Quicksave function for Keen 4-6

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Quicksave function for Keen 4-6

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Hello everybody,

I play the Keen games every now and then, but what me bothers is the fact that you die after one single hit. :dead

I know that you can save in levels but I think that press-ESC-load-confirm-dialogue-procedure not very comfortable. Yes, I am a bad player.

Has anyone tried a patch to build a quicksave-feature. You hit F5 or something to save, and F6 to load exactly this point in a game? :begging

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Technically it *might* be possible but would require an extensive patch. You'd be better off having lemm look into this.
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Post by Gridlock »

There is a version of DosBox that allows savestates. I don't remember where to find the download link but I recall it being on some DosBox forum. If you can find that it should solve your problem. They occasionally do glitch though, so saving manually sometimes is still advised. Hope this helps.
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Post by Levellass »

This can indeed be done, I believe it would save an untitled game at the press of a button. However, I think savestates are better. Besides, saving too often is cheating.
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Gridlock wrote:There is a version of DosBox that allows savestates. I don't remember where to find the download link but I recall it being on some DosBox forum. If you can find that it should solve your problem. They occasionally do glitch though, so saving manually sometimes is still advised. Hope this helps.
Saving games within a save state within a dos emulator - woah! inception! :crazy
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indeed!
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Levellass wrote:Besides, saving too often is cheating.
Saving anywhere except on the map is cheating!

Nonetheless welcome to the forum Foddy Fod... you cheater. :trollface
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Post by gerstrong »

Always had thoughts if I should improve that on Commander Genius. Like asking to load a gamestate whenever you die because most the people do it anyway.
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Post by Foddy Fod »

Keening_Product wrote: Saving anywhere except on the map is cheating!
Hugh? Does anyone get through the levels of Battle of the Brains without saving ingame? That's almost impossible for me...
The levels are much bigger than in the original and even there it's quite hard for me.
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Post by Boreas249 »

It would be ultimately frustrating to play throug BoB without saving during levels, but I know I'm gonna have to do it soon; doing a video playthrough of The Universe Is Toast, can't save during that... it looks bad...
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@ Keening_Product :

If that is so why have you not entered? :evil
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Entered... what? One of the no save comps? No time.
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