'm too old for this crap.

Step 1: Get game you want, it will probably be in the sit format( mac zip format)
Step 2:Get Basilisk
Step 3:Get machine ROM. Any old world quadra ROM will suffice.
Step 4: Install 7.5(do not get 7.5.6) os or get a hdd with preinstalled OS and utilities here:
https://www.savagetaylor.com/downloads/downloads-macintosh/
Download 7.5.5 drive under blue.
Step 5: Start basilisk and configure the ROM and mount the hdd image
Step 6: A:
If what you have downloaded is a floppy, mount it in Basilisk and use the stuffit expander to unzip it into your virtual mac hdd and play the game.
B:
Use one of my tools in my mac link in the emulation thread to try to get a normal floppy from sit. This has several problems:
-Most sit files are actually game files so you would still have to move them into the virtual MAC OS anyway.
-Sometimes the files get broken and are useless since they were designed to be unzipped into a MAC environment

You see how easy that was. Now excuse me, i am just gonna throw a cd into retroarch dos and start a game.

Ok... will try this. Fucking MAC emu annoys me too. I await vids/pics of you getting it working.

It's not so bad, I myself was very reluctant to try it but there are some excellent tutorials on E-maculation which made setting up a running OS 7-9 system very easy. The only thing I still now and then have trouble with is finding a compatible version of Stuffit (the unzip program) for many .sit packed games. After some trouble I was able to run almost every Mac RPG. There are some really great and unique games there (Jewels of Arabia, Cythera, Nemesis, Taskmaster, Ultima III - a heavily enhanced modern version, etc.).

 

[octavius]

RetroArch is actually pretty good. I only needed to download a Sega Megadrive core and the Shining in the Darkness ROM, and the game worked right away. It looks like a fun and simple non-offensive JRPG, but I don't have patience for the cumbersome console controls ("I'm too old for this crap").

 

[flyingjohn]

OS 7-9

Make that 7-8.
9 is way too advanced for the older stuff. Hell even 7.5.6 has many issues with older games. Personally found 7.5 to be perfect for the 1988-1997 period.

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

OS 7-9

Make that 7-8.
9 is way too advanced for the older stuff. Hell even 7.5.6 has many issues with older games. Personally found 7.5 to be perfect for the 1988-1997 period.

From my own experience OS9 is perfectly suitable to play most games. There were very few I needed OS7 for and for the really old stuff I use System 6 via minivMac (well worth paying the small fee to use this excellent emulator properly).

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Minivmac that good? I have to look at my version of stuffit. I believe it worked fine. I still have that mac Ultima III i was never able to try. I just look at my mac folder at times and turn away knowing I'll get headaches.

 

[Ludwig von Eisenthal]

Minivmac that good? I have to look at my version of stuffit. I believe it worked fine. I still have that mac Ultima III i was never able to try. I just look at my mac folder at times and turn away knowing I'll get headaches.

For Ultima III you'll have to emulate at least OS8 or 9 I think (if you want to be able to play the latest version before the last OSX version - OSX is a pain to emulate as of yet, so stay clear of that). MinivMac won't help you there, you'll have to go for Sheepshaver. The version of UIII I play on OS9 is perfect though - has all the nice features, only missing the ability to change tilesets (which isn't really important imho as the original tileset of the UIII remake is perfect).