The current alternative (which may or may not be viable depending on your device and free space) is to use the ScummVM app's storage folders (I suppose the "external" one is more appropriate) to put your games' data files in. This will allow ScummVM to access them without going through SA...

I didn't want to frabkenstein the 2.7.0 beta thread: would it be possible for ScummVM to request MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE instead of using SAF? I understand that this permission enables apps to use the File API again. Google has a special policy for this permission, but mentions that it is "not ...

ScummVM 2.8.0 added MT32 support to Ultima 6 and it sounds great. Thanks!

So we *have* to use SAF for file access (...). I understand that SAF is slow, especially when a lot of files are involved. It might be a suitable workaround to offer an option to copy the needed files into ScummVM's own directory (using SAF) and then use regular file access on the copied files. VCM...

Thanks. When directly searching for "nuvie mt32" I just found another thread confirming the issue (which I unfortunately didn't find befeore). It seems that Nuvie indeed doesn't support MT32 and one has to run the DOS version of Ultima 6 is Dosbox to get MT32 music.

I Just tested Ultima 6 (False Prophet) with ScummVM 2.7.0 Win64 and it seems the music will always be AdLib. I've set Audio to "MT32 Emulator" in game options and the MT32 Emulation works fine in SQ3, but I can't get Ultima 6 to use MT32. Is there any secret I'm missing?