Links for Some of Yahtzee's Games No Longer Working

Yellow Knight · Sun 25/03/2012 23:37:22

I've noticed for awhile that a few of Sir Arthur "Yahtzee" Croshaw's games, or at least the download links for them, are no longer functioning. These include the Rob Blanc trilogy and The Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantibulous Wonderment. Is there a way to repair them, or are the links forever lost? (Unless Yahtzee himself or someone else still has access to the original game files). Another concern is related to some links on Yahtzee's site itself (the forum there is unfortunately locked, so I can't bring to the topic up to him). The download links for the Arthur Yahtzee Trilogy on Fully Ramblomatic.com are stable, but the games refuse to play on Windows XP (or any other modern Windows computer, I think). I suspect that the game content of those downloadable links may be corrupted, but I'm not sure. Do you know how to reinstate the links for the previous games I mentioned, or to find a way that could make it easy to play the other games I mentioned from his site?

arj0n · Mon 26/03/2012 12:14:50

@Yellow Knight :

They're available at AGSArchives:

Rob Blanc trilogy [2001]
The Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantibulous Wonderment [2005]

And here's the rest of the Yahtzee games:
The Trials of Odysseus Kent [2002]
5 Days a Stranger [2003]
7 Days a Skeptic [2004]
1213 trilogy [2005-2006]
Trilby's Notes [2006]
6 Days a Sacrifice [2007]
The Art of Theft [2007]

Khris · Mon 26/03/2012 12:26:04

Rob Blanc I-III:
https://www.google.com/search?q=blanc+site%3Awww.agsarchives.com

GFW:
http://rpgdownloads.org/games/galaxyof.zip
(took 2 minutes of googling)

The Arthur Yahtzee Trilogy was programmed in Visual Basic 3, it's from around 1974, when Yahtzee coded his first games at the age of 5 using an oberclocked TI calculator.
The truth value of the previous sentence is as big as the enjoyment you'll get out of those games.

Seriously though, I remember playing them when I first discovered 5 days a Stranger, then AGS. You aren't missing a thing.

Victor6 · Mon 26/03/2012 14:56:52

Didn't Yahtzee also write something called Poseidon 12?

I remember it being released via his subforum on chefelf.com, sometime between 7days and 1213. Did that reach open-beta then end up in the trash can?

arj0n · Mon 26/03/2012 16:12:50

Quote from: Yellow Knight on Sun 25/03/2012 23:37:22
The download links for the Arthur Yahtzee Trilogy on Fully Ramblomatic.com are stable, but the games refuse to play on Windows XP (or any other modern Windows computer, I think). I suspect that the game content of those downloadable links may be corrupted, but I'm not sure. Do you know how to reinstate the links for the previous games I mentioned, or to find a way that could make it easy to play the other games I mentioned from his site?

Checked: downloaded from fullyramblomatic.com and was able to play 'Friday: Death To Arthur Yahtzee' on both Win7 32bit and Win XP.

Khris · Mon 26/03/2012 16:22:07

It was in an almost completed state, and is pretty much playable.

I've put it here, if anyone's interested: Download Poseidon 12
(The game was made with 2.62 so I included the 2.72 engine. Run setup.bat to open winsetup.)

Yellow Knight · Thu 29/03/2012 04:50:53

Thanks, Arj0n! I'm glad that the links for the two games are archived and stable, and that I am able to play them!

It's good thing that you were able to play the Arthur Yahtzee games. I don't know what my problem is. On both Windows XP laptops of mine, both Think Pads, whenever I click on each of the game icons to start, it says:

File Error: Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL.

The next one says: Can't run 16-bit windows program:

Cannot find file C:\DOCUME~1\(My name)~1\Desktop\Friday\Friday.exe (or one of its components). Check to ensure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available.

It's weird, because I thought the icon was the exe file. Do I need to change the file properties in order to play it, or is it that the Yahtzee trilogy games are just incompatible with Think Pads? Or could it be that some essential file information is getting lost through my downloads?

m0ds · Thu 05/04/2012 00:03:19

On the subject of that guy - Yahtzee released his new platformer about an hour ago

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116654-Harm-Bunnies-in-Yahtzees-Newest-Game

arj0n · Thu 05/04/2012 09:32:45

@Yellow Knight:

Quote from: Yellow Knight on Thu 29/03/2012 04:50:53
I don't know what my problem is. On both Windows XP laptops of mine, both Think Pads, whenever I click on each of the game icons to start, it says:

File Error: Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL.

The next one says: Can't run 16-bit windows program:

Cannot find file C:\DOCUME~1\(My name)~1\Desktop\Friday\Friday.exe (or one of its components). Check to ensure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available.

It's weird, because I thought the icon was the exe file. Do I need to change the file properties in order to play it, or is it that the Yahtzee trilogy games are just incompatible with Think Pads? Or could it be that some essential file information is getting lost through my downloads?

It's probably not your Think Pad or file info gotten lost through you downloads or the need of changing the file properties.
This game simply requires a DLL file called 'VBRUN300.DLL'.

1.: Download it from www.dll-files.com.
2.: extract the DLL to C:\Windows\System32.
3.: Now the game should run fine...

4.: I'm not sure if the DLL also needs to be in the game directory, so if after step 1-3 you still get the error message "File Error: Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL" when trying to run the game: extract the DLL also to the game directory.

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Quote from: m0ds on Thu 05/04/2012 00:03:19
On the subject of that guy - Yahtzee released his new platformer about an hour ago

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116654-Harm-Bunnies-in-Yahtzees-Newest-Game

Thanx for the heads up M0ds, I almost forgot about that game. DL'ing rightaway, man I luv platformers!