Elvira needs your help

[fldc]

Both games, Elvira and Elvira 2 seem to crash with an

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Looking for elvira1
Trying to start game 'Elvira - Mistress of the Dark'
allocateItem: Itemheap overflow!

Have i missed something? I've tried these games (Floppy/DOS/English) with both 0.10.0 and 0.11.0svn, and no luck.

[eriktorbjorn]

Both games, Elvira and Elvira 2 seem to crash with an

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Looking for elvira1
Trying to start game 'Elvira - Mistress of the Dark'
allocateItem: Itemheap overflow!

Have i missed something? I've tried these games (Floppy/DOS/English) with both 0.10.0 and 0.11.0svn, and no luck.

Is this on a 64-bit system? I know we used to get that error in some AGOS games, but I thought that had been fixed - or at least worked around - by now.

[fldc]

Yes this is on a 64-bit system

edit: tried compiling a 32-bit binary and all was working fine.

[eriktorbjorn]

Yes this is on a 64-bit system

edit: tried compiling a 32-bit binary and all was working fine.

You may want to file a bug report, then.

[hwm]

Is there anybody who has some more information on the dutch release of Elvira II? It seemed to be a localized version, but I find it a bit hard to believe, especially given the rarity of dutch translations.

[Dwyloc]

Is it just me or dose save not work with ether elvira 1 or 2 with current SVN builds for windows.

I have the english dos versions of the games from the Elvra Horror Pack and keep getting the error message "WARNING: saveGame: Failed to save slot 1!" when ever I try to save.

[Dwyloc]

Fixed my save problem.

For some reason leaving save location set to default dose not work. You have to set a save location.

[Jedras]

I almost finished Elvira 2 but encountered two major problems. First there was a mushroom in the last level of spider caves that somehow caused the game to crash when I got near it. I just avoided the mushroom but there's a second, bigger issue. Somewhere in catacombs power points stop regenerating and because of this I find this game pretty much uncompletable. That's English/floppy/amiga version.

[jamiehavok2]

The p.p points not regenerating bug is still happening on Elvira 2. Started playing it on scummvm because the compatibility is labled "Good" but soon encountered this bug sometime in studio 1 and couldn't progress the game. Playing in dosbox i cant reproduce the bug, so does seem like a scummvm thing with the save files. Maybe should label this game as "bugged"
I am playing the Elviras Horror pack version distributed by Adventuresoft on their website in the late 90s. Was Bundled With Elvira i and waxworks on cd for dos pc.

[Praetorian]

The p.p points not regenerating bug is still happening on Elvira 2. Started playing it on scummvm because the compatibility is labled "Good" but soon encountered this bug sometime in studio 1 and couldn't progress the game. Playing in dosbox i cant reproduce the bug, so does seem like a scummvm thing with the save files. Maybe should label this game as "bugged"
I am playing the Elviras Horror pack version distributed by Adventuresoft on their website in the late 90s. Was Bundled With Elvira i and waxworks on cd for dos pc.

Could you please add this information (and anything else you thing might help) to the existing bug report we have for this issue?
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/6409

[jamiehavok2]

Could you please add this information (and anything else you thing might help) to the existing bug report we have for this issue?
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/6409

ok i managed to replicate the bug right at the start of the game and added 2 save files, 1 before and 1 after it happened.

[Praetorian]

Could you please add this information (and anything else you thing might help) to the existing bug report we have for this issue?
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/6409

ok i managed to replicate the bug right at the start of the game and added 2 save files, 1 before and 1 after it happened.

Thank you for taking the time to do this. It really does help, even if the bug report itself is quite old.

Personally I only have (as far as I remember) the GOG version of the game which is the DOS version (I guess, since it comes bundled with DOSBox), so I could probably replicate this on mine.. I am not too familiar with the games but I could give it a go; might take me a while to focus on it, due to real life issues --we'll see.

[Praetorian]

Could you please add this information (and anything else you thing might help) to the existing bug report we have for this issue?
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/6409

ok i managed to replicate the bug right at the start of the game and added 2 save files, 1 before and 1 after it happened.

From the info posted on the bug report recently it seems that the issue had been fixed in the development versions (2.9.0git) of ScummVM for a few months now, and thus the bug is marked as resolved / fix.

If you were testing with a stable ScummVM version (eg. 2.8.1) it may be worth also testing with a daily build of 2.9.0git to see if this has been fixed for your case too.