LOOM CD Sound Problems

papado · Post by **papado** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:06 am

Hi everyone! This is my first post here, so I'll try to be tidy. I had the original version of LOOM (for PC). I downloaded a patch from home of the underdogs to enable to only VGA graphics but also full sound. I followed the FAQ provided and ended up with two files: One called Track1 (ISO file), and another one called Track2 (WMA file). So Track 1 has all of the information required to play the game on it, and track two has all of the sound and music. The, per the FAQ's instructions, Is created a single ISO file with both of the other files on it. But I have no idea what to do from there. Also, while reading the SCUMMVM FAQ, I came across something which might help me solve the problem, which was an option for defining which CD drive you are using (In this case, it would be a virtual drive); but I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

WNivek · Post by **WNivek** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:09 am

Rule 0: No Warez.
The patch provided by The Underdogs is not legal.

If you want Loom with VGA + digital audio, buy the PC CD-Rom version on eBay. (Or the FM-Towns version if you can find & afford it)

papado · Post by **papado** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:33 pm

OK well then could someone at least tell me how Î™ can use command line options in SCUMMVM?

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:22 pm

papado wrote:OK well then could someone at least tell me how Î™ can use command line options in SCUMMVM?

Command-line options are usually something you use when starting ScummVM from a command prompt. How to get a command prompt varies depending on your operating system, and so do the commands it understands. You'll have to consult your operating system documentation for that. All command prompts I've seen has the concept of the search path, which is the directories (or folders, if you prefer that terminology) where it looks for programs by default. This may or may not include the current working directory.

Once you have a command prompt, and ScummVM is in the search path, you should be able to simply type scummvm to start it, or scummvm --help (that's two hyphens) to get summary of available options. To start a game from the command-line, you need to know the ID of the game. You can see that from the "Edit Game" dialog.

So, for instance, suppose you have the game Beneath a Steel Sky, with the ID "sky", and you want to see the alternative intro (the CD version can still display the intro from the floppy version), you would probably type scummvm --alt-intro sky

If you want to use the same options many times, you may be able to create a shortcut or script to invoke ScummVM with those options. Again, that depends on your operating system. You should also be able to set most of them in your ScummVM configuration file.

papado · Post by **papado** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:14 pm

Hey thanks people! I am considering buying the CD copy of LOOM, but I have some questions beforehand: does anyone here have the CD copy, and have they gotten it to work with SCUMMVM? And if so, how? What I am asking is, do you have to install the game and then run it trough SCUMM with LOOM.exe, for example (like with Curse of Monkey Island), or is there another way? Also, does the game run with full sound, or will I only get a muted VGA version for my money (because I can have that for free right now)? Thanks for your help.

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:54 pm

papado wrote:Hey thanks people! I am considering buying the CD copy of LOOM, but I have some questions beforehand: does anyone here have the CD copy, and have they gotten it to work with SCUMMVM? And if so, how? What I am asking is, do you have to install the game and then run it trough SCUMM with LOOM.exe, for example (like with Curse of Monkey Island), or is there another way? Also, does the game run with full sound, or will I only get a muted VGA version for my money (because I can have that for free right now)? Thanks for your help.

the compatibility page holds all the answers.

Why would you use LOOM.exe? Just use scummvm.exe. The original executable is not needed

papado · Post by **papado** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:18 am

I don't get it. I mean, for example, when you want to play CMI through SCUMMVM, don't you have to install the game? If not, then could you please tell me how else to do it? And if there is another way, would I use this same method to run LOOM on SCUMM?

clem · Post by **clem** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:26 am

This might help:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... _tutorial/

only the datafiles are needed, the original game executable can always be discarded; for games which need more than one CD (like CMI), you should copy the contents of both CDs to your harddisk.

mostly it is enough to just copy all the files from CD to harddisk (exceptions exist, like Feeble Files where you first need to run the installer, then use the installed files and the files from CD)

http://www.scummvm.org/documentation.php?view=datafiles
tells you which files you need for each individual game

glokidd · Post by **glokidd** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:39 am

Additonaly info on how to run multi disc games like COMI is available in the readme included with scummvm.

an online version for the latest relese can be found here:

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*chec ... 9-1/README
P.S. the *'s seemed to break the link, just copy and paste it into your browser

(@clem: hehe

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