Playing Monkey Island SE on ScummVM!

[billwashere]

??? I think you mean SMI:SE. Steam works fine in Wine and Steam has nothing to do with Direct2Drive.

I'm an idiot.

If someone knows how to modify SCUMMVM source to be compatible with the new version

There are many problems with this.
1) Legal
2) Audio is in XWB (Xbox Wave Bank) files. These are a closed source format and there are no open source codecs so there will be no sound. A way around this would to re-encode them and upload them as ogg/flac/what ever files. This could cause legal actions
3) As mention by bobdevis. The pixel shader effects.
4) Different file types http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.p ... did=199164

This is just to name a few

Well steam is known to work with wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1554

Thanks ezekiel000, for the heads up.

10 ) TODO: Files are in the wrong order but will play.

Can anyone figure out the track list. I do not own the cd version so i can not verify the track list without playing monkey island on ScummVM, then on Monkey Island SE

Bill

[Red_Breast]

If someone knows how to modify SCUMMVM source to be compatible with the new version

There are many problems with this.
1) Legal
2) Audio is in XWB (Xbox Wave Bank) files. These are a closed source format and there are no open source codecs so there will be no sound. A way around this would to re-encode them and upload them as ogg/flac/what ever files. This could cause legal actions
3) As mention by bobdevis. The pixel shader effects.
4) Different file types http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.p ... did=199164

This is just to name a few


Bill

I think we established that dbzdeath was talking about the SCUMM games that have been re-released on Steam. Not SMI:SE.

[billwashere]

Once again, i'm an idiot. Think i might keep quite for a while.

[eriktorbjorn]

I think we established that dbzdeath was talking about the SCUMM games that have been re-released on Steam. Not SMI:SE.

He was asking about the "new version(the new textures and new sounds)" in a thread titled "Playing Monkey Island SE on ScummVM". I don't see how that could be anything else than SMI:SE.

(In which case his question has been answered pretty thoroughly by now.)

[Charlii]

So, anyone tried extracting the Scumm-files from the iPhone application yet?

[Espiox]

@dbzdeath

There is a project to include speech into the old game. They are getting ready for a test

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http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=199288

Yep, and we're looking for people to play the game and help us fix a few remaining problems. I should have a installation batch file ready soon, but until then you can find everything you need to know in that thread. All you need (aside from the relevant tools) is a copy of MI:SE (and optionally the CD version of MI1, but you can actually get that from the SE datafiles).

[Red_Breast]

I think we established that dbzdeath was talking about the SCUMM games that have been re-released on Steam. Not SMI:SE.

He was asking about the "new version(the new textures and new sounds)" in a thread titled "Playing Monkey Island SE on ScummVM". I don't see how that could be anything else than SMI:SE.

(In which case his question has been answered pretty thoroughly by now.)

So Mac-es, from first page, was wrong?

"dbzdeath is referring to this post from sev:

http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/07/s ... ummvm.html "

Without dbzdeath we'll never know.
Whatever that's the reason why I posted that.

[eriktorbjorn]

So Mac-es, from first page, was wrong?

"dbzdeath is referring to this post from sev:

http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/07/s ... ummvm.html "

Without dbzdeath we'll never know.
Whatever that's the reason why I posted that.

That's probably where dbzdeath got the impression that supporting the special edition of Monkey Island was a simple five-minute hack. But sev wrote that article before the special edition was released, so he was clearly talking about the other SCUMM games that were released on Steam.

And this thread is - or was - apparently about extracting the original version Monkey Island (possibly with the new music, but without speech or new graphics) from the special edition.

[Vinterstum]

So, anyone tried extracting the Scumm-files from the iPhone application yet?

Yep. One big difference is that the audio is in .caf format (Apple's Core Audio File). The classic stuff is the same, as far as I can tell.

[Charlii]

So I can buy this, play the new version on my iPhone and then extract the classic version with a few clicks (converting the music with QuickTime Pro) and then play my perfectly legal copy of the classic MI using ScummVM? Yay!

[Vinterstum]

So I can buy this, play the new version on my iPhone and then extract the classic version with a few clicks (converting the music with QuickTime Pro) and then play my perfectly legal copy of the classic MI using ScummVM? Yay!

Assuming there's nothing in the App Store license that prevents that (IANAL), yes.

EDIT: There's an audio converter called Switch which can directly batch convert from .caf to .mp3.

[Charlii]

I'm not very good at reading legal texts, but the iTunes Store terms state that I have the right to copy a product for personal use, and that I can use it on up to five machines. The only catch would be if this counted as circumventing the DRM, but I can't really see how that would be the case since I'm only using Apple's built-in tools to copy a set of files...

[sev]

If someone knows how to modify SCUMMVM source to be compatible with the new version

There are many problems with this.
1) Legal

This is wrong argument, i.e. implementing such support will not violate the laws.


Eugene

[bobdevis]

This is wrong argument, i.e. implementing such support will not violate the laws.
Eugene

We are talking about MI1SE right? There is DRM in there so ScummVM support would effectively be a crack, if you look at it in a shortsighted way.

[marzipan]

EDIT: There's an audio converter called Switch which can directly batch convert from .caf to .mp3.

According to my experience just now it doesn't seem to recognise .caf files. =\