Homebrew RELEASE ResidualVM

[usineur]

Hi there,

I wrote a port of ResidualVM for the Switch.

You can now play the following games with this engine:

• Grim Fandango (original, not the remastered edition)
• Escape from Monkey Island
• Myst 3
• The Longest Journey (engine is still WIP but playable)

NRO, install instructions, control mapping are given/described here: https://github.com/usineur/residualvm/releases/latest

Video by Stranno:


Have fun,
usineur

 

[Badablek]

Thank You !

It's nice to finally be able to play those great games on Switch

 

[angelhp]

Thanks a lot
Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island run very well

 

[cucholix]

The Longest Journey seems full speed, can’t notice any hiccup in sound, thanks for porting it

 

[rsn8887]

I can't believe it! I am playing The Longest Journey on my Switch in 60 FPS. It seems to be working flawlessly already. And Myst 3 Exile works great, too.

Thank you Usineur for this great port! This is amazing work.

 

[uludag]

Is it christmas already?
Thank you so much for your work!!

//edit2:
I got it to work.
Needed to install the game to PC, apply the patch and then copy the files from the install directory.

//edit:
tried to play the german version of escape from monkey island using sxos.
copied over the files from cd1 and cd2.
used voiceAll.m4b from cd1.
renamed FullMonkeyMap.imt files.
copied MonkeyUpdate_DEU.exe into folder.
Started residualvm on switch.
Started monkey island.
blackscreen. residualvm is still running, - button opens keyboard but game shows blackscreen.

do you have an idea what could have gone wrong?

 

[usineur]

Is it christmas already?
Thank you so much for your work!!

//edit:
tried to play the german version of escape from monkey island using sxos.
copied over the files from cd1 and cd2.
used voiceAll.m4b from cd1.
renamed FullMonkeyMap.imt files.
copied MonkeyUpdate_DEU.exe into folder.
Started residualvm on switch.
Started monkey island.
blackscreen. residualvm is still running, - button opens keyboard but game shows blackscreen.

do you have an idea what could have gone wrong?

Are "Movies" and "Textures" folders copied to the switch ?

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

A new homebrew in 2020? Neat.

 

[uludag]

Are "Movies" and "Textures" folders copied to the switch ?

They were. Dunno what the problem was. Needed to install the game to PC, apply the patch and then copy the files from the install directory. Works like a charm now. Thank you very much!

 

[rsn8887]

@usineur0 : I found a very small issue with touch controls: turning the touchpad_mouse_mode on or off in "Options->Controls" didn't really change anything. I made a PR to fix that.

The problem was due to missing zero initialization of structs used in touch code. The same issue was present in ScummVM, but for some reason, the structs just happened to be zero initially there. But that's not guaranteed by the C++ compiler I guess, so better to initialize by hand.

 

[notimp]

I can confirm, that the german versions of

- Escape from Monkey Island
- The longest Journey
and
- Myst 3

all work.

Many kudos to you dear sir(s).
-

The longest Journey is the only one of those games that has to be installed on the PC side first to be able to copy all the required files. (And in that case its more than 10.000 of them - so use a method where you get the full copy speed to your sdcard.)

The switch has now become a proper adventure gaming platform.
Grim Fandango remastered already is a Switch game, in case you didn't know (which is also why I havent tested it on this port.)

The only thing thats missing now - for my Adventure retro flash is Still Life (Microids adventure).. If only... (I know that this is beyond the scope of residualVM - I mainly was dropping its name so others might try it out as a game... )
--

Monkey 4 (german) has a default audio mix, thats drowning the voice lines, but its fixable in game (options) and in 'game settings'.

edit: Also make sure that you switch to 'camera relative' control scheme for Monkey 4 in ingame options. Tank controls are not the optimal way to play this game..

 

[rsn8887]

@usineur0 : Hmm I was wrong it seems. It seems that with any version I build myself, even using your tagged release code, the touchpad_mouse_mode option works as intended. But in your release version, the option doesn't work.

Did you maybe build with some older packages? I just updated to latest using pacman. Or did you use a special configure option that I am missing?

I use "configure --host=switch --enable-optimizations"

I am just trying to find out what causes the touchpad_mouse_mode to work or not. Apparently it is not the missing initialization I thought before.

 

[notimp]

Minor typo in the release notes (Controls).
see: https://github.com/usineur/residualvm/releases/tag/0.4.0git-1

Mouve should be Move in all cases.

 

[rsn8887]

@usineur0 I think I figured it out. You are using a different SDL2 than standard pacman version. In newer SDL2 source, there is a line "#define SYNTHESIZE_TOUCH_TO_MOUSE 1" in the file "src/events/SDL_Touch.c". This line causes double events that mess up ResidualVM touch.

So in your SDl2, if you change
"#define SYNTHESIZE_TOUCH_TO_MOUSE 1"
to
"#define SYNTHESIZE_TOUCH_TO_MOUSE 0"
and recompile and install that, and build residualvm again linking to the fixed SDl2, then touch and touchpad_mouse_mode will work correctly.

 

[rsn8887]

@usineur0 : I found an even better fix, no need to mess with SDL source. Just add this line to residualvm event source constructor SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_TOUCH_MOUSE_EVENTS, "0");

Pull Request made.

 

[usineur]

@rsn8887: thx for this, it should be ok now.

Remember this issue: https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/11342 ?
I have pushed a commit to integrate "DrivePOSIXFilesystem" in ResidualVM.
It fixes random crashes in Grim Fandango and EMI.

 

[rsn8887]

@usineur0 : Awesome. This was switched over in ScummVM Switch here, too https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/16d0687b66dc3d6996dc26fb8adf28af08b20fbd

because the bug was a problem there, also.

BTW: How did you build with new SDL2 and have correct picture? When I try, the residualvm menu and game screen is much too large, with stuff missing on bottom and right. Maybe I am using wrong new SDL2? I tried 2.0.10 and 2.0.12 WIP source.

 

[Demetris]

Awesome sauce! Cant thank you enough for this.
You guys really worth it to check this mod out as its out of this world.
https://tljhd.github.io/
Thanks again both you guys
@rsn8887 for (cannonball,Hurrican,j&b,uae4all2)
& @usineur0
Great work

 

[usineur]

@rsn8887: I answered you on Github

@Demetris: Already mentioned here https://twitter.com/9esferas_/status/1249389564910854146

For now, with this HD mod, video cutscenes stutter a lot. I will take a look in a near future and see if it's possible to support it on Switch.

 

[hippy dave]

Awesome to see, was just trying to remember yesterday if Residual had made it to Switch, good job!

Don't forget to submit it to the app store!