Download CorsixTH beta 5

Regular visitors to the Meuktracker are undoubtedly familiar with OpenTTD, an open source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Another group of developers is working on a similar project for the game published by Bulfrog in 1997 Theme Hospital, in which the player must design and operate a hospital. As was the case with OpenTTD, the original game data files are needed to CorsixTH to be able to play.

CorsixTH is open source and available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The game can be played in a higher resolution than the original and is available in more translations. Almost all the features of the original are already there and new things are planned to be added. The fifth beta release of CorsixTH was released on Friday and the changelog of that release shows the following changes and improvements:

Gameplay

• Feature: (Some) Cheats added. Type 24328 into the fax machine to get access to them.
• Feature: Custom folder “Avatar” added.
• Feature: Player’s “salary” (read: score) now increases over your level progress.
• Feature: Level based interest rate.
• Feature: Level based “starting staff” (eg original level 5).
• Feature: “No deaths” trophy added.
• Fix: Error could occur when losing a game.
• Fix: Multiple handymen watering the same plant at the same time.
• Fix: Some placements of opposite doors/objects were wrongly forbidden.
• Fix: Error could occur when building a surgery.
• Fix: Autopsy now has an appropriate impact on research.
• Fix: Salaries for doctors were too high.
• Fix: In some cases lose conditions were not triggered.
• Fix: Research room door could disappear after autopsy.
• …and various other bugs fixed.

User Interface

• Feature: The player is now told the reason why he lost, when he loses, instead of being left in the dark.
• Fix: Wrong winning faxes shown for levels 5-11.
• Fix: Weird scrolling behavior could occur after loading a game.
• Fix: No tutorial when playing with demo files.
• Fix: Adviser disappeared too quickly during tutorial.
• Some improvements to text boxes.
• Some improvements to windows.
• … and various other small improvements and fixes.

translations

• Fix: Error caused by some winning faxes in Norwegian.