Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) This is a fully patched version of EXILE with fixed graphics and OTVDM in mind. Links: 2.0 PC Style https://www30.zippyshare.com/v/JiPgqP0Z/file.html (I'm in the process of adding EXILE 3's terrain.) 2.0 MACOS Style: https://www13.zippyshare.com/v/DGMmN8zH/file.html First attempt at emulating the look of the MACOS version. Made by decreasing brightness by 70 and increasing contrast by 20. The EXEs included are hex edited. The pre-2.0 version will be worked on after I'm finished making the base version. I'm in the process of doing similar work for EXILE2. Screenshots: 2.0 PC Style New https://ibb.co/rtGWvfp Original https://ibb.co/s3hvVcJ https://ibb.co/93Kb8tJ https://ibb.co/pPkKdGr https://ibb.co/9G8Ch7V 2.0 MACOS Style https://ibb.co/Xk0y7Z7 https://ibb.co/FmPQmsQ https://ibb.co/Mn2Gk1f https://ibb.co/1nGrV6X OTVDM:https://github.com/otya128/winevdmIf under modern windows download OTVDM and put it somewhere permanent then within the OTVDM folder run install or install (no console). Then run EXILE.EXE and enjoy. Changes: Added PC Status Icons Thrown Missile Skill works as intended Fixed various problems with the original bitmaps Removed registry related text BUTTONS.BMP redesign Applied a Win9x style to every button in-game Applied a Win9x style to every window in-game Applied a Win9x style layout to STARTMSC.BMP (The "Win9x" style merely makes EXILE's design cohere more to the way it's window and UI will look using OTVDM.) Used a different font with anti-aliasing on STARTMSC.BMP Optimized every bitmap Changelog: 1.1 Made the "FOW" tile seamlessly into the background. Added BOE's sprites (Replacing with EXILE 3's sprites later. They just look slightly better to my eyes.) 1.2 Removed redundant elements Reverted to EXILE 1's sprites until the rework. Credits: Jeff Vogel, Spiderweb Software, the BOE website and it's contributors, and full-time-snacking. Edited April 2, 2022 by silentwolf91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 This is interesting! Am I right in seeing that the main edits are to things like window borders, and not to character or terrain graphics? silentwolf91 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) I did change the terrain graphics quite a bit. I got rid of a lot of the extra "clutter" in the textures, but yeah I changed mostly the UI elements so that it felt more cohesive to the Win9x kind of environment it was meant for. Edited March 7, 2022 by silentwolf91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 On 2/22/2022 at 10:21 AM, silentwolf91 said: I did change the terrain graphics quite a bit. I got rid of a lot of the extra "clutter" in the textures, but yeah I changed mostly the UI elements so that it felt more cohesive to the Win95/3.x kind of environment it was meant for. It actually wasn't meant for Win95 at all -- the Exile games were all developed for Mac. Windows ports came later. (And frankly they had a somewhat unique UI for any system, at the time, though the 3.0 versions removed some of these elements.) silentwolf91 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted February 23, 2022 Author Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) Oh I know. What I meant by "meant for" is what this port was meant for in the sense that most people who played this port back in the day played it under Win95/98. So what I did was I made all the buttons have a Win9x feel to them like how the actual OS would display them. (If they weren't just parts of a bitmap of course) Edited March 3, 2022 by silentwolf91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) This mod has changed goals. It no longer has simplified graphics akin to the NES. It now focuses purely on providing a fully patched and optimized version of EXILE with a Win9x style interface. Maybe later on I'll add a version with those NES style graphics I made again but not anytime soon. Edited February 26, 2022 by silentwolf91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) If anyone can provide further insights into hex edits of the EXE, please do! Also if anyone can help me in emulating the look of the MACOS version of the graphics, that would be extremely helpful. (and better yet get me ripped art assets from the mac versions if that is at all possible) I'm thinking of providing four versions of this. One with fixed and tweaked post-2.0 graphics One with fixed and tweaked pre-2.0 graphics and two with MACOS style graphics before and after version 2.0 Edited February 26, 2022 by silentwolf91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Samael101 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Is this still available? I'm getting a 403 error from the links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila silentwolf91 Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 Yeah it's still available. I haven't had time to work on it in a little while but I'm releasing a new build of it sometime. Zippyshare seems to not work for some people though, you might have to try a vpn like the one in the Opera browser as it's free and you only need to trick Zippyshare into thinking you are somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora such Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 Zippyshare closed down recently, so all these links are now dead. Is there any chance for a re-upload? Would be a shame to let all this work just disappear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila Samael101 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Its been a bit and I've been revisiting Exile lately and I'm wondering if this was saved anywhere or if any further work got done on it? I'm curious as to what some of the changes were though functioning throwing weapons would be nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora ShivaSadaa Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 anyway to reupload this? links not working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora MerfQueen Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Need this please I am a sad and i wants this at least for thrown weapon skill it look so good so nice wants it i am! sad please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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