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Here is a port of the excellent ScummVM engine to the switch.
Changelog
2.9.0
Almost one year after the last major release, and just in time for Christmas, ScummVM 2.9.0 - "Close Encounters of the 2.9th Kind" has landed. Amongst its gifts, you will find 15 newly supported games and a new supported platform.
2.8.1
The ScummVM Team is proud to announce the first release of 2024 - Oh MMy!
General:
Fixed GLSL version parsing on some OpenGL ES2 platforms.
Don't try to use shaders on old OpenGL implementations.
AGI:
Fixed Space Quest 1 version 1.0X freezing in the skimmer.
Fixed Mixed-Up Mother Goose message boxes during nursery rhymes.
Fixed Mixed-Up Mother Goose graphics in Amiga version.
Fixed Gold Rush clock time at Fast and Fastest speeds.
Fixed Atari ST version of Manhunter 1 not starting.
Fixed Tandy CoCo3 version of Leisure Suit Larry 1 not starting.
Fixed Tandy CoCo3 unofficial ports not starting.
Fixed Amiga menus in Space Quest 1, Manhunter 1, and Manhunter 2.
Fixed Graham facing away from the king in King's Quest 1.
Fixed Alexander getting stuck on the stairs in King's Quest 3.
Fixed Larry being able to shoplift in Leisure Suit Larry 1.
Fixed ducks not jumping at the start of Donald Duck's Playground.
Fixed instant death in fan game "Phil's Quest: The Search for Tolbaga".
Fixed buttons freezing in fan game "DG: The AGIMouse Adventure".
Fixed unrecognized words in fan game "V - The Graphical Adventure".
Added detection for Macintosh version of Mixed-Up Mother Goose.
AGS:
Updated detection tables.
Simplified character import from Sierra games for QfG2 AGDI.
Fixed graphical glitch affecting Unavowed and Heroine's Quest.
Fixed partial outlines for some letters in Kathy Rain.
Fixed crash in Alum.
Added stub to prevent crash at the beginning of Falcon City.
Broken Sword 2:
Fixed crash when quitting the game while it was paused.
MM:
Enabled engine, allowing MM1 and Xeen to be compiled.
Added MT32/LAPC-1 support for Xeen engine.
Fixed Xeen regression which caused some sound effects to stop abruptly.
mTropolis:
Fixed crash in Muppet Treasure Island on some platforms.
Fixed jewel puzzle in Muppet Treasure Island not being randomized.
NANCY:
Fixed the telephone hints in Secrets Can Kill.
Fixed the crashing and drawing issues on ARM machines when playing
Message in a Haunted Mansion's maze minigame.
Fixed the 'M' keyboard key not working in Message in a Haunted Mansion.
Allowed general keymaps to be shown in the engine Keymaps menu.
Virtual keyboard now correctly triggers on/off wherever text input is needed.
SCUMM:
Fix screen corruption (and sometimes even crashes) in Mac Loom and
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, most noticeably when using menu
shortcut keys.
Fix enabling/disabling of Open and Save in Mac Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade.
TWINE:
Fix ladder climbing regression.
Fix scenery zoom issue.
Fix animation glitches after using the holomap.
Ultima:
Fix Ultima VIII hidden minimap blocking keyring use.
Fix Ultima VIII page breaks in books.
Fix Ultima VIII text centering for plaques.
Fix Ultima VIII crash on dragging items to screen edge.
Fix Ultima VIII unexpected jumping on left click.
Fix Ultima VIII camera during cutscenes for Shrine of the Ancient Ones.
Fix Ultima VIII invalid placement of items within containers.
Fix Ultima VIII never-ending lava sounds.
V-Cruise:
Fixed crash in Reah: Face the Unknown and Schizm: Mysterious Journey
when music is muted.
2.8.0
The ScummVM Team is proud to announce the final release of 2023 - Mysteries, Mammoths, and Muppets!
New games:
Added support for macOS versions of Syberia and Syberia II.
Added support for The Vampire Diaries, Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill,
Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger, Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion,
Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower and Nancy Drew: The Final Scene.
Added support for Reah: Face the Unknown and Schizm: Mysterious Journey.
Added support for Might and Magic Book One.
Added support for Muppet Treasure Island.
Added support for Primordia, Shardlight and Technobabylon.
Added support for The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Strangeland and Whispers
of a Machine.
Added support for Stranga and Cloak and Dagger's AGS games.
Added support for Adibou 1.
Added support for Dark Side.
Added support for Kingdom: The Far Reaches.
Added support for Escape From Hell.
