Grim Fandango French

[Telev]

Hello,

I have 2 sets of original CDs of Grim Fandango in French.
When i copy all LAB files in my hard drive from the CDs for use with ScummVM, i have a message "data003.lab is may be corrupted" and the md5 of the file is showed.
I don't know if the file is corrupted or not, but when i have tried to dump my CD's with Alcohol 120%, i get a message

Read data examination error at: 95109

. And when i mount my image, the file data003.lab is not readable. Maybe a copy protection on the CD ?
I have the same behavior with my 2 sets CD's.

How to be sure that the file is good ?

Regards

[Praetorian]

Do you see any visible issues on the problematic CD's surface? Maybe you can try cleaning the readable surface with a soft cloth (look up tips on how to properly clean CDs on Google, there are lots of sites with simple instructions).

The other thing I can think of is try with another CD Drive (or more likely to find a DVD drive) and see if you get better luck.

Edit: I did find some (little) info about a copy protection that localized versions of Grim Fandango had. So in that case, if this applies to the French version as well, I am unsure if it will be easy to make perfect backup copies / dumps of the CD contents. However, maybe the updated (fan made) Grim Fandango setup tool would work for your case? https://quickandeasysoftware.net/grim-f ... so-updated

[Telev]

I have 2 original copies of the games.
Each copy have this issue, so i assume i have 2 good copies and the french localisation is copy protected.
So, if i copy & past the files, i can use it with SCUMMVM or this is not possible beacause the copy protection ?

EDIT: Just tried the setup replacement, and i get the same MD5 hash if i copy/past the file from the CD

[Telev]

Not related to the initial problem.
If i point SCUMMVM into the folder installed with the replacement setup, a file is missing.
The popup forward to an outdated URL.

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[Praetorian]

Not related to the initial problem.
If i point SCUMMVM into the folder installed with the replacement setup, a file is missing.
The popup forward to an outdated URL.
grim.png

The outdated url is for specifying the required data files (by the ScummVM GRIME engine) in order to run the game properly. The current url for this is:
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Grim ... data_files

I am guessing local.lab is on one of the game's CDs.

Also, are you testing with the latest ScummVM release 2.6.0?

So, if i copy & past the files, i can use it with SCUMMVM or this is not possible beacause the copy protection ?

Again I can only guess here, but I'd say it would work. You can try it and confirm this for certain, though.

[Telev]

I use ScummVM 2.6
I think the game will be run fine in the 2 first chapter. Because the only suspect file is the "DATA003.LAB" used in the third chapter.
So, for confirm that, i will do a run of the game.

[Tsomi]

Just in case: if you or someone else is looking for a French version of Grim Fandango which doesn't have this problem, I own this compilation (Le Meilleur de l'Aventure LucasArts, circa 2003) and I can confirm that the CDs don't have any kind of DRM.

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(plus, as a bonus, this collection has the updated SCUMM interpreters from Aaron Giles for DOTT/Sam & Max/Full Throttle/The Dig)

[Telev]

Thanks for the tips @Tsomi
If it's possible, can you provide the md5 hash for the *.LAB files ?

[Tsomi]

Sure, here you go!

Code: Select all

cd71ca4e600198277f22e944988f7516  CREDITS.LAB
08e2505a6a7fd90d3920131b1297c60f  DATA000.LAB
84cf3072586fe2840ae16774adb6f5cb  DATA001.LAB
d236403c0d860961963db0134380001f  DATA002.LAB
76dcfc2c21f3412415674c65611fb76d  DATA003.LAB
2cdb79d3606965a9a0a3378507488dd7  DATA004.LAB
c9dd41f66883959de27f80bbe457f30d  LOCAL.LAB
0c6b8e4fa74024c4afdf7758f8d8b1a0  MOVIE00.LAB
16674e1496e4fb3f0f5f173f12e30617  MOVIE01.LAB
90fce3e6e1f91455d92b072f773f0a67  MOVIE02.LAB
c2ba7adbf09b7a4f69c180f1c74297ee  MOVIE03.LAB
7e2a4578010cdf5407bb24dcfb6705e4  MOVIE04.LAB
dbe35af39eec29db21a4c6e1c228cc9d  VOX0000.LAB
e940d5a4a4f2229f0a6674bf45464457  VOX0001.LAB
24bbf1f6d3d63ae07ad2dd06bd7dad8c  VOX0002.LAB
c4aa2c45b24f351e8fce40a141084fb0  VOX0003.LAB
a49dce6e1bb83ad40b47e03903aaff1b  VOX0004.LAB
fea10f11abe3ac32d53e4798f80d5ba0  YEAR0MUS.LAB
c555c95b0f7557617da364091589d6ea  YEAR1MUS.LAB
775376fccf0415258be6b33e7e6e4985  YEAR2MUS.LAB
df556a8fc151f6f48bb68a8cef855e7d  YEAR3MUS.LAB
939e041887c1b14f99ad951ac8e3cb25  YEAR4MUS.LAB

(Note that this version still required the Gfupd101.exe update.)

[Telev]

Thank you, that confirms my fears... my "DATA003.LAB" file has a different hash and all the others correspond to your list.

[Telev]

I got the same game compilation from @Tsomi for cheap, and now it works fine.
So I think the original version has some kind of copy protection, because all files have the same md5 hash, except the GRIM.exe (the game launcher)
Game executable and data files are the same