[fgsfds]

Legend of the Seven Paladins 3D
("搖滾少林系列 七俠五義3D", literally "Rock'n'Roll Shaolin Series: The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants 3D")
is a Taiwanese game made by a company named Accend. 3D Realms was
negotiating a deal with the Asian company for their Build Engine, but according to
3D Realms staff, the contract didn't came to be, and they thought Accend never
developed more than a demo based on their engine.

Turns out, though, that they not only finished the project (which makes
Legend of the Seven Paladins the first commercially released Build Engine
game), but even licensed it out further to the Koreans, which adjusted some
graphics and the story to squeeze the game into a Korean historical setting.

The game is now fully translated to English and ready to play with a pre-configured DOSBox.
Unfortunately, it's still impossible to make it actually playable due to a bug (?) which makes
enemies fire dozens of projectiles rapidly.





Download: https://github.com/f...ins-3D/releases

[Jim]

will there be a gdx version of this? will the rapid fire bug be fixed?

[fgsfds]

Jim, on 22 September 2019 - 10:13 PM, said:

will there be a gdx version of this? will the rapid fire bug be fixed?

GDX port is planned, and I don't see why the bug won't be fixed there. As for the DOS version, that's unlikely.

[Player Lin]

Is this translated version of LotS(7)P using the latest one?


Just asks.

[fgsfds]

Yeah

[Player Lin]

fgsfds, on 23 September 2019 - 10:25 AM, said:

Yeah

Oh good, thank your efforts. Can't wait the GDX port~!

[fgsfds]

Found an interesting thing. Demo version of the game had a portrait for the 8th hero, the one wielding a labrys. In the final version it's replaced with just a blank wall, but the hero is still available and fully playable.
I guess it was done to justify "the 7 paladins" in the name.

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[mr-edit]

@fgsfds
Many thanks for your work with this translation. Really cool that this build-engine underdog is now in english.
I tried the game but i'ts really heavy to play. The difficult is really hard (even in easy mode) or i'm to old for this
Maybe we can think about a "community release" like MARS 3D (just a joke).

[fgsfds]

Actually, that would be great. Your Mars box is top-notch.

[Frenkel]

fgsfds, on 23 September 2019 - 10:38 AM, said:

837.png

He sure looks like that Violent Vengeance guy.

[Arjak]

Holy crap! Downloaded the latest version and now following your GitHub!

[Player Lin]

Frenkel, on 02 October 2019 - 12:44 PM, said:

He sure looks like that Violent Vengeance guy.

Make sense, since VV was Accend Inc.'s first their own game so used the artworks from VV in Lot7P demo is normal, I guess.

[enderandrew]

Someone started an attempt to port this to EDuke32 but it was never finished. I'm curious if anyone might be interested in dusting that off.

https://drive.google...M7zMSfsxHJ/view

[fgsfds]

BuildGDX will support it soon
https://youtu.be/VDrmTLW6e30

[Player Lin]

fgsfds, on 02 February 2020 - 04:08 PM, said:

BuildGDX will support it soon
https://youtu.be/VDrmTLW6e30

I wonder is the port still working with original Chinese version...or the English version only?

[fgsfds]

It should support all versions.
But it will still be in English except for the non-translated tiles.

[neznam]

fgsfds, on 23 September 2019 - 12:27 AM, said:

GDX port is planned, and I don't see why the bug won't be fixed there. As for the DOS version, that's unlikely.

Please don't fix the bug (or leave an option in the menu to keep it), I am used to playing the game with it and it would be way too easy and boring if the enemies only shot one projectile. This way it feels like an fps bullet hell.

[Player Lin]

neznam, on 05 February 2020 - 07:18 AM, said:

Please don't fix the bug (or leave an option in the menu to keep it), I am used to playing the game with it and it would be way too easy and boring if the enemies only shot one projectile. This way it feels like an fps bullet hell.

Too bad it did made me give up the game...I just can't dodge them for some reasons...maybe the control sucks, or I just sucked at that.

But I'm sure a lot of people complains about this projectile...made the game become so hard.

[Morpheus Kitami]

Why not make it a toggle? That way, the five people who want the game to be hard can have it that way and the three people who want it easy can breeze through it.

[Phredreeke]

I recreated the gradient backgrounds from three of the four ads in the intro level (the last one doesn't have a simply gradient background). Also, "translated" versions using Yandex image translate

Edit: I figured out partly how to go about reconstructing the last one

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[Player Lin]

You know the ads from the intro level of Lot7P were Apogee's games, right? (Expect the first one, that's Accend Inc.'s own game)

[Phredreeke]

Yeah, there's Mystic Towers. Hocus Pocus and Raptor Call of the Shadows. I think the English translations fits the bootleg nature of the game though.

[Player Lin]

Phredreeke, on 29 July 2020 - 07:07 AM, said:

Yeah, there's Mystic Towers. Hocus Pocus and Raptor Call of the Shadows. I think the English translations fits the bootleg nature of the game though.

Okay, just let you know I'm fine with your idea, but that just looks weird to me for some reasons.

[mxrtxn]

fgsfds, on 03 February 2020 - 08:09 AM, said:

It should support all versions.
But it will still be in English except for the non-translated tiles.

How hard would it be to replace some sprites of this game with voxels?

I could make some to spice up the game though...

[Phredreeke]

In GDX? I'd think it'd be the same as adding voxels to any other game.