Kurufinwe
07-13-2009, 01:38 AM
Six months ago, I was replaying The Buggiest Game In The World™, a.k.a. Quest for Glory IV, and hit a rather ugly bug. I gave up on the game back then, but I'm wondering if maybe someone might know how to solve my problem.
It's related to the wraiths. I think I may have done something bad at some point, like trying to save while the wraith vanishing animation was playing, or something of the sort. Anyway, the wraiths are completely screwed up now. When I enter a screen with a wraith mound, the wraith doesn't come out; I can start the fight by clicking on the mound, but when I win, the game returns to the forest screen and remains stuck (probably, it's waiting for the wraith vanishing animation to end, but that animation isn't even starting).
That kinda sucks, since I'm playing as a thief and there's one particular wraith I need to defeat to get the Heart ritual. And I'm at the end of day 9, with a lot of time spent picking locks and climbing ropes and throwing daggers, and I'd rather not go through that again.
Has anyone ever encountered that bug? Is it possible to hack a savegame, to either get the wraith animations 'unstuck', or at least to add the Heart ritual to my inventory? Or do I really have to start again from the beginning?
P.S.: I'm playing the CD version under DOSBox, using Newrisingsun's patch. So everything else works great.
It's related to the wraiths. I think I may have done something bad at some point, like trying to save while the wraith vanishing animation was playing, or something of the sort. Anyway, the wraiths are completely screwed up now. When I enter a screen with a wraith mound, the wraith doesn't come out; I can start the fight by clicking on the mound, but when I win, the game returns to the forest screen and remains stuck (probably, it's waiting for the wraith vanishing animation to end, but that animation isn't even starting).
That kinda sucks, since I'm playing as a thief and there's one particular wraith I need to defeat to get the Heart ritual. And I'm at the end of day 9, with a lot of time spent picking locks and climbing ropes and throwing daggers, and I'd rather not go through that again.
Has anyone ever encountered that bug? Is it possible to hack a savegame, to either get the wraith animations 'unstuck', or at least to add the Heart ritual to my inventory? Or do I really have to start again from the beginning?
P.S.: I'm playing the CD version under DOSBox, using Newrisingsun's patch. So everything else works great.