Wow...

I was doing some research on some games for updates on the Hamster Wheel when I found this abomination of a site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021027085603/http://www25.brinkster.com/xerian/home.html

This was the first OHRRPGCE-themed site I did that started around 2001-2002. There's not a whole lot left of it but it was funny to see nonetheless.

I also found an extremely old screenshot of The Omega on Operation:OHR. This was from a version that I uploaded when that site was still alive, though the game itself can no longer be found.

I love it because the trees and the walkabout in the screenshot are almost identical to graphics found in Final Fantasy (excluding Fred's hair, of course). Ah, the joys of being young and stupid...

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Cornbread Chemist

Ah HaH hAh! HaH hAh HaH!Haaaa.....

Old graphics....

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Cool. Too bad that review of MJDancing has disappeared :)



Where did you find that screenshot? I couldn't find it on O:OHR. On the hand, the downloads for both versions of The Omega still work: Half 1

The screenshot was found under The Omega - Version 2. It can be found here:

http://www.castleparadox.com/archive/operationohr/gamelist-display.php?username=The%2520Omega%2520Version%25202

Feel free to ignore my description of the game on that page. It is possibly the worst in the history of ever.

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Cornbread Chemist

back in 2002, huh? I still lived in england at that point, I think. or maybe I've arrived in the americas at that point.

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Cornbread Chemist

Wow. I was cleaning up my OHRRPGCE folder (it was 10.7 GB) and found a bunch of .rpg files that people had sent me at least four years ago exhibiting various bugs. One of them was THEOMEGA.RPG, so remembering this thread I investigated. It was corrupt. So I created a utility for unlumping damaged files and got it working.



This appears to be 2002 version of the game that you posted the screenshot of.





http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/theomega2.zip

The last tileset or two is damaged (I think there should be 8 tilesets, not 9), there's a bunch of garbage in the shop data (a list of filenames from some other part of your harddisk, like IE4 ERROR LOG.TXT, have been transposed in), and the item data and map 25 are missing. Continue past the error message when opening.

Dude this is awesome. Thanks for sharing that!

I'd be curious to see anything else you might come across as interesting as well.

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Cornbread Chemist

I doubt I have much else of interest. Probably several half finished games that people sent me which were never released and which noone has ever heard of, which I wouldn't really want to upload anywhere. A dozen different versions of each of Sword of Jade and Powerstick Man. Most the OHR games I had downloaded more than a few years ago are lost due to a harddisk crash; I mainly only backed up various (many) copies of the engine source code along with all the misc files that were mixed in.

Well I could probably find and put up an updated Eldardeen tech demo, but it's probably even less playable than the released version.

I was thinking of writing a little utility that would scan a folder looking for .rpg files that aren't known to be available online. I think Pepsi could do with that to store through his mountainous treasure trove of old games.

I remembered that James wrote a utility long ago, LUMPFIX.EXE. I tried running THEOMEGA.RPG through it, and to my surprise it did a better job than my utility, managing to recover the missing map 25 file.

Sweet I'll try that.

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Cornbread Chemist

I see I'm not the first one to make the overworld look like a person.

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