Manifest

well, this game's good enough to play on despite the occasional crash. I lost a bit of progress from that 2nd crash but was able to recover it and am making sure to save the game whenever I can -- just hopping I don't get a crash right after a tough boss battle or at the end of a long dungeon where I can't save it due to the save points restriction in the dungeons and towns.

Edit: This error happened again! I can now give you a bit more info on what's happening. When I attempt to exit the items menu the game freezes completely. This time I couldn't regain control of my computer as I was running the game in full screen mode and had to do an emergency shut down and reboot to regain control over my computer. All I did on the items menu as look at the descriptions of some new items I'd picked up recently, first in the Special Items section, then second, in the key items section, then exited while in the key items section and that's when the game froze. I'll see if I can reproduce while playing in windowed mode.

Edit 2: This time I was able to successfully reproduce the error. I opened up the Items menu, selected a couple of options, highlighted a some of the items, but did not select any of them, the section using the "x", then exited the Items menu again using the "x" key, any the game froze. This time the Visual Basic Just in Time debugger poped up and interrupted the game after a few moment of the freeze, which usually only happens if there is an error in the code of a program or script that causes a program to get unstable. It took several attempts of entering and exiting the Items menu for the error to occur so it seems like it's an intermittent error (one of the hardest types to debug too) I've had to debug those types of errors before myself and they're among the hardest to find.

My guess is that if you are using any scripts, that there is an error in one of the lines of code is causing your game to use a variable in an unexpected way or is trying to access a system resource that it shouldn't, or you may sometimes get an infinite loop, under the right circumstances.

My advice would be to start with looking for any possible way that any loops you have in any scripts dealing with items or the Items menu that could be infinite (repeats forever, or until the computer runs out of memory, a stack overflows, etc at which point the game would then crash with an error message, in case you're not familiar with programming terminology). Then look at any scripts that you are running for handling the character's inventory of items, and the Items menu and see if any of them ever ends up holding a strange value. If you are using a variable before you specifically assign it a value then, depending on the language you are using, it could just use whatever data was stored in RAM at the time the variable was created, which could literally be anything and could produce some very interesting results when this happens.

If you need any help or further advice in debugging this error or any errors like this I'd be happy to help. I have completed an Associate of Computer Science so I have studied a lot of computer programming, so I may know something that could help find this bug so it can be fixed and put an end to this bug, and maybe even that F12 stack overflow bug as well, using the same techniques, although theF12 bug isn't really critical as there are easy workarounds to it (like just not using the F12 key).

Let me know how it goes and if you would like my help in tracking this bug down.

Because of the severity and unpredictability of this bug I'm really losing confidence in playing this game as I don't want to risk damaging my computer with one of these freezes. I'll try just playing it in windowed mode for now so if it does freeze at least I should still have access to the task manager to shut it down so I hopefully won't have to resort to emergency shut downs again.

I just started playing the game today and am only about an hour in but it looks good so far. I love the dialogue, battles and features, I also like that random battles are a part of the game but relatively infrequent, compared so other games I have played, where they can get so frequent as to be annoying.

I did encounter a bug, when I exit the items screen (using the "x" key), I've had the game crash. This has happened twice, I tried to recreate it intentionally but can't so I'm not sure what could be causing it. I'm using Windows XP-SP3, have a 2.0Ghz Intel dual core CPU, Nvidia Gforece GPU with 512 MB dedicated memory, in case any of that info helps you.

Edit: one more thing, I have never touched the dreaded F12 key. I've read about some of the chaos that button causes in this game, and it's not the first one I've read about that key causing problems in either so I've made it my policy to never touch that key when playing any RPGmaker games.

thank you did the snowball puzzle but still stuck on the hexagram one will give up on that

adding another memo to myself here

ruins east of dagron in the green area

must press 4 switches

3,7,12,2

4,7,9,11

4,12,5,1

err a bit of help if possible ran into 2 puzzles i'm unable to solve

1) the nayrin ruins with the snowballs, room has 5 snowballs 3 switches i've managed to land 2 switches but the third always fails

2) the last want board puzzle with the gibbering sailor and sanctified remains, any idea on how to get past the hexagram puzzle, it always gave me 1 piece off and if i've tried to fiz it the puzzle always gets ruined

I have a problem. My Armegmus has turned into Vellamik. The sprite that is. All except for during combat. Do you know how I can fix this?

I have two Vellamiks! O.O

Thank you again! I have actually already fought that monster and beat it, I just didn't realize it was the one the diary referred to.

As to the other questions, now I can move on to Azriad! I'll keep you posted...

In Eborill I read a diary that mentions a rock monster. Is there such a thing? I have been wandering the islands but so far nothing.

Also I can't find what will be Trux's ultimate weapon. I haven't yet made it to Azriad, so maybe no access to it yet? I'm trying to finish up what I can before I go.

One more-an island just northwest of Zairobia, in the cave it says the door is locked and Vellamik responds "....." I thought maybe he needed to be in the party to pick the lock, but no. I can't figure out what to do.

Sorry for all the questions, but I like to be thorough. I am having a great time with this game!