Completed Let's play Wizards and Warriors !

jaylittle · Jul 17, 2008

cardtrick said:
For what it's worth, there's a manual (in digital form, obviously) on the CD. I had the same reservations, though, and asked around a few places on the internet to see if anyone knew where to buy a boxed copy . . . no luck.

Well there is a copy with a box and the disks but nothing else on Amazon for $30.00. There is also a full collector's edition on Amazon for $90.00 which appears to have everything intact and in mint condition. Worse scenario - I found the PDF version of the manual for download at Replacement Docs. That means I should be good to go either way at this point as long as the disks themselves are good regardless of whether or not they have the PDF manual on them.

What kind of copy protection are we looking at? Does the game require that the CD be in the drive when you play? If so, is there a crack? I'll be playing this on my laptop and I hate to lug disks around. Perhaps with a game this old, an bin/cue image and Daemon Tools will suffice.

jaylittle · Jul 22, 2008

So I got my amazon CDs in the mail today. I installed the game on Vista with UAC turned off. I can't get the intro to play without the game crashing on me. Any ideas? How are you guys who are playing, playing the game? I presume most of you are using XP, so what special things had to be done to get this sucker running?

Lonely Vazdru · Jul 22, 2008

jaylittle said:
Any ideas? How are you guys who are playing, playing the game? I presume most of you are using XP, so what special things had to be done to get this sucker running?

To get the game to work with XP, you might want to check this very useful thread

Now, the update.

In a chest we find this statuette, which reminds us of the monkey paintings we saw earlier. Let's go there !

Let's put it there and see if something happens.

Yes ! This formerly collapsed stairway is now usable. It leads us to...

...a red alcove containing a treasure chest...

...a yellow alcove containing another treasure chest...

...and finally, a purple alcove with yet another treasure chest...

We loot all three and in the yellow one we find...

The ashes of Anephas ! Bingo !

Here is the holy altar where you have to place the ashes.

We place the urn on the shrine, and totally fail to notice the mummy, coming out of the corridor in front of us. The spell that she will cast a second later will be a complete surprise.

Now, we have to bring light on the ashes. The altar is the green flag on the map, and the source of holy light is the blue flag. The little red "stuff" near the green flag is our party. Quite a way. Let's go to that "ray of light".

First, let's use the obelisk of light on this pedestal...

Yup. The ray is refracted...

...right into nowhere.

So we have to grab one of those nice decorating obelisks...

... and move it in the corridors.

Right to the perfect spot, where it will deflect the ray of light. Like here.

This operation must be repeated many times, since there are many twists to the "path of light".

And you keep on bumping into unfriendlies, while doing all this carrying around.

Eventually you create a path of light all the way to the holy altar.

Which brings Anephas back fom the dead. "As if by magic", yeah right.

As soon as he is awake, he says that he won't be strong enough on his own. We can feel it coming...

Here we go. Nice way to unload your duties on someone else. Alright... we'll do it.

Well, now we know what to do next. Get the tablets from the sunken city, to gain entry to the desert pyramid of the evil pharaoh. And kick his ass. Neat.

Anephas' comeback has opened another way out of the shrine. We will use it, since we went everywhere else.

Convenient thieves let this 100% functioning lift.

We exit in a new country.

The legendary Bloodbeard, of whom we heard a lot, is here to "greet" us.

He really has many men with him.

Let's "firestorm" their sorry asses.

It sure works wonders.

Not so proud anymore, mister pirate.

He was not a difficult foe. But he still has his own "description" when he dies.

And his own sword. Nice weapon for the assassin.

And even his own boat, that we will now use to explore this new part of the world.

So thanks captain Bloodbeard. We will venture into this new territory next update.

Special screenshot of the day : very dumb question.

That was the only time when that game sucked bad. Like, who in the nine hells, is ever gonna say "NO" at this point in the game ? This is the only example of "I don't offer real C&C, but boy, do I pretend to" that I encountered but it really pissed me off. To the point that I didn't even do a save to see what happens when you answer "NO". Which is damn stupid I know, but I was pissed.

Binary · Jul 22, 2008

Great to see this thread back

Lonely Vazdru · Jul 26, 2008

Using Bloodbeard's boat we travel around some...

