Extract Kyrandia 1 Mac CD files on Linux (Ubuntu)?

Crashman · Post by **Crashman** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:11 pm

I purchased a Kyrandia 1 DOS CD from Amazon Marketplace and am now the proud owner of a Kyrandia 1 Macintosh CD.

But the Mac version appears to be supported and I'm running Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) so I figure I can extract the files and everything will be OK.

I installed hfsutils and used hmount to virtually mount the CD then used hcopy to copy all the files from the ENG/1 and ENG/2 folders. ScummVM 0.13.1 would not recognize either of those folders as containing the game files. I then tried placing kyra.dat (from 0.13.1) in all manner of locations with no luck.

Anyone have any thoughts? I'm going to try using the latest SVN of ScummVM next. Any chance I did not copy the files from the CD correctly?

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:41 pm

I can tell you how my kyra1 (from dos cd) ScummVM directory looks like;

Just all the files listed here thrown together. Nu subdirectories of any kind.

So just try to merge everything in one dir. It may work.

Crashman · Post by **Crashman** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:55 pm

I actually tried that but wasn't too exacting in my testing of that method. I'll try that again today as well. I did end up with a bunch of files with those extensions though so that's a start.

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:14 pm

Oh and don't bother sorting out the files you don't need. Just copy everything.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:46 pm

If it's like the PC version, the files in ENG/1 and ENG/2 are identical, and no one knows quite why two copies of the game were included. (Backup? Padding?)

Since it's the Macintosh version, it probably matters which option you give to hcopy. I don't remember which one I used for a different Macintosh game, but -m (MacBinary II) or -r (Raw Data) seem like good ones to try.

Support for the Macintosh version appeared in ScummVM 0.11.0, so if you have an older version than that it won't work either way.

Crashman · Post by **Crashman** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:07 pm

Thanks for the advise! I'll give that a try as well. I think I just used the automatic (-a) option. I'll know later this evening if anything is going to work.

Crashman · Post by **Crashman** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:47 am

Success! I tried every copy mode to be thorough and it finally worked with the -r option for Raw Data. Here's the steps I performed for anyone else in my position. Maybe this should go in the wiki but I don't know exactly how to edit it.

First I cd to the folder where I want my files copied to.
Then I type hmount /dev/cdrom to virtually mount the CD.
Then type hcd ENG then hcd 1 to get to the correct folder.
Then type hcopy -r * . to copy all the files in that folder of the CD to the current folder you are in on your local machine.

These are the steps I needed to take because the hfsutils apps don't behave quite like their Linux counterparts.

After seeing the opening intro on the game all I want is to locate the other games for sale!

Thank you for all the help and suggestions!