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What's the bug?

If you make posts on the bug forum, make them maximally informative. This isn't the place for obscurity.

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I tried to open it. It imported with out difficulty, but as soon as I clicked on the first page (Entrance 13) DROD quit.

Are you sure this isn't some kind of virus in your DROD? :w00t

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It works fine for me - Jacob, what version of DROD are you using?

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I can import it. I can play it (Using 2.0.14). However, there's a 'dong' sound on the first move that prints the following in drod.err:

Assertion error in line 2836 of C:\Caravel\DROD17\DROD\GameScreen.cpp: "pSpeech"

Opening the room in editor reveals that 2 of the characters have unknown speech on them. This looks like the same bug as this one. The question is, how was it triggered this time: Did Jason use an older version where this had not been patched yet or is there something related that hasn't been discovered yet... More information, Jason, please.
09-03-2006 at 07:24 PM
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If you remove the scripts, everything works fine for me.
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There's also something weird about the orb associations - note that the lightning some non-door squares.

But basically, Jason needs to give more information before this is in any way useful to anyone.

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Uh... Well.. I have the demo version 2.0.13 I was trying to make a room for the contest and all of a sudden, I started quiting one me!

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Ah. Then yeah, it's probably one of the bugs already fixed. I think the 2.0.14 patch works for the demo version as well but you better backup the dats first just in case.

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And how do I do that?

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The downloads page.

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Are you using a PC? If so, go to the directory DROD is installed in, go to the data directory, and make copies of all the files that end in "*.dat".

If you are using Linux, you'll have to ask someone else for help. If you're using a Mac, you'll have live with the bug because there's no 2.0.14 Mac patch.

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Go mac!

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Then hold on, take a deep breath, and triple-check what you are doing. The dat files are either in the same directory as on Windows (under /path/to/DROD/data), or in a hidden directory at your home root. More accurately, the files should exist in both directories, but are only updated in one.

So, you should have a good look at ~/.caravel (using the command line, your favourite file browser, showing hidden files at your home, or anything else) and the directories contained therein. The full version uses ~/.caravel/drod-2_0 but I'm not sure about the demo. In any case, cross-check those .dat files with the other ones, and see which ones are actually updated. That's the gist of the problem, anyhow.

I gather Elfstone got bit by the decoy files, and I also felt anger and confusion when I first ran into that problem (the drod.ini file I was modifying was straight overlooked until I found out about the other drod.ini lying around).
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It won't matter, because he has the latest version for a Mac. He can't solve the bug, he just has to work around it - I think he should remove this room, export the hold, delete the hold, re-import it, and rebuild the room from scratch. I don't think he has a better way of dealing with this, unfortunately.

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It won't matter, because he has the latest version for a Mac.

Okay, let me switch that oblivious mode off. Someone, please slap me.
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:bangin :twak
There you go.

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I gather Elfstone got bit by the decoy files.

Oh, most decidedly! :~(

In fact, not just bitten; rather I was well and truly munched on, chewed up and spat out!! :w00t

And I have to say it was not the most pleasant experience of my life. I lost all of my 25 or so completed DROD games; I cried a little bit :weep and mumped for several days.

So the moral is: don't touch .dat files unless you have a degree in Electrical-Multimechanical-Applied-Analytical-Quantam-Mathematical-Computer-Engineering, with First Class Honours in a fairly esoteric branch of Physics!!!

(as many of the clever people on this site seem to ;) )

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eytanz wrote:
Ah. Then yeah, it's probably one of the bugs already fixed. I think the 2.0.14 patch works for the demo version as well but you better backup the dats first just in case.
No, unless you have the linux version, Jason, you have to back up all 4 DAT's, and then download the demo version of DROD(hoping that it contains the latest patch, which is usually a week or so after its released :angry, and reinstall it, then replace the new DAT's with the backup DAT's
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What's with people responding to particular posts above while ignoring others? He has the Mac version, he cannot upgrade.

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What's with people responding to particular posts above while ignoring others? He has the Mac version, he cannot upgrade.
:blush my bad.

its called visiting a thread several times, and only reading the new posts
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