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XMark · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

Funny thing is, this guy's questions kind of inspired me to take another crack at Diver Down (last time I got stuck after I rescued the dude from the castle and he joined my team).

I think I might write a walkthrough for it too, just for the hell of it :)
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grenideer · Wandering Minstrel Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 149

on www.verge-rpg.com, there is a thread in the General Discussion forum called 'Diver Down on GameHippo.com'. There are two walkthrough's listed therein, but none of them are near finished. It might help get you started, though.

A complete walkthrough would be nice!
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MyNameIsJeff · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject:

I haven't played Diver Down since the very first release on Verge1. It kicked ass as I remember.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:14 am Post subject:

gah...
I downloaded this 20mb monstrosity, and it doesn't even run.

I checked the cfg file,

grenideer · Wandering Minstrel Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 149

Dude, you should play Diver Down then, man! I'm happy with a lot of the fuss! DD was the highest rated game on RPGDX until the last review a few days ago. It seems if you're into story and old-school rpgs, you'll love it, but if you really want graphics or innovative gameplay, you won't necessarily like it.

Umm, there is a sound option, but I don't remember what it is offhand (I'll need to check when I get home). But you should be able to run the game without sound with soundmode 3 (or whatever the option is).

What OS do you have, which version did you download, and from what website?

The reason I ask is because eagle mode should not be set to 1. Also, I can't believe I left arraycheck and logging on, but that was my fault. Turning arraycheck off might cause unintended weirdness.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:39 am Post subject:

grenideer · Wandering Minstrel Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 149

you can try sound_device 3 which is no sound. The reason I asked which version is because there is a DOS and Win version, but I assume you got the win.

BUT, the bad news is, Win 2k is not really supported. It might work, but it might not. I don't know. Win 9x and WinXP were all I could test with.

But in my defense I *did* put that info on the download page. Sorry if you wasted your time downloading 20 megs.
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XMark · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

I got Win2K and it seems to be working well so far.
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MyNameIsJeff · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

I'd tried Diver Down multiple times before, as I remember, but VERGE is always unreliable (yes, I'm sorry to say but it usually is :/)
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grenideer · Wandering Minstrel Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 149

So you tried DD multiple times and it wouldn't run? I do agree that the winv2 engine wasn't as polished as it could've been, since it was basically finished to release this game. Verge 3 is not complete yet, but useable and already hella better.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

grenideer · Wandering Minstrel Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 149

Ya, sorry, that's pretty weird. Well, Xmark, did you use the DOS or the Windows version? The only other thing I could think of is maybe try using a Dos emulator with the Dos version, but honestly that sounds a little sketchy.

I don't think you'll be able to reliably play unless you have win9x or XP. Not sure what's different about your OS and Xmark's - you may wanna compare systems and game versions.
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XMark · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:43 am Post subject:

I'm using the windows version, and it's actually working on my Win2k professional system much better than either version ever worked on my old win98 system. Hasn't crashed out once yet.
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magoo_20 · Pretty, Pretty Fairy Princess Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 9

What do I need to kill Jherga I have have tried everything I can think of can someone help me I am in emil

Terry · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:

Heh... It's gonna be funny reading when he gets to that bloody cave with the block pushing puzzles...
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