Nightmare Creatures (PC) Gameplay
Played on Windows 10.
Things I did to get it working:
- Installed the game.
- DON"T PATCH THE GAME TO VERSION 1.2. KEEP IT AT 1.0. Again, do not patch the game - it introduces a slow down bug.
- Run NCSETUP.EXE and make sure all of the settings match this: i.imgur.com/Rp...
- Create a shortcut of NC.EXE and add the command line -D3D like in this screenshot: i.imgur.com/R1...
- If you want to run the game without the disc, download this NoCD crack: archive.org/de...
- Download CNC-DDraw and place all the files into your Nightmare Creatures install directory: github.com/Fun...
- Run cnc-ddraw config.exe and under Compatibly Settings, set Limit Game Speed to 30 ticks per second. Adjust the rest of the settings to your liking.
- Follow this guide to patch your EXE so the game can run the game with music without the disc: www.play-old-p...
- I've uploaded all the music here if you're using _INMM: archive.org/de...
- Note: Even with _INMM, the music doesn't loop. If you want, you can skip installing _INMM and just mount the disc each time, but you would need to mount it to a drive set to A:. This will retain looping of the music. Or you can go into the Options screen, and turn off then on the music to restart the music track. Convoluted but it works, I guess.
- The game should now run.
- To get controllers working, use a controller mapping program like Xpadder.
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Thank you very much for this tutorial. I had previously tried CNC-DDRAW but had not activated the 30 ticks thing. Now it works correctly. In my case I ran it with patch v1.1 and it works perfectly. v1.0 and v1.1 are the recommended versions to properly play Nightmare Creatures. Regarding patches v1.1 and v1.2, I understand that they added support for the new 3D accelerator cards of the moment, improving the loading of textures and things like that. But patch v1.2 does indeed seem to break the game's speed. Surely the developers noticed that the game was running at an excessively high speed (even on computers of the time) and introduced a "cheap" solution by altering some values in the source code. In fact, I tried taking a clean v1.2 executable and applying the code that is in GCW and indeed that executable is broken. There is also another executable around which is called v1.5. This appears to be an executable modified by the community to accept Glide but in fact it has the same problems as 1.2 although I admit that Glide support works correctly. To watch the movies, you must copy the .CRH files to the root folder of the game. I recommend leaving the folder called .CRH with the ACT, END, GO and INT files and copying and pasting those same files near the executable. That way the movies will always load, no matter which executable they use. I hope this information is useful to you and thank you again for this great tutorial.
@RetroJackal
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information regarding the patches. As for videos, I can confirm moving them to the root directory of the game indeed gets them to play. Nice find, and thank you so much for letting me know.
I finally got this game for PC two days ago. It was a favorite of mine in my younger days. I had it for N64. I am really impressed with windows 11 installing the CD and playing with no hiccups other than the game super accelerated. I downloaded the V1.2 patch, and did the D3D thing, and now game plays amazing!
This was one of the very first PlayStation games I ever played. It was frustrating and difficult to play and I don’t think I ever made it out of the first area, but I still thought it was so cool (and spooky! 🎃) I haven’t played this game since 1998 or so, so I have no idea how well it holds up now. It, uh … it still kind of looks difficult and frustrating 😂
@RetroJackal
Жыл бұрын
Very rough around the edges tbh, but proper fun. Monster designs are great, I personally love the game's setting (Gothic Victorian London) and the soundtrack kicks ass. Camera is a pain, though. Not sure if the game's for everyone though.
Do you know what exactly patch 1.1 and 1.2a changes? I'd like to know if they fix any critical bugs or something + what exactly is the slow motion bug like? Couldn't find any info of it. Also the intro movie or any other videos does not work for me for some reason
@RetroJackal
10 ай бұрын
Nope, they never released patch notes for it, and the patch changes itself has never been documented, beyond the slowdown bug which some people get, and some people don't (I've experienced it myself). As for the movies working, I know I got them working in the past, but it involved changing codecs.
Where to get the game from
@RetroJackal
Жыл бұрын
It should be up on the Internet Archive afaik.