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Shadow Warrior seriesAny better Source Port then SWP or JonofSW?(11 posts)(11 posts)
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Posted November 19, 2012
I want to know are there any more source ports then JonoSFSW and SWP?
I am more curious then anything, right now I am using the Dosbox + bmouse

I find SWP to be kinda crappy with its save game bug and some color weirdness and jonofsw refuses to start for me (on Win 7 64 Bit, I know people have gotten it to run on their systems but it just loads up for a second then quits to desktop.)

does anyone else know of other source ports?
Posted November 19, 2012
I don't think there are any.

I find the mouse feel to be completely awful in SWP, and JFSW does not seem to work for me. (crash on startup)

Which is a shame. I've looked around, there is nothing else.

I'm using bmouse as well, and I'm much more satisfied with Dosbox than with the ports. It annoys me, since I'm still hoping for Blood's source to be released, yet wonder what the point will be if nobody can support a port long enough >-< These games are just too dead for it, it seems.
Posted November 19, 2012
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SFJake: I don't think there are any.

I find the mouse feel to be completely awful in SWP, and JFSW does not seem to work for me. (crash on startup)

Which is a shame. I've looked around, there is nothing else.

I'm using bmouse as well, and I'm much more satisfied with Dosbox than with the ports. It annoys me, since I'm still hoping for Blood's source to be released, yet wonder what the point will be if nobody can support a port long enough >-< These games are just too dead for it, it seems.
Blood may actually have some sort of source port soon, Jace Hall who used to Monolith managed to get his hands on the source and appearantly something is happening on that front soonish. but as for SW, a pity that no other ports exist.
Posted November 19, 2012
Sadly there are none and the ones that exist, at least in my experience, don't function as well as playing the game in DOSBox.
Posted November 20, 2012
I don't think there are and SWP (or JonofSW) has some issues (crashing, no music for non shareware levels, save file corruption,...) on the other hand if you can work with this issues it's a decent effort and props for Falster to let us know about it.

I for one play with the doxbox setup provided by gog, and for me it works perfectly but then again i am also one of those the prefer the blocky graphics to the newer graphics the come with source ports and such so i don't mind playing with dosbox. Again for me it works perfectly even mouse control.
Posted November 20, 2012
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xxxIndyxxx: I don't think there are and SWP (or JonofSW) has some issues (crashing, no music for non shareware levels, save file corruption,...) on the other hand if you can work with this issues it's a decent effort and props for Falster to let us know about it.

I for one play with the doxbox setup provided by gog, and for me it works perfectly but then again i am also one of those the prefer the blocky graphics to the newer graphics the come with source ports and such so i don't mind playing with dosbox. Again for me it works perfectly even mouse control.
Yeah I am using DosBox too atm. I was more curious then anything, shame this is probably due to the fact that Shadow Warrior was not a huge seller its why its 3 expansion packs got canceled.
Posted November 20, 2012
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xxxIndyxxx: I don't think there are and SWP (or JonofSW) has some issues (crashing, no music for non shareware levels, save file corruption,...) on the other hand if you can work with this issues it's a decent effort and props for Falster to let us know about it.

I for one play with the doxbox setup provided by gog, and for me it works perfectly but then again i am also one of those the prefer the blocky graphics to the newer graphics the come with source ports and such so i don't mind playing with dosbox. Again for me it works perfectly even mouse control.
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Lord_Kane: Yeah I am using DosBox too atm. I was more curious then anything, shame this is probably due to the fact that Shadow Warrior was not a huge seller its why its 3 expansion packs got canceled.
It came out too late i think. It came out when quake was already out and other games with advanved tech so it got overlooked. It's a shame because i'v been playing it every day since it launched here and i am really enjoying it. I think it's really good and atm it's tying with blood as the best build game so....
Post edited November 20, 2012 by xxxIndyxxx
Posted November 20, 2012
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Lord_Kane: jonofsw refuses to start for me (on Win 7 64 Bit
I can guess why you had this problem.

If you have more than 4 GB RAM, the game won't start when using the JonoF's source port.

I remember for Windows XP there is a command switch you could use to limit your memory called "/burnmemory=", that you would use in your boot.ini to limit your memory.

Unsure about Windows 7 though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/hardware/ff556246%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Post edited November 20, 2012 by Replica
Posted November 20, 2012
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Lord_Kane: jonofsw refuses to start for me (on Win 7 64 Bit
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Replica: I can guess why you had this problem.

If you have more than 4 GB RAM, the game won't start when using the JonoF's source port.

I remember for Windows XP there is a command switch you could use to limit your memory called "/burnmemory=", that you would use in your boot.ini to limit your memory.

Unsure about Windows 7 though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/hardware/ff556246%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
works here on win 7 64, more than 8gig ram, i guess its one of those annoying pc'ism's
Posted November 20, 2012
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Lord_Kane: jonofsw refuses to start for me (on Win 7 64 Bit
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Replica: I can guess why you had this problem.

If you have more than 4 GB RAM, the game won't start when using the JonoF's source port.

I remember for Windows XP there is a command switch you could use to limit your memory called "/burnmemory=", that you would use in your boot.ini to limit your memory.

Unsure about Windows 7 though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/hardware/ff556246%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
I actually have 4gb ram exactly but yeah I tried everything and Jonofsw hasnt worked for me. just gotta make do sometimes.
Posted November 22, 2012
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Lord_Kane: Yeah I am using DosBox too atm. I was more curious then anything, shame this is probably due to the fact that Shadow Warrior was not a huge seller its why its 3 expansion packs got canceled.
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xxxIndyxxx: It came out too late i think. It came out when quake was already out and other games with advanved tech so it got overlooked. It's a shame because i'v been playing it every day since it launched here and i am really enjoying it. I think it's really good and atm it's tying with blood as the best build game so....
Probably right on that. Also there was a lot of controversy surrounding it's release...even more so than with Duke Nukem. I think I still have the PC Gamer or CGW issue with the review of SW where the reviewer is Chinese and taking much offense to a 'Chinese Ninja', not to mention all the stereotyped/somewhat racist (in a Tosh.0 kind of way IMO. I did not take offense.) humor.
But yeah the Build engine being a crippled old man trying to play ball on Quake's court was probably the biggest reason.
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