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I'm sorry but I don't have an answer. Googa should have the answer. But, to the forums!

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Taytanchik Ranti wrote:
First off: Really nice game you made there, Googa!
But I have one complaint/bug/???...

I've been trying to change the font, but was unsuccessful.
How do you actually change it? I opened the config.ini and changed hostias.ttf to argosy2.ttf (a font that I've extended by umlauts and punctuation marks, some time ago ). It didn't work, although it is a ttf-file and it is named Argosy2. Then I noticed, that config.ini is case sensitive, so if you change HOSTIAS.ttf to hostias.ttf it won't work and will display the letters in Arial(?).
So I tried ARGOSY2: didn't work. ARGOSY: nope. I renamed the file to simply Argosy, who knows, maybe config doesn't like numbers...
Still unsuccessful...
I also tried the other way round: Rename the Argosy file itself to Hostias.ttf, but that didn't work either.
I even tried with a different font than Argosy, but well... nothing.

I'm a bit confused now; it looks so easy, but seems to be impossible.
I also wonder, why it has to be HOSTIAS, although the file itself is Hostias. That's just one upper-case letter.
I also looked into the file using a font creator program, but I couldn't find a line "HOSTIAS" or something.

Answers please!

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I'm trying to solve your problem. The score for now is:

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I'll post here the solution here as soon as possible.

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About the font Taytanchik Ranti:

If you want to customize the game font:

1) - Copy the font to your windows\font folder.
2) - Open the WQ config.ini file
3) - Change the GAMEFONT parameter to the font name. ( Not the font file name).
4) - Adjust the FONTSIZE parameter (Percent).

PS: Fonts names with spaces like "Times New Roman" will only be available in the next version.

So, to use the font argosy, copy it to the windows font directory, and change the config file.

Hope it helps.

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Taytanchik Ranti
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Thanks for the welcome!

Now to googa's answer:
Until now, I always tried to change the font by copying it to WQ folder next to Hostias. Looks like I was already wrong there.
Anyway, as I tried it your way, I saw that I'd installed Argosy into the font folder already, some time ago.
Yet, I tried it again anyway... I also tried it with some standard fonts without spaces like "Impact" and "Andalus" and the original Argosy font. I tried upper- and lower-case but it refused to work.
So, sadly you couldn't help me yet.

Could it be, that the font folder for Win2000 doesn't work with WQ?
Or maybe that my C: drive is actually an H: drive and that the game itself is on the "game and music" drive I: ? <- don't ask, that's a long story

By the way, how do you find out the real name of a font?
Though I'm quite sure, that the font is named Argosy(2), since I changed nearly everything in the naming options to Argosy2, except version number and the "subfamily font name" (=regular - Hostias=normal) , you can never know for sure. Maybe I'm missing something?

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Taytanchik Ranti wrote:
By the way, how do you find out the real name of a font?

You can use the Ms Wordpad program. Open it and choose the font you want. That is the font name you should use in the config.dat file.

Did it work?

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This answer came faster than I expected.

Now I'm sure (assuming, my Wordpad doesn't lie at me ) that the font is named Argosy and I noticed, that the font was in the font folder but it wasn't installed properly.
Yet, it didn't work so I removed the 2 out of the name, but still nothing.

EDIT:
Now I just used some mimicry and copied everything from Hostias to Argosy and then renamed the file to Hostias. This way config believes that there still is Hostias.ttf and everything works well. It's just a bit uncomfortable, but for now I'm lucky.

Still looking for a solution. Maybe some other people could try googa's solution. Especially people with Win2000. Maybe it really is this H: and I: drive thing I mentioned...

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Try other installed fonts.

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Nope, nothing. Courier and Garamond don't work as well.

But see my last post's edit...

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Maybe its a W2k related problem, It works for me. (Though a few fonts didn't work either).

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Probably a bug: Chen can move onto an "inaccessible" (darker blue) water square when moving from one room into another.

Perhaps a bug: You can walk into a mimic's sword and be killed. (Perhaps I'm just used to DROD where it treats a mimic's sword as an obstacle).

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Perhaps a bug: Mimics rehit orbs after waiting (or, more specifically, not moving), where the hero does not.

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In L7: 5E:
- Mimic on (10, 24), Berk on (37, 25).
- Move NW to (36, 24), changing into Jax. The mimic moves to (9, 23) and dies.
- The room is cleared !?!?

Edit: By "The room is cleared", I mean the sound plays when you clear a room, and the silver door drops. However, on the map it is still marked as not cleared until it is cleared properly. The ball rolling into the fire at the top has the same effect. Also, once it has been "cleared" in this manner, it can be "cleared" again by killing the roach or either mimic in the fire.

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Ok, I just got to level nine, and found Rick. The first time I get him there is no potrait of him, just a big word "Jax" in blue and yellow letters. I think nothing of it. Then, after I once I turn into Chen, Chen has the old portrait that everyone used to have, the black guy with the tan hat. Restarting the game doesn't help, and getting another character doesn't help either.

Other characters that get the old weird portrait: Lucas.
Characters that get there own: Jax.

I'll let you know more when I get to more characters.

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Yes, that happened to me once - If I remember correctly, there was the right edge of Jax's portrait on the left side of the screen, and then most Chen's portrait to the right of that. However, it did only happen when I first got Chen - every level since then has been fine.

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Ezlo, try re-downloading the patch. Let me know if it helps. Check if the version you are playing is 3.1 (Main menu).

