Emerald Isle

Emerald Isle
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General
Author(s)	papafuji
Type	Adventure
Version	1.0
Licence	Mixed
Links
[Media:Emeraldisle10ds.zip Download]
Website

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Emerald Isle is a text and graphic classic adventure game/interactive fiction written by Austin brothers, ported to the Nintendo DS, as part of the Nintendo DS Classic Adventures series.

The Nintendo DS Classic Adventures series contains a range of text and graphic classic adventure games and interactive fictions ported to NDS created in the 80's for old computer like the TRS-80, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Atari 8 bits or 16 bits machines like the Atari ST or the Amiga.

The collection was ported to the NDS by papafuji and are divided into 3 categories (see complete list):

• Classic Graphic Adventures.
• Magnetic Scrolls Adventures.
• Classic Text Adventures.

This homebrew is under the category of Classic Graphic Adventures, which you can find Level 9's adventures as well as Scott Adams and Brian Howarth adventures, with Atari 8 bits graphics or brand new NDS illustrations.

User guide

List of Classic Adventures

All games from the Classic Adventure series have the same interface (stories are displayed on the top screen and text inputs on the bottom sreen), and can be played exactly the same way.

Classic Graphic Adventures	Magnetic Scrolls Adventures	Classic Text Adventures
Ghost Town	Corruption	DoubleScott
Pyramid of Doom	Fish!	Mysterious Adventures
Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle	Jinxter
The Golden Baton	Myth
The Time Machine	The Guild of Thieves
Emerald Isle	The Pawn
The Saga of Erik The Viking	Wonderland
The Jewels of Darkness Trilogy
The Silicon Dreams Trilogy
The Time & Magik Trilogy

Gameplay

Emerald Isle. Fierce winds seize your aircraft over the Bermuda Triangle and hul it to destruction. You escape by parachute, floating downwards to the lonely atoll, the Emerald Isle, from which few escape. The only way out is to solve its challenges...

Walkthrough can be found here.

Input text

• There are two ways to type words with the stylus of your Nintendo DS.
  • By default, you can directly draw the letters on the screen, according to the PA-Grafiti alphabet.
  • Second way is to use the mini keyboard or the numerical keyboard.

Icons

• To avoid typing always the same things, the most used orders can be called via the icons.
• Each icon has two or three states, for example:
  • The hand means GET, DROP and GIVE.
  • The N button means GO NORTH and GO UP.
• Just pick an icon twice or more to select the good order.

Vocabulary

• A sentence in these games is defined by a verb + a noun, such as OPEN DOOR, GO NORTH, etc.
• Some sentences can have only one word, e.g. INVENTORY (to see what you're carrying) or SCORE (to see your score).
• Each game has its own vocabulary, but a lot a verbs are common to all the games.
• In many cases, you don't have to write the entire word, only the first letters are necessary. For example:
  • G HELM is esquivalent to GET HELMET.
  • CLIM DRAWB is equivalent to CLIMB DRAWBRIDGE.

List of the most common words:

GO - ENTER - CLIMB - SWIM - HELP
LOOK - EXAMINE - GET - DROP
THROW - ​CAST - WEAR - REMOVE
OPEN - CLOSE - LOCK - UNLOCK
BREAK - CUT - CHOP - SAY - KILL
 

Shortcuts:

N S E W - Equivalent to GO NORTH, GO SOUTH, GO EAST and GO WEST.
NE NW SE SW - In Level9 and Frotz games, this letters are equivalent to NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, etc.
H - HELP.
I - INVENTORY.
X - EXAMINE (in classic games), EXITS (in Level 9 games).
G - GET (or AGAIN for Inform/Frotz games).
L - LOOK.
SV - SAVE.
LD - LOAD.
R - RESTORE.

Controls

X - Swap keyboard and grafiti input modes

Y/A - YES

B - NO

L/R - Change image size (Level 9 and Magnetic games only)

Start/Select - Save, Restore, Pause, Exit the game

Credits

Author - Austin brothers

Editor - Level 9 Computing

1st release - 1985

Game engine - Level9