ValerianaSolaris

After I just finished the last of the Avadon series and enjoyed it greatly, I went back to the first game. I don´t know, the mullet blademaster guy bothered me immensely, and I went hunting for nicer images. I found a cute little program for designing avatars, and went to work. These surely aren´t everybody´s cup of tea, but I liked them enough and thought I share them. It changes the character images on the „Start a new game“ screen, as well as the images in the roster. It does not change the pics in the „Get“-menu, where you see the whole character and swap out equipment. The first four images are for the class you chose, the last four are for your companions. How to implement the new file into your game: Mac: Go to your „Avadon - The Black Fortress“ folder, open the folder „Avadon Files“, open the „Graphics Core“ folder and search for an image called „G137.png“. Make a copy of it and store it away safely, in case you don´t like the changes and want the original back. Download the first image below and rename it to "G137.png". Put the image „G137.png“ in the „Graphics Core“ folder, start the game, and voilá, new faces! Windows: I am so sorry, never use Windows and have no idea, but it should be really similar, and someone else might know the exact path. Get the image here: And in case you accidentally delete the original character sheet, here it is again. Just rename it to G137.png.

I emailed Jeff about the problem, and his mentioning of "preferences" led me to a hunt for the preferences files for the games, and for some reasons (*cough* I probably did it myself years ago, for reasons which escape me now) they were protected, and the game couldn´t access them anymore. Duh! After changing permissions and lifting the protection, the games run fine! The files can be found in User > Library > Preferences > Geneforge Prefs. To change permissions, which I had probably lost by changing to Yosemite, I went to the folder the game preferences were in (Preferences), and via Get Info applied my ownership to all included sub-files. And voilá, everything is fine now. Posting that here in case someone else does silly things to their preferences files!

Hi Edgwyn, thank you for your reply! Your post prompted me to check Nethergate´s version, and I had indeed an older one. Downloading 1.0.3 helped with the problem, the game now runs fine. The weird Geneforge errors remain, though, despite having the newest versions. I probably have to contact Jeff directly.

I was cleaning out my HD, and stumbled upon my Spiderweb Game Collection, dating from waaay back. Trying to open the last two Geneforge games (4 & 5) failed with the following error: Prefs FSpOpenDF () Error - Game: Geneforge 4, Geneforge 5 - Game version: redownloaded the newest updates - Operating system: Mac (20 Zoll, Mid 2007), 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, MacOS 10.10.5 - Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB I made a backup when I installed the then new Yosemite, and haven´t played the games since. I downloaded the newest versions, restarted the computer etc., but to no avail. All games ran fine before installing Yosemite. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ah yes, and Nethergate Resurrection doesn´t open, either. Avadon - The Black Fortress and Avernum - Escape From the Pit run fine, though.