Added support for Wrath of the Gods, Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure,
The Dark Eye, and 4 other Director titles.
New platforms:
Added libretro new shiny port.
Added Atari port.
General:
Added optional dependency for libvpx.
Added optional dependency for libmikmod.
Added support for PC98 font ROM.
Added optional dependency for libsonivox, implementing EAS (Embedded Audio
Synthesis) sound driver.
Added YUV422 and YUV444 support to Theora decoder.
Implemented specialized CPU routines for graphics blitting for ManagedSurface.
Changed default GM device to "auto" for better compatibility.
AGS:
Synced with upstream AGS 3.6.0.53.
Sped up graphics manipulation on modern hardware with CPU-specific code.
Added support for early font rendering, to match the original interpreter.
Added support for playback of transcoded videos in place of unsupported codecs.
Completed implementation of MOD audio playback.
Fixed background music not looping in some games.
Fixed game-breaking bugs in various games (e.g. Strangeland, Chronicle of Innsmouth)
Multiple updates to the game detection tables.
Asylum:
Added support for Chinese Sanitarium.
Dragons:
Implemented localizations for the copyright screen and main menu.
Freescape:
Improved collision and projectile detection using sweepAABB
GrimE:
Added support for Chinese Grim Fandango.
Added support for Russian Grim Fandango translations from Fargus,
ENPY and 7Wolf.
Kyra:
Added support for Kyra1 Amiga French release and DOS Czech fan translation.
Improved game controls menu accuracy for all platforms.
Added support for Chinese EOB2.
Added support for the PC-98 version of EOB2.
Mohawk:
Greatly improved the accurary of the code generation for the Domes in
Riven: The Sequel to Myst to match the original game.
Private:
Added support for the Japanese Windows release.
SCUMM:
Added support for unpacked RuSCUMM patches for Russian localizations.
Allow usage of the official Monkey Island 1 Roland MT-32 patch with any
EGA version, not just the English release.
Completely rewritten sound code for all Humongous Entertainment games.
Faithfully implemented Mac GUI for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
and Loom.
Implemented turning around animation when changing direction for Full
Throttle, The Dig and The Curse of Monkey Island.
Added enhancement to Loom: Ctrl+D shows up list of drafts that has been
discovered.
Fixed kanji characters rendering issue in Japanese SegaCD version of Monkey
Island 1. Text rendering for this game is now pixel perfect.
Implemented complete support for the Macintosh and DOS/V Japanese versions
of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis distributed by MicroMouse.
Implemented network multiplayer support for Backyard Football,
Backyard Baseball 2001, and Backyard Football 2002.
Sherlock:
Added support for Chinese Serrated Scalpel.
Added data to savegames whose lack could make savegames unwinnable.
Sword1:
Rewrote the palette fading system and the game timers to match the
original DOS version.
Rewrote all the menu code to make it match the original. This includes
the restoration of the Speed setting.
Restored the correct fonts and menu texts for all Russian versions of the game.
Rewrote the audio engine to match the original. Compressed files are
still supported.
Tweaked the subtitles routine for the PSX version to match the original.
Restored George's idle animation.
Restored pause functionality: press "P"!
Restored debug commands: CTRL-G for toggling on-screen walkable grids,
CTRL-T for displaying debug information, SHIFT-M for displaying crosshairs
for the mouse cursor and George's position, and keys 1 and 4 to toggle
respectively slow and fast frame pacing mode.
Restored the correct font for the game over screen.
Fixed other various small inaccuracies.
Overall the PC version of the game on ScummVM shouldn't differ
from the original executable anymore.
Implemented credits for the PSX version.
Sword2:
Added support for Chinese translation.
Tinsel:
Fix running out of soundreels error.
TwinE:
Added support for Japanese translation.
Ultima:
Improve Ultima VI responsiveness.
Fix crash loading Ultima VI savegames when dialogs are open.
Fix ordering of generated items in Ultima VI.
Fix auto-readying throwing weapons in Ultima VI.
Fix Ultima VI crash opening new-style spellbook gump.
Fix Ultima VI actor doll and gump colors.
Fix Ultima VI crash using look action on walls.
Fix several other miscellaneous crashes.
Fix spawners and projectiles to more closely match the original.
Improved Ultima VI AdLib support and added Roland MT-32 support.
Fix multiple Ultima VIII render order issues.
Add support for Ultima VIII Spanish fan translation.
Support Pentagram save game files.
Added configurable double-click time for Ultima VIII.
Voyeur:
Added support for German fan translation.
Xeen:
Renamed 'xeen' engine to 'mm' for Might & Magic.
