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PowerSlave EX

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Revision as of 20:36, 6 March 2021 by 45.74.79.11 (talk) (filled unknowns. While original release may have had french dialogue, EX only contains english voice files for ramses.)
PowerSlave EX
PowerSlave EX cover
Developers
Lobotomy Software
Windows Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal
Engines
Kex Engine 3.0[1]
Release dates
Windows May 24, 2015
PowerSlave
PowerSlave 1996
PowerSlave EX (unofficial port) 2015
PowerSlave Exhumed 2022

Key points

This release is an unofficial port of PlayStation version which heavily differs from the original DOS version[2]
Source code was made available on January 4, 2017[1]
Great port that includes widescreen support, mouse look and controller support.
Mouse aiming has been rendered broken on Windows 10 after the Fall Creators update. Use the fix.

General information

Official Site
GitHub page

Availability

Download of the game has been taken down until further notice. It can still be compiled from the source, although assets from the PS1 ISO are required and need to be converted to work in-game[citation needed].

Essential improvements

High Quality Ramses Speech

The speech for Ramses is of low quality, making it hard to understand
Replace .ogg files
  1. Download HQ Ramses Speech Here.
  2. Extract all files into <path-to-game>\music\ramses.
  3. Start the game.

Notes

These are ripped from a PS1 CD to keep quality intact.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 1]

Video settings

Gameplay options.
Gameplay options.
Graphics options.
Graphics options.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Mouse options.
Mouse options.
Gamepad options.
Gamepad options.
Key and gamepad bindings.
Key and gamepad bindings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Surround sound

OpenAL Soft[citation needed]
  1. Rename OpenAL32.dll to OpenAL32.bak
  2. Download OpenAL Soft and copy soft_oal.dll (bin\Win32) into the same folder.
  3. Rename soft_oal.dll to OpenAL32.dll.
  4. Note: On systems with a modern sound cards supporting hardware OpenAL simply deleting the existing OpenAL32.dll may work. The game supports basic 3D environmental surround sound and should sound similar to openAL soft.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Issues fixed

Mouse aiming not working on Windows 10

After the Fall Creators update on Windows 10, mouse aiming was rendered broken without this fix.
Download the fix and replace the old anubis.exe file in <path-to-game> with the one in the zip archive

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista 7, 8
Processor (CPU) Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.0 GHz Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 1 GB RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD) 190 MB 220 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel / AMD / Nvidia Circa ~2010 or newer
OpenGL 1.4 compatible 		NVIDIA GeForce 7800/7900/8600 series, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 2600/3600 or X1800/X1900 series supporting OpenGL 2.1 Core

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 svkaiser/PowerslaveEX - GitHub - last accessed on 2017-02-28
  2. ↑ FAQ - Powerslave EX - last accessed on 2017-06-06
    "Powerslave is a first person shooter developed by Lobotomy Software for PC in 1996 and for consoles in 1996-1997. The console versions was a completely different game compared to the PC version and featured a gameplay style similar to that of Metroid where the player could acquire new abilities and revisit areas that were not accessible before."