Night of the hermit talkie

Grunt2 · Sun 12/12/2004 20:57:21

How do I get Night of the Hermit Talkie to work? When i downloaded it it just was a large file called sound.vox or something like that. How do I install it?

Gilbert · Mon 13/12/2004 01:41:22

It's only the sound file pak, you need the game itself to play it. If you can get one single file with the sound pak, there're probably 2 separate downloads at the place you got it from, just have a look, and see if there're another download for the game, download that also, then together with the .vox file in the same folder the game should work.

Grunt2 · Mon 13/12/2004 19:50:55

Hmmm... I had already downloaded the full game, but it had no voices. So i downloaded the talkie vile and put it into the full game folder. It still doesn't work.

Gilbert · Tue 14/12/2004 01:24:42

Hmmm, how it didn't work? It crashed or didn't start up at all?

desimaui · Tue 14/12/2004 07:05:08

Quote from: Grunt2 on Sun 12/12/2004 20:57:21
How do I get Night of the Hermit Talkie to work? When i downloaded it it just was a large file called sound.vox or something like that. How do I install it?

I'm getting a similiar problem with this game. I tried downloading it from the AGS website. It downloads ok but when I try to open the file it says"
Error, could not load this file. You must create and save a game first in room editor before you can use this engine. What does this mean?

Gilbert · Tue 14/12/2004 07:06:20

Which file did you click on to run?

Grunt2 · Tue 14/12/2004 16:47:43

I just used the hermit application to run the game. The problem is that the game runs fine but I cannot hear any voices at all.

desimaui · Wed 15/12/2004 01:01:23

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Tue 14/12/2004 07:06:20
Which file did you click on to run?

I clicked on the Icon that says AGS (Adventure Game Studio run time...) I thought this ran the game. (the application) Just in case, the other files included with this are MS-DOS batch files and I think they are just part of the neccessary files needed to run the game. I also read the Readme text documnet but it was not much help.

Gilbert · Wed 15/12/2004 01:11:27

What are the other files' names?
If there's a DOS executable that's supposed to launch the DOS compile (probably named hermit.exe or whatever), rename that to ac2game.dat and try again.

desimaui · Wed 15/12/2004 01:26:09

Nope, no file with that name. I'm going to try and kill it and re-download it...

Gilbert · Wed 15/12/2004 01:27:13

So, what are the file's name then?

ggp · Wed 15/12/2004 09:55:05

You need to download winrar to be able to play the game, i take it youve done that ?

ggp · Wed 15/12/2004 09:57:01

EDIT: I meant you need to download WinACE not winrar to extract the files.

Grunt2 · Wed 15/12/2004 17:43:00

I just downloaded WinAce. But its permenently in German.

Grunt2 · Wed 15/12/2004 19:21:01

Downloaded files with WinAce. No voice I can hear! driving me mad. peace out

desimaui · Thu 16/12/2004 00:01:52

Hey you guys on this forum are great for trying to help mw out with this...
Okay I still can't play Night of the Hermit.
I tried starting over and downloading the whole thing again. Here is a list of the files I get when I unzip the compressed game file.
ACWIN.EXE (this is the application)
Hermit.exe
Readme.txt
RunDos.bat
RunWin.bat
SetupDos.bat
SetupWin.bat
Speech.vox

Doesn''t look like the file you mentioned above is part of this compressed group so maybe I need to get the file necessary to run the game elsewhere. Any clues?

Gilbert · Thu 16/12/2004 00:59:30

Just rename hermit.exe to ac2game.dat (as I had told you) and run acwin.exe, it should work.

Originally the runwin.bat should work (it's just launching "acwin.exe hermit.exe", but due to some path problems on some XP systems it may not work directly.

desimaui · Thu 16/12/2004 02:53:49

Gilbot, I'm sorry but I don't understand how changing the name of a file is going to solve my problem. But I did as you suggested anyway. Thanks for your help but it did not work. I think the problem is with my operating system then because I do have Windows XP. Does this mean I can't play the game?

Gilbert · Thu 16/12/2004 02:55:59

Are you sure you renamed it correctly?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/kbview.php?id=22

I just downloaded the game and tested it, it worked perfectly, just rename, and launch acwin.exe.

desimaui · Thu 16/12/2004 03:00:38

Just rename hermit.exe to ac2game.dat (as I had told you) and run acwin.exe, it should work.

Yep, just as you said to...

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