Broken Sword mpeg2 problem

[Pretty_Boy]

Hi there,

i just wanted to play my old broken sword again and i knew i had to download scummvm in order to play it, i remembered from my last time playing it. So i did and when i startet the game i saw no cutscene and i was instant in the game with the message, that mpeg2 is no longer supportet. I found out that i needed to download a package from the scummvm page and so i did and now it works, but i have still 2 questions. Why are there only 6 files in the package, in my folder are many more mpeg2 files, are there some scenes missing or are there just the important scenes? i have never played through the entire game, i would not know if there are scenes missing. and the second question is, why are some files ending with .dxa and some are ending with .fla ?

thanks for helping me

[eriktorbjorn]

Why are there only 6 files in the package, in my folder are many more mpeg2 files, are there some scenes missing or are there just the important scenes?

That sounds like much too few. Are you sure you got the right file?

If it's the first Broken Sword game, you need the "Broken Sword Cutscene Pack (English, DXA compression)", which should contain 38 files, not six. There are add-ons for other languages, e.g. "Broken Sword Cutscene Pack (German AddOn)", and they contain six files (the one I looked at, at least), but that's only the cutscenes that differ between English and non-English versions. Most of the cutscenes are silent, so they work for all versions.

You can also download "Broken Sword Cutscene Pack (all languages, Subtitles AddOn)", but that's optional. The original game didn't have subtitles for the cutscenes (as far as I know), but ScummVM allows you to turn them on if you have the add-on.

For Broken Sword 2, there are no language add-ons as the speech is stored outside the cutscene files. There are also cutscene packs for the demos, but they contain four or five files, not six. I assumed you weren't talking about any of these.

why are some files ending with .dxa and some are ending with .fla ?

In the original "Smacker" cutscenes, audio and video are stored in the same file. The re-encoder splits them into two: one for video (.dxa) and one for audio (.fla).

Edit: I used the wrong name as an example for the language add-on.

[Pretty_Boy]

aaaaaahhh now i get it.
i am from germany, so i downloaded the german version of course. but i did not know, that i have to download the english version first (with the 38 files), and then get the german addon(with the 6 files) and overwrite them with the german files.

ok, thank you for helping me, but i think they should put a discription there, because i did not understand that without your help, thank you!!!