CMI: Is this a bug or is the game just weird?

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:39 pm

Can anyone help me discover if there's something wrong here or not? I'm playing Curse of Monkey Island in NORMAL MODE and I've arrived on Blood Island. Griswold Goodsoup has mentioned that the door to the lodger's room has been locked because it's haunted and Guybrush can ask if he'll open it for him (which he refuses to do)... Except it's already open!

Is this a bug in the game? Is it ScummVM being weird? Is it referring to MEGA-MONKEY MODE? I understand from a guide I looked at that Stan's card can be used to unlock the door... except, like I said, it's already unlocked.

What's going on?

Thanks!

spacetroll · Post by **spacetroll** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:56 pm

I've never played the game on Easy but, yes, in Mega-Monkey the door is locked and must be picked open. I assume that the dialogue you mention is simply extraneous in the mode you are playing in. I doubt that it's a bug.

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:33 pm

That surely is a bug, then. Perhaps someone else can verify?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:37 pm

No, that's not a bug

When you free Stan, he hands you his laminated business card. In Mega-Monkey, you use this card to Jimmy open one of the doors upstairs. In normal mode, the door is already open

Walkthrough for normal mode:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/ ... land_j.txt
Walkthrough for mega-monkey mode:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin ... 9083/21036

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:21 pm

Then it's definitely a bug then... Why does Guybrush keep asking the bartender to unlock the door upstairs when it's already open? That shouldn't be an option in the game.

So it's either a bug in ScummVM or in the game...

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:56 pm

Er.. are you sure you're talking about the door upstairs and not the door to the crypt?

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:08 pm

md5 wrote:Er.. are you sure you're talking about the door upstairs and not the door to the crypt?

Yes, I'm sure I'm talking about the door upstairs ("it was locked to keep the ghoul that haunts it at bay" or something) and not the crypt.

Either it's bug in the game or ScummVM.

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:01 pm

Ok, I just checked. Guybrush actually asks:

"Would you let me into that guest room upstairs?"

Goodsoup replies:

"No! That room is locked for a reason."

Yet, as everyone seems to agree, the room is UNLOCKED in Normal Mode. I don't recall this error in CMI when I first played it in XP. Could it be a ScummVM bug?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:21 pm

Perhaps this phrase is a bug in the original game, which was left in by mistake in normal mode?

PsYcO · Post by **PsYcO** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:55 pm

personally i think you should upload a save so one of us can check

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:41 am

PsYcO wrote:personally i think you should upload a save so one of us can check

Yes, I must be hallucinating. Check away:

http://www.thunderpeel2001.com/files/comi.s45

(Right-click Save As...)

PsYcO · Post by **PsYcO** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:25 am

k, thanks ill check in the morning

PsYcO · Post by **PsYcO** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:51 pm

thats strange, looks like a bug... though when i get some time ill play though it again to see if i can find anything more into the matter

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:10 pm

Yep, thank goodness somehow is actually believing me now! It's a weird ass bug that's either in the original game (and surely people would have spotted it) or it's in ScummVM.

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:59 pm

Is anyone able to play the game natively, without ScummVM, who can test this?