Monkey Island CD problems

JTurnblat · Post by **JTurnblat** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:41 pm

So I played through MI1 and MI2 recently using your emulator on my Vista machine. I loaded straight from the "Monkey Island Madness" disc each time since when I copied the files to my harddrive and tried to play them via SCUMMVM, it said they were missing sound files or something and it saved me a lot of trouble to just use the disc.

However, I've currently been playing MI3 from the disc and now that I'm up to where I need to change discs, I can't continue. I copied the files to my harddrive and, this time, I can start the game with sound intact and no warning/error messages. Unfortunately, I don't have access to my save files from the last half-play-thru. How can I get my save file back on this copy of the game?

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:53 pm

JTurnblat wrote:Unfortunately, I don't have access to my save files from the last half-play-thru. How can I get my save file back on this copy of the game?

If you added the game a second time, while the first one was still in the list of game, the second got a different internal id than the first. The internal id is what ScummVM uses to tell the games apart, and in most engines it's also used to generate the filenames of the saved games.

That probably came out sounding rather confusing, though. What I would try in your place would be to remove The Curse of Monkey Island completely from ScummVM's list of games, and then add it again. That might give it the correct id.

If that doesn't work, there are other ways to proceed but they might take a bit more effort.

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:38 am

Is it also stored in the savegame to which internal ID it belongs? Otherwise he could also save a game in the new instance to find out the expected savegame name and then rename the other savegames.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:17 am

Vampire wrote:Is it also stored in the savegame to which internal ID it belongs? Otherwise he could also save a game in the new instance to find out the expected savegame name and then rename the other savegames.

No, the game ID is not stored in the savegame itself, it's used to determine the save game name. The game ID can usually be found from the "Edit game" dialog

cmoretrix · Post by **cmoretrix** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:35 pm

I'm also having this issue...

I have only added this game once and when it comes to the point where disk two is needed it crashes... have I missed something critical?

raina · Post by **raina** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:11 pm

cmoretrix wrote:I'm also having this issue...

I have only added this game once and when it comes to the point where disk two is needed it crashes... have I missed something critical?

If you're playing straight off the discs, then you missed the part where you were supposed to copy the required files on your hard drive. ScummVM doesn't handle multiple discs.

cmoretrix · Post by **cmoretrix** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:53 pm

I'm playing from the HDD... I copied over COMI.LA0/1/2 and the resources file as it said in the wiki but it's still crashing

raina · Post by **raina** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:13 pm

Ok, since the crash happens just as disc 2 data should kick in, it might be that it's corrupt. Copying disc 2 again could help.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:50 pm

Or maybe you're using an outdated version of ScummVM. Older versions used to have some trouble at that point, if memory serves me. Possibly even crashes.

cmoretrix · Post by **cmoretrix** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:28 pm

I was a Muppet! I forgot to copy some of the resource files from the second disk!

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