Viper Island Games

[Trapani21]

Anyone know how to run the Viper Island games properly? I get a message about Projector Skeleton Macomedia, Inc. not running properly. I searched elsewhere for an answer but came up empty. Thoughts?

[Hyperguy]

I think you have to install shockwave flash player in order to get them to work.

[JG]

Vols 1 and 2 don't work in XP.  I don't know why they don't.  The later ones do, perhaps becuase they use a different loader.
Play them on an older system... or download Macromedia MX and google for the decoder to decode protected .dxr files back into regular Director .dir files.

[Trapani21]

I've downloaded Flashplayer before, but it doesn't seem to work on my system. Thanks for the suggestions though. I'll test them out.

[Trapani21]

Would an emulator like PC98 work?

[Hyperguy]

A PC98 emulator runs PC98 roms, so it wouldn't work.

[JG]

A PC98 emulator runs PC98 roms, so it wouldn't work.

Well, ROMs isn't technically the right word here.  The data files are read-write, and mimic floppy disks and hard drives (PC98 is, for the most part, IBM-compatible hardware.)  The right term would be disk image.

And if you had a PC98 hard drive disk image (.hdi) with Windows 3.11 or Win95 on it, then yeah, I guess you could get Island 1 & 2 to work on it.  Never tried it myself though.  If someone can find me an .hdi file with a pre-2000 version of Windows on it, I'll give it a shot.

[Asukachan]

I run Windows 2000 on one of my machines and Islands 1 and 2 work fine

[Trapani21]

I had it working fine about three months back, but now 1 & 2 just don't seem to work anymore.

[Nitorin]

I'm using XP and I got all Island games.They all work properly.

[Trapani21]

I'm using XP and I got all Island games.They all work properly.

Did they come from the Viper Games Collection torrent, or do you have the actual disks?

[JG]

My original CDs have the same problem.  So its not caused by making/burning disc images.

[Nitorin]

Did they come from the Viper Games Collection torrent, or do you have the actual disks?

Yeah, all from the big Viper Game torrent.All games work on my pc. Viper Purple and Black rocks =P

[Trapani21]

Yeah, all from the big Viper Game torrent.All games work on my pc. Viper Purple and Black rocks =P

Oh the temptaion...!

[Nitorin]

Took me around 4 days.There was'nt always full of seeders.Viper Black and Purple are fun,its just to bad I don't undertsand japanese.I often don't know wha the cards does.

[Trapani21]

Took me around 4 days.There was'nt always full of seeders.Viper Black and Purple are fun,its just to bad I don't undertsand japanese.I often don't know wha the cards does.

Don't feel bad. After two years of study, I still can't read Japanese.

[黒い灯影]

i can translate and interpret Japanese, but I can only read the smaller words and particles

[Trapani21]

i can translate and interpret Japanese, but I can only read the smaller words and particles

how are you with the kanji?

[黒い灯影]

for kanji, I use search by radical  on those online dictionary sites.... but theres one Kanji I know by heart, thats Cala's element symbol, Thunder

[JG]

for kanji, I use search by radical  on those online dictionary sites.... but theres one Kanji I know by heart, thats Cala's element symbol, Thunder

Ugh.  Radicals are a terrible way to search for kanji.  I greatly prefer the De Roo method.  Unfortunately there's not a good web-based method for this, so I did what any real programmer would do in this case: make my own.

You guys can try it, but it'll only work with IE so far.  Safari and Mozilla have a ways to go in supporting external XML resource files and I haven't figured out a workaround yet.  And you'll have to give it a few seconds to load.  It's got to pull down and parse a 5+ MB xml file to your browser containing all the kanji search data (compressed it comes in around only 200kB so don't freak out)