How to show animated intro video?

[ExpertRookie]

I have the animated intro files, and also the "slideshots" intro files, but how can i make the animated intro files play when i load up the game as it is only currently doing the slideshots intro ?

[NKF]

Since hard drive space was at a premium at the time TFTD was released, the brilliant minds that created it decided that the cinematic intro would only work for the partial install of the game, while the full hard drive install would use the slide shows.

 

There is a way to copy them into a full hard drive install of the game and get them running. However I've completely forgotten what files needed to be meddled with to do this. No it didn't involve the use of the cdspeed program, though that was one way to do it.

 

I'll dig out my old copy and have a fiddle around and see if I can get it working.

 

- NKF

[ExpertRookie]

I have the CD, which i had a choice of HD install or CD install. I selected HD install, and as you mentioned, only did slideshows.

 

However, I have found that i copied the "ANIMS" folder from the CD to the harddrive directory, go to Setup.exe, and select NO SOUND AND NO MUSIC. And the video plays!!!!!!

 

But i still want the sound and music in the game itself! Seems silly to me!

 

My reason for wanting to use video method, is that like many of us, who have played the game for years, it'll make a nice change from watching the slideshows!

[NKF]

Oh, no question there. Viewing the cinematics was how the game was meant to be played.

 

Found the answer. Turned out to be quite a simple solution. I don't know if this will work for you, but give it a try anyway:

 

Open up notepad, MS-Edit or your favourite plain text editor of your choice. Create an empty file called cdspeed.dat and save it in the sounds\ directory. Try running your game again.

 

The cdspeed.dat file contain the speed of your cd-rom in it (gauged and generated by cdspeed.exe) but that's hardly relevant, hence why I suggested leaving it empty.

 

If you are still getting the slideshow intro, try renaming flop_int to flop_in. It's not necessary to do this, but flop_in is what the partial cd install calls it to hide it from the game. The cinematics worked fine with flop_int though when I tested.

 

Now, can anyone with the CE edition confirm if this works for that edition as well, or does that come with the animations by default?

 

- NKF

[Ki-tat Chung]

Dunno if this helps, but I have TFTD on Steam, and the cinematic plays by default.

[ExpertRookie]

No luck, NFK! Though renaming the folder to FLOP_IN did have a impact, resulting in no slideshows showing and no videos showing. Upon exit of the game, DOSBOX reported that it could not find files in FLOP_INT. CDSPEED.DAT made no difference, I'm afraid.

 

By the way, I am using TFTD Dos version, patched to v2.0

[NKF]

That's what I'm using as well. Removing the cdspeed.dat file set it back the cinematics while putting it back enables it. Odd.

 

- NKF

[ExpertRookie]

Thank you very much NFK! I overlooked one MOST important information you provided, save it in SOUNDS/ directory! Now its toggle-able as you specified with this file!

 

Cheers, I feel better knowing that my copy of the game is in good working order as yours :-D

[NKF]

Dunno if this helps, but I have TFTD on Steam, and the cinematic plays by default.

 

Are you running the game with the dos/dosbox or CE portion? I'm assuming that it's no problem getting the cinematics running under the dos edition. It's the CE edition that intrigues me at the moment. Partly since I don't have it to test it.

 

- NKF

[Bomb Bloke]

Thank you very much NFK!

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