Desperabis
DOS - 2000
Description of Desperabis
Here is the video game “Desperabis”! Released in 2000 on DOS, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's a role-playing (rpg) game, set in a fantasy and action rpg themes.
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ImmaRealSadNotSpeakingGerman 2025-04-14 1 point
Hello Florian!
I really wanted to play your game, but I don't speak German, so I go to your GIT page and cloned the repository. And also downloaded the zip file.
This way (clone or download the zip) the game is unobtainable.
Because those are not real files, just few byte long text files.
Theres only the soundtrack (in the Data/Menestrels/ folder), and a few screenshots and documents in the 'Doc' folder, that are actually real files.
In the 'Bin' folder all the executable files are just 130-132 byte long text files, not real executables.
In the Data/SaveGames/ folder everything are just these 130 byte text files.
In the 'Data/SourceAssets/Localization' folders (both English and German) just some text files and the PDF are real files, everything else are those 130 byte long text files with different extensions.
In the 'Data/SourceAssets/Original/' folder everything are just those 130 byte text files with different extensions.
In the 'Game' folder, both 'English' and 'Original' contains those 130 byte text files not the real executables and game files.
Only the 'Source' folder that is actually contains real files.
I managed to download the game only by opening the '/FlorianBorn71/Desperabis/blob/main/Game/English/' page and manully download every single file one-by-one.
Please fix it so when someone clone the repo or download the zip, they actually contain the real files.
Thanks.
Florian Born 2025-01-19 2 points
I am the author of the game and there is a public github dedicated to Desperabis:
https://github.com/FlorianBorn71/Desperabis/
...that includes:
- An English version of the original game,
- walkthrough
- the full soundtrack as mp3
- a modern renderer, that renders original assets on VR: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tKSlyRfoi4k
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