Deluxe Galaga ECS (FIXED)

[XDelusion]

I wouldn't mind having that one.
Probably one of the all time best arcade games.

I have been playing the NES version on an emulator.

Its one of the few NES titles that actually looks fairly close to the original.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2628/

[tonyvdb]

SUCCESS!

Found out after running SnoopDos it was doing something very strange.

The Deluxe Galaga game is looking for the libs in the drawers that they come in so I had to move the "libs" drawer and the "compression" drawer into the sys libs location. You cant just place the 4 library files into the sys libs drawer as you would normally do.

[Brian]

SUCCESS!

Found out after running SnoopDos it was doing something very strange.

The Deluxe Galaga game is looking for the libs in the drawers that they come in so I had to move the "libs" drawer and the "compression" drawer into the sys libs location. You cant just place the 4 library files into the sys libs drawer as you would normally do.

That is actually normal behaviour. The Amiga will check for a requested resource in ROM, then the assigned drive for a particular resource (for instance LIBS: for libraries) and finaly in the PROGDIR: (the folder to program reqesting the resource is started from).

You're either missing or have the wrong version library in LIBS: so AmigaOS continues to look for it in PROGDIR:

[tonyvdb]

Not quite sure we are on the same page here, I had to move the actual drawers into the sys/libs drawer. its not looking for them in the games directory.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not quite sure we are on the same page here, I had to move the actual drawers into the sys/libs drawer. its not looking for them in the games directory.

Sounds like it's looking for them in Libs:Libs/#?.  Stupid programming bug.  LOL.  

[tonyvdb]

Sounds like it's looking for them in Libs:Libs/#?.  Stupid programming bug.  LOL.  

Yup, that is correct

[Brian]

SUCCESS!

Found out after running SnoopDos it was doing something very strange.

The Deluxe Galaga game is looking for the libs in the drawers that they come in so I had to move the "libs" drawer and the "compression" drawer into the sys libs location. You cant just place the 4 library files into the sys libs drawer as you would normally do.

Pritty sure I know what went wrong and it's an easy misstake to make. First off under no scenario does the game look for libraries in LIBS:libs/ I checked with both ECS and OCS and after SnoopDOS said it didn't look there I purposly removed my libraries anyway and put them as described in LIBS:libs/ and was precented with the "packers missing message".

I was then able to recreate the the "File missing in game directory" by copying over powerpacker.library and xpkmaster.library byt leaving out xpkMASH.library and xpkSQSG.library.

After reading your post I belive you first copied powerpacker.library, xpkmaster.library, xpkMASH.library and xpkSQSG.library to LIBS: as "normal libraries". BUT xpkMASH.library and xpkSQSG.library are NOT normal libraries but compressorlibraries for the xpkmaster.library and as such they need to be placed in LIBS:compressors/. After first attempt failed I bet you didn't delete these libraries before you next copied over the libs and compressor directories to LIBS:, resulting in it working because you copied 2 libraries to the right location at first and the 2 compressorlibraries to their right location the second time.

Now to clean up all you need to do is delete the LIBS:libs/ directory and the LIBS:xpkMASH.library and LIBS:xpkSQSG.library files.