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Dark Seed (1992-04-18) (Sample)

Dark Seed is an adventure game developed by Cyberdreams for MS-DOS that was published by Merit Software in August 1992.

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The International Network of Crackers released a sample version of the game on May 18, 1992 1).

  • TM.IMG and VERSION.IMG were not included on the disks so the title screen lacks those details. (Fig.1)


Fig. 1: Sample Fig. 2: Retail



  • The roof of the first house that you see on the way to the town was redrawn. (Fig.3)


Fig. 3: Sample Fig. 4: Retail

They forgot to update this in v1.2 SPA. Note.1


The following eight captions are excerpts of dialogue from TOSTEXT.BIN:

  • Line 81: A friend of Delbert's, huh? Come with me Dawson. (Fig.5)
  • Line 81: “A friend of Delbert's, huh? Come with me Dawson.” (Fig.6)


Fig. 5: Sample Fig. 6: Retail



  • Line 821: The strange abode of a bio-mechanical leech, draining the life force form it's victims. (Fig.7)
  • Line 821: The strange abode of a bio-mechanical leech, draining the life force from it's victims. (Fig.8)


Fig. 7: Sample Fig. 8: Retail



  • Line 900: The bars look impenetrable, but the lock looks primitve. (Fig.9)
  • Line 900: The bars look impenetrable, but the lock looks primitive. (Fig.10)


Fig. 9: Sample Fig. 10: Retail



  • Line 902: You attempt to pick the primitve lock. Nothing happens. (Fig.11)
  • Line 902: You attempt to pick the primitive lock. Nothing happens. (Fig.12)


Fig. 11: Sample Fig. 12: Retail



  • The author of the article on the film scan is named after the founder of Cyberdreams. Note.2 (Fig.13)


Fig. 13: Sample Fig. 14: Retail



  • There's a triangular hole in the wall of the power chamber instead of an all seeing eye. (Fig.15)


Fig. 15: Sample Fig. 16: Retail



  • Save files are displayed from oldest to newest. (Fig.17)


Fig. 17: Sample Fig. 18: Retail



  • These files were updated and have some differences:


Sample Filesize in bytes Last modified date Retail Filesize in bytes Last modified date
CBASE.NSP 319271992-02-28CBASE.NSP 287381992-07-08
CFILM01.PIC (Fig.13) 257851991-11-09CFILM01.PIC (Fig.14) 258101992-05-21
GANC.NSP 447611991-12-17GANC.NSP 447611992-06-13
GBASE.NSP 305601992-03-03GBASE.NSP 284541992-04-21
LTLADDER.OBT 32201992-04-11LTLADDER.OBT 32201992-06-08
POWNEX.PIC (Fig.15) 411461991-11-09POWNEX.PIC (Fig.16) 411551992-06-12
RM10STRS.NSP 194681992-01-10RM10STRS.NSP 169491992-06-15
ROOM0.NSP 47311992-01-01ROOM0.NSP 49801992-04-24
ROOM13.ROM 11871992-02-28ROOM13.ROM 11871992-04-27
ROOM14.NSP 218341992-02-21ROOM14.NSP 218341992-06-19
ROOM53.ROM 11871991-12-24ROOM53.ROM 11871992-06-13
ROOM61.ROM 11871992-04-02ROOM61.ROM 11871992-06-10
ROOM63.ROM 11871992-04-12ROOM63.ROM 11871992-07-10
RTLADDER.OBT 32201992-04-11RTLADDER.OBT 32201992-06-08
TITLE.IMG (Fig.1) 203141992-02-07TITLE.IMG (Fig.2) 206941992-04-27
TOS.XYZ 2136961992-04-18TOS.EXE 1470161992-08-25
TOSTEXT.BIN 437501992-04-18TOSTEXT.BIN 436861992-06-11
TOTOWN.PIC (Fig.3) 435201992-01-01TOTOWN.PIC (Fig.4) 427981992-05-21


  • There are a few loose palette files that were removed later:


Filename Filesize in bytes Last modified date
GBCARD01.PAL 481992-02-18
GBPRINT1.PAL 481992-03-25
GDIARY.PAL 481992-02-18
GJOUR201.PAL 481992-02-18
GJOURN01.PAL 481992-02-18
GLADY.PAL 481992-02-18
GLCARD.PAL 481992-02-18


  • DS.EXE was replaced with START.EXE in subsequent updates:


Filename Filesize in bytes Last modified date
DS.EXE 619771992-04-17



Unused content


  • Mike may have once had to contend with a doppelganger from the dark side that was known as “Evil Mike”. (Fig.19)


Filename Filesize in bytes Last modified date
EVILMIKE.NSP 484101991-12-11
EVILMIKE.OBT 32201991-12-11


Fig. 19: Composite


  • That might be what Mike sees in his dreams on the second night. (Fig.20)


Fig. 20: Retail



This line of dialogue was removed:

  • Line 953: You hear pounding at the door, “Mike Dawson, come on out! It's the police!” Sample
  • Line 953: xxx Retail


Fig. 21: Composite



  • This version contains two additional voice clips:


FilenameConverted audio Filesize in bytes Last modified date
L18A-1.VOC 319131992-01-03
S7A-1.VOC 214011992-01-03



References

1) https://archive.org/details/dark_seed_1992_04_18_sample
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