[Captain Vimes]

I have a huge problem!!! You remember that one topic on the guy who made an RPG in one week? I think it was called "Hackenslash". I have to make a video game BY TOMMOROW. The programming is done, but when I run the program it says that it has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down! Plus, once it worked, but the sprites would not appear on-screen. The background was visible, and the 0 for the score was in the upper-right, but it wouldn't run! Please, anyone who can help, tell me anything that might possibly help! This game must be done by TOMORROW!!! It's very simple, but I can't make stuff appear! This problem has also happened with all my other games.

I think the problem is with the resource file. How do you set it up so that a program can use graphics? I have it like this:

[LeoDraco]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not entirely sure how, exactly, you want us to help if you do not provide some basic information about your project; namely, the following questions come to mind as you have not provided any answer for them:

• What language are you coding this in?
  
• What graphics API are you using to display things?
  
• What compiler are you working with? (Not all compilers for a given language are equal; you mention resource files, so is this a Visual Studio oriented project, or possibly something to do with allegro? (Not that the latter has anything to do, per se, with compilers; I seem to recall that particular API having some sort of resource file...))
  
• What type of game are you making?
  
• Have you tried running your program through a debugger, to determine where it is performing the illegal operation? (Note on this one: if you are using a lower level language, such as C or C++, this very well might be due to some code you wrote dereferencing a null pointer.)
  

You are frantic; I certainly get that vibe and can sympathize; however, you shall not get any useful help if you do not provide enough information for us to run with: not all programs do the exact same thing, and not all graphics programs fail for the exact same reason.
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[RuneLancer]

Amusingly enough, LeoDraco raised the exact same points I did on RPG-Dev, save for the type of game. :P

OSes should have a feature built into them that detects when a computer-related question (especially a programming-related question) is being asked and automatically flashes in big red letters "PROVIDE MORE INFO!" Always.
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[Captain Vimes]

Yeah, but it's too late now... I have to present this in about an hour, so I printed the code and gave a game synopsis. It's in Win32 API. Developed it on the Bloodshed Dev-C++ 4.9.8.0. Thanks for trying to help, anyway. And RL, I had to get off after a while and I guess I didn't read your posts on RPG-Dev. Thanks for trying though, guys.
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