Exploring around, we encounter those nasty bugs.

An altar, probably related to a quest, but not any of ours.

An important samourai. Easily killed. A magic sword is stuck in the big rock behind, a la Excalibur, and we needed it for a dojo quest.

This hydra looks fierce...

...but was not that tough. Killing it completes a town hall quest.

This cart reminds us of the treasure. Let's see...

We have no idea what a beat is, but we don't give a flying fuck. It's high time for some underwater action. Check the ridiculous look of the party members with their scuba gear. Also a good show of how tough they are, statistics-wise.

Cool, no ? Let's dive !

We arrive straight onto this building.

In case we had not guessed, the game narrator confirms it, we have found the underwater city.

Before trying to enter the buildings we look for the treasure.

We find those chests, that must be it.

Gold bars ! Gems ! Bingo !

A rather disapointing item, considering its name and location in the late game.

This looks like an entrance.

Indeed ! A dungeon lever !

The underwater corridor leads us to...

This Cthulhu-like and totally closed door. This is not the entry.

Let's get out and try the big building we saw earlier.

The main door is another Cthulhu door, what is this city ? R'lyeh ? Also, Volourn discovers that fire spells fizzle underwater.

Anyway, this is not the entry either.

A hole ! Under the building.

It first leads us inside the building. Nothing interesting here.

The passage continues to this dungeon lever.

Inside the sunken city. At last.

Precious pockets of air cand be found here and there, so we can replenish our oxygen tanks.

We meet a shy mermaid. Jasede, ever the gentleman, is about to answer no.

Even then, she is still afraid of him. Probably due to the mask. Yeah, probably. So we switch to the official team speaker, Ladonna. Who has an even more frightening look.

The mermaid tells us to see a mysterious oracle, if we wish to learn more about the tablets we came to find.

She offers to show the way, but we block her path, that one made me laugh out loud. Anyway, we move aside...

She opens the sewers, the way to the oracle, and gives us a key/gem that could be useful to navigate the city. We will visite the sewers later, let us wander the corridors first.

More mermaids.

More pockets of air.

Chests can be anywhere here. Like under the ceiling.

This lock looks like it fits the gem.

This is the gem. It indeed opens the door, which leads to a rotating room. Nothing really "visual", so no screens. An annoying "action" part, let's just skip it.

Those are tougher versions of the usual crabs.

Some parts of the city are still above water.

The text leaves us no doubt as to what is in that chest.

Indeed ! The second of the three tablets. That's one down, two to go. We sure will find the others... next update. :wink:

Special sceenshot of the day : KC's amazing senses !

Wyrmlord · Jul 26, 2008

There are alot of boobs in this game.

theverybigslayer · Jul 26, 2008

This is a very nice LP. Thanks!

Raapys · Jul 26, 2008

I'm sold, gonna play this.

jaylittle · Jul 26, 2008

Raapys said:
I'm sold, gonna play this.

Lucky for you my torrent for it is going up today. TPB is running awfully slow today though.

jaylittle · Jul 26, 2008

Anybody who is interested in this, see my torrent on TPB under my name, darkgamorck. I tried to make this as complete as possible. Alas I was not able to solve my Vista issue where the bik intro/ending movies would not play. It's not a critical issue however and an installer for RADTools (which you can use to play the movies outside the game) has been provided.

Title: Wizards and Warriors by D.W. Bradley
Released: 07/26/2008
Format: CloneCD images created with Alcohol 120%
Author: darkgamorck

Overview: This archive includes everything you need to get started
with the game. The game appears to be able to work under Vista, though
I have not been able to get the game to actually play it's intro or
ending movies under vista. RADTools.exe has been provided as it will
allow you to watch those bik movies outside of the game.

Instructions:

1) The CloneCD disc images can be mounted with Daemon Tools
or Alcohol 120/52.

2) After installing from the first and second disc, you need
to patch the game.

3) Unzip the contents of waw10b_unofficial.zip directly into your
game directory. This will patch the game to the 1.0b
version.

4) Unzip the contents of waw10b_crack.zip directly into your
game directory. The crack file has a different EXE name, so
you will not overwrite the non-cracked EXE. Can you execute
the cracked version by running deep6_crk.exe.

