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Originally Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:40 pm

Hello, my name is Billy and I'm new to this site. I have the King's Quest Collection and was able to play through the first 6 King's Quest games with no problem. When I first tried to play number 7, it wouldn't load at all. Researching on the Net, I came across the latest DOSBox patch and that fixed being able to load KQ7. But now when I try to watch the Intro movie, it just boots me back to Desktop. I downloaded a trial version of WinRAR to extract the AVI files for the movie but that doesn't seem to work either. It's my first time using that particular program so maybe I'm not doing something right, I'm not sure. I'd really like to be able to watch the Intro movie (and Ending if that has the same problem) and even if I for some reason cannot play it ingame, perhaps someone has it downloaded on some other site where I can download or watch it. Any help with this would be appreciated, thank you. Oh, in case it's relevant, I'm using WinXP.

There are three files inside of the RAR, 911.RBT, 91.RBT and 912.RBT. These should be unpacked to the AVI folder inside the game's installed folder.

OK, I've pulled up those files in WinRAR and have them extracted into the KQ7 AVI subfolder. The movie still won't play when I select "Watch Movie" but I now can find it in the subfolder and watch it on my RealPlayer, which is good enough. Thank you for your assistance.
P.S. Should it have played when I select "Watch Movie"? Or is this designed to just allow me to have the movies handy outside of playing the game?

It should play within the game. You could have just watched the AVIs.

Yeah that's weird that it won't play ingame but is installed in the AVI folder. Oh well, thank you again for your time.

In the event you have not seen it:

King's Quest VII Intro:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6P8UITu8Faw

Good Ending:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d96jYPm4LJs

Bad Ending:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VHKUA89DBWk

Great -- it's nice to know that there are more of us out there who appreciate the old classics.

Quite a few here are fans of the Sierra classics...

Jules, Berit, Cellardoor, Almirena, Collector (of course), Scottish Phantom, Moon Dragon, tink, Kurdt, Angelwolf, myself - to name most (but not all). Smile

Hey, hey! Me too, me too! Cry me a river!

Luthien wrote:Hey, hey! Me too, me too! Cry me a river!

Hah! True! Very true! You're one of the few who came here looking for help - and then we trapped you into staying! The ones I listed, I actually dragged (most of them kicking and screaming) from the Sierra boards, or Sierra related forums I trolled.

Tawmis wrote:Quite a few here are fans of the Sierra classics...

Jules, Berit, Cellardoor, Almirena, Collector (of course), Scottish Phantom, Moon Dragon, tink, Kurdt, Angelwolf, myself - to name most (but not all). Smile

Blink! Rainy Day As usual, I am forgotten, unwanted, unloved & rejected......

Temptress wrote:

Tawmis wrote:Quite a few here are fans of the Sierra classics...

Jules, Berit, Cellardoor, Almirena, Collector (of course), Scottish Phantom, Moon Dragon, tink, Kurdt, Angelwolf, myself - to name most (but not all). Smile

Blink! Rainy Day As usual, I am forgotten, unwanted, unloved & rejected......

I didn't drag you here! I was SURPRISED when you showed up on my forum all those eons ago!

And why do people miss the "... to name a few, but not all!"

Tawmis wrote:Hah! True! Very true! You're one of the few who came here looking for help - and then we trapped you into staying! The ones I listed, I actually dragged (most of them kicking and screaming) from the Sierra boards, or Sierra related forums I trolled.

Heh heh. I think this one will have to be blamed on Collector, though. He's the only way I found out that Tawmis.com even existed. Thank yooooou! Kicking and screaming is only how I burn out bright on other forums. *laughs* I think your entertainment section is housed over quicksand, by the way. It won't let me leave.

Tawmis wrote:And why do people miss the "... to name a few, but not all!"

Because we all want our names typed out in bold text by the infamous Tawmis the Great.

Luthien wrote:

Tawmis wrote:Hah! True! Very true! You're one of the few who came here looking for help - and then we trapped you into staying! The ones I listed, I actually dragged (most of them kicking and screaming) from the Sierra boards, or Sierra related forums I trolled.

Heh heh. I think this one will have to be blamed on Collector, though. He's the only way I found out that Tawmis.com even existed. Thank yooooou! Kicking and screaming is only how I burn out bright on other forums. *laughs* I think your entertainment section is housed over quicksand, by the way. It won't let me leave.

Heh - that's the way it SHOULD be...

Luthien wrote:

Tawmis wrote:And why do people miss the "... to name a few, but not all!"

Because we all want our names typed out in bold text by the infamous Tawmis the Great.

Ah, if I were only half as great as some of you imagine - or heck - even jest...!