Illegal Exception in Prodigal

nbollom · Mon 24/12/2007 04:30:11

The folowing exception occured in Prodigal, in the kitchen area after the text "HELP ME" appeared on the wall:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x00483FAF ; program pointer is +1005, ACI version 2.71.891, gtags (0,80)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

in Room script (line 194)

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OK
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Dualnames · Fri 28/12/2007 00:30:26

Can you copy what's in line 194 of your room script so we can see it?

Gilbert · Fri 28/12/2007 01:35:55

He's playing a game, not the author of the game, so he shouldn't know what is in line 194.

@nbollom:
Since you encountered this problem while playing a released game, so try sending a PM to the game's author so your question may have a better chance of being answered. Also, you may try to redownload the game from the author's official site in case some bugs might already be fixed in a new version.
One thing worth trying is to disable sound and/or music and see if the game gets past that part.

Dualnames · Sat 29/12/2007 21:44:24

Didn;t knew that Gillbot.. Sorry..

nbollom · Sun 30/12/2007 22:07:56

Thanks for the reply guys, the error said to post on the tech forums so I thought it ment anyone who encountered the error.

I played around with the settings and managed to get past that point.

23-down · Tue 01/01/2008 23:33:54

Hi.

I have the same error with Stargate Adventure v1.21

I tried to play it but it wont start.

Here is a screenshot of the bug:

Gilbert · Wed 02/01/2008 00:54:14

Did you try PMing the game's author first?

Galen · Wed 02/01/2008 10:54:09

Why don't you notify CJ like it tells you then? (Actually it probably should say Pumaman considering that's his forum name)

Gilbert · Wed 02/01/2008 11:14:43

Still, with a completed game, it's better to inform the game author first.

Dualnames · Wed 02/01/2008 22:24:36

And we shouldn't bother CJ all the time.. Even if we can...

Pumaman · Mon 07/01/2008 21:52:41

Try turning off sound and music in the game Setup, and see if that gets around the problem. I think Prodigal had a couple of dodgy MP3 files that were crashing the decoder.

Dualnames · Thu 10/01/2008 11:35:49

Great suggestion Chris.. I've used that in some games in here and took of all their bugs.