Error at start of: The New Adventures of Zak McKracken

[Ohrwerk]

GAME NAME: The New Adventures of Zak McKracken
GAME SOURCE 1 (7.497.737 Bytes): https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/s ... s/game/40/
GAME SOURCE 2 (7.165.704 Bytes): https://www.netzwelt.de/software-choose ... acken.html
SCUMMVM: Winx64 2.8.0 (Dec 17 2023 16_15_13) also with v2.7.1
Game Added: v2.7 https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/help ... 2023-02-26

The game cannot be started with the following error

Warning: ... not yet fully supported... unstable... crash...
Error: Script Link Failed. / Error (line unknown): in <unknown>: 1 unresolved imports (last: SetFlashlightTint). / The Game files may be incomplete, corrupt or from unsupported version of AGS.

[fibs]

According to bug reports, the game authors chose to tailor the game scripts around a hacked executable making this title more difficult for ScummVM to support.

https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/12179
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/12525

Same info in detection tables:

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	// 2.55 game, but uses a plugin agsflashlight. Also, even with AGS interpreter
	// hacked to specify plugin, errors on loading room107 saying that
	// "room animations are no longer supported"
	UNSUPPORTED_GAME_ENTRY("zak2", "Zak2.exe", "e88fd6a23a5e498d7b0d50e3bb914085", 8686711),
	UNSUPPORTED_INSTALLER_ENTRY("zak2", "fanadv_zak2.exe", "Zak2.exe", "329ff478ffc1a3bd0dc941d5212aa602", 7165704),
	UNSUPPORTED_GAME_ENTRY("zak2", "Zak2.exe", "0b7529a76f38283d6e850b8d56526fc1", 9205143),

The Release notes seem to have been in error when claiming support was added for the game.

[Ohrwerk]

Many thanks for your information; Oh, that's why I couldn't find anything.
It only mentions ZAK2, I was just looking for the title.
I have a total of three ZAK2s on disk here, but there are/were probably more.
ZAK2: A Mansion, a Meteor and Alien Mindbenders
ZAK2: The New Adventures of Zak McKracken
ZAK2: Zak McKracken between time and space - Directors Cut
I checked GitHub for a bug report, but unfortunately I couldn't find the bug tracker either, so I looked for help here.
Is it possible to make a note in the version history when a game "falls out"?

But I also like it when game programmers hack their own game to make it work.
In the 90s we also used Diskedit.exe to protect the manuals/codewheels; or to have more money/rockets in the games.
It's not a bad thing if a game is not supported.
The EXE of the game is still executable, at my system, and with cnc-draw it also "creates a lot of space" on the screen.

[tag2015]

For freeware games made with Adventure Game Studio you can check the wiki
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS/Games

"A Mansion, a Meteor and Alien Mindbenders" is untested but should work.
"Zak McKracken between time and space" is a Visionaire game, that is completely unsupported

PS I can recommend this one https://error47band.itch.io/maniaczak which is a ZAK/MM crossover

[Ohrwerk]

Thank you
"A Mansion, a Meteor and Alien Mindbenders" is running in Scumm. But I haven't played it through yet.
I'm more into collecting at the moment, traveling a lot in the WayBackMachine.... But thanks for the Zak link. I'm always happy about little free pearls and have added it to my Itch pearl list.

[Raziel]

you might want to get rid of the game download links...they are considered pirated/illegal

Also refer to forum rule #0

[sev]

It is the AGS engine, fan-made games.


Eugene

[Raziel]

right, my bad