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Because this thread might get a bit hairy, so to speak, any off-topic replies will be deleted. Please only post if you find a bug in a D-Mod that is probably due to 1.08, or if you test a D-Mod successfully.

Re-posted so it is a little easier to keep track of. No longer a hundred replies, and removed all of the D-Mods that were tested successfully (including the ones Tal recently went through).

Adventures of Dink Smallwood Part 1: The Town of Rakuna - House near well darkness problem? (Maybe not 1.08) Played through successfully (Tiny)
Alliance Command - Need to update graphics.
An Age Of Darkness - Text missing during intro in true-color mode. Played through successfully (Tiny)
Apex - Bugs not related to 1.08? (Tiny)
Baywatch Isle - Added dmod.diz.
Beginning of Evil - Not tested.
Between the Shadows - Crash not related to 1.08
Beyond the Galaxy Intro - Not available.
Birth of an Empire - Fixed crash on startup.
Bishop's Quest Part 1: Enter The Hero - Bugs not related to 1.08 (Tiny)
Bloop the Fish - Screenlock remain on kill shark? (DraconicDink)
Cast Awakening Part 1: Initiation - Fixed script parsing change (req. 1.08).
Chaos - Sprites with white backgrounds. Matridge's house buggy.
Crosslink - Text missing during intro in true-color mode
Crossroads - Text missing during intro in true-color mode
Cursed - Graphics updated for true-color mode.
Darkspace Derelict - Crash not related to 1.08
Dink 007 - Issues, not 1.08 related?
Dink Smallwood in the Valley of the Talking Trees - Tree disappears properly (and ironically).
Dink's Doppleganger - Fixed hit crash.
Dink's Father 1: Quest for the Scroll - Full of bugs
Dink's Father 2: The Kidnapping - Text (and other things) missing in true-color mode.
Dink's Father 3 - ohno.c, "leave" freezes game, Dink cannot exit a certain building after killing knights (see previous thread for savegame and instructions) (Tal) Played through successfully (Tal)
Dinkaventure - Problem with sprites remaining on screen
DinkCraft - Sprites with white backgrounds in true-color mode, ship becomes horse.
Dinkers - Funky mouse not related to 1.08
Dinky Dimensions 2: End of Time - Text missing during intro in true-color mode
Dream Weaver: Silent Knight - Text missing during intro / credits in true-color mode Played through successfully (Tiny)
Dry - Not tested.
End of the World (The) - Global-local vars problem (cypry)
Eternal Suicide Chapter Zero : Wasted Life - Not tested.
Fairy Goodness Online - Not tested.
Fifteen Tasks of Dink - Not tested.
Fighterz - Not tested.
Fountain of Life (The) - Fixed script parsing change (backwards compatible).
Friends Beyond 1 - Fixed directory issue.
Friends Beyond 2: Branches of Destiny - Not tested.
Friends Beyond 3: Legend of Tenjin - Fade problem?
Goblin Trouble - Saying goodbye to the bartender west of the screen you start on freezes the game (Tal) Played through successfully (Tal)
Goblin Trouble 2 - Not tested.
Golden Buddha, The - Graphics updated for true-color mode.
Green Voice in my Head (The) - Part 1 - Hangover & Agony - Slayer off-screen problems?? (Astral)
Helpin' the Ol' Duck Farmer - Fixed fade problem.
Hunt (The) - Not tested.
Island of the Giants - Saying "leave" to the farmer in the town to the east freezes the game, saying "no way" to the stone giant leader freezes the game (Tal) Played through successfully (Tal)
Isle of Croth (The) - Not tested.
Kill Murdoock!! - Status bar strange (not 1.08) (Glennglenn)
Land of Transforming Ducks - Added dmod.diz.
Legend of Pärnu - Not tested.
Legend of Smallwood: A Dink to the Past - Fixed hit crash.
Legend of TerraEarth (The) - Not tested.
Legend of the Duck - Windows reports an error after game is completed (Tal) Played through successfully (Tal)
Legend's Tale - Not tested.
Lyna's Story - Prevented truecolor.
Mayhem - Freeze problem when restarting? (VonZepplin) Played through successfully (Tal/VonZepplin)
Mike Dingwell's First D-MMike the Magician - Crash not related to 1.08
Milderr!! 3: End of Questing - Fixed lock-up when talk to king.
Moorack and the Pillbugs - Fixed hit crash.
New Shores : The Maori - if you talked to the woman in the village before getting the amulet, the game would freeze (VonZepplin)
Norman the Killer Tree - Not tested.
Okaly-D Dink - Not tested.
Once in a Lifetime - Not tested.
Other World (The) - Not tested.
Outlander - Not tested.
Perilous Journey (A) - Not tested.
Phantasmagoria - Not tested.
Pilgrim's Quest - Not tested.
Plane Walker - Not tested.
Pointless - Not tested.
Prophecy of the Ancients - Not tested.
Quest for Dorinthia (The) - Fixed inventory problem..
Quest for Dorinthia 2: The Island Revenge - Not tested.
Quest of Glandor - Problems not 1.08 related. (Glennglenn)
Quest of Life: Part 2 - The Rescue - Screenlock problems (not 1.08 related?) (Glennglenn)
Rascal - Not tested.
Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Bureau - Not tested.
Red Jacket Murders - Graphics updated for true-color mode.
Red Shield - Visibility / Timing issues
Revenge of the Cast - Fixed hit crash.
Revenge of the Ducks 3: Enter the Smallwood - Screenlock issues (monsters can't walk onto screen).
Revenge of the Pillbugs - Not tested.
Richard's Attack - Not tested.
Rings of Destiny - Not tested.
Rise of the Rebels - Not tested.
Rivals (The) - Not tested.
Saga (The): Episode 1 - Not tested.
Scar of David 2: The Search for the Scarf - Not tested.
Shadow Guild (The) - Not tested.
Sjoerd's Quest - Not tested.
StarDink - Not tested.
Stupid Penguins - Graphics still need updating for true-color?
Sword of Paranor: Forgotten Realms - Not tested.
Terrania - Graphics still need updating for true-color?
Three New Heroes - Not tested.
Tragic Death of Zink Smallwood (The) - Not tested.
Triangle Mover - Not tested.
Twins - Not tested.
Ultimate Challenge (The) - Not tested.
Vagabond's Quest: Dungeon of Despair - Not tested.
World of DinkC - Not tested.

