The ScummMan Report

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:54 am

Hello everyone.

First of all, I have a few bugs [debug messages] to report. Excuse me if they're already known.

Maniac Mansion (ENGLISH/C64)

Unknown MD5 (eea4d9ac2fb6f145945a308e8866915b)! Please report the details (language, platform, etc.) of this game to the ScummVM team.
Illegal access to variable VAR_CUTSCENEEXIT_KEY in file scumm/input.cpp, line 274.
Illegal access to variable VAR_CUTSCENEEXIT_KEY in file scumm/input.cpp, line 274.

Maniac Mansion (ENGLISH/PC-DEMO V1)

WARNING: Failed to instantiate engine for target maniacb!

Zak McKracken (ENGLISH/C64)

Unknown MD5 (35183fc18b1e04cdc9070078260b2c03)! Please report the details (language, platform, etc.) of this game to the ScummVM team.

Second, I've seen a few people asking about a return to menu option [and a feature request entry exists, too]. I have a simple workaround, but you'll need to close the cmd window to quit ScummVM.

Create a batch file, and add these lines:

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@echo off
&#58;loop
SCUMMVM.EXE %1 %2 %3
goto loop

I hope I've been helpful.

plop · Post by **plop** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:18 pm

i have used your menu looper, thanks and much love!

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:35 pm

While tinkering with the INI, I found that the target name could successfully be modified, as long as the gameid=[game] was present.

For example:

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&#91;INDY4CD&#93;
aspect_ratio=true
description=Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis &#40;PC-CD&#41;
fullscreen=true
gameid=atlantis
language=en
path=.\Games\Indiana Jones\Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis\PC-CD\
platform=pc
savepath=.\Games\Indiana Jones\Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis\PC-CD\SAVES\

&#91;INDY4DISK&#93;
aspect_ratio=true
description=Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis &#40;PC-DISK&#41;
fullscreen=true
gameid=atlantis
language=en
path=.\Games\Indiana Jones\Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis\PC-DISK\
platform=pc
savepath=.\Games\Indiana Jones\Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis\PC-DISK\SAVES\

Lastly, Sega CD is not listed as a platform, but The Secret of Monkey Island (ENGLISH/SEGA CD) works, as long as you set the platform to default. [added a feature request entry]

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:41 pm

ScummMan, just to clarify the terminology: Those aren't "bugs". If one of our games prints a warning about something, that doesn't classify as a bug, and should normally be ignored by you.

In that particular case, we may consider turning this into a debug-only message to avoid confusion.

A bug is for example a crash, or clear wrong behavior, neither is the case here...

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:00 am

I didn't see a bug report or debug thread, so I decided to post in general discussion. I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. For the record, though, as a result of these errors, Maniac Mansion (ENGLISH/C64) and Maniac Mansion (ENGLISH/PC-DEMO V1) are not playable. I've heard that some are able to pass the character selection screen in Maniac Mansion (ENGLISH/C64), but for most, it crashes upon clicking the start button.

I had a few other thoughts to share, too, and in hindsight, probably should have kept them seperate from any error reports.

Post by **sev** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:17 am

ScummMan wrote:I didn't see a bug report or debug thread, so I decided to post in general discussion.

The irony here is that on top of each forum, there is READ BEFORE POST message with forum rules. And rule #3a states:

Do not post bugreports here. See the FAQ answer on how to report bugs properly . The appropriate place for those is the Bug Tracker. Same goes for Feature Requests .

Eugene

plop · Post by **plop** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:30 am

I downloaded the Maniac Mansion demo from the site, but it wont even load in ScummVM, this is the one where all the files end in '.man', please help me.

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:13 am

plop, detection for that version of the Maniac Mansion demo has been implemented in the latest ScummVM SVN build (courtesy of kirben).

See: SVN Builds

plop · Post by **plop** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:51 am

Much love to Mr. Kirben for the update!

Now, if only somebody will clean the exe icon up a bit. At 16px, there is some ugly dark border artifacts around it, and at 32px there is a crazy line on the top.

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:34 pm

I don't have that much time on my hands these days, but I thought I'd bring up a few debug messages that I've seen while using ScummVM [0.9.0svn]. A few of them result in crashes. I figured that it would be better to reply to this thread, rather than start a new one.

See: Bug Tracker

Post by **sev** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:05 am

ScummMan wrote:I don't have that much time on my hands these days, but I thought I'd bring up a few debug messages that I've seen while using ScummVM [0.9.0svn]. A few of them result in crashes. I figured that it would be better to reply to this thread, rather than start a new one.

This is really nice set of bugs and I think most of them could be fixed. But please, why don't you read what I wrote? It's really difficult to work with bugs this way. You'd better say "I figured that it would be better to post them to bug tracker" instead.

Though anyway I think that you will ignore this message just like previous one

You're really putting unnecessary load on the Team. 3 of 6 bugs you reported require more discussion and/or additional testing, and forums just not suited for such task, your reports just will be lost.

Eugene

plop · Post by **plop** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:47 am

i am have this problem too, so am hope it to be fixed soon. thanks and much love!

ScummMan · Post by **ScummMan** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:44 pm

Are you happy now, sev? I've added those debug messages to the bug tracker. Is there anything else that I can do for you?

Post by **sev** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:38 pm

ScummMan wrote:Are you happy now, sev? I've added those debug messages to the bug tracker. Is there anything else that I can do for you?

More than happy. Moreover, I already asked you couple questions on those bugs which I am able to resolve. Thank you. I wish all users would be like you and spend some time to report their bugs. We all want ScummVM to be as perfect as possible and that's just impossible without proper users feedback.

Eugene