(Go to the Start menu and type in the search field then reinstall again. You could try deleting the game and deleting all registry entries pertaining to this game. Please read the comments section you may find a fix amongst the many comments made today. The game played well for a while, and I thought I'd been registered, and then, in the middle of a game, it quit on me, with a message that said 'YOUR TEMPORARY KEY HAS EXPIRED!', and I can't even click upon the 'Register' key to register it, because it's only a printed image! I think you should talk to AWEM.
The bottom line is I feel these two versions of Star Defender give you excellent value for your money. That was about 5 years before the New Coke debacle. Someone said in the late 70s, that you wouldn't want to come up with a new version of Coke, because then it wouldn't be Coke. I would caution the developers to not try and redesign the wheel TOO much. There just seems to be a significant amount of thought and effort put into this series. However, if I'd never seen SD2, I'm sure I'd still get addicted to this one.
I think I may prefer the more conventional approach of SD2. That kind of detracts from the experience for me. These two redesigns tend to get my eyes off the whole screen, and make me concentrate more on just avoiding getting hit and managing my supplemental weapons (though the mines are a really useful new weapon). Also, the main weapon has less powerup levels, but gets pretty powerful quickly. It forces you to concentrate on managing those weapons, trying to get rid of the last one before you acquire a new one or, maybe even letting bonuses go. This generates a different strategy, one that I don't necessarily like. The other ones are wiped out as soon as you acquire a new one. In SD3, you can't seem to stockpile anything but the last one you acquired. In the old game you could stockpile as many missiles as you could earn, but you could only fire the last one you acquired, until you used them all up or acquired more of the other one. Now, there's around a dozen - much more interesting - but they're handled differently. In SD2 there were only 2: straight and homing missiles. The main change, though, is the handling of the supplemental weapons. Added a "kids" level, which, if you're not too proficient a player, gives you an extra set of levels to play through. Looks like they've got some interesting new enemy designs here, though I'm only a little ways in. They've jettisoned the part of the help which had a blurb on each of the enemy types which makes them more of a surprise but I'd rather have that part of the help back. It's definitely a rethink of some of the items in SD2.
#STAR DEFENDER 4 GAMETOP REGISTRATION#
Then just click, hold, and drag and the window will expand and the registration button will appear.
The window has a diagonal stretch tab (is that the right term?) Just mouse over it and the diagonal arrow will replace your cursor.
#STAR DEFENDER 4 GAMETOP WINDOWS#
The answer is so old fashioned Windows that some may have forgotten about it. On some machines or, maybe, monitors - and this DOESN'T seem to be resolution related (I tried raising mine) - the intro window is not completely displayed, therefore, the registration button is hidden. It may have been said above, but I didn't find it on a search under registration and I didn't have time to read every post: I was one of those that found SD2 quite addictive, though I'm not an experienced shmupper.įirst, a suggestion on the registration problem.