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Author Topic: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?  (Read 5598 times)

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How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« on: March 17, 2016, 01:30:16 pm »
I've searched the hell outta this and never found anything...but its GOTTA be a simple thing to do.

Im running Dragons Lair on Daphne, everything works fine (no scene skipping etc) except I remember in the arcade version that the screen would flash certain areas (like a door or a cave opening) that would signal which direction that youre supposed to go. Mine doesnt do that. What am I missing?

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 02:21:20 pm »
I've searched the hell outta this and never found anything...but its GOTTA be a simple thing to do.

Im running Dragons Lair on Daphne, everything works fine (no scene skipping etc) except I remember in the arcade version that the screen would flash certain areas (like a door or a cave opening) that would signal which direction that youre supposed to go. Mine doesnt do that. What am I missing?

Thanks guys!

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're thinking of, those flashes are built into the animation, there's nothing to turn on.

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2016, 03:05:26 pm »
Youre understanding correctly, thanks.

Damn, I guess that makes sense... In that case I suppose that means that I got a copy of something other than the original game laserdisc, cause there are absolutely no animation flashes to signal where to go.  :dunno

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2016, 03:12:04 pm »
IIRC Dragons Lair II had the flashes and the original did not.


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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2016, 05:11:33 pm »
Oh! Well if that's the case then all these years I thought I was playing DL1 as a kid  :dizzy: I'll take a look at DL2, you're probably right. Thanks!
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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2016, 09:50:51 pm »
IIRC Dragons Lair II had the flashes and the original did not.

Wait, sorry are you saying that Dragons lair 1 doesn't have the move hints? ie- the flashes

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2016, 09:48:32 am »
IIRC Dragons Lair II had the flashes and the original did not.

Wait, sorry are you saying that Dragons lair 1 doesn't have the move hints? ie- the flashes

I believe that's what I said.  Of course I also said "IIRC" (if I recall correctly)
I'm pretty sure that was the case.  Browsing youtube videos seems to confirm.

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2016, 01:53:31 pm »
Yesterday I had some time to play around with it and got a few scenes deep into DL1 on Daphne. The first couple of scenes had no flashes, just audible tone signals. A few scenes later (a couple of rooms into the castle) doors and ropes etc began to flash as I remember they did years ago at the arcade. 

Apparently in the original arcade the opening bridge scene doesnt flash for some reason but after that, things start flashing. Doesnt seem to be consistent throughout every scene tho. Weird  :dunno Oh well, I guess that solves it

I checked out Dragons Lair 2 and it is much more consistent with the flashes as BadMouth mentioned. There is also an option to turn them on/off I believe in the service menu.
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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2016, 04:28:32 pm »
IIRC Dragons Lair II had the flashes and the original did not.

Wait, sorry are you saying that Dragons lair 1 doesn't have the move hints? ie- the flashes

I believe that's what I said.  Of course I also said "IIRC" (if I recall correctly)
I'm pretty sure that was the case.  Browsing youtube videos seems to confirm.



Awesome thanks for the clarification.

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2016, 08:09:42 pm »
As I recall, not every scene had hints, but many did, in the original Dragon's Lair.  The first one is here, the right hand door glowing at the right time:

https://youtu.be/y6uEx5gWovA?t=19s

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Re: How to turn ON Dragons Lair "Move Hints" (Daphne)?
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2016, 05:02:09 pm »
I'm pretty sure the sega cd had the hints. took me forever to figure out how to get past the bridge though.