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I did get the patch, and it did work, but it says version 3.0. Let me try it again.

EDIT: Okay, it says 3.1 now, it has the portraits, and I can see this cool new blue and yellow type I never saw before for the peoples names!

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I've found quite a strange bug.
If you play as Chen and stand at the edge of a map and then try to kill an enemy you'll die. But only if Chen faces the border/the front part of his weapon is off the screen.
It seems, his weapon is inactiv then, because you still move before the roach, but you don't kill it.


I'll try to "ascii" it, so you can see better what I mean.

The bold fields are across the border: If you'd move there you'd leave the recent map.
+ is the front part of the bamboo stick
- is the rear end of the stick
x is you and m is the Monster
o is terrain.

ooo+o
ooxoo
o-moo
ooooo

In this example you would die, if you'd move east or if you rotate ccw.

ooo-o
ooxoo
o+moo
ooooo

If you did the same moves here you would survive and kill the roach.

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Here's another one. Not a bug actually, but a thing disturbing the beauty of the game.
It's about the secret room in lvl 8, so I'll go secret now...



Another thing that I noticed is in the room 4S/4E. If have not yet beaten 5S/4E you can still go south and appear in 5S/E4 on a white wall. You can jump off it and go on, but you can't go back anymore. I don't think that's right, but again, it could be fixed without negative effect on the room(s) by moving the white wall one field south.

That's all for now.

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Taytanchik Ranti wrote:
Here's another one. Not a bug actually, but a thing disturbing the beauty of the game.
It's about the secret room in lvl 8, so I'll go secret now...

Click here to view the secret text

×If you know of the secret rooms in the south-east you can enter them with Berk. Then in room 5S/5E you can go east and suddenly Berk appears in the middle of a forest in 5S/6E.
This shouldn't be a problem though, because you can't do anything with Berk in those rooms and you could easily replace the forest by water, without effect on that room.

Bug Fixed.

Another thing that I noticed is in the room 4S/4E. If have not yet beaten 5S/4E you can still go south and appear in 5S/E4 on a white wall. You can jump off it and go on, but you can't go back anymore. I don't think that's right, but again, it could be fixed without negative effect on the room(s) by moving the white wall one field south.

You mean the white door at (18,0) (19,0), 4S4E?

Chen's bug fixed Taytanchik. Thanks.

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Yeah, that's the door I meant.

Eh well, my solution wasn't correct. You can't just move the wall to 18,1/19,1 , you'd have to move the path too. Though this still shouldn't make problems.


I'm off for now, looking for the other secrets in level 8.

By the way, what do you get if you find all the secrets?

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Door removed.

By the way, what do you get if you find all the secrets?

Nothing for now. Probably a door that opens leading to "insane rooms" if 100% of the game secrets are discovered.

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Some random things: (Some of the trivial solutions/tricks might be intentional, but they might also be not, so I listed a few lesser ones anyway)

L8: 3S2E - I think there's one orb too much. The orb in the top right corner suggests that you should go there and back to open the vertical door at the top (while more and more roaches are spawned), but there's another orb near the lower part of the room, which makes the entire thing easier. It's not needed for backtracking or anything, either.
L10: 1S1E - The room seems a little more complicated that necessary. It's not necessary to open the door or visit the south-east quarter at all.
L10: 1S3E - The detour around the top isn't necessary, because it's possible to just burn the fluffy.
L11: 4S2W - Killed all enemies with Rick on the first arrow. Supposedly not intentional because of the Pandora's Box, and many other obstacles in the room.
L12: 4S2W - A small typo: "My classmates, they doesn't like me..."
Misc. - Hovering mouse on Arthur's shoes displays the description for Pandora's Box o_O

I may have found something else, but it's hard to say for sure, as I wasn't writing anything down, and the restore option is a little slow for checking, because it's more or less impossible to tell enough from just the minimap picture.

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Bugs fixed.

L10: 1S1E - The room seems a little more complicated that necessary. It's not necessary to open the door or visit the south-east quarter at all.

How did you do it? I'm still trying...

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L10: 1S1E - The room seems a little more complicated that necessary. It's not necessary to open the door or visit the south-east quarter at all.

How did you do it? I'm still trying...

Follow the steps in the attached picture.

I just remembered one other thing. The secret in L10:3N3E can be obtained much more easily than intented. Supposedly, you should complete Dragon Island (1N4E) and take the swimming route, but the hero-changer in 3N3E is within the reach of the ship...

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Got it! Bugs fixed, thanks.

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Ok, this is a nitpick more than a real bug, but the room on level 9 should be called "The Penance", not "The Penitence".

Penitence is the feeling of being sorry for bad things you did. Penance is the task you need to do to show penitence. The puzzle in the room is the task, not the feeling.

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Yes, Fixed.

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Nitpick:

On L8, 1S 3E, it appears that the blue door/button and the 3rd orb from the right on the top (turns off the 2nd ray caster from the left) are unnecessary...

Not-so-nitpick: Chen's description still says that he can swim in Lava. Not only is this pushing reality a tad far, but this doesn't seem to be allowed in the game... at least not yet. (I'm only at L8 right now)

Awesome game, by the way

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I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but restoring in L7:2E makes Chen's graphic disappear.

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In level 10, it's possible to get to the northern secret trophy without solving Dragon Island -



Edit: Oh, I just noticed that Doom reported the same thing a few posts back...

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