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Luhr28 - 15 March 2021 08:08 PM

7th Guest? I know it had a separate CD for the soundtrack, but I can’t remember there being any disk swapping during the game.

Karlok - 16 March 2021 04:59 AM

Yes, the 7th Guest came on one CD. Maybe the transparent ghosts didn’t require as many bytes as solid people.

What???

MY version of the 7th Guest (bought in 1995 IIRC), came on 2 CDs and there WAS disc swapping near the very end. The entire game is on 1 CD except for the endgame in the attic, that was on disc 2.

Since it was the endgame, there was no swapping back to disc 1 needed until after completion, but it DID use both discs…



As for the swapping back and forth, I think Phantasmagoria did it rather elegantly by keeping all 7 chapters on a separate disc each. That meant no swapping in-between locations, only between chapters. If you were swapping discs, it meant you were advancing in the story.

TimovieMan - 16 March 2021 03:57 PM

MY version of the 7th Guest (bought in 1995 IIRC), came on 2 CDs and there WAS disc swapping near the very end. The entire game is on 1 CD except for the endgame in the attic, that was on disc 2.

You’re right, I stand corrected. Weird, I was so sure.

And Veovis said the first release of Amber came on 2 CDs. I have the ‘96 release, one CD. Was there an earlier version?? I don’t know what to believe anymore. 

PS: How are you and Gracie getting along? Or have you dropped her to spend time with Lydia?

Karlok - 16 March 2021 04:19 PM

PS: How are you and Gracie getting along? Or have you dropped her to spend time with Lydia?

Gracie is sidelined for a bit.

I’ll need a specific mindset to continue with her, and that mindset isn’t here right now…

Veovis - 16 March 2021 11:44 AM

Actually the first release of Amber came on 2 CDs. I wouldn’t call it an FMV game though (unless a game like Myst is one too).

I have the boxed version of Amber, and I checked to make sure before I wrote the post. It only has one CD. I wasn’t aware of there being more than one version of the game. It was a critical success, but I’m not sure if it was a financial success. I bought my version from a CompUSA bargain bin the same year it was released.

Yes, there are a few FMV scenes. But certainly not of the scale of other FMV games such as DSotM. Funny you should mention MYST as comparison. Both games released on a single CD and used QuickTime video for their limited FMV scenes. I assume it was a way to keep the game on a single disk. Not dissimilar to records you bought in the early days. The reason the average length of a song is 3:30 is because that’s the maximum length that would fit on a 78 rpm shellac disc. That artificial limitation carried well into the late 60’s.

Veovis - 17 March 2021 05:43 AM

Is the 1998 DSotM playable in Windows 10? I seem to remember there being problems with the game’s fonts in Windows XP at least. Never got around to play it but I sure would like to.

I don’t know if it is playable in Windows 10, I never tried. I have kept my old win98, win95, and XP computers, so I can still play the ancient games.

When was the 2-CD version of Amber released?

The first five posts were about the game of the thread, from there… That’s the magic of forums haha

walas74 - 17 March 2021 07:47 PM

The first five posts were about the game of the thread, from there… That’s the magic of forums haha

It morphed into a conversation about FMV games in general. Stuff happens

rtrooney - 17 March 2021 11:08 PM

walas74 - 17 March 2021 07:47 PM

The first five posts were about the game of the thread, from there… That’s the magic of forums haha

It morphed into a conversation about FMV games in general. Stuff happens

Yeah, that’s why I said the magic of forums. And since you are talking about FMV games, do you think we are living a resurrection of the genre? Are other modern games like Contradiction (I know Her Story, Telling Lies, The Shapeshifting Detective and The Infectious Madness of Dr. Dekker).

walas74 - 17 March 2021 11:18 PM

Yeah, that’s why I said the magic of forums. And since you are talking about FMV games, do you think we are living a resurrection of the genre? Are other modern games like Contradiction (I know Her Story, Telling Lies, The Shapeshifting Detective and The Infectious Madness of Dr. Dekker).

I think it’s possible. Technological advances can make the FMV more enjoyable. And the media, itself, DVD v. CD is a huge upgrade. Of course no technological marvel will increase the enjoyment of bad acting. (Although some, including myself, find the bad acting part of the entertainment.