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Getting old games to work properly
I'm trying to do an LP of Nightmare Ned, but I recently found out that one of the levels plays at super-accelerated speed, making it nearly impossible to complete. And because the game isn't a triple AAA legend like Starcraft or Monkey Island, there's no support for this issue online. It sucks.
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Doesn't your emulator have an FPS limiter or something?
It's a PC game, I'm using a virtual machine.
In that case...
Right click on the game shortcut, go to Properties, look for an option that says something like "Run as Windows 95 program" and see if this improves it at all. It's a long shot, but it might just work.
Try looking up solutions for other games that run too fast or who's ai becomes impossible to defeat on newer computers
@Myrmidon: Are you using DosBox? You should be able to reduce its emulation speed quite easily. I forgot the shortcut but it's definitely a one or two-key combo.
The game needs at least windows 95 so he would have to go through the hoops needed to install windows 95 in dosbox and deal with the fact that dosbox was not designed to run windows 95.
Be glad you're not playing 7th Guest and its ridiculous microscope puzzle that ran on "X seconds to plan" instead of "X clock cycles" or "to X depth". On modern computers it can extend its search tree way, way, way further than is reasonable for a human being to compete with, to the point that the iOS port had to delete the puzzle altogether.
It's such a shame that developers back then didn't know how bad an idea it was to rely on hardware limitations like this...
It was a new field. We've learned.
Granted the added complexity of games these days makes it prone to horrible bugs, but we've at least figured out forward compatibility by now.