Day of the Tentacle - Maniac Mansion not playable - FIX?

[fireplayer]

Hi, I was playing through Day of the Tentacle the other day on my ScummVM on Switch - and when I got to the room w Weird Ed and his computer - I got the message that Maniac Mansion is not playable?

Was wondering is if there was a fix for this? I tried googling it, and found the info on the bug tracker that it had been fixed. But I never found a howto?

Can anyone please fill me in?

The CD works fine in Virtualbox Win98 - and MM starts up fine there... but ScummVM on Switch does not like it. I know that the MM files are in place and look correct, still I get the message? Any guides or tips?

[Praetorian]

Did you read the instructions on our wiki page?

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Day_ ... Easter_egg

According to that, the game's data (for Maniac Mansion) has to be in a specific subfolder, and also you should have added that game pointing to that subfolder (Maniac Mansion) in-advance to ScummVM separately.

[fireplayer]

Yes. I did. Any I know the MM folder is correct. The pointing to - part, doesn't quite make sense to me... should it be Easter_egg=/roms / ScummVM / DOTT / Maniac ?

without abbreviations... ?

[Praetorian]

No. Don't manually edit the scummvm ini file nor add the "easter_egg" entry explicitly yourself unless you want to do something special with it (ie. load another ScummVM game as explained in the wiki), and you know what you're doing.

Instead, you are only expected to add the Maniac Mansion game to ScummVM, from the ScummVM launcher, just as you add every other game to ScummVM. Just point ScummVM's file explorer to the subfolder "Maniac" where the game's files are supposed to be.

[fireplayer]

Ah. Thank you very much! That finally worked. And to get out of the game you need to use "Return to Launcher"? no way to get out of it as it was in the game originally?

[Praetorian]

You could try and set the checkbox "Return to the launcher when leaving a game" from ScummVM launcher -> Global Options -> GUI, and see if that works.

I haven't tried it but, in theory, it should work so that when you exit the (Maniac Mansion) game with the game's own quit options, it would trigger the "Return to Launcher" required to go back to Day of the Tentacle.