Dink Goes Boating - Played through successfully (DaVince)
Dinky Dimensions 1: FIAT - Played through successfully (slayer4990)
Dinkzilla - Fixed hit crash. Played through successfully (Carrie)
Emerald Hunt (The) - Played through successfully (Madstalker/Tal)
Lost in Dink - Played through successfully (MadStalker)
Kill the Hippies - Played through successfully (MadStalker)
Kill the Hippies... Again - Played through successfully (MadStalker)
Search for Milli Vanilli (The) - Fixed hit crash. Played through successfully (slayer4990)
Slaughterhouse (The) - Fixed hit crash. Played through successfully (Carrie)
Slimes - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Slimes VS Dink - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Stone of Balance - Played through successfully (slayer4990)
Thanksgiving - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Tile Puzzle - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Treasure Battles (The) - Played through successfully (VonZeppelin)
True of Life - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Unfinished Business - Played through successfully (Carrie)
Zach the Marine - Played through successfully (MadStalker)
Zoltron - Played through successfully (Carrie)

Tested Zoltron, game works fine.Graphics look fine.
It says the game is 787kb ... but it's only 377kb.

Zach the marine works fine with 1.08.

Zach the Marine - Played through successfully (Carrie)

??

Did she really play that through first?

EDIT: Played Kill the Hippies 1 & 2 through with no problems.

Played 'Unfinished Business' and 'True of Life'.
Both look & work fine with v1.08.

-Unfinished Business was only 195kb to download
-True of Life was only 197kb to download

Played 'Tile Puzzle' and 'Thanksgiving'.
Both look & work fine with v1.08.

-Thanksgiving was only 208kb

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Played through 'Slimes' 'Slimes vs Dink' and 'Slaughterhouse.
All look and work fine with v1.08

-Slimes was only 198kb
-Slimes vs Dink was only 201kb

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Played through 'Dinkzilla'
Everything looked and worked fine.

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August 7th -- Played through The Emerald Hunt.Everything looked and
worked fine except the preview of the title page in dfarc.Might just
be me, though.

I played Dink Goes Boating a while ago (on v1.08) and I didn't notice any problems. Though, I played with the included .exe file, as it recommends it in the readme.

Dink Goes Boating works fine in normal 1.08 too. It gives an error message when you try to run windowed/high colour, but that was obviously done on purpose.

I played through Lost in Dink and it works fine.

Kill the Hippies 1 and 2 both work just fine.

The Emerald Hunt and Pointless work without problems.

But if you visit Bob in Pointless, you're stuck because of a warp pointing to a location that is on a warp.

Played through Treasure Battles with no errors that I could find...

I think I already reported this, but in Eternal Suicide, some thinks won't work, because it uses int with global vars.

Edit: Err... Eternal Suicide, not End of Time

stone of balance played through successfully, didn't notice any errors (that weren't in 1.06, anyway)

Hm.. I finished The Emerald Hunt also.. looks like Dan skipped that

He also prematurely removed Beginning of Evil and didn't note that I finished Dink's Father 3.