Added custom engine option to replace the health gems with HP/SP bars.
RISC OS port:
Double buffering is now used in full screen mode when V-sync is enabled.
Added support for hardware palettes.
2.7.1
General:
Fixed playback speed for Theora videos.
Added scummvm.log file viewer.
Exposed ScummVM debug level in the GUI (Misc tab).
Fixed shader scaler loading failing in certain conditions.
Fixed some screen shaking effects (as in DOTT) causing a crash on SDL1 ports.
AGI:
Restored possibility to pick arbitrary render mode in Game Options.
AGS:
Multiple additions to game detection tables.
Fixed crashes in various games (commercial and freeware).
Fixed graphical priority errors when using computers in Resonance, Kathy Rain and Blackwell Convergence.
Fix for some sounds not playing in "The Cat Lady" and other games.
Reintroduced thumbnail creation for all savegames.
Fixed regression for translation setting not being saved.
Fixed translation bug in Zniw Adventure (linux version).
Fixed wrong walkspeed in old games (e.g. Apprentice).
Added small workaround for purple texts appearing transparent.
Minor changes to debug/error messages and code style.
Improved display of text.
CRYOMNI3D:
Fixed files access preventing to finish Versailles.
Freescape:
Added OpenGL shaders renderer.
Games are loading original images from the data files.
Refactored and expanded detection tables for Driller and other unsupported games.
Reimplemented object/player collisions to be more robust.
HDB:
Fixed bug with inability to pick up red envelope with keyboard.
Hypno:
Support rendering Korean font for Wetlands.
Private:
Dropped 16bit engine requirement.
SAGA:
Fixed loading resources from the Amiga release of ITE.
Fixed crash or misbehaviors when handling certain actor actions.
SAGA2:
Fixed crash when hovering over certain spells.
SCUMM:
Fixed music volume regression in Loom.
Fixed a crash in Full Throttle when pressing 'A' in debug mode.
Silence the warning for missing music files in Monkey Island 1 Ultimate Talkie.
Fixed glitched or invisible cursor in Sam & Max when saving and reloading from
the classic menu.
Fixed several savegame loading issues and crashes for early FM-Towns games.
Fixed original GUI banners not disappearing properly in some edge cases.
Sword1:
Added detection for Czech and Polish versions with DXA cutscenes.
Added detection for alternative French and Italian versions.
Added detection for Brazilian version published by TecToy.
Sword2:
Added support for GOG.com version.
Added detection for alternate Polish version.
Tinsel:
Fixed reading older Discworld II savegames.
Fixed unaligned accesses.
Tony:
Fixed unaligned accesses.
Touche:
Added support for Russian translation by old-games.ru.
iOS port:
Fix default theme selection on modern devices.
Better support for autostart configurations.
macOS port:
Better support for autostart configurations.
RISC OS port:
Fixed crash on RISC OS 5 with games that require lots of RAM.
2.7.0
New games:
Added support for Soldier Boyz.
Added support for C64 and ZX Spectrum versions of GLK Scott Adams
Interactive Fiction games.
Added support for GLK Scott Adams adventures 1-12 in the TI99/4A format.
Added support for Obsidian.
Added support for Pink Panther: Passport to Peril.
Added support for Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink.
Added support for Adibou 2 "Environment", "Read/Count 4 & 5" and "Read/Count 6 & 7".
Added support for Driller/Space Station Oblivion (DOS/EGA/CGA, Amiga, AtariST, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions).
Added support for Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II.
Added support for Chop Suey, Eastern Mind, and 16 other Director 3 and Director 4 titles.
2.6.1
General:
Various improvements to the icon-based grid view in the ScummVM launcher.
Fixed possible graphics corruptions when using the OpenGL renderer.
2.6.0
New games:
Added support for Sanitarium.
Added support for Hades Challenge.
Added support for Marvel Comics Spider-Man: The Sinister Six.
Added support for The 11th Hour.
Added support for Clandestiny.
Added support for Tender Loving Care (CD-ROM Editions).
Added support for Uncle Henry's Playhouse.
Added support for Wetlands.
Added support for Chewy: Esc from F5.
General:
The project license has been upgraded to GPLv3+.
Now ScummVM requires C++11 for building.
Removed support for VS2008, as it doesn't support C++11.
Implemented enhanced filtering in the Search box. See "Understanding
the search box" in the documentation for details.
Implemented Icon view in GUI (GSoC task).
Added support for the RetroWave OPL3 sound card.
Added OpenDingux beta port.
Removed Symbian port.
Added the create_engine tool to aid when creating new engines.
Fixed mouse capture in HiDPI mode.
