Deltaur (SQ1)

The Deltaur

"Before you lies the Sarien battle cruiser, Deltaur. An imposingly massive ship. Now you understand why the Arcada was so easily overtaken. Your first instinct is to turn the ship around and head for home. But, then you realize that unless you do something to try to stop the Sariens, there will be no home."
Room ID#(s):	43, 45 - 63, 65
Bugs & Glitches:	Yes
Odd Coding:	Yes
For Fun:	Yes

Notes

Bugs

i	An Uninteresting Sarien Credit: Kuro-chan If the player comes across a Sarien before he comes to a complete stop and tries to look at him, the game will tell the player there is no one there.

i	Clippy the Trunk Category: Priority Mishap Credit: Kuro-chan After pushing the trunk, there is a priority issue along the trunk where it clips in front of Roger, even though the angle and Roger's position would imply that Roger should be in front. Does not affect 1.0x. Does affect 2.2(2.917)

i	Floating Death Credit: Kuro-chan drop grenade, then walk off the edge. This will cause Roger to die before the fall is complete, leaving Roger hanging over the ledge, but quite dead.

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Ghost Fire Category: Credit: Kuro-chan While Roger is repeatedly dying on the screen, if the player attempts to fire the gun, this will cause the game to crash (because the normal Roger sprite set was not loaded into memory) See Premature Detonation for more details on how to cause the death animation glitch.

i	Headache Time Category: Priority Mishap Credit: Kuro-chan Roger's head will appear over the corridor doorway, rather than under it.

i	Paper-Thin Walls Category: Out of Bounds Credit: Kuro-chan There is a one-pixel high gap in the wall. It is possible to position Roger in the right spot to move out of bounds, it accomplishes very little, since all the player can to is walk to the far right.

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Premature Detonation Credit: Gage Holston Additional Research: Kuro-chan drop grenade while the player is leaving is screen. If timed perfectly as his animation is changed to dying, the player will continue to repeat the dying animation was moving across the screen. If the grenade is dropped too soon, Roger's animation will not change and will carry on as normal. This can be performed while using the elevator. This animation can be interrupted by performing other acts, like dying or firing the pistol (which causes the game to crash)

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Spooky and Pushy! Credit: Kuro-chan push trunk while close to the wall results in Roger clipping through the trunk to push it. Player can clearly see the foot alignment is roughly in the middle of the top bottom of the trunk, showing that Roger went through the trunk before pushing it. This happens in 1.0x and 2.2 (2.917).

i	One Kill was Not Enough?! Credit: Kuro-chan If the players enters the armory (no helmet), drops the grenade (death), and drops dead to the ground, after the textbox disappears, the disintegration animation will partly show up, as though the robot also tried to kill... a dead Roger.

i	Rolling Helmet Credit: Gage Holston drop grenade immediately after the helmet starts rolling towards the elevator. This will kill Roger and lock the helmet in an endless animation in front of the elevator door.

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Variable Overflow Category: Out of Bounds Credit: Kuro-chan While there is a tracker for getting a Sarien kill, nothing tracks how many points a player loses while the Sarien helmet is still on. The player will gain +3 points for a Sarien kill and -5 points for each kill while helmeted. Since nothing is tracking the negative score kills and there is no bottom end check for the score, the variable can overflow and end up near 255 points if enough kills are achieved.

Odd Coding

i	But It Looks Stopped... Credit: Kuro-chan For about 2 or 3 frames, it is possible between when the parser arrow shows up and the ship comes to a complete stop the player can attempt to exit the ship to get a special message.

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Grenade Clipper Category: Priority Mishap Credit: Kuro-chan The game is focused on the player's X-position when dropping the grenade on the Star Generator Guard that it neglects to see what the Y-position is and how it affects the appearance of the grenade. As a result, when dropping the grenade from the top of the catwalk (most players would probably drop it along the bottom edge of the catwalk), it shows the grenade going through the catwalk before landing by the guard. Also, doesn't it look like he dropped it from somewhere highly inappropriate? Alternatively, the player can drop it along the very far edges of the screen and it will appear to detonate behind the wall.

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Lots of Time... TO KILL YOU Credit: Kuro-chan Upon entering this room, the player starts a good chunk of the way into the room (22 pixels in). Given the exit is set at 0, it will take a couple seconds to leave the room (on normal speed), more than enough time to expose and kill Roger before he can escape. Because there is no additional dialogue when the robot incinerates the player, it can create an even more confusing situation.

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Relax! False Alarm! Credit: Kuro-chan Upon entering the room, v37 starts counting down from 60 seconds. At 1, a flag is set, the counter is reset to 60 and a warning is issued that "Roger can hear footsteps". When this reaches 1 a second time, the player gets a message that they are merely walking away. Talk about a false alarm...!

i	Roger Does Not Have Extendo Arms Credit: Kuro-chan open door can be applied to anywhere in the room, not just a nearby door.

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Roger's Mysterious Helmet Credit: Kuro-chan Additional Research: Gage Holston Starting with version 1.1A, all gas death animations no longer have Roger wearing a helmet. Instead, the head was edited and replaced with an incomplete face (the first frame in particular is bad; it is a red blob, instead of a face).

OK. I have mucho paperwork to finish. There is content that has been found since the page was last updated and needs to be included.

• Strange animation glitch can happen with Sarien guard after exiting the elevator.

• GageHolston

• Does 'drop grenade' while trying to steal a grenade do anything special? -- Kuro-chan.