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Posted June 15, 2016
Hi everyone!

I bought Ultima 1 + 2 + 3 and I've recently finished the first one. However the second game seems to have much worse graphics, I'm not sure what the technical name for them is, but it's the graphical style that uses a lot of magenta and teal!

I am guessing that that is how the apple II was and the Ultima 2 game is a lot more faithful to the original graphics, but I don't understand why there seems to be updated graphics for U1 but not the second one :/ I know that there is a version with similar art style to the first one because I've seen pictures and I was wondering if there is any way I could get that version as I don't really hold any nostalgia for that art style and I would much rather play it with the U1 graphics if possible.

Thank you for your time!
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Posted June 15, 2016
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MerlinGamer: Hi everyone!

I bought Ultima 1 + 2 + 3 and I've recently finished the first one. However the second game seems to have much worse graphics, I'm not sure what the technical name for them is, but it's the graphical style that uses a lot of magenta and teal!

I am guessing that that is how the apple II was and the Ultima 2 game is a lot more faithful to the original graphics, but I don't understand why there seems to be updated graphics for U1 but not the second one :/ I know that there is a version with similar art style to the first one because I've seen pictures and I was wondering if there is any way I could get that version as I don't really hold any nostalgia for that art style and I would much rather play it with the U1 graphics if possible.

Thank you for your time!
Apparently the version of 1 included is the EGA remake, while the second one is the original CGA version.
Posted June 15, 2016
You can find the EGA graphics upgrade for Ultima 2 here:
reconstruction.voyd.net/index.php?event=project&typeKeyword=upgrades
Post edited June 16, 2016 by Paraca
Posted June 15, 2016
Apparently, Ultima 1 didn't get an IBM PC port until 1986, whereas the one for Ultima 2 was released alongside the original Apple II version in 1982, when they had to work with much heavier limitations on that kind of system. That's why it only has CGA colours instead of the nicer EGA ones.
Also, it's sadly known to be a somewhat shoddy port of the game all around.

The same also applies to the PC version of Ultima III, unfortunately.


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Posted June 15, 2016
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InfraSuperman: Apparently, Ultima 1 didn't get an IBM PC port until 1986, whereas the one for Ultima 2 was released alongside the original Apple II version in 1982, when they had to work with much heavier limitations on that kind of system. That's why it only has CGA colours instead of the nicer EGA ones.
Also, it's sadly known to be a somewhat shoddy port of the game all around.

The same also applies to the PC version of Ultima III, unfortunately.

Source: Hardcore Gaming 101
True, the colors in Ultima III are unattractive, but it's still a great game - leaps and bounds ahead of Ultima II. I have yet to play the ones after III but will get around to it sometime soon.
Posted June 15, 2016
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Tonnemaker: True, the colors in Ultima III are unattractive, but it's still a great game - leaps and bounds ahead of Ultima II. I have yet to play the ones after III but will get around to it sometime soon.
Personally, I don't even mind the graphics that much, I just based my post on what HG101 had to say about the games, and they claimed that the PC ports for both of them are pretty glitchy. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about either Ultima 2 or 3 to really have an opinion on that.
Post edited June 15, 2016 by InfraSuperman
Posted June 15, 2016
I honestly thought someone wanted advice on how to downgrade the graphics on Ultima II and I thought "there's someone I want to meet".
Alas...
Posted June 15, 2016
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Tonnemaker: True, the colors in Ultima III are unattractive, but it's still a great game - leaps and bounds ahead of Ultima II. I have yet to play the ones after III but will get around to it sometime soon.
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InfraSuperman: Personally, I don't even mind the graphics that much, I just based my post on what HG101 had to say about the games, and they claimed that the PC ports for both of them are pretty glitchy. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about either Ultima 2 or 3 to really have an opinion on that.
The graphic themselves aren't bad (for the time, obviously) but the colors are awful. But you can't blame them for the color pallette. I don't recall any real glitches affecting gameplay offhand - I don't remember any crashes or graphical errors. The dungeons are very primitive, but as far as I know they're no different from the ones in the Apple II version of the game.

But I may have simply forgotten some problems, or maybe I got lucky and never ran into them.
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