Monolith's Blood - The Temple (1280x1024) [HD]

[Bruce777999]

The Temple rocked - love the monk chant in the background!

[AlexeiVoronin]

One of my favorite levels in the entire game.

It's a shame Monolith abandoned this awesome game. Damn shame.

[hondragrid]

Ugh, after watching this it always remindes me of how great/fun this game is. I need to play it again and maybe do some searching for user created levels and episodes.

[peteyguitarguy]

I got this from a site called GOG.com and it runs flawlessly on win 7 64 bit...never thought I'd get to play this great game again

[ptaah7]

Yalnız zamanlarımı cennete çeviren karanlık mistik gotik oyun.

A dark mystic gothic game that turn into  my alone days in to heaven.

[Ceekur]

YouTube updating their video player has caused the video to be out of sync on 360p mode. Unfortunately you have to watch in either 720p or 240p for the video to play the way it was uploaded.

[wohanable]

I bought this some time ago on gog, and for whatever reason it runs in a choppy manner. I don't know dosbox whatsoever, so if anyone can think of a solution to get it running like in this video please tell me

[BlackShaheen1982]

This brings up so many great memories.......thx Ceekur

[Gunner193]

The name of this is "Hallowed Grounds", not "Temple".

[TheZ714]

Will this work on vista?

[Gunner193]

@TheZ714

AFAIK, only on DOSBox.

[ZygoInferior]

does anyone have a caleb like voice which would be happy to voice over for my megawad game? pm me

[zonilo1]

Out of Sync Video is Out of Sync.

[1337Shockwav3]

Such a shame the source code for this hasn't been released yet, thanks to atari/infogrames or whoever owns the source now being unable to make a definitive statement as it still exists on one of the devs hard drive, yet an unclear copyright situation prohibits him from releasing it :(

[PencilPusher93]

Wow, amazing quality. Wish my Blood videos were in that quality, unfortunetly my computer's not powerful to run in a high resolution.

[spedmental]

please god some one convert this to flash like they did with doom i realy dont want to mess around with dos box.

[EdgarIX]

4:53 one health, pff, jejeje lol xD

[Garocheux]

BTW, do you know how to get rid of those "right hands of the devil" when they start strangling you? In harder difficulties, they seem to just stay on until they kill you.

[kreeddem]

@Garocheux Keep pressing open key really fast My open key is set to E.

[Garocheux]

Great! This is very cool and you are very helpful. I'll try your tricks to run the game soon enough.

You missed a few secrets in that level, though. I saw that you forgot where the last one was, you were at the wrong side of the bridge.

[ChannelRandomness]

It's actually hallowed grounds

[EdgarIX]

oh my god, you really have a pc gamer, lol, for that to play in dosbox, it requires a very highly advanced system lol, lol, Greetings

[Ajanek]

Napalm launcher can be a double-edged sword, heh? ;)

[eVoluci0n]

I know you said you recorded this at a lower resolution, then played it back with DosBox's CPU cycles manually set at 800,000 instructions per millisecond, but exactly how did you do that? I'm trying to do the same and can't figure it out.

[Ceekur]

@eVoluci0n: At the command-line before entering Blood, type without quotes 'cycles=10000' or a similar number, which will turn the cycles on manual, regardless of DosBox's configuration settings. Start up Blood, then press Ctrl + F12 to increment the cycles counter by a set amount (you can change this in configuration).

Note that once you hit the physical limit of one of your real CPU's cores, it will start running in slow motion (which is fine if you're using the recorder to make a video).

[TheGodlyEyeCon]

They should just remake this game with todays GfX

[mortdepeur13]

WOOOW nice graphics!! :O

[NicolaScorpion7000]

where i can download this?

[MultiGreenwood]

@NicolaScorpion7000 try abandonia or just google monolith blood free download

[wariofan279]

The Progenitor of F.E.A.R (Monolith made this game)

[RangelSotero]

6:35 awesome PWNZ!! #lmao

[sammo5000]

how do you get high quality sound on this?when I play it sounds like shit

[Ceekur]

@sammo5000 You need to make sure your audio sample rate is high enough. In the setup.exe for Blood, after accepting the sound settings, make sure it's set to use 16 Bit mixing, stereo sound, and a Mixing Rate of 44 Khz. The music should also be set to General MIDI with a MIDI Port of 0x330. Unless you have the current DosBOX Version 0.74 (where this is default), you need to also manually set the sample rate for SoundBlaster to 44100 in its configuration file.

[sammo5000]

@Ceekur Did all that.Still sounds bad.any specific card needed?

[Ceekur]

I have it set on "Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32", Address 0x220, Interrupt 7, 8-bit DMA: 1, 16-bit DMA: 5.

If you mean actual hardware, not really. Integrated sound card should be fine, esp in today's era. I'm assuming you're using a relatively recent computer and running DosBOX for this and not running an older system using true DOS, right?

Does my audio in the video sound *significantly* better than your audio? If so, what does yours "sound like", that being the best way I can ask that.

[sammo5000]

@Ceekur Oh and nope.I forced installed XP on my computer.This thing was originally designed for 98.So it is not recent.

[sammo5000]

@Ceekur Actually no I am not using DOS Box Nor is my system true DOS.I found a copy on the internet at a abandon ware website (call me a thief yes) And it runs perfectly on XP (which IS the platform I'm using).I found dosbox relativiely annoying.If you could PM me on how to run DOS Box correctly I might start using it.

