King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

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King's Quest IV is the first SCI game. To showcase their new SCI engine, Sierra chose its flagship series, King's Quest, to be first to have its next installment to be developed in SCI.

 


Description

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella featured SCI's higher resolution graphics as well as AdLib and Roland MT-32 music with a "full soundtrack" by William Goldstein. An AGI version of King's Quest IV was co-developed for customers who could not meet the high hardware requirements of Sierra's new SCI engine. A customer who purchased the game that could not run the game was able to send in his SCI disks in for replacement with the AGI version.

The Roland MT-32 track gave a quality to the game's music that at the time was unsurpassed.

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KQ4 Dwarves's Mine

There have been a number of releases with the SCI interpreter, with interpreter versions ranging from 0.000.247 to 0.000.502.

 

Versions

Note that the first version(s?) of the game did not recognize resources outside of the resource archive. This made patching the game more difficult as new resource patches cannot simply be dropped into the game's folder. To be accessible to the game the patch needs to be packed and mapped in the game's resource archive to be accessible to the game.

SCI0 (early)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date Notes
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella Unknown 0.000.253   Interpreter does not support patch files
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.106 0.000.274 1988-09-19 Interpreter does not support patch files
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.111 0.000.274 1988-09-23 Interpreter does not support patch files

 

SCI0 (late)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date Notes
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.003.006 0.000.409 1988-12-19 Requires KQ4FIX patch
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.003 0.000.502 1989-06-12  
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.004 0.000.502 1989-08-07 Ego walks faster diagonally

Amiga

Game Game version Interpreter version Date Notes
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.023     Environmental and other incidental sound effects

Atari ST

Game Game version Interpreter version Date Notes
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.003.006 1.001.008   Conversion by Template:Corey Cole

PC version 1.000.106 and 1.000.111 are the only ones with the original detailed graphics. For 1.003.006 and later versions, Sierra simplified the background graphics to make the game fit on one 5.25 inch disk less, removing background detail and separate night pictures.

The KQ4FIX patch dated 1989-02-15 addresses error message "0x80/653 not found" at DOSBox cycle settings above 1500 when entering the screen with the waterfall. This patch only applies to version 1.003.006. This problem was corrected in the later version 1.006.003 and is not needed in versions 1.006.003 or 1.006.004.

PC version 1.006.004 is the latest PC version and has the main character walking faster diagonally. It also changes the arrangement for the Fisherman's theme (for the better) and replaces "Lolotte's death" music with a completely different one. This is the version used for the King's Quest Collector's Edition, King's Quest Collection Series, Roberta Williams Anthology, King's Quest Collection (2006), GOG King's Quest 4+5+6 Collection.

 

Screenshots

There are two main releases of the SCI version of this game, 1.000.111 and 1.006.004. What is notable is the second release has more refined PICs or background images. Also, the first release used completely new PIC resources for all of the night scenes. The second release used PICs that were night sky overlays that were displayed over the daytime PIC.

 

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version 1.000.111 Pool Screen

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version 1.006.004 Pool Screen

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version 1.000.111 Ogre's House

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version 1.006.004 Ogre's House

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version 1.000.111 Witches' Cave

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version 1.006.004 Witches' Cave

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version 1.000.111 Night Pool Screen

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version 1.006.004 Night Pool Screen

 

Downloads

GOG

New Installer

Requires files from the original distribution media. Works with all versions of the game.

Demos

Patches

Lockups or errors at the waterfall scene (for version 1.003.006 only)

 

Walkthroughs/Hints

 

Related Links

 


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