Beasts & Bumpkins (working solution)

[Saruman]

Hi everyone, this is my first post on this great forum.

I have made a hack wich enables you to play old classic "Beasts & Bumpkins" (game from 1997, released by EA) in almost any resolution.

Here is proof (1280x1024 resolution)


I made this changes for multiple resolutions so you don't have to make your hands dirty with hex editing.
You can download this package from:

RAPIDSHARE

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https://rapidshare.com/files/459803109/Beasts___Bumpkins_HiRes_Patch.zip

MEGAUPLOAD

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J0CSB9JV

This package supports following resolutions:
4:3
800x600 (tested)
1024x768 (tested)
1280x1024 (tested)
1600x1200 (not tested)

16:9 (widescreen)
1600x900 (not tested)
1920x1080 (not tested)


MANUAL (CUSTOM RESOLUTION) INSTRUCTIONS

1. Open "Beasts.exe" in your favorite hex editing program (for example Tiny Hexer)

2. Resolution editing
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Replace highlighted hexadecimal numbers with your custom resolution numbers

For example: resolution 1280x1024
resolution width is 1280 = 500h (hex), in little endian that is 00 05
resolution height is 1024 = 400h (hex), in little endian that is 00 04

3. Face y-postion (picture that is displayed in bottom right corner when you select peasant)
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Replace highlighted hexadecimal numbers with your calculated y-postion for face image.
Face image has 100x100 pixels.
y-postion = resolution_height - 100 (decimal)

For example if your desired resolution is 1280x1024
y-postion = 1024 - 100 = 924 = 39Ch (hex), in little endian that is 9C 03

4. Save your modified exe file and run it in "Windows 95" Compability mode


GAME DOWNLOAD & INSTALL
This game is free for download (it has been put as abandonware) from

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http://www.cdosabandonware.com/std_games_details.php?gameid=1654

To install it on Windows Xp or newer you have to run "Setup.exe" in "Windows 95" Compability mode so that registry are correctly written. Also after installing game run "Beasts.exe" (or modified high resolution ".exe") in "Windows 95" Compability mode.

NEED HELP
I haven't been able to fix ingame video position and main menu postion in higher resolutions. Intro videos are positioned horizontaly right, verticaly in middle, main menu is positioned in top left corner but menu items are more to the right.
If someone have expirience in fixing this I would greatly appriciated any help.

[Saruman]

RESOLUTION CHANGER
I also made a small application which enables you to change resolution in almost any you want.
Just run this app, choose resolution, click apply and play the game. (You must have .net framwork 3.5 or higher installed for it to work).
You can download it from:

RAPIDSHARE

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https://rapidshare.com/files/460123009/Beasts___Bumpkins_HighRes_Changer.zip

MEGAUPLOAD

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S7A55XOU

[DreyMIX]

Hello Saruman, could you kindly upload the file "Hi Res patch"?

[Saruman]

Here you go. Enjoy

Sendspace

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https://www.sendspace.com/file/2zp6go

MegaFileUpload

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http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/542876/Beasts---Bumpkins-HighRes-Changer-zip.html

ZippyShare

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http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/73110146/file.html

[BeastsFan]

Not sure what's happened with this hack but with the higher resolutions the mouse and game seem quite laggy?

Any new updates for this?

[Noam86]

Hello there

Can you pls upload again the files as when I try to open the link I get a message that the file has been deleted.

I tried so many times to make this game work in my computer (Windows 10) but it doesn't work. I also tried to install VirtualBox with win95 and Win98 but it just doesn't want to work in my computer.

I look forward for you help!!

Thank you
Noam