/SQ4CDBirdyEggRestoration

Restores both software store easter eggs and the Ulence Flats egg in the CD version of SQ4.

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SQ4CD Birdy Easter Egg Restoration

SQIV Birdy Egg Restoration cover art.

Restores both software store easter eggs in the CD version of SQ4. Also fixes the Floppy version lockup when both eggs are executed at the same time.

Version 0.6: Added Ulence Flats Easter Egg.

Version 0.7: Added fix KeyPad graphical issue.

INSTALLATION

Copy the desired patches into the SQ4CD game folder.

Software Store patches: 397.hep, 397.scr and 397.v56.

Ulence Flats' bar patches: 615.hep, 615.src and 615.msg.

KeyPad patch: 502.v56

Changes

Smell the left wall square and then face directly south.

A gif showing how smelling the wall activates an easter egg.

Taste the right wall square.

a gif demonstrates licking the wall to start the second egg.

(Gif source)

The Ulence Flats Bar Easter Egg is triggered by looking at the alien writing in the doorway Six (6) times.

How to trigger the Bar Easter Egg by looking at the writing six times.

It displays a list of Quality Assurance testers (Since Gary Owens did not record audio for these messages they appear as text only). The formatting isn't 100% accurate becuase of changes in the code between SQ4 Floppy and SQ4CD versions, but it's close enough for now I guess.

The resulting text from the easter egg.

In the "Laserbeam hallway", the keypad LCD doesn't display correctly until a number is entered. After looking at the code in room 541, there isn't really a way to correct this programatically. The easy way to fix the issue is to just draw the dark grey "000" into view 502.

Shows changes to view 502, the laser hallway keypad.

https://github.com/Doomlazer/SQ4CDBirdyEggRestoration