King's Quest 7 Firecracker explodes too early

[Cassima]

Hi!

So recently i started playing through all of the King's Quests again and right now I am working on King's Quest 7!

Anyways it took me a REALLY long time to figure out how to get KQ7 to run on my computer but eventually my brother found a thread on this message board that led us to http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=4654&highlight=Kings+Quest and helped us to install the game.

SO we started playing through the game like normal - and now there is a part of the game that is having an error!

IN chapter 5 there is a part where Valanice goes to pick up the firecracker - she is supposed to have a few seconds to run to the crypt door to use the firecracker to blow it up - but instead it blows up within 1 second of picking it up : (!!

And when i have a chance to retry this part, it brings me to after i've already picked up the firecracker and i explode like instantly. No matter how many times i try this, I have no time to run anywhere and i Just explode.

I tried starting chapter 5 over again and i get the same result. I tried playing through chapter 5 on my little brother's computer (which is a little older and slower) and I get the same result.

I am wondering if there is a patch or anything i can do to make it so that i do NOT explode as soon as i pick up the firecracker. that would be great!

Also, I am using the first version of this game so it can NOT be run in dos and so i cannot use dosbox...

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your time!

meow!
-cassima
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[fov]

This happens because today's computers are too fast for the sequence. You already figured out what you have to do -- just keep replaying that part. Each time you get to walk a few steps before you explode again, and when you replay, you start in the place where you exploded. In this way, you can inch your way across the screen to get where you have to go. Kind of dumb, but it works!

A slowdown program like MoSlo or Turbo could help too, but I didn't try that because this way worked for me.

:D emily

ps Welcome to the forum! *D

[VoodooFX]

Yes firecracker was really pain in the ...neck :D

I ended up doing this: make few steps, die, make another few steps, die again, make few steps, etc, etc,... until I reached the destination :D

Yes I have the nerves of steel :D

[fov]

Considering I kinda hated Valanice, seeing her die over and over wasn't THAT awful for me. :D

[Cassima]

yay this worked really well for me, thank you for your help : D *hugs*