Hello forums. First time poster here. I got both the PC and DVD NTSC versions of this game and thought maybe I could help. Is the project still in development?
HowardC wrote:
Also some info on the dvd version would be nice. I don't have it yet and the pc-cdrom version is easier to script for, but if the videos are cut-up in a similar fashion I should have no trouble converting the scripts to work on the dvd rom version as well.
It's laid differently. The videos are split into 18 files (VOBs). The deaths are merged with the main video for a scene. A VOB contains all the scenes for a single level (along with their deaths).
* VTS_01_1 = Game tutorial.
* VTS_02_1 = 1,873
* VTS_03_1 = Attraction videos
* VTS_04_1 = Annoying Wizard clips
* VTS_05_1 = The level map intro clip ("Use the joystick to change time periods.") followed by the year intro clips
* VTS_06_1 = 2,173
* VTS_07_1 = 1,998
* VTS_08_1 = World of magic level
* VTS_09_1 = 50,000 BC
* VTS_10_1 = 1,350
* VTS_11_1 = 2,552
* VTS_12_1 = Complete game run without dying
* VTS_13_1 = Cube trader clips
* VTS_14_1 = Hellgate clips
* VTS_15_1 = Final boss and ending scenes
* VTS_16_1 = Bonus DVD extras
* VTS_18_1 = The lives remaining/game over clips
The framerates on the HTT text files in the PC version do not match but they are still helpful. Using VirtualDub I did a comparison between scenes from the PC and DVD. I found that if I doubled the frame values then the death cues for the scenes would match. For example, the tutorial scene (HTT80.TXT) says the first move happens on frame 64. For the DVD the matching frame is 128.