SCUMMVM not supporting unlisted fan made games.

[cosmicr]

Anyone know why this is?

You have to register your game with them to be able to play it. Why can't they just make it work for any/all SCI/AGI games?

Is there a hack or hidden setting that might allow you to do this?

[lskovlun]

Because the rest of ScummVM works that way, I'm afraid. I do not agree with it personally, and fought it hard when the FreeSCI code base was merged. But I have to admit that versioning (especially with SCI1 and later) has turned out to have complications that I did not foresee when we only supported SCI0/SCI01.

[MusicallyInspired]

I recall instructions to make a change in the source code and recompile to get it to recognize fangames. Was a long time ago though.

[Threepwang]

Hello cosmicr,
I believe ScummVM is not an emulator but a virtual machine.
So, it is not enough that the game engine is recognized.
Your game needs to be supported specifically by ScummVM.

[MusicallyInspired]

Hello cosmicr,
I believe ScummVM is not an emulator but a virtual machine.
So, it is not enough that the game engine is recognized.
Your game needs to be supported specifically by ScummVM.

This is not really accurate. As I said, I had them working fine with a line change in the source code. Beyond SCI0 it's a bit more complicated, yes. But still works. For a while the way to go to get ScummVM to recognize SCI1.1 fangames was tonkeep thr game class named SQ5 in the Main script. Don't know if that still works as I don't generally use ScummVM. It'd be recognized as SQ5 but you could just change the name in the options later in ScummVM.

[cosmicr]

For a while the way to go to get ScummVM to recognize SCI1.1 fangames was tonkeep thr game class named SQ5 in the Main script. Don't know if that still works as I don't generally use ScummVM. It'd be recognized as SQ5 but you could just change the name in the options later in ScummVM.

I don't think that would work - my understanding is it does a hash of RESOURCE.001 and RESOURCE.MAP files and checks against it's list, so even if you had that class it would still be a diffferent hash.

[Kawa]

I don't think that would work - my understanding is it does a hash of RESOURCE.001 and RESOURCE.MAP files and checks against it's list, so even if you had that class it would still be a different hash.

It does do that.

And yet I can point "Add Game" to a friend's SCI11+ project (I'm teaching him how to write SCI games), pick SQ5, rename it in properties for clarity, and run it just fine.

[cosmicr]

Hmmm that's interesting, there's definitely more to it then. What about SCI0 games?

[Kawa]

Many of those have their resource hashes listed. I don't know what would happen if you tried to add an unknown one, but it might just work similarly?