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fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
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Archibald's campaign is not available #5042

Closed szymor closed 2 years ago

szymor commented 2 years ago

Preliminary checks

Platform

Linux

Describe the bug

As the title says, I cannot see any method of selecting Archibald's campaign. I copied all the needed folders (except ANIM) from HoMM 2 Gold from GOG. When I click New Game -> Campaign Game -> Original Campaign, I immediately see Roland's campaign window.

Tested and reproducible on 0.9.11 and the latest snapshot build ( https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2/releases/tag/fheroes2-linux-sdl2_dev ) on ArchLinux (5.16.9-arch1-1) and on the version provided with EmuELEC v4.3 on Gameforce handheld.

Save file

The issue is visible before starting the campaign, so no save file provided.

Additional info

No response

ihhub commented 2 years ago

Hi @szymor , the answer for your question lies in your question :) Without video files which are located in ANIM directory there is no other way to select Archibald campaign. You must copy ANIM directory.

szymor commented 2 years ago

There is no ANIM directory with the version of the game provided by GOG (DOS version run on top of dosbox). I found Windows version of the game with ANIM directory and it works after I copied the mentioned directory.

Thank you for the answer. I will leave closing the ticket to you as compatibility between fheroes2 and the GOG version could be investigated.

oleg-derevenetz commented 2 years ago

@szymor please note that you can use the extract_homm2_resources.sh script on Linux to extract ANIM directory from GOG distribution (as well as extract_homm2_resources.bat on Windows). This is mentioned in the installation guide BTW.

szymor commented 2 years ago

Yes, I read the installation guide. The script did not work when a path to the exe installer was given. I have tested it a while ago on the installed DOS version and it extracted ANIM folder properly. That completely solves my issue, big thanks once again :)

I think I can close the ticket now.

oleg-derevenetz commented 2 years ago

@szymor Yeah, unfortunately you need to have already installed GOG version somewhere to copy/extract the resource files from it. These scripts are not able to extract resources directly from the EXE installers.

viT-1 commented 1 year ago

Hi @szymor , the answer for your question lies in your question :) Without video files which are located in ANIM directory there is no other way to select Archibald campaign. You must copy ANIM directory.

Strange, but I already have ANIM directory with files, and have no Campaign Choosing Screen in fheroes2 & HoMM2 (original game).

Overwriting ANIM from CD in original game is not solved issue, but in fheroes2 same copying is solved issue.

ihhub commented 1 year ago

Hi @szymor , which version of Heroes 2 are you using? Is it from GoG?

szymor commented 1 year ago

@ihhub I used HoMM 2 from GoG back then. AFAIR there were two versions (DOS and Windows) available to download. Both of them worked fine, but one of them needed extract_homm2_resources.sh to be used in order to extract all needed files.

If some files seem not to work, try to change lower case letters to upper case (or vice versa).

ihhub commented 1 year ago

Sorry, @szymor , I mean another commenter :)

Hi @viT-1 , which version of Heroes 2 are you using? Is it from GoG?

viT-1 commented 1 year ago

Sorry, @szymor , I mean another commenter :)

Hi @viT-1 , which version of Heroes 2 are you using? Is it from GoG?

It's old download. I don't remember from where it was downloaded. But I think problem is not only ANIM directory, but noCD version, which may be was cracked to not using any video.

ihhub commented 1 year ago

@viT-1 , please use an official version of HoMM 2 in this case. We don't support pirated versions.