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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Spooksville - Game breaking bug?

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I've been playing Spooksville from my MMFS MMB image, and also from the SSD file from https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=645

I've mapped all the rooms I can get to, though I have got to a point where I can't progress any more, and I think it's because of a bug.

Normally you collect an item that kills one of the larger enemies. e.g. the sword will kill the Cannibal. You just hold the item, then press space and it will shoot across the screen and kill it. Same with the Fireball and Frankenstein's Monster. There are slight variants, like you press space on a grave when you hold the Holy Water to kill the Ghoul.

The problem is Dracula. I get the Stake, then when he's on the screen I press space and I just drop it. I think it's supposed to shoot across at him. I'm guessing he will drop a ring as that's supposed to be in the Crypt (I can't see it anywhere and I've tried picking up in squares where it might have been hiding).

If I just hold the Stake and he touches me I die.

There are some areas of the map I can't get to, so I expect something will open with the ring, as I also have one Cross left to find. At the moment there are no ways to get into certain rooms (and no walls you can walk through to get there).

The leftmost screen X position I can get to is 8 (the screens are numbered xx:yy and shown at the top of the game screen), though I have seen screen 07:03 from the demo/attract screen (and also 07:04, a dummy screen, by using a Barrel to get through a window you aren't supposed to get through, just to prove I wasn't missing something). It seems odd that the leftmost screen would start at 7, so I think they should be some more to the left.

Does anyone know of a working version, or if it could be fixed? I know some people here sometimes fix games. I suppose it's possible that I'm missing something, but I think that's unlikely at this point, as I've killed all other main baddies, and collected 4 of 5 Crosses and placed them on the columns in room 08:03. The only things left are killing Dracula, getting a Ring (from Dracula?), getting the last Cross (currently locked area?), getting the Scroll (07:03, currently inaccessible), then going to the Spellbook at 17:01

Someone else was also having the same Dracula problem a while ago. Someone who claimed to be the author appeared, didn't give any help, then left.

Statistics: Posted by necronom — Sun Jun 23, 2024 10:37 pm



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