Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 At the Gallows - last I checked, the version I have archived has a rather amusing bug where an important item is right on the floor in front of the wizard you're supposed to give it to. Falling Stars - the archived version doesn't have the completed hall of contributors (in the starting town) or the Denmark quest. The Shadow of the Stranger - archived version doesn't let you turn off tree climbing, final version did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 All scenarios I want to play when I'm done with E3. I'm sure someone has them, and I'd like them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 I assume the versions on OpenBoE.com aren't more up-to-date than what you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 @Celtic MinstrelNope, my Google Drive scenario repo is basically just mirrored from there; the versions are the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 My archive is the same as CM's, although I've been working now and then on neatening the filenames of the scenario ZIPs. Otherwise it's the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Ess-Eschas Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Just to help with searching, Nephil Thief, could you please post the specific version numbers of your copies of these three scenarios? This makes it easier to compare versions, since people can tell at a glance whether they have a different version to you. The quickest way to find the version number is through a scenario’s documentation. Alternatively, you can find it through BoE itself. Just make sure the scenario is visible in your scenario folder (put a space or two at the front of its name if necessary), load up a party outside of a scenario, and flick through the ‘Custom Scenario’ list until you find the one you’re looking for. The version number is right at the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Yeah, I thought as much. Sorry I couldn't help, then. Presumably the official Spiderweb archive is even less up-to-date, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Stareye's own website has version 1.0.1 of At The Gallows, the same version which is in our archives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) @The Almighty Doer of Stuff- oh, then maybe there never was a fix for the item placement thing. I might have misremembered v1.0.2 existing. @Ess-Eschasand anyone else - Falling Stars for me is v1.0.1, and Shadow of the Stranger is v1.2.0. Thanks y'all!@Celtic Minstrel- yeah, the versions on Spidweb's own downloads page are the same as those I have. Edited March 2, 2021 by Nephil Thief Ess-Eschas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 The only other place I can think of is Truesite4Blades, but I'm pretty sure the OpenBoE archive is directly derived from that, so there's probably no point checking. (It is currently archived at OpenBoE.com though, if you want to take a look. I think it's untouched from the archive Jewels sent me save for updating broken internal links, though I might've missed some.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) @Celtic MinstrelI know the archived Lyceum had the final version of Falling Stars, but AFAIK it disappeared when Truesite went down, and the Wayback Machine didn't catch most of the HTML let alone the zip files. The version in the scenario archive was always earlier than the one from the archived Lyceum. If there's still an archive of the Lyceum floating around though, it might still have the final version. (And if anyone sends that my way, I'll update the one in my own archive mirror.) Edit: yes, the Lyceum is still archived!http://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/blyceum/index.html The links did not get modified so it takes some manual changing of URLs to navigate, but it looks like everything should still be there. Thank you profoundly!Edit 2: grabbed all the final version Alcritas scenarios, thanks. This command worked: wget -r -np -l 1 -A zip http://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/ Going to put those in my Google Drive archive momentarily. Edit 3: or not. That grabbed a bunch of Javascript files? Weird. Anyway grabbing them manually worked ok. Edited March 2, 2021 by Nephil Thief Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Could I have a link, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Ess-Eschas Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Good work, Nephil Thief. That’s a pretty neat way to solve the problem! 1 hour ago, The Almighty Doer of Stuff said: Could I have a link, please? The links are essentially all there on TrueSite already. You just need to manually type in the name of the zip file at the end of web address, rather than following the link. This is just because the link doesn’t connect to the correct root address at the moment! Still, to save you some work: Spoiler http://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/apologia.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/falling.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/theseus.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/pippen.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/lament.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/goodevil.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/algiers.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/redem.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/portents.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/kayolith.ziphttp://truesite.openboe.com/SWArchive/Geocities/alcritas/tomorrow.