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The 2D art and animation is really good, 3D not so good. 3D fighter animations are mostly pretty bad, and they feel all kinds of slow and janky, with moves hard to input and very delayed; potentially at least partially a DOSBox thing, dunno. The sound is bad, even after correcting the bad DOSBox settings.
You can toggle between regular low-res 16:10 resolution and "SVGA" (that's what the FAQ called it) 16:10 resolution. And they drew the 2D backgrounds--which have animated 2D elements in them, like squirrels running along tree branches, rippling leaves and water, etc--TWICE because you can also toggle between side view and an isometric view! Plus a mostly hand-drawn low-res 2D intro, and brief generic hand-drawn ending in which a close-up hand-recolor and then your character drawn doing the same dramatic post are pasted in. No story, aside from the scenes in those animations, where people from various real/fantasy cross-time Earth civilizations are teleported to a beach by a Skeletor rip with a magical chest gem.
Typing "cheat" on the main menu permanently activates a cheats menu; typing more codes in there populates it with codes, like a tiny fighters mode, being able to set fights to one round (thank goodness!), disabling weapon disarming, enabling endless power meter, etc. |
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"Hank, Osinkira play, SVGA, tiny mode cheats, camera, etc"
Playing Savage Warriors from Steam on PC--it's a 1995 MS-DOS fighting game by French developer Atreid Concept--later Kalisto Entertainment--running through DOSBox with no controller support and misconfigured--at least for my system--DOSBox sound and video settings. I go over how I fixed those for my system, check out the game's cheats, settings, features, and some characters and playthroughs.
The playthroughs have gaps where, in flailing with the game, I kept accidentally toggling what was a hotkey pausing the recording, argh. So, this Christmas episode is a shambles all-around! Ho ho ho!! = ooo
RAndreoni's Savage Warriors FAQ I used for cheats, camera controls, & special move inputs: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564424-savage-warriors/faqs/1594
I used the "Only One Round" cheat to shorten the playthroughs.
Inadvertently cut out explaining all the options, the start of Hank's playthrough, his fight in The Alchemy Lab, & the end & chunks of Osinkira's playthrough, ugh. (The end animations are all the same, just with the different characters drawn in.)
Here's the guide I submitted to Steam:
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Controllers
The game does not have controller support, and it can be tricky to get controllers working in DOSBox. However, if you click the "View controller settings" link in the "Controllers not supported" box of the game's Steam Library page, you can enable Steam Input, and use the Steam Input setup to map the game's keyboard keys (arrow keys, Enter, Right Shift, Esc, F10) to your controller.
Sound and Video
You can set some sound and video settings for DOSBox using a utility that installs along with the game: click the green PLAY button on the game's Steam Library page, then pick the "Launch Controller Layout Tool" option.
However, I found that with the included configuration files, on my system the game ran at a too-narrow aspect ratio, and had jarring-sounding sounds, coming mostly from the left speaker.
The too-narrow aspect ratio of the menus and gameplay screens--they are actually 16:10 widescreen, but are being forced to non-widescreen 4:3--can be fixed by unchecking the "Keep aspect ratio" box under the "Advanced Settings" tab in the Controller Layout Tool, or by replacing the default DOSBox settings the game installs with the settings listed below, which also correct the sound.
On my system at least, I corrected the sound and video issues by replacing the contents of the three .conf files installed with the game, by default in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Savage Warriors
with the following:
[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=desktop
windowresolution=original
output=overlay
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74-3.map
usescancodes=true
[dosbox]
language=
machine=svga_s3
captures=capture
memsize=16
[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x forced
[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=max
cycleup=10
cycledown=20
[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=25
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100
[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=44100
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=44100
tandy=auto
tandyrate=44100
disney=true
[joystick]
joysticktype=auto
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false
[serial]
serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=auto
[ipx]
ipx=false
[autoexec]
@echo off
mount c .\GAME
imgmount d SAVAGE.CUE -t iso
config -securemode
C:
CLS
cd WAR
WAR
exit |
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| | | | On the other hand, with the street tough boxer/brawler MeatBall, I obliterated the boss in seconds by looping his wide sweep kick, which seemed both to knock down and hit OTG, or maybe just as they tried to stand, repeatedly. |
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| | | | Ah, the recording gaps were when I would hit Numpad 1 to toggle back to low-res from the game's SVGA mode, because on my laptop, Numpad 1 doubles as another End key--although I think it's supposed to require holding Ctrl for that--and I had the End key set as a toggle for pausing the recording in OBS. : P Have now removed all OBS hotkeys!! |
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