"Wibarm", is an early role-playing shooter, combining run and gun shooter gameplay with role-playing video game elements. In Wibarm, the player controls a transformable mecha robot that can shift between walking mode, a tank, and a flying jet. The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.
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It tries to do a lot as an RPG shooter mecha game. It's not quite successful in executing the different types of gameplay on offer, but commendable for trying.
This game is an absolute PAIN IN THE ASS TO GET RUNNING. If you ever find this and have difficulty, here's what i did.
My Setup:
- Dell Dimension XPS T450, Pentium III, 96 Megabytes of ram
- OS: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0 Build 2195)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce2 MX 200, 64 meg vram
I copied my diskette on to a flash drive, drive E. After doing a lot of running it over and over again, it eventually wanted to make a user disk
I first tried to avoid doing this step, but i kept running into issues. "graphics mode not supported" and all that. Then, i ran a little program called forcecga, that comes with the myabandonware version of the game (try running that one if you can). After running that I placed a blank diskette into my floppy drive, and it wrote to it. After writing a new diskette, the game booted right in.
I tried to move the game's executable files to my main hard drive, but after I did that the game does not work, and thus it only runs from the flash drive.
My computer sometimes gets confused with DOS games, and oftentimes they crash at strange intervals. Wibarm runs rather well, and I have encountered no such issues. Since I made the disk, wibarm as it runs on my flash drive works flawlessly. Idk why, or how this program works. Hopefully this weird adventure helps you play the game.
The game itself is neat, I'm still figuring it out, but I enjoy what I've played so far. I recommend you play it.
My Setup:
- Dell Dimension XPS T450, Pentium III, 96 Megabytes of ram
- OS: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0 Build 2195)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce2 MX 200, 64 meg vram
I copied my diskette on to a flash drive, drive E. After doing a lot of running it over and over again, it eventually wanted to make a user disk
I first tried to avoid doing this step, but i kept running into issues. "graphics mode not supported" and all that. Then, i ran a little program called forcecga, that comes with the myabandonware version of the game (try running that one if you can). After running that I placed a blank diskette into my floppy drive, and it wrote to it. After writing a new diskette, the game booted right in.
I tried to move the game's executable files to my main hard drive, but after I did that the game does not work, and thus it only runs from the flash drive.
My computer sometimes gets confused with DOS games, and oftentimes they crash at strange intervals. Wibarm runs rather well, and I have encountered no such issues. Since I made the disk, wibarm as it runs on my flash drive works flawlessly. Idk why, or how this program works. Hopefully this weird adventure helps you play the game.
The game itself is neat, I'm still figuring it out, but I enjoy what I've played so far. I recommend you play it.