The GUI Options dialog now marks settings overridden via command lines in red.
In GUI launcher it is now possible to group games by different categories.
GUI launcher has new game icons grid look.
2.5.1
General:
- Ported ResidualVM GUI theme to remastered version.
- Fixed edge case for Punycode.
- Fixed checking for savegame overwrite in autosave slot.
- Fixed moving savegame to new slot for most engines.
- Scalers are now supported with the OpenGL graphics mode.
AGOS:
- Fixed old Waxworks AdLib music regression.
AGS:
- Detection list updates.
Grim:
- Fixed default "Talk Speed" option value.
- Fixed black screen while entering save game name.
- OpenGL without shaders is preferred as default for Grim Fandango.
Kyra:
- Fixed graphical glitch in Legend of Kyrandia 3.
SAGA:
- Fixed digitized music not looping in Inherit the Earth.
SCUMM:
- Improved support for the high-resolution text in the 16-color Macintosh
- versions of Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
- Improved OPL3 sound emulation for Sam&Max.
- Fixed music not looping in The Dig.
- Fixed crash when loading savegames from Humongous Entertainment games.
Sherlock:
- Fixed crash using matches on lab table.
- Fixed character animation in Rose Tattoo.
- Fixed glitch opening map in Rose Tattoo.
- Fixed bell pull and fog horn sounds in Serrated Scalpel.
- Fixed inventory not updating in Serrated Scalpel after examining watch.
- Fixed fog overlay at Cleopatra's Needle in Rose Tattoo.
- Fixed graphic issues in Serrated Scalpel looking at items whilst inventory is open.
- Made Serrated Scalpel darts closer in speed to the original.
- Fixed crash when moving cursor past end of string in Rose Tattoo save dialog.
- Process pending key presses in the order they were made, not the most
- recent first.
- Fixed crash when using Delete key in Rose Tattoo save dialog.
- Fixed rare conversation bug in Serrated Scalpel that would happen when Lord
- Brumwell started talking to you while the inventory window was open.
- Resume animations in Serrated Scalpel after conversations. This fixes the
- bug where Jock Mahoney or Nobby Charleton would get stuck indefinitely,
- refusing to talk to you.
- Fixed various user interface glitches in both games.
Stark:
- Added OpenGL renderer (without shaders).
- Added TinyGL renderer.
- Fixed autosave handling.
TwinE:
- Numerous bugfixes and stability improvements.
Xeen:
- Fixed crash on startup loading constants from xeen.ccs.
- Fixed spell selection aborting when characters were switched.
- Fixed some bad memory accesses.
- Various sound fixes.
- Fixed the monster item drop probabilities.
2.5.0
* Added support for Grim Fandango.
* Added support for The Longest Journey.
* Added support for Myst 3: Exile.
* Added support for Little Big Adventure.
* Added support for Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy.
* Added support for Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice.
* Added support for Transylvania.
* Added support for Crimson Crown.
* Added support for OO-Topos.
* Added support for Glulx interactive fiction games.
* Added support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release.
* Added support for Private Eye.
* Added support for Spanish Blue Force.
* Added support for Spanish Ringworld.
* Added support for Spanish Amazon: Guardians of Eden.
* Added support for AGS Games versions 2.5+.
* Added support for Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy.
* Added support for The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time.
* Added support for Crusader: No Remorse.
* Added support for L-ZONE.
* Added support for Spaceship Warlock.
2.2.0
* Autosaves are now supported for all the engines.
* Errors are more likely to open the debugger, and be displayed, than just crash ScummVM.
* Games are sorted in GUI ignoring the articles.
* Now Hebrew is displayed correctly in GUI (requires FriBiDi library).
* Updated the Roland MT-32 emulation code to Munt 2.4.0.
* Added option to select the default voice for ports that support Text-to-Speech.
* Added support for Discord Rich Presence integration on supported platforms (Windows Vista+, macOS 10.9+ 64 Bit)
* Major improvements to the keymapper.
2.1.0
Appstore version changed from Cpajuste's fork to the official release.
* Improved GUI rendering and overall GUI performance.
* Added stretch mode option to control how the display is stretched to the
window or screen area.
* Fixed incorrect cursor movement when it’s controlled using the keyboard.
* Updated the Roland MT-32 emulation code to Munt 2.3.0.
* Improved unknown game variants reporting.
* Enabled cloud support.
* Added Text to Speech capabilities for better accessibility on some platforms.
2.12-2
fix crash in some games (sword1, ...)
fix audio in some games (mi3, ft...)
fix gpu crash on multiple launch (orange screen)
