So I REALLY am trying to get some of my favourite SCUMM games on the Nintendo 64 SCUMMvm and they are NOT working for me!
I'm really not much of a coder or patcher?
Can anyone PLEASE help me with the following games:
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Day of the Tentacle
- Full Throttle
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- I have no mouth and I must scream
- Discworld
Any help with these for a sister?
I tried reading the N64 read me and I am SO confused??
The critical item there is a "Flashcart". If not, then you will need one to do this.
Apart from that, you should get a Linux VM setup or just use MSYS / Cygwin to run the commands listed in order. You will need to vary these slightly based on the game and the image you are creating, but this should be possible to work out.
If you can't understand the commands, try Googling or using Youtube to find a basic Linux command line tutorial on how these kind of commands work.
If The Curse of Monkey Island doesn't work well on the Dreamcast version of ScummVM, I wouldn't expect that it's going to work at all on the Nintendo 64 version.
Full Throttle works but is not completable on the Dreamcast version, so I wouldn't hold my breath on that one either.
Yeah I meant the everdrive 64 v3 not the SD2SNES I got retro games on the brain haha!
Yes I was hoping to get at least a few
Of the games to work. I've seem
Demos of monkey island and beneath a steel sky work for the N64 port of scummvm. I understand if full throttle and some of the others are too memory intensive.
What other scummvm games do you think the n64 could handle???
Its been awhile since I used the N64 port, it is a confusing port but some games will work, everdrive 64 v3 is the best cart for using ScummVM in my opinion. Be aware that there are some severe limitations to the N64 version:
The latest version for N64 I think is 1.6, so only the games supported by 1.6 or earlier will work.
Second, the game HAS to be able to fit onto a ROM image 64 megabytes or LESS, otherwise the N64 will not be able to load the ROM. This unfortunately rules out larger titles like COMI or Full throttle. Not that they would run anyway I think since the N64 has at most 8MB of RAM. Oh, also you have to have the expansion pack installed.
Lastly, saving the game is finicky on N64, it works the best on the everdrive but sometimes saves will disappear, especially if you load other ROMs before finishing your Scumm game, I find it easier just to play through the game in one sitting honestly.
tl;dr is that if you have a scumm game that is supported by ScummVM 1.6 and can be smaller then 64MB it will run on the N64. And the N64 is certainly a hobby port to use.
There are some tuts I can dig up for you if you want to pack them yourself, but its difficult to do on a windows computer, it will be easier if you have access to a linux distro or Mac OS. Alternatively I have some I already packed if you want them, I think monkey island 1 and 2, BASS, and, through the miracle of compression a talkie version of Fate of Atlantis. Let me know and I'll find the HD they're stored on
