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MMX Legacy help?
01/29/2020, 15:53:26

    Ossie writes:

    I remember a time when I was one of the resident "experts" about MMX on the Boards. If that remans true then I'm undoubtedly out of luck, but worth a shot.

    As usual I got a hankering to fire up another playthrough of my favourite series, and started MMX. Despite being quite buggy, my particular system never struck any of the major bugs, or at least the workarounds were so ingrained into me that I naturally avoided them anyway. But this time I've struck a bug I've seen mentioned but I never encountered on previous playthroughs.

    My path to the Sacred Grove is blocked. Not that I can't enter the Grove itself (it's the dungeon for the Bladedancer promotion so it seems some have found they can't enter the actual dungeon at all without an elf), but the pathway leading to the Grove area is blocked. The Grove is at 49,38 with only one way to approach. I'm at 41,36 and I can't move the step east to 42,36. The path is clear and not blocked by anything that the Earth/Water/etc blessings would normally require (not blocked by anything that has rendered, anyway), and in any event I have all blessings. I can see an Earth Elemental a few squares away at around 45,36 just standing there, but I can't move east - the next step is blocked as if there is no path, or requires a blessing.

    The problem has previously been noted, but the Board keeps banning me for posting the link https://forums.ubisoft dot com/show thread.php/840319-Sacred-Grove-unable-to-enter (with no space between show and thread)

    I can think of a few options:
    * hack the game to remove whatever the weird block is, assuming anyone actually ever worked this out - most pages I find are quite a few years old now
    * hack the game to change your location
    *hack the game to change the location of my Spirit Beacon, then portal in past the block

    Anyone still on the Boardse who played MMX enough to talk about the above, offer advice, suggestions on how to do any of the above, tips for sites or people to approach who may know etc etc?

    Thanks!





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Sorry Ossie, but I can't help you on this one. I stopped at MMIX.
01/30/2020, 11:46:46

    Peter2 writes:

    The only person I can think of off-hand who might have played it is Elf.

    I read through the link you posted, and it looks to me as though the game is bugged to a fare-thee-well.

    I don't know if you want to go to the expense of dowloading the latest version, it might work better. I played the original MM3 game, and in it there were a few squares just NW of the Tomb of Terror which instantly crashed my computer to a point at which turning it off was the only way out – even the 3-finger salute didn't work. However, the version bundled with MM6 in the MM6 Limited Edition worked perfectly, although that wasn't true for the final dungeon in Swords of Xeen. I was never able to complete that game





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Hi, Ossie--It's been awhile. . .
01/31/2020, 13:04:02

    The Elf writes:

    . . .since I've played MMX AND heard from you!

    I'm in a retro-game preference mode right now. (MM6 and 7,
    HOMM3, Civ4,and most recently Bard's Tale, which has been remastered to include segues to BT2 and 3.) I haven't played MMX for awhile, but it's still in my library, so I'll start a new game and see what I come up with. Unfortunately, I never drew any maps for X, since the automapping was so good in it.

    I don't remember at which stage in the game you enter the Sacred Grove (or even quite where it is. Is it supposedly reachable from the original "land" map, or does it require going to the teleporter over by the first castle? If it does, it may take a few days until I get there.)

    I'll give it a go (in between BT1 sessions--I've just about cleared out the wine cellar/sewer dungeon.

    And yes, my computer crashed a few times during my various play-throughs, but like you, I was able to finish the game (with every combinatiion of characters. I have one of the oldest versions of Win10--I wonder if that made the difference in playability of some games that a lot of people couldn't finish because of impossible-to-fix bugs?)

    The Elf Herself





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