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CreyZ

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Hello, as it shows I am new here. In advance, if this is the wrong topic for this, I apologize.

I have 2 questions basicly;

- Is there an addon for Corsairs, besides Gold? Or just more maps etc?

- Is there a follow-up of Corsairs? I know there are many pirate games etc, but i like Corsairs for it's simplicity, so basicly I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there are simular games to the good ol' corsairs game?

Thnx in advance!

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
I did´nt know Corsairs, before I just looked it up on Google. It seems, the french developer Microids only produced this one game "Corsairs - Conquest At Sea" that turned into "Corsairs Gold" - but same game. Sorry, there is just <a href="http://www.microids.com/en/catalogue/40/corsairs-conquest-at-sea.html" target="_blank">this </a>one, CreyZ <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
 
it's a pity i didn't buy it when i had the chance some years ago. i know it's quite a fun game, though old.
 
Thnx for the replies.
Is there anything simular if you know it/played it? Before I go out and buy a dozen of games,lol.

Also, if you want it, I could zip it and upload it somewhere, but it's a pain to get it to work, since it is only '98 compatible.
( I use Virtual PC plus '98 just to play corsairs.)
 
i don't think so. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> corsair's boarding system is unique.

i know how to make that work. i just run the exe file in compatibility mode, and it works. works with the old version of risk too. i would like to have it, anyway. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> how big would it be?
 
Hi, yes I tried that method but it threw me out of the gameall the time. Plus I used several patches that I found on the internet, all failed, so I am bound to play it in Virtual PC.

It's about 52 mb, thats because it's a ripped version. Unpacked its about 350 MB.
 
Oh dear. He used the "ripped"-word <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />

CreyZ, we´d rather use the words "from a friend", as we do not want to attract the wrong kind of attention in here <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
how bad was the crashing? i'm kinda used to having my games crash. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> still, the size sounds good to me.
 
Woops <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blah:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> I actually díd get it from a friend <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" /> "Funny little game' he said, so I gave it a try.

Crashing was bad, sometimes right away, sometimes after 30 seconds. Not playable. Could just be my vidcard or so, maybe it will work for you.
I am happy with my Virtual PC-'98 setup, runs like a charm, so i'll stick to that for now.

I'll upload it right now!

*edit*
<a href="http://www.cocoshare.cc/858068366/Corsairs+Gold.rar" target="_blank">Corsairs Gold</a>

*Edit 2*

Forgot to add that the readme that went with it, recommended it would be installed in the root of your harddisk, something like C:\corsairsgold\
and not in a subsubsubmap, not sure if it is bollox, but I followed the advice anyway. And you need to click the reg-file once to import it. It's spyware\virus free (Feel free to check).
 
thanks Creyz, I was a big fan as well of corsairs gold, and was looking for it actively.... so I got it from your site, and tried it. As you guess, I had many problems (run on XP of course), and solved them partially (crash when boarding, uncheck the read-only attributes, PRM/INTRO stuff...) however I cannot save anything, it says "problem while saving, disk full ?" (initially it was crashing when trying to save or load)

so i digged into the files, and I noted that :
-your package has a folder named "savings" (why not "save" ?)
-your package does not have any folder named "book", while explicitly configured by the ini file
-the ini file configures the savepath as ".../book" (why not as ".../save", or as ".../savings")
-your package does not have the "setup.*" file (many forums requires to have it)

well i tried several modifs, but still does not work... any idea of what the solution could be ?

thks
SwEetiE
 
Hi, thnx for the replies.
I must say, I have no idea why this and that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sad" border="0" alt="icon_sad.gif" /> I am not a coder or anything, someone made me a cd-rom with some games we used to play years ago, I unpacked it from that to my hard disk, and then zipped it up again, and uploaded it.

I also had the same problems you described, kept crashing etc , but now that i am running it in Virtual PC- '98 windows, it works fine, including saving. I must add that, when boarding it did crash at times (but I hardly use that feature so i dont know if it is a very regular problem).

Basicly I am just the messenger, i have no knowledge on any coding etc, I'm sad to hear it contains many errors.
 
hmm. let's hope it will be fixed so anyone can use it properly. or i'll just keep on hunting for the game.
 
Are there any good pirate games that can be compared to Corsairs? Maybe not the boarding system, but the Strategy/Godsim kind of gameplay? I am basicly just a strategy-lover (C&C, Total Annihilation,Company of heroes,etc), not a 3D-shootemup player. Thnx in advance.
 
cutthroats, i think. but that one's equally elusive, and rumoured to be pretty buggy. tortuga: pirates of the new world a.k.a. pirate hunter is something like that too, but it's repetetivity is horrendous. you can't continue playing for more than 20 minutes before it bores. you could alos try ANNO 1503 or 1702, which are more city-management oriented. 1503 is the older of the two, but the graphics are still pretty neat, and don't require such a hefty computer. heck, it works on just about any 3D video card.
 
hi, well I just want to add that the package works fine, but the save process. I did not have that many problems to make it run, compared to the posts I looked at in the forums.... maybe the save problem comes from my PC config which does not allow external processes to access the hard drive (I use my office laptop, which may be protected with access rights)

and I guess that indeed with virtual pc everything is resolved. I will try this on my mac then.

Anyway thanks for making available this wonderful pirate game.

SwEetiE

Hint : the boarding bug is countered by running an audio file just before launching the game. I read it on forums. Incredible, but it works.
 
@ Morgan , thnx for the info, I'll look into those games.

@Sweetie I am glad someone got it to work <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" /> What do you mean with 'running an audio file" ? Just any random audio file?

Thnx for the input
 
Must look into this Virtual PC thing - especially if you can run it on a Mac, I could use it at work (we bought the last of the Mac chipped G5's, before they went over to Intel - otherwise I would use Boot Camp).

I have a copy of Corsairs Gold, I used to play it quite a lot on my '98 machine, but also could not get it to run on XP. Or to be more accurate it would start in 98 Compatibility mode, get as far as name entry and the like but crash as soon as you tried to enter the actual game.

It was fun, and unusually it included the western coast of Africa amongst other locations. Having a personalised avatar that you had to keep alive gave it a good sense of immersion. My only criticism would be that it ran way too fast - the battles were a complete click-fest. Eventually you would give up because you just could not keep up with everything that was going one. Oh, and because all the ships moved at different speeds, keeping a fleet together was very difficult.

Captain Terror is correct about the Anno games - they are probably nearest to what you are after. After that I would suggest the now very old Cutthroats, if, as mentioned previously, you can find it and the necessary Patch 7. I still go back to that game occasionally (it runs OK in XP so long as you reduce the colour depth on your system before playing) and waxed lyrical on the subject in a previous post.

For in depth strategy (i mean REALLY in depth) then Europa Universalis 3 is a good bet, but If you want a real oddity then I wonder if anyone here remembers that other Microids title "War and Peace". It was highly unusual in that instead of giving you a world map and instanced locations (the Medieval games, Cossacks, Imperial Glory etc...), a squeezed up generic version of the entire world was used - meaning you moved and fought your armies and ships entirely in real time. It had all sorts of problems but carried a fascination for me because you never lost your sense of immersion (I think this is why I liked Cutthroats too). Sadly though, whilst the ship units were OK, the army ones were too small and generic, meaning battles were difficult to control.

Just my two pennorth.
 
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