Wow, thanks for the hard work. Now we can play some fun point and click adventures on the switch

 

Awesome work, many many thanks and Happy Easter!

 

Omg, can't wait to try this!

 

yes mate if you are on version 3.0 firmware through hb launcher!

 

That's pretty freaking cool

 

I'm freaking shivering. Physically, no joke. Out of joy. LOVE you - man.

Impressions: Shivering. It works. Broken Sword works. *raaa* Ok, let's go..

- Scummvm creates a scummvm folder with a saves folder under root (/ ), even though the default saves folder under parent dir /saves gets chosen/used by default - and also holds the saves created by all games. I guess you can simply delete it. But if creation could be prevented, it would be better (less clutter on peoples SD cards).
- Precision cursor movement mode with 2x might be a little slow.

That it so far, I'm not available for the next three hours.









Yiiippiiiee!

 

Broken Sword 1 freezes after just a few interactions, at seemingly random points. Image is still on screen (if it doesnt crash during a fade to black transition ), but the switch requires a reboot.

To replicate, load into the game, pick up the newspaper (B), enter the café - if it doesnt crash, exit the café, move "north" to towards the animated worker, a in game sequence should trigger, which brings you back into the café - and shortly thereafter the game should crash. Takes only a few seconds to replicate.

If tried this with german subtitles enabled - will try to replicate at its default state (still - german version) and give an update.

 

@salamandrusker: More information might be helpful. Did you have the crashes in other games as well, or in Broken Sword in particular? If in bsword1, which language version?

Did some more testing. Crashes arent location specific - but seem to happen at transitions, beginning of dialogue... With subtitles disabled, I could play longer stints until a crash occured, but ScummVM crashed eventually. I also got a first crash to a ScummVM error screen - I'll upload a photo of it asap. Also, fun state, the Switch is in at that point. The brightness (longpress home) menu still can pop in, mouse cursor is moving. The home button doesnt work though, and capturing a screenshot (screenshot button ) fails with an error message (x besides the image icon), I've never seen prior to this.

I like it..

edit: And after writing this, cursor movement also froze.. (On the scummvm error screen)
error screen:

 

I did play around 2 hours without any crash with the real CD version, not the one from the emulation site. So I guess it's also related to the game "format". I'll take a closer look next week anyway

 

Did the best in depth analysis I could, and still experience the crashes.

Sourced a new known good copy of the game (.flac and .pal encodes, compared to ogg encodes on the videofiles - both flac and ogg work in this port, btw. ). Compared md5 checksums. One videofile and one .wav file are different in my first version source (wav is the file thats listed as "dont copy it from disc2" in the scummvm datafiles sheet), and of course all video audio files (ogg vs flac) - but neither of those should be the culprite (later game resources).

Apart from that, all md5 hashes matched.

Booted up the known good new version, and got just the same crashes as before.

Steps to reproduce:

- Happens with both the german and english language versions of the game.

- Add the game as usual, leave settings at default, except for one setting. Override default audio settings and set speech and subtitles to "both" (as in use both), click ok to add the game.

- Start the game, skip the first cutscene. After the first sentence or two.

- Pick up the newspaper (B button). Let the dialogue audio play for the first textparagraph, then skip it with B until it ends.

- Go into the café - and the game should crash.

- If not (happened to me once out of 3 attempts), leave the café - go north towards the animated worker, an in game sequence should trigger that brings you back to the café, after some additional dialogue, the game should crash. (happened to me twice).

- If not, play a little further until you enter the "underground of Paris", and again - the game should crash. (Happened to me once, this time with the error message I posted earlier.)

@cpasjuste: Ill try the english language version next - got to hunt down those potential differences. It is very important to me that _this_ game works.
edit2: tried the english language version an it crashed at the same spot (the first one).