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Thanks. I didn't understand what was being said. So now we just need the final version of "Shadow of the Stranger". My very cursory googling turned up nothing. I don't know where I'd look. Drizzt had a website once upon a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 @The Almighty Doer of StuffI think Drizzt's page might also be in the Truesite archive? And I've added the files to my archive FYI. Directory structure now looks like game/ BoE-1.2.0a-win32.exe scenarios/ alcritas-final-versions/ [Alcritas scenarios] truesite-archive/ [Scenarios from the Truesite archive] Link is in my signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Drizzt's site is archived, but the scenario ZIPs are frustratingly absent - unless they're mislabeled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I fixed a bunch of Lyceum/Alcritas-related links, but the archive of Drizzt's website is quite broken. It looks like it was downloaded through a browser using the "save whole web page" feature, because there are a bunch of "this_web_page_files" folders which oftentimes contain duplicate content. There are also a whole bunch of missing images, and the zip files seem to be absent too. Nephil Thief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd tyorkul Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 (edited) Hello, has anyone managed to find the final bugfixed version (v1.3) of Shadow of the Stranger? I'm also looking for Suspension of Tranquility. I just hope these two don't end up as part of the "lost scenarios".... On a tangential note, does anyone have an archive backup of BoA scenarios? Currently, the only site that works is Tyranicus' BoA scenario database, but most of the scenarios in his collection are heavily outdated sadly. I just hope someone has a private backup archive for BoA scenarios similar to Nephil Thief's BoE google archive. Edited April 4, 2023 by tyorkul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody The Lurker Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 I had v1.3.0 of Shadow of the Stranger on my old Windows XP computer. Unfortunately, it's long dead...😔 ...And fortunately, I have a backup of its hard drive contents, made with the dd utility on Linux. So, after some tweaking and searching, I am proud to upload Shadow of the Stranger v1.3.0 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd tyorkul Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 Much appreciated, Lurker. Thanks. I have noted down a list of outdated scenarios for BoA as well that I will soon post in the relevant section. Perhaps your magical hard drive might have copies of those, fingers crossed. Incidentally, I noticed some oddities/discrepancies in Nephil Thief's backup scenario archive that I think is worth mentioning since it might reduce confusion and benefit newer players who are looking for the latest bugfixed versions. Since the scenario filenames don't have version numbers appended to them, it's difficult to tell if the listed file is up-to-date. I had to comb through file contents and compare timestamps/checksums with versions I found elsewhere. - NorthernKingdom0_Prologue.zip is outdated (v1.0). A newer version (v1.1) is availabe via the Internet Archive. - EdgeofEternity_The.zip and eternity.zip are duplicates. They both refer to the same scenario. - HutofBabaYaga_The.zip and babayaga.zip refer to the same scenario, but the latter has updated file timestamps which implies it's a newer version, yet it is missing what appears to be crucial files like babayaga.bmp, babayaga.meg. I don't know if this was intentional or accidental. - FinalSpireThe.zip and FInal Spire.zip refer to the same scenario, but the latter has updated file timestamps. Then again, it is missing crucial graphics and other miscellaneous files. I can't tell which of the two is the more definite version. - Kallaskagathos.zip and pippen.zip are duplicates; also, the file/directory structure on the former looks odd with a 0-byte file. Not sure if intentional. - QuestfortheOrbs.zip and QuestoftheOrbs.zip refer to the same scenario; the latter appears to be outdated. - SoundShowcase.zip and SOUNDS.zip refer to the same utility; the latter appears to be outdated. - The Nephils_ Defense.zip and The_Nephils__Defense_by_Bain-Ihrno.zip refer to the same scenario. The latter is outdated, but contains extra files. - War_Preparations_by_Bain-Ihrno.zip and War Preparations.zip are duplicates. - some of Alcritas' scenarios (An_Apology_by_Alcritas.zip, FallingStars.zip, OfGoodandEvil.zip, OnaShiptoAlgiers.zip) in the truesite-archive folder are older versions. Yes, there is a separate folder called alcritas-final-versions that have the most latest versions. So why keep the older versions? Newer players could easily accidentally download the older versions unless they do a lot of (unnecessary) investigating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall BainIhrno Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 I should not that I am NOT the author of "War Preparations"; not sure how a file called "War Preperations by Bain-Ihrno" exists. (Milu K is the designer of War Preparations). My BoE scenarios include: Fort Emerald Robbery The Nephils' Defense The Final Spire 100 Evil Sliths The Crusaders I did also create two (pretty useless) utilities, which include: The Fifth Tower of Magi The Portal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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