criezy wrote:That's an interesting one. I didn't know the detection code skipped hidden files. Although it does make sense I guess.

Not quite The other game files were hidden as well. Only making DIG.LA0 unhidden is enough to play the game.

Found the reason: For whatever reason DIG.LA0 was set hidden. Removed the attribute and it's found.

I looked quickly at the code and it does indeed look like the detection for the DOS version uses the DIG.LA0 file (which I confirmed by copying that file alone from my DOS version of the game into a new directory and the game is correctly detected in that directory). Do I understand correctly, the ...

OmerMor wrote: I think DIG.LA0 should trigger the detection.

This file is in the directory

The scumm engines is using its own custom detection code, so you won't get those debug messages for SCUMM games I believe (unless a similar message is used in the detection code for those). As for the game not being detected, if you don't get the message about having an unknown version of the game,...

Raziel wrote: Do you get an error message of some sorts while adding the game or something along the lines of "Your game is unknown, please report the following ... "?

No

It's the old DOS version. I think it's odd that the logfile won't show anything like "Skipped game: thedig" or so, just like it doesn't even try to find it.

Yes, I'm using PC. I tried adding the game via command line and via GUI, both didn't work.

HI all, I'm trying to play "The Dig", but ScummVM can't find it. At first I tried with version 1.9.0.2, then with the current 2.0.0, but no success. The game directory contains the files listed here . I tried to check the MD5 sums using the explanation here , but couldn't get any messages....