Nightlong Crashes to the desktop in the Zoo Entrance level [Archive]

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achatto

12 Jun 2006, 17:40

Hi,
I have been playing Nightlong:Union City Conspiracy for the last few days. I'm having a strange problem everytime I reach a certain point in the game. In the Zoo Entrance whenever I try to go to the room at the left, the game crashes to the desktop. From the Zoo Entrance I can enter the 'Pond' and 'Bar' levels, though. I have tried reloading the game several times, rebooted the PC several times but nothing helped.
(I have a P4 2.4GHz PC running Win2000).
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this annoying problem?

Thanks!!
achatto.

Alien King

12 Jun 2006, 19:51

Is this game made by Team17? Sorry for asking, but I'm not too sure on what games Team17 have made.

thomasp

12 Jun 2006, 22:20

Is this game made by Team17? Sorry for asking, but I'm not too sure on what games Team17 have made.
Yep - it's one of The Teamsters: http://uk.pc.ign.com/objects/010/010449.html

bonz

12 Jun 2006, 22:39

Is this game made by Team17? Sorry for asking, but I'm not too sure on what games Team17 have made.
This helps with all your T17 uncertainties:
http://www.dream17.co.uk/softography.php

Alien King

12 Jun 2006, 23:02

Yep - it's one of The Teamsters: http://uk.pc.ign.com/objects/010/010449.html

Thanks for that.

For some strange reason, I forgot Dream17 had a softography.

bonz

13 Jun 2006, 02:26

I forgot Dream17 had a softography.
It even is a Sofotgraphy+...

achatto

9 Jul 2006, 17:17

I did some research on the problem...looks like many people have faced the same problem and there is a 'saved' game available that basically starts from the point after the game crashes(well, its better than getting stuck forever and not able to play the game at all!)....but I have no idea where to find this saved game...anybody any idea where to find it?

Lex

11 Jul 2006, 04:44

Hmm. I looked into it and found this (http://forums.longestjourney.com/showpost.php?p=486&postcount=6).

It seems that there's a patch here (http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=pc&file=nlpatch.zip&ref=ps). I'm not sure why Team17 doesn't have it on their site.

achatto

14 Jul 2006, 16:43

I downloaded the zip file from that site but it looks like the zip is corrupt... :-((
and yeah....its beyond my intelligence why team17 didn't bother to have the patch on their website !!

Muzer

14 Jul 2006, 17:16

If you use windows zip file extractor, try using Winzip, Winrar, Winace, 7-z, etc.

achatto

20 Jul 2006, 18:05

Hi...I was using WinZip....but the file nlpatch.zip thats getting downloaded is only 935 bytes in size...doesn't look like it contains anything inside it.WinZip is complaining that its not a valid archive.

AndrewTaylor

20 Jul 2006, 18:12

Sometimes files get corrupted when you download them. Might be worth doing it again.

bonz

20 Jul 2006, 22:02

http://gamesurf.tiscali.it/DOWNLOAD/patch/nlpatch.zip
http://www.adventuresplanet.it/files/patch/nightlongpatch.zip

C.S.

21 Jul 2006, 21:31

Hmmm, I've just got up to this level and it seems to crash every time :S I've tried downloading all of the patches but none of them seem to sort it out :S

EDIT: had a look around, you can download an 'after the spynx' save file here http://www.mysterymanor.net/pafiledb35/index.php?act=view&id=86

achatto

22 Jul 2006, 19:05

Thanks C.S!! This saved game really works! Though I have to start from the middle, but still its better than sitting at the Sphinx for the rest of ur life not able to do anything at all... :mad:
and just be careful not to try returning back to the Sphinx from here (or the game will crash again)....

cheers

mrsmadrigal

13 Jan 2009, 06:19

I too tried the patch but don't seem to know how to find the file I'm supposed to remove and replace with the new one. Then I downloaded the save game posted above and it puts me at the fissure alright but there is no flare on the table and I can't seem to go in the cage or anywhere else. I'm stuck.

Help, please.

mrs madrigal

pike8

1 Aug 2009, 13:46

franpa

2 Aug 2009, 05:52

open Windows Explorer

Ctrl-F

enter filename in appropriate place, search.

find location of file, browse to there.

replace file.