Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Parlor Games with Laura Bow

SnowB88 · Post by **SnowB88** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:55 am

All the Nick's Picks seem to work fine except this one. I get many script errors when trying to perform certain functions. I couldn't even get the dominoes portion of the game open until I deleted the corresponding OPT file from the folder.

Is this issue simply due to a lack of proper compatibility with current SCUMMVM software or is there an error with my copy of the game?

Post by **digitall** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:50 am

I would suspect that the version you have is not one which our SCI developers have located a copy of and tested with.

Unfortunately most of the original SCI games had various script bugs and no real protection for these corrupting the game state.

The SCUMMVM SCI engine has a system to detect script errors which could lead to odd bugs and fails early with a descriptive error message.

We can then add a script patch or workaround to cope with the problem and prevent odd bugs being reported later due to corrupted game script savestates:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... rounds.cpp
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... atches.cpp

I would suggest that you open a bug on our tracker with file MD5sums for your game version and other details to allow our SCI developers to locate a copy:
http://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/bugs/

We can also try to add workarounds for your issues if you provide a list on the bug of the error messages you have got and when they occur.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:26 am

Does it fail in DOSBox? If it does, it is probably something with your copy.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:01 am

The game works fine here... sounds like your game files are corrupted?

What sort of errors are you getting? Could you provide a list of the game files, together with their sizes?