Ah well

played through fiat on 1.08 a while ago, no obvious errors i could pick out, also the search for milli vanilli worked fine

I played through "New Shores" - there was one error, which was if you talked to the woman in the village before getting the amulet, the game would freeze. Also, I noticed that >redink1< forgot to even add "The Ghosts of the Cast" series, and yep- I played all of them... In the first one many enemies glide/disappear while moving- Part 2, ditto - part 3 also had this error , but it improved upon many of the flaws in the scripting that bugged the first two.

He removed the Ghosts of the Cast series because I successfully finished all of them recently. If I remember correctly, any peculiarities in those D-Mods were in both 1.06 and 1.08, and could be attributed to the author being completely unaware of how to make a good D-Mod.

As for your New Shores error, could you identify whether it occurs in 1.06 or not?

I played through PQ again with 1.08... I could not get any bugs to appear- though I searched hard.

I played Cloud castle 1, and the crashes when I try to open the chest in the castle.

North needs end pic updated... Otherwise it worked fine.

i think there was a problem on the town of ranauka becuase i dont think i was supposed to walk on the water

Beginning of Evil :
- won't work in windowed mode
- freezes in normal mode on fake holy water screen

Err... did I mentioned that you marked a wrong DMOD on the list? I told you about Eternal Suicide, and you marked End of the World.

You don't modify this very often, or, if you do, I have yet to notice.......

If I had encountered any errors in PQ I would have related them.... but the problem is that it seems to work in both true color and windowed mode fine (I played through 3 times... though the repeats were easy because I had already figured out all the secrets, which meant that all I really had to do was kill things and get levels up in differant stats). There were several times when I thought that I had come across an error... such as the traveling merchant was refusing to appear- just to find that the error was only on my part and that it was actually due to him being based on probabilty, like the travelers in the original game.... even minor bothers that plagued me in SOB like questionable tiling in places was almost nonexistant in PQ... it is just that it makes it really hard to try and test for errors when it has done so professionally (It appeared to have been much chrisper than ever the orginal Dink Smallwood game, which WAS professionally done for commercial use).

-World of DinkC works correctly without no bugs.
-Dry works also correcty and no bug's

Eternal Suicide seems to be unfinishable with v1.08. Hadn't noticed this before.
It occurs in the Graveyard - no matter what you do, it seems you won't be able to trigger the "Nameless Grave" script, thus preventing you from saying "Gilim" to the door, and so the game is unfinishable.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this; but I can't get any of the cheats offered to work in 1.08. Can you suggest anything? Or maybe a different version of DINK?

No this isn't the right place to post, because this is about getting the D-Mods to work in 1.08. Make a new topic.

QoD 2 work's correctly.

I've managed to play through World of DinkC without encountering any errors.

D-Mods I've played through currently listed as not tested:

Dry (I'm only halfway through but it's been mentioned before by Gokussj6)
Isle of Croth
Legend's Tale
Once in a Lifetime
Pilgrim's Quest
Prophecy of the Ancients
Quest for Dorinthia 2
Twins (1 bug but I don't think related to v1.08)
World of DinkC (already mentioned by Gokussj6 and Kuhneghetz)

I think this needs some updating!

I played through Fighterz with every character and didn't encounter any bugs

Played CC 2 and 1 through with every endings. Didn't notice any mention able bugs.

I played Richard's Revenge.

There are a bunch of bugs, but none of them are related to 1.08 or anything else

It is just a crappy, buggy D-Mod.

Even though I have v1.08, Cast awakening does'nt work. Help Me.

Hmmm...it should work...Try reinstalling it.

Eternal Suicide does not work in 1.08. The change to how local vs global variables work affected it in various places.

What do you mean "won't work"? Be more specific...

"Green Voice in my Head (The) - Part 1 - Hangover & Agony - Slayer off-screen problems?? (Astral)"

I don't think this is a problem, the slayers will move inwards the screens to Dink.

Anyone else tested the game and found any serious bugs, lika a crash?

Scripts in DinkCraft often fail to continue, and the player remains frozen.

In World of DinkC, I somehow stopped the boss from talking(2nd time) by hitting him, although I should have been frozen.

In SOB 2, I could kill the frogbot parade in the cutscene.

Just so it's documented, there's a freeze that only occurs during the intro stage of BFTG if you're running it in true color mode. Unfortunately, the original source may be lost for good, so I can't really look at the error to fix it. Thankfully, I think it only occurs when you have IN-D with you and you talk to the Captain.

Is anyone updating this list? I see several d-mod names that are still listed as untested. Pilgrim's Quest a few times (add my experience as well, no problems), POTA at least once (again I finished this with no problems), and Lyna's Story worked fine when not using true color. Please update the list. Thanks.

2001 A Dink Oddysey have a bug.When you punch something the game shuts down.

Lulz at the Oddysey bug. XD

Tested through Fountain of Life successfully, and didn't notice any bugs in the game.