Hi,

Here is a port of the excellent ScummVM engine to the switch. I don't have the time to write a lot of information's right now.. i'll update this post later.

In the meantime, here is the (very minimal) release information from the release page :

INFORMATIONS

• runs at a pretty good framerate even with HQ scalers
• default gfx is 2x fullscreen. The game is rendered at 2x the resolution, and (linear) scaled to fit screen. My personnal choice would be fullscreen tv2x thought. 3x fullscreen/windowed is probably a good choice too (less "linear blur")

KNOW BUGS

• no sfx in some "scumm" engine games (curse of monkey island, full throttle) !
• intro in "the secret of monkey island" CD version hang, audio play fine and can be skipped. Other versions seems to works fine.
• mp3 decoder doesn't seems to work (crash), but this format should not be used anyway

TODO

• fix "scumm" engine SFX (imuse/dimuse)
• add touchscreen support
• fix mp3 decoding (libmad? does it worth it?)

PS: this is NOT an april fool

 

thanks i tested with monkey islands 2 . perfectly . good job

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Hi cpasjuste, do you get any sleep Fella! Great work again!

 

Does this run on stock firmware?

 

Thanks VERY much for this! I am currently playing king's quest. The memories... of yonder years...

 

@cpasjuste Where is the right place to report a potential bug?
Starship Titanic (Windows PC version) launches correctly and starts the game but crashes during the early cut-scene where the starship crashes into the protagonists house.

I've tried with both the 3CD version and the GOG version (both versions have identical files and filesizes anyway) and I've also been on the Scummvm forums where they tell you to download and copy over a custom titanic.dat file into your game folder. All that did for me is make the game crash earlier in the same cut-scene :-)
I checked that the Titanic engine plug-in is included in your build, and it is.
I've also ran the same files on Scummvm on my laptop and they work fine there.
I understand if this is way down your list of fixes, and everything else I've thrown at it runs like a dream. Amazing work :-)
I can put the game files on a cloud site if you wish, just let me know (They are 1.2GB total though!)

 

3x is a genuine option in some games - although cursor emulation speed isn't optimal, when it is chosen - if you could implement a toggle to speed it up by the correct amount some time in the future, that would be a real benefit. If not - meh, 2x is fine. (All images taken with the default 2x render mode.)

edit: The issue described only (?) seems to affect high res games such as bsword1 - so its not high priority.

More images:

 

Yes, it has random errors in the games is not 100% stable in all games. There should be some update that works at least as in the mobile / cell

 

Also - may I suggest a Button mapping that also maps a few more keyboard keys necessary for completing some games?

F.e. this was the mapping of a more recent Xbox v1 port:

Number keys for example are used for "fighting" in the Indy games, where the game expects you to hit inputs on reaction, so bringing up the software keyboard and entering them that way, doesnt necessarily work.

The config above is overly concerned with inputs in "Lands of Lore" (must have been new at the time.. ), but numberkeys and direction keys mapping (keyboard) should help to make a few more games actually playable on the plattform - so they in general are a good thing to have.


edit: Indy 4 seems to run stable. No surprise crashes. Also - I was able to beat Biff the bouncer in combat just using the on screen keyboard - but it wasn't very fun. (Just indicating, that no num key mapping might not be gamebreaking for the Indy games. )

Also fiddled around a bit more with precision mode.. It is really "precise" when you hit R1, but then for stuff like changing sound volume, it almost needs to be (ScummVM UI requires very precise inputs)... In game it could be a little less "slow" from a gameplay perspective - but it isn't a must.

I can try bsword1 on the ScummVM version you ported (Win) to see if its a regression of scummvm - if needed. Played through the game on an early version of ScummVM (1.6.0) with the same dataset, so it shouldnt be a "rom" (dataset) related issue.

- edit: One more very optional thing. Allow for switching the A and B button. Primary button on the switch is A, and after playing many games that used that convention... I didn't want to use B as leftclick..

- edit2: Broken Sword 2 seems to run without crashes. I'll recheck my version of bsword1. :/ Only differences I noticed are, that the save menu in bsword2 is "list only" (button to switch it to images, doesnt seem to work).

 

Thank you for the feedback - I played about 30 min of bsword2 without crashes - so I'll recheck my version (salvaged from an Xbox v1 with a harddrive that was on the brink of flaking out, so maybe file integrity is issue here.. Also - I'm not using the obvious rom resources either.. I have better ones, for those type of games. ).