No Steam Scumm Game Support (And a Possible Way to Fix That)

Blooglspash · Post by **Blooglspash** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:12 pm

When I bought the Lucasarts Adventure Pack from Steam, I expected to be able to run the games through ScummVM or DOSbox instead of using Steam. But when I look through the files on the computer, I could only see part of the files needed to run these games. For example, in Fate of Atlantis, the "ATLANTIS.000" file is missing.

As I would hate to just give the ScummVM team a problem and ask them to figure it out themselves, I came up with a solution. On the Downloads page, have the missing files (and ONLY the missing files, so it wouldn't count as piracy) available for download so that people who bought the game on Steam could run it with ScummVM.

If you want, I can figure out exactly what files are missing to help.

Thanks,
Blooglspash

raina · Post by **raina** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:25 pm

Blooglspash wrote:On the Downloads page, have the missing files (and ONLY the missing files, so it wouldn't count as piracy)

Yeah, I don't think it works that way.

McKnallski · Post by **McKnallski** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:25 pm

Maybe you can find the missing files in the Steam\SteamApps Directory packed into a *.gcf or *.ncf file. Open them with PakScape and see what you can find.

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:40 pm

It would still be piracy because even only ONE file from a game is LA's IP and i think they will pass that matter to their lawyers faster than you can say "Three Headed Monkey"

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:42 pm

See Sev's blog at: http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/07/s ... ummvm.html for more information regarding the Steam releases.

Blooglspash · Post by **Blooglspash** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:53 pm

McKnallski wrote:Maybe you can find the missing files in the Steam\SteamApps Directory packed into a *.gcf or *.ncf file. Open them with PakScape and see what you can find.

I looked with GCFScape and the things in the NCF file were exacly the same as the files already there.

Flo · Post by **Flo** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:13 pm

You can extract the appropriate data from the game's new executable using a hex editor to recreate the missing data file.

Lebostein · Post by **Lebostein** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:44 pm

Flo wrote:You can extract the appropriate data from the game's new executable using a hex editor to recreate the missing data file.

moderatorial: Removing instructions on how to circumvent purposely implemented scheme to run under ScummVM.

Post by **sev** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:17 pm

Please do not go against our team decision. Hiding those files looks plainly like attempt to prevent ScummVM from running. We have no intentions to play with that.

Eugene

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:52 pm

sev wrote:Please do not go against our team decision. Hiding those files looks plainly like attempt to prevent ScummVM from running. We have no intentions to play with that.

No, because they wouldn't have just embedded the file without encryption otherwise. It's extremely easy to edit the files to extract the data, not something that was designed to really stop ScummVM.

This isn't warez, it shouldn't be removed from the forums.

I brought this up on -devel when the MI:SE thread popped up and got no response. I still think we should re-evaluate our stance on this.

Lebostein · Post by **Lebostein** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:07 am

clone2727 wrote:
sev wrote:Please do not go against our team decision. Hiding those files looks plainly like attempt to prevent ScummVM from running. We have no intentions to play with that.
No, because they wouldn't have just embedded the file without encryption otherwise. It's extremely easy to edit the files to extract the data, not something that was designed to really stop ScummVM.

This isn't warez, it shouldn't be removed from the forums.

I brought this up on -devel when the MI:SE thread popped up and got no response. I still think we should re-evaluate our stance on this.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?!?! That's very ridiculous, really!

What is the difference to extract a file from a folder, a data-bundle, a zip-file or an exectubale?! This is NO CRACK, NO HACK, NO DECRYPTION!! This is only a copy, like from directory A to directory B.

For example: The developers of ScummVM give detailed instructions to extract and decrypt audio streams:
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO ... ion_Videos

You should know you have a valid video if the file size is divisible by 2352 and starts with a byte sequence of "0x00 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x00" (which can be easily checked using a hex editor). You should also be able to play the video using jPSXdec.

or other scripts to extract game data files:
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO ... ime/Script

apprentice_fu · Post by **apprentice_fu** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:08 am

Lebostein wrote: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?!?! That's very ridiculous, really!

As far as I understand the position of ScummVM, they want to avoid any legal conflict with LucasArts.
This seems independent from the question if there is de jure a case against ScummVM.

LucasArts choose to release the games incompatible with ScummVM at a time when ScummVM was already well known.

(And I don't think one should bet on the benevolence of Disney)

Lebostein · Post by **Lebostein** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:16 pm

Other important question: Why the copy protection of MI1, MI2 and FOA has been bypassed by ScummVM? It seems that ScummvM changing the scripts (!)...

I hope the ScummVM developers have nothing to do with the ResidualVM project. To run Grim Fandango, ResidualVM needs an original .exe file from Lucas Arts (the patch). ResidualVM reads this executable and extract files from it! Very dangerous!

apprentice_fu · Post by **apprentice_fu** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:43 pm

Lebostein wrote:Other important question: Why the copy protection of MI1, MI2 and FOA has been bypassed by ScummVM? It seems that ScummvM changing the scripts (!)...

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_ ... protection

Lebostein wrote: I hope the ScummVM developers have nothing to do with the ResidualVM project. To run Grim Fandango, ResidualVM needs an original .exe file from Lucas Arts (the patch). ResidualVM reads this executable and extract files from it! Very dangerous!

That is just a patch that was long released before ResidualVM was born. It is not a version of the game with changed data files (probably) to prohibit ScummVM from using the data files.

[edit:]
I'd love to see the Steam games supported, but I think there are reasons not to do it.

Lebostein · Post by **Lebostein** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:55 pm

apprentice_fu wrote:That is just a patch that was long released before ResidualVM was born. It is not a version of the game with changed data files (probably) to prohibit ScummVM from using the data files.

What does that have to do with the age of an executable file? The author is the same company (Lucas Arts) with the same rights and duties!

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