LilleeWilleyDilley
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Also, if you fancy a trip back in time, the game developer's website still exists: http://www.audiogenic.com/
tsI wouldn't mind having a crack at this. I usually stick to cricket management games, rather than these fancy high-tech cricket simulators, but I think this could be interesting.
I don't fancy my chances at changing the CPU batsman behaviour, but I reckon changing the number of overs per day should be fairly doable with a disassembler and some poking around.
I haven't played GGWCC, but I did play (a lot) the later version of Brian Lara Cricket (~1998) on Playstation and, eventually, PC. I recall selling information for £0.99 on eBay about how to get BLC working under Windows XP! I made about 3 quid - a fortune!
I couldn't find a DOS version of GGWCC for download, but Allan Border's Cricket is apparently available as free abandonware (here). Did you download GGWCC, or are you using original installation media?
I wouldn't mind having a crack at this. I usually stick to cricket management games, rather than these fancy high-tech cricket simulators, but I think this could be interesting.
I don't fancy my chances at changing the CPU batsman behaviour, but I reckon changing the number of overs per day should be fairly doable with a disassembler and some poking around.
I haven't played GGWCC, but I did play (a lot) the later version of Brian Lara Cricket (~1998) on Playstation and, eventually, PC. I recall selling information for £0.99 on eBay about how to get BLC working under Windows XP! I made about 3 quid - a fortune!
I couldn't find a DOS version of GGWCC for download, but Allan Border's Cricket is apparently available as free abandonware (here). Did you download GGWCC, or are you using original installation media?
In all fairness, I just want a cricket game where everything is authentic. Most if not all cricket video games have some kind of drawback
It really depends what you mean by authentic. If it were totally authentic, then you'd have to devote your life to playing the game and only the most talented and dedicated would be able to compete at the professional level. I don't think that would be much fun for the casual idiot like me. But I get your point - it would be nice if there weren't really glaring, basic errors in these games.
If you want statistical accuracy, then the best I know of is the Cricket Captain series, as those games are based on a vast database of historical statistics (and a carefully refined match engine). You'll still see plenty of people complaining that it's unrealistic. The same people would probably be furious if, for example, Ben Stokes smashed a ridiculously unrealistic 135* to win an Ashes test from a totally lost position, after blocking out his first 73 balls. (My point being that that actually did happen and it's important that unexpected things do happen in sport).
One thing I can say for sure is that a game designed in 1993 and required to fit on a ~1MB floppy disk will be incredibly limited in what it can offer. It is frankly miraculous that it can mimic anything even vaguely resembling cricket, given those constraints. Cricket games are also a niche market, so development budgets are always very small (hence the glaring, basic errors you mentioned). It would be interesting to see what a cricket game could be made to do on a $1 billion budget, but sadly I don't think we'll ever find out.
I'm giving up on this as I can't make the matches last long enough to make any kind of progress reverse-engineering the game. I can't find the keyboard controls anywhere online and I've been bowled out for 4, 0 and 0. The 4 was an immaculate cover drive by batting legend Angus Fraser!
I'm giving up on this as I can't make the matches last long enough to make any kind of progress reverse-engineering the game. I can't find the keyboard controls anywhere online and I've been bowled out for 4, 0 and 0. The 4 was an immaculate cover drive by batting legend Angus Fraser!
I would like to know if you have found a way to change the overs of test match from 75 to 90 in blc 1999