5) Unzip the contents of waw10b_avifix.zip into the townavi
subdirectory of the game directory. This will "fix" some of
the avi files used to interact with the different buildings in
a town. It does this by uncompressing the original versions.
This will add about 200 megs to the installed size of the game.

6) Unzip the contents of waw10b_graphicsmod.zip into the game
directory. You can run this utility to modify the resolutions
that the game is allowed to run at. The quality of your results
may vary.

7) Run the game and have fun!

Other Files:

RADTools.exe

Used to view bik movies in Vista that can't be played in game
without crashing the game. If you find a fix for this issue in
Vista, please report it in the comments for this torrent.

misc_binkw32.zip

An updated version of the library used to play bik movies. It
does nothing for me under Vista, but it may help you.

waw_faq_v01.zip

A FAQ full of Wizards and Warriors info.

waw_maps.zip

Lots of maps.

waw_save_edit.zip

A Save Game Editor

Wizards and Warriors - Manual.pdf

The manual for the game.

Of course no direct links will be provided. You'll have to search for it yourself. Shouldn't be too hard to find though I imagine.

Raapys · Jul 26, 2008

Nice, just when I was having trouble finding it!

Lonely Vazdru · Jul 27, 2008

Underwater treasures sure bring out the pirates in you guys.

We enter the city's sewers to meet this mysterious oracle.

We find the tome of water in the first chest we encounter. Only one more elemental tome to find.

Here is the oracle.

Thanks for taking that form, I sure am not frightened. Let's talk alright.

What ? She gave us a scroll and vanished. No time for talking. Girls...

Here's the scroll. Not much help here.

Exploring the sunken library, on the other hand, proves quite useful.

Looks like we found another tablet.

Yes ! Only one more to go.

Deeper into the underwater city we go.

Holy whatever ! The mother of crabs ! Just a "maxed-out hit points" version of the usual crab.

Swimming in the corridors.

We meet this stupid fish chick.

We find this cool ring.

We eventually reach this (partly) above water section of the city.

Solving a rather weird puzzle (that I spared you) opens this alcove.

It seems that we found the final tablet.

Indeed, the description text, gets richer with this third tablet.

The third, and last, tablet of Cet. We're done here.

Hey ! The stupid chick is an agent of the enemy.

She reverts to her true form. Some giant fish.

She's one of those enemies you have to fight close. She goes down easily (no pun intended, well... not really.)

This is a secret passage. City builders are not that dumb.

More crabs.

A final look at those charming mermaids...

...and back to the boat.

Before going any further we decide to explore the bottom of the sea. Since it was such a pain to get those underwater items, we might as well use them to the max.

Not much to see, some fishes...

...some crabs, where were you earlier ?

Finally ! A chest ! But it's just random loot, nothing really interesting.

Well, so much for sea exploration, let's go back to town.

We turn a Nightblade into a magic sword by the name of "Spacemoose", since he seemingly wanted to enter the game at that time but it was way too late to make him a character.

Spacemoose is now a kickass sword. We sure will use it to slice-up some mean monsters.

Next update... :wink:

Special screenshot of the day : "Alt+Tab"ing out to Windows and back, seems to upset the game engine. Nice texture for that eel !

Shagnak · Jul 28, 2008

The underwater city! Excellent.

Probably my favourite part. Glad you made it this far, I had some doubts that you would a while ago. :wink:

Oh, if only Bradley had made a faithful sequel to this game, rather than going down the path of insipid single character action RPGs.

cardtrick · Jul 28, 2008

Yeah, the underwater city was my favorite too. This game did an incredible job of making each dungeon completely unique and distinct from the others, and the underwater city is definitely a shining example of that. (On the other hand, it also did probably the worst job ever of making the towns feel distinct from each other.)

Lonely Vazdru · Aug 1, 2008

The adventure continues...

Let's venture in the desert, to find this evil pharaoh pyramid.

Desert unfriendlies.

More desert unfriendlies.

Looks like the place.

Yes, here it is.

We immediately climb on top of the pyramid, to offer you this nice view.

Now let's enter it.

This entry corridor leads to...

This closed beetle door. But as the text suggests, this might be the place to use those tablets from the sunken city.