[M4rVe]

WoW!!! great!! Legend Game BLOOD!! yeah!! I like this old game.

[Wazekianoz]

the great great memories of this game!!!! the gritty, cold atmosphere, the spot on sound, good leveldesign, nice humor, great weapons, flawless action and loads of gore, this game has it all. I still await an fps that can top this classic...

[BruteForceSpain]

killer game!!!

[world09a]

4:49 lucky close call

[virtuasoft]

nice blood skillz, I <3 Monolith Blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I remember playing this in DOS around 1995ish maybe earlier I can't remember 100%, THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

[ZlatanZindabad]

i have finished Blood in "Extra Crispy"

[mantax55]

Do you know how I can make it 1440x900?

[Ceekur]

@mantax55 Blood is basically a 4:3 full-screen game. Your best bet right now (unless someone can find a proper way to mimic wide) would be to set the game resolution to 1152 x 864 (the game's video mode menu), then have your monitor or dosbox stretch it to the edges. Unfortunately anything between 800x600 and 1280x1024 has the HUD sprite flicker due to a glitch.

[SandersonCallum]

hmmh why is the cult speak in background keeprestarting

[janppachan]

Nice trick for capturing such resolution. Only if the game would be playable like this in some point in the future.

[ilikemyhandsbloody]

That would indeed be exelent!

[juicemark]

best game ever!!!!

[Jamirofan89]

yeroshikouuuuuuuu

[doggiegunner]

These Graphics looks better than the original one..how come?

[Ceekur]

The resolution is just very high. I'm pretty sure it still uses the same graphics render on this mode.

[ilikemyhandsbloody]

Yes, only more depth.

[SandersonCallum]

@doggiegunner nope? they look the same to me!

[SlayerDeathBathory]

great level

[cripplewoox]

i should be on xbla

[destierromaligno]

how to put on High Definition?

[ilikemyhandsbloody]

you don't, it just has more depth to views so it looks higher but the textures aren't high def or anything.

[ilikemyhandsbloody]

If you want to change the resolution you should edit the BLOOD.CFG file.

for example:

ScreenWidth = 1024

ScreenHeight = 768

But it would probably lag on most PC's, Blood isn't made for those resolutions.

[Reaper978]

Cool video, and I see you only use the keyboard. That's a challenge. I find this game regularly kicks my ass if the difficulty is any higher than 2.

How did you come up with the number of 800,000 cycles?

[Ceekur]

It's the approximate number of cycles I found when DosBox is able to run Blood at 1280 x 1024 at a consistent 70 FPS. I just kept increasing the cycles to find how high I needed to go. It is far above the threshold of my actual CPU, but the resulting video is fine.

You're looking for the point when DosBox is running everything in slow-motion. This means all the frames are being displayed to be recorded.

[Reaper978]

Thanks. For recording, you use the spielberg cheat?

[Ceekur]

I've never been able to get that to work actually. I type that in (and other warp codes, such as 'mario'), but nothing happens. I typed it correctly, as it doesn't appear as chat in the text area.

A long time ago, I used to get a pixelated dialog box that would appear asking me for the level, but nothing happened after I entered any number in either.

For my warping purposes, I've just been changing the e#m# within the Blood ini file.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong with the warps though.

[Reaper978]

Ah! Thanks. Google isn't turning up anything on blood demo recording, so I didn't know where to go to ask. I think the cheats for demo recording are broken.

Could you describe to me the process you use to record the demos? It would be much appreciated.

[Ceekur]

Sure thing.

Since I can't get the warps to work, I change the ini file to go to the level I want to record. Start the command line with Blood -record filename.dem

I rename filename.dem to BLOOD0002.dem so it is the second natural demo that plays. When changing the video mode, the aiming view and actual aiming gets misaligned. You need to + and - the game window to fix it. However, this cannot be done during a demo.

I'll send a message with clearer steps of what I do to record.

[archy9752]

@Ceekur What codes in the ini file do you change to make you go to the level you want?

[BLOODTheChosenOne]

Your supposed to type in [mario 1 2] and it will take you to e1m2.

[BLOODTheChosenOne]

I love how you shoot first and think later. This HD thing makes me feel like i'm actually playing. I keep clicking the change weapons button. lol

[jasongsux]

Pal, I see I gotta new PM, but it doesn't display, I don't know what's wrong, so you can reply me here.

Reading your description, I'd say you're a genius.

Would it be possible to record the complete game and play it on tv screen as movie?

[Ceekur]

Hey Jason. I just included the video link with a :) face in the message. I did get a surprised reply back from you though, so not sure why it couldn't display.

The whole game can be recorded this exact way, pretty much. It would take quite a while though, as the record rate is much slower than actual gameplay.

Comments don't allow that many characters, so we can try continuing through PM again. When you get this message, try and reply by sending a message to my inbox?

[givemeacent]

another awesome video =]

[chrocht]

nice, though I never understood keyboard-only players. :) what difficulty did you play this lvl on?

[Ceekur]

Hehe, there's a story behind that actually. On the computer I originally played Blood on (Pentium, 90 Mhz!), the mouse I used wasn't designed for frantic mouse movements and kept getting stuck at the wrong times (had little desk room to move the mouse too).

I eventually decided to rely on the keyboard to do my aiming. To this day, that habit and my obscure control scheme stuck (mostly older games) and I can control fairly well just using the keyboard. =D

This was played on medium difficulty.