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No, that is a design feature of the Intellivison 2 - it was designed to block third-party carts, so that's why it is not working. Then the third-party people simply bypassed it and released carts that do work on Inty2 units.

The marketing department is taking care of all that. Now I just need to find a marketing team. Well, I am sure I can reuse some Amazon boxes... The used shopping bags aren't good for the environment, so at least I can claim to be green.

I am finally not traveling, at least for this week and next week. I'll rewire my dpad this week and give it a test.

We might need some overtime

We had a historic photo-finish at the Kentucky Derby this last weekend and a historic photo-finish at the NASCAR race, yesterday, too. Now this! They're all neck-and-neck coming around the final turn!

I remember that one. Good stuff. Bad genes in that bloodline

I played XCOM2 - TFTD back then, but I didn't get too far. I didn't like the fact the in XCOM you built up all this neat tech by the end of the game, but in XCOM2 you basically started over in regards to tech I've not played anything newer in that franchise and I've not played the other UFO games before. There's a neat little UFO game for android named Grabatron. it is now available for free if you search around for the Grabatron APK and assuming you know how to install APK on your phone (some people don't know how).

I played this a few years ago. It was quite the dungeon crawl. All hack-n-slash with minimal story. Not much replay value. at least with BG, IWD and ToEE, you can play to your alignment (for the most part) and the story engagement varies accordingly, and your dialog choices can have dire consequences. On a non-D&D aside, have you played or heard of X-COM: UFO Defense - Wikipedia it was my first PC game that I really played back in the day. The opening is quite good. Gameplay is quite in-depth.

2nd Edition: BG1 BG2 BG: Siege of Dragonspear IWD 3rd Edition: BG: Dark Alliance BG: Dark Alliance 2 IWD 2 Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor Neverwinter Nights 3.5 Edition: Temple of Elemental Evil Neverwinter Nights 2 5th Edition: BG3

Yes, since you have them from GoG, then you are good to go for modern systems. As Tanooki mentions, the Dark Alliance versions were originally made made for PS2 era consoles. I've never played them. Dragonspear is a newer developed game that was written in the style of BG1 and it takes place between BG1 and BG2. I've not played that one either. I have played Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale 2. They are both similar to BG, but the main key difference is that in the BG series you play with a single player character with NPCs joining your party to help you out, but in the IWD series you create a party (up to 6) and there are no joinable NPCs. The IWD storyline is less flexible (or more linear) compared to the BG series. The IWD games had less community mods, bitd, but I think there are EE versions on GoG. I've not played those versions.

Nice trick. I recall talk of this bitd, but I never tried it.

Can you post a video clip, or just a small sample rom file, of the "it's alive" so for anyone here who doesn't have the cart can hear what you've done?

Yeah, give them a try. If you have the original release of BG1 and BG2, then i don't know if they'd run on modern systems, but if you have an old rig then give it a shot. I've not played either in a dozen years, or more. Take note that the battles are not turned based, so it takes some getting used to. If I recall, you can make scripts to automate some things, and I think you can activate a setting to "pause at the end of the turn" - or something like that. So then you can plan out the attack/spell/whatnot and then unpause and hope for the best. I think that is the biggest turn off for me and why I've not replayed them over the years. for comparison, I do replay ToEE every once in a while. of the two, I do like BG1 better. But in general BG2 was much more popular. It has more in it compared to BG1. For BG1, there is a little known official expansion named Tales of the Sword Coast and it adds a few more areas to explore and expands on the story a bit. For BG2, there is an official expansion called BG2: Throne of Bhaal and that starts right after the original BG2 game ends. When you complete BG1, you can move that character to BG2, or you can start a new character in BG2. if i recall, even if you move your character from BG1 into BG2, your character is changed a bit to fall more in line with how the BG2 game starts and that storyline. As I mentioned in a previous post, back in the day, there was a strong modding community for both games, and many of those mods have been added into the EE versions. I think that the Enhanced Edition versions, that wongojack mentions, are now the "standard" version people play on, and I've not been lurking in that community for 10+ years so I don't know much more about what's out there for the original or EE-versions. If you have the original CDs, I'd imagine that some of these original mods are still floating around out there. I may have some of them still sitting on an old drive, but I can't promise. Some mods add character classes, some fix issues, some add NPCs, some change the enemy AI for tougher battles, etc. I'd recommend first playing the original unmodded versions and if you want to change up the replay value then explore some of these mods.

The original game's name that this is based off of is Paku Paku

Thanks. Based on the gameplay discussions here, i will not be playing this game. I enjoyed BG1 and BG2 when they were new, and there were many home-brew type of add-ons for these that i enjoyed, but this BG3 doesn't seem enjoyable now. For BG2, there was a "romance" add-on pack that I never installed. I don't play these games to roleplay romance. The only CRPG i play these days is Temple of Elemental Evil from Troika. It is available on GoG. It is an old game that didn't play well when it was first released, and Troika never quite fixed it, but due to the community support there is a nice fix+expansion for it by the Circle of Eight called The Circle of Eight Modpack - New Content (a purist can download the modpack without the New Content). There is an even newer community effort named Temple+ that fixes a bunch more issues that Co8 couldn't fix, and the Temple+ adds more classes and spells, etc. Get the ToEE from GoG, get the Co8 Modpack NC, and Temple+ for a complete package. D&D 3.5e and turned based combat at its best!