We place the three tablets in the holes.

And the door opens.

Mummies of course. Sometimes they got the jump on us.

And sometimes we do.

Ladonna senses some sprites.

And here they are !

The pyramid is a vast egyptian-like dungeon. A cool place to visit.

It is also full of demons.

Really full of demons.

We try some spells. The sprites with the "cowled demon" icon over their heads are possessed, they fight on our side.

My God ! The pool of unspeakable holiness.

Looks like a good place to use the many empty flasks we keep on finding in every chest.

We get holy water. We fill a dozen flasks, you never know...

Some chests require a bit of jumping to be reached.

A jackal lever. Vazdru, ever the troublemaker, immediately pulls it.

Oops ! Looks like something's coming.

A demon lord...

...and his buddies. They are rather quickly disposed of. This party kicks ass.

Triggering the lever opened this alcove, containing this chest, which, in turn, contains...

...the tome of earth. We now have all four elemental books. Let's go back to town, Zen Master here we go !

This temptress from hell tries to prevent us from leaving. No way ! We kill her.

Yes ! I really would.

Ladonna is now a zen master. Best class in the game.

She, and the rest of the team, will be back for more egyptian ass-kicking... next update. :wink:

Special screenshot of the day : Trading while fighting. This centaur is about to sell the very weapon he fights us with. Greedy bastard.

Binary · Aug 1, 2008

*grabs popcorn and sits on the sofa*

Moar? Pls?

Lonely Vazdru · Aug 3, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen of the Codex (as if there were any of either here) brace yourselves for the climaxing conclusion to this game !

Back in the pyramid. The library.

The black fire ! And next to it...

The old lich. We thought he was dead. He is not.

He wants us to find his heart and finally kill him. We'll see what we can do.

For now, let's recharge our "black fire powered weapons". The Mavin first.

Wow ! It sure boosted the sword. Now it lives up to its fame.

The staff of death now.

Another serious weapon.

Back to exploring the pyramid.

More demons.

Some jumping is required.

Yet more demons.

Vampiresses. They totally fail at charming us.

A unique demon.

Not really tough. He drops a "champion key" when dying.

Mummies haunt the tombs.

Another champion demon. He also drops a champion key.

A teleporter. Let's activate it !

Uh oh ! The evil pharaoh appears.

And destroys the teleporter.

We were about to kick his ass, but Kerah also makes an appearance.

Crap. She's possessed by the evil one. We have to fight her now...

After a bit of fighting, she asks for holy water. Cool, we have plenty.

She's free now.

She immediately flees. Whimp !

Back to exploring. Yep, more demons.

Finding the heart of the lich requires jumping to the top of a column.

So you can access this secret lift.

And get to this altar. We grab the heart and go back to the lich.

Alright, we'll put it in the black fire.

Goodbye. Forever, this time.

Getting close to the final boss' lair.

The two champion keys open the door.

And here he is. Round one : FIGHT !

Only the Mavin and the staff of death can touch him. Jasede uses the staff and KC the Mavin. After a couple of powerful blows, the evil one tries to strike a bargain.

So ? Not so proud now, are we ?

That's the point in the game when you can become an evil turncoat. We choose to simply ignore him. Which he takes as a "NO" so the fight goes on.

Almost dead.

KC has killed the final boss !

How did you get there ? It's about time you showed up. What more do you want ?

You want the Mavin sword back ? OK. Take it and begone. Lousy defender of all that is good.

Yeah right, GTFO !

And so ends the menace of Cet Ude D'ua kahn.

We find his physical body.

He holds the divine prophecy in his hands. The prophecy that tells of his demise by us.

We torch all this shit up.

The Mavin has returned to the skies. To be used again when the time comes.

The whole story was a tale told by a dragon to his dragonlings.

Now off to bed with you...

That's it. The game is finished. :cry:

Special final screenshots : The Evil Path !

Jasede is now evil incarnate !

Anephas is none too pleased about it.

Just as with the evil pharaoh, only the Mavin and staff of death can hurt him. He is equally easy to defeat.

Thank you guys for bearing with me and for your nice comments. And most of all, thanks to Sovy Kurosei for hosting my screenshots. :wink: