Rebel Assault

dls · Post by **dls** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:47 pm

I thought I saw somewhere that Star Wars Rebel Assault was supported, but can't find it on the list. Pls advise. Thanks

Post by **sev** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:08 pm

No, we never ever considered it since it's not a 2d point and click adventure

Eugene

dls · Post by **dls** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:20 am

Too bad. Well, one other question: I found Monkey Islands 1 and 3 on the list, but what about Monkey Island 2 (LeChuck's Revenge)? Thanks

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:32 am

Monkey Island 2 is supported as well, but Monkey Island 4 (being a 3d game) is not supported.

LogicDeLuxe · Post by **LogicDeLuxe** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:56 pm

Where did you get your funny list from?
You'd better take a look at the readme.txt, which has a list of supported games. And there also is the compatibility list.

dls · Post by **dls** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:24 am

Where did you get your funny list from?

I was referring to the compatibility list, but now I see that it's clearly listed there... I must be losing it...

SuperDre · Post by **SuperDre** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:56 pm

Seeing as Clone2727 has implemented the video's, and since it is '2d' based I couldn't see a reason not to implement it into ScummVM, ofcourse is a developer is willing to spend time on it. It was and still is a fun game..

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:59 pm

SuperDre wrote:Seeing as Clone2727 has implemented the video's, and since it is '2d' based I couldn't see a reason not to implement it into ScummVM, ofcourse is a developer is willing to spend time on it. It was and still is a fun game..

What? I didn't implement the videos. I implemented the sound part. There's a lot left to do, including palette changes. And it segfaults a lot. Not to mention that the entire space shooter is partially hardcoded and none of the IACT chunks of the videos are handled. I was merely having fun with the code.

In addition, I'm sure we'd all turn down any engine that would run Rebel Assault in the main source tree.

SuperDre · Post by **SuperDre** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:16 pm

clone2727 wrote:What? I didn't implement the videos. I implemented the sound part. There's a lot left to do, including palette changes. And it segfaults a lot. Not to mention that the entire space shooter is partially hardcoded and none of the IACT chunks of the videos are handled. I was merely having fun with the code.

In addition, I'm sure we'd all turn down any engine that would run Rebel Assault in the main source tree.

LOL, I'm sorry, I wasn't referring to you having implemented the whole video's only the playing of the fileformat, but I guess I even misunderstood that..
I do hope you're joking about not accepting any engine that would run RA if some developer would spend time on it implementing it completely in ScummVM (not that anyone might). It's not like a lot of Humongous Entertainment games are point and click adventure games, and yet they got into the ScummVM main source tree, so that would be very hypocritical..

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:54 pm

SuperDre wrote:I do hope you're joking about not accepting any engine that would run RA if some developer would spend time on it implementing it completely in ScummVM (not that anyone might). It's not like a lot of Humongous Entertainment games are point and click adventure games, and yet they got into the ScummVM main source tree, so that would be very hypocritical..

No, I'm not joking. Rebel Assault would be a completely different engine. Humongous Entertainment games use the same engine.

We only have enough of the INSANE code to run the Full Throttle. Allowing Rebel Assault to run in ScummVM would be like the equivalent of having Mysteries of the Sith run in ScummVM. They share the same video format, so how much work could it be? </sarcasm>

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:26 pm

No Rebel Assault engine will make it into ScummVM.

A majority of HE games are actually point&click adventure games, the others still share the same engine, so support for them is almost for free, which is the only reason they are in. This would be different for RA.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:56 pm

Rebel Assault isn't an adventure game....why would it be supported beyond sharing the same video code with EVERY OTHER LucasArts game released around that time?

tsoliman · Post by **tsoliman** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:11 pm

The key piece is "not in the main source tree"

If someone wants to make it happen, it won't go into the main project. It would probably go into scummvm-misc.