The Simpsons Map by Maggu (simpsons_map) - ..::LvL

The Simpsons Map by Maggu - 20 Jan 2008

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Rate release: Currently 8.53 / 10 (96 votes)

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As the name suggests this is a very accurate replica of the neighborhood of the animated FOX series, The Simpsons. Lover's of beautiful maps will slaver to get their hands on this! The map is full of amazing details. You can run through the house of the Simpsons, visit their Living room, go to Bart's and Lisa's rooms, even the Bathroom is fully walkable.

But that's still not the end, this map is big. You can visit Moe's, The Kwik-e Mart, Bart's and Lisa's school and many more, to make it short: all the cool places you know from the TV series.

But all this has a price: be sure you have enough free memory, set at least 128 MB as hunk_megs! A strong CPU is also a must, because there are many little details like furniture which let rise the poly count.

There is not much i could say about playability, just that this map is only suitable for really big fun matches, you will need lots of people to get speed into the gameplay.

If you are only interested in gameplay, you may want to skip this one as the visuals have been the focus and goal of the map. Bot's seem to have a few issues, be sure to take a look into the maps readme.

For all those, like me, who love detailed and atmospheric maps, this is the one of the best maps to date, a real keeper! Maggu, we want a child from you ;D

Reviewed by Wakey

Tigs notes: The readme states you may need to set the variable com_hunkmegs to 100 at the console, however I did not require this. I suspect people with 512MB or less of RAM may need to.

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Posted comments:

#23 BOY-Z
03 May 2008, 1:33 am

Cant get this to work in QUAKE 3 or ioQuake 3 but works great with world of padman with this command "/map simpsons_q3" in the console...? Another thing on the youtube vid of this map there was homer and mr burns, so how do i get them or are they some sort of mod too...?

#22 sik187
01 May 2008, 9:07 am

the way i got it too run in regular q3a was start in a normal map with no bots then change too the simpsons map thru the console and it loaded but when i tryed too change and gfx settings it just shutdown so another words try the way i just post and might work for u

#21 Tig
17 Mar 2008, 10:25 pm

As you can see from the other comments, some people have problems running this map while other people have no problem at all. Have you tried the map with ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/ - That is the version of Q3A that I used with this map without a problem.

#20 Gangster629 Aka Simmer
Not registered
17 Mar 2008, 9:38 pm

Wtf everytime i start the fucking map it just go to the menu !!! please help me´!

#19 newrailer
Not registered
28 Feb 2008, 3:31 am

I tried the simpsons map in the game World of Padman. I just placed the pk3 in the main wop-directory and started it through the console. And it worked.

#18 Tig
26 Feb 2008, 8:35 am

Yes, it appears that a few people can not run it. Kind of strange that some people can and others can not.

#17 Spectator
Not registered
26 Feb 2008, 7:38 am

I cant run it

#16 ermonski
Not registered
20 Feb 2008, 4:21 pm

saw this map on YouTube (test-played) and it really looks good!

best with SImpsons player models

mmmm donuts

D'OH!

#15 Wolfseye
Not registered
11 Feb 2008, 3:04 am

@Tig: I do have 2 GB of Ram, i can usually run any Map, even for newer Games. I do only use IOQ3 and i tried changing the Hunks from 256 until 768 *rofl* , but still HUNK error. There is something else not right I would think. Any other Map i come across so far, and thats a lot over the years, never made Problems, just this one. :(
And I would really love to play it.

#14 Anonymous
Not registered
07 Feb 2008, 1:56 am

I did get the hunkmegs error and changed mine, the game now crashes on this map and I get this error "Z_Malloc: failed on allocation of 4194328 bytes from the main zone". I`m on XP with a 3Ghz P4 1G RAM and a GE force 6600.
Any ideas? I really want to have a go at this map.

#13 Tig
02 Feb 2008, 8:52 pm

@Wolfseye: You need to have at least 256MB of memory free before you set hunkmegs that high. Quake 3 will only use (I think) what it is available. By this I mean, if you have run Windows XP and have 256MB, Windows will be using about 90MB to 130MB without anything else running (that means no anti-virus, no web browser, no email, no chat application). Setting the hunkmegs value high simply will not work with low system RAM. If you have applications running in the background, they will also be using some RAM, which will leave even less for Quake 3.

If you have heaps of RAM however, you have another problem, and if you have Vista - well, you may be on your own :]

I suggest trying this map with ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/ - works without a problem here.

#12 sst13
02 Feb 2008, 6:08 am

1. set the "\com_hunkmegs" value in your config to 100
2. start q3 and set "\dedicated 1"
3. run map "\map simpsons_q3" in console
4. start q3 a second time and connect to your dedicadet server

This works for me fine...

#11 Wolfseye
Not registered
02 Feb 2008, 2:56 am

I tried the Map even with 256 MB Hunk, still Hunk Alloc Failure. :( Too bad.

#10 Maggu
Not registered
31 Jan 2008, 12:30 am

Thx for the great feedback!

just wanted to mention that Bart's and Lisa's school is not part of the map.
Perhaps you muddled up the police station with it, because of the school bus parking behind it....

anyway, Thank you all.
THIS WEBSITE IS GREAT!

#9 Tig
28 Jan 2008, 10:13 am

Ah.. that is a bug for sure. It should be fixed very soon. Thanks people!

Update: Its fixed. Again, thanks

#8 subst
27 Jan 2008, 10:11 pm

Tig> Looks like all recently added maps (since The Summoning by evillair) have always "comments(0)" displayed when you click on their screenshots, no matter how many comments there actually are

( anyway, this new LVL its great =) , gj! )

#7 Tig
27 Jan 2008, 8:53 pm

@Pasquake - Which comment counter would that be that is not rising? The number next to your comment is '6'. It all appears to be correct to me (but I guess I could have missed something)

#6 Pasquake
26 Jan 2008, 9:33 pm

why comment counter don't rises? O.o

#5 Tig
22 Jan 2008, 8:25 am

187-J4CK4L: You need to read the readme

#4 187-J4CK4L
Not registered
22 Jan 2008, 4:06 am

This map is not working on my computer. After I launch it, this is the error I receive: HUNK_ALLOCATETEMPMEMORY: FAILD ON 26107804. Does anyone know what this error is and how to fix it? I dont have this problem with other maps.

ErasureMode@msn.com

#3 Tryhard
21 Jan 2008, 9:30 am

This map is amazing! I love it! Thank you Maggu!

Edited: 21 Jan 2008 AEST

#2 subst
21 Jan 2008, 5:03 am

:O
11/10 =)

#1 Pasquake
21 Jan 2008, 2:08 am

No comment... only: 10/10 :D