spoondoggy wrote:

Thank you! I haven't downloaded the game yet (still waiting on my elite console in the mail), but plan on it. This will really help me out!

If you can manage (Which you should be able to), dont use this until you beat the game once... I mean you can ocviously do what you want, but you will have a much better game experience if you do it yourself the first time around...

nb

noooooooooooooooooo

I don't have Excel :[

 Zorkwiz79 wrote:

I have been told that alot of people dislike or cannot use rapidshare, so here is another, permanent link..

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv-sotn/documents/SotN_Interactive_Map_-_Zorkwiz_-_Version_1.xls

Check out his site too, it's got alot of good info.

-Zorkwiz

 Artemis Artium wrote:

 Adny2 wrote:

well in my opinion, i choose to play whatever i want, regardless of someone elses opinion.  Of course you had that year of play off and on to beat the game.  you was 8.  today im 33, with a job and other responsibilities.  i dont have that same freedom to fully explore and play it as if i was playing it for the first time back in the 80s.  im only just experiencing SOTN today.  I only caved in for one answer within the guide.  the rest of the game was all me (just starting the inverted castle).  You may not have already known that info, which i can understand would of caused you to make such a silly comment.  Hey,  im a gamer...always have been, and always will be...so yes, it is a streatch to be told what i should and shouldnt play...That said, anyone who uses strategy guides to get through a game is playing a game that way by choice.  as long as they're enjoying the game for 'themselves' then god bless their experience...regardless of the person.  No one should be told what they should or shouldnt be playing (outside of a parents concern for censorship towards their under age child) regardless of the person, what age they are compared to whatever age you was at the time, their skill level of playing that game, how long it should take them to beat a game because of their age...or any other silly nonsense such as that. 

that's my opionion...but i guess that understanding, just as well depends on the person...

 

I do understand what your saying. I respect you as a gamer.

 Zorkwiz79 wrote:

 UbelDucky wrote:

I pretty much learned how to read by playing zork on the C64, and remember making maps like this (for zork) on paper. I bet Zork did the same thing and is just an expert map-maker now.

Great job and thanks!

Heh, I wish I'd known about Zork that early.  My gamertag (and nick I've used for years)  comes from when I was a freshman in high school in '93 and played th game "Return to Zork".  I had fooled around a little bit with the text games, but had never gotten very far.  To this day I need to go back and try to beat the original Zork.. I owe it to the universe or something.  But anyway, I needed a password for some BBS or something and looked around the room till I saw the Return to Zork box on the shelf, added the "wiz" to it (probably cause I thought I was actually good at it) and there you go.

I always have liked making maps, though.  I did a ton of graph paper maps for the original Might and Magic, and was obsessed with dungeon crawls for a while, including Lands of Lore, a Sierra online game called Shadows of Yserbius, and the PC game Demise, which was an amazing and underrated game, if buggy. 

Enough rambling... I should fire up the DS again and get back to work on the PoR map. ;)

-Zorkwiz (the 79 I was forced to add because stupid xbox live was a pain to migrate your name from from the xbox 1 days)

did you also correct zork's spelling in the spreadsheet? did you let him know the mouse-overs for the "doppleganger 10" are spelled "dopplehanger 10"?

Wow, incredible.  I can't imagine how much time you must have spent on this.

Great job.

 SK RASTA HAMMER wrote:

I've gotten 200.3%

 Higgy9 wrote:

 SK RASTA HAMMER wrote:

I've gotten 200.3%

I have heard that the record is a little over 400%.  Has anyone here ever gotten over 200.6%?

Ofcoarse, and the 400% record is not valid since it was done on the Saturn. You can fill in the entire map screen on the Saturn. I dont remember the record, but I got over 290% on the PSX no problem. On XBLA I currently have 201.4% but that is without serious glitching. I also had a file on XBLA that was above 230%, but I can't remember exactly what it was or what happened to it.

You can scroll outside the boundaries of the map by doing a Sword Brothers spell and simultaneously backdashing off the edge of the screen (there are numerous methods and in several areas). What this will do though, is start covering your map with white space (since you're outside of the room) and adds significantly to your 'completion objective' (top record was 410+ percent).

 Higgy9 wrote:

I was just curious if anyone had done it.  I read it on a walkthrough guide yesterday.  It was a guide for the 360 but it also said the same thing on the PlayStation guide.  Here's the actual quote:

You can scroll outside the boundaries of the map by doing a Sword Brothers spell and simultaneously backdashing off the edge of the screen (there are numerous methods and in several areas). What this will do though, is start covering your map with white space (since you're outside of the room) and adds significantly to your 'completion objective' (top record was 410+ percent).

It's at the bottom of this page: http://guides.ign.com/guides/846656/page_3.html.  It says that if you do this wearing the walk armor . . . well, you get the idea of how it could help if you had the walk armor equipped.  I just thought it was an interesting glitch.

This does not work in the XBLA sadly. There are a couple ways to glitch out of the castle, but it is mostly trial and error now. You cannot "Roam" as freely as you could in previous versions. Someone most likely just copied and pasted that in from the PSX guide and assumed it would work here as well...

good job.

 TonyMontana456 wrote:

Great job with this map!  Did you put this together when you should have been working? 

 Zorkwiz79 wrote:

 TonyMontana456 wrote:

Great job with this map!  Did you put this together when you should have been working? 

Not working, but maybe studying...  I'm finishing up a masters program and the beginning of the quarter was pretty light on work, so I had alot of extra time.

Sounds like it had to suck when the real work started. Haha...

 Morbid Warlord wrote:

omg dude!!!!! i love u what a freaking life saver, you are awsome!!!! i was beginning to realize why they call this game castlevania! @_@

Hehehe...