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I'd say the resources of one are not just similar but outright identical to the other, in this case. They're the exact same resources, merely spread out differently. The hash for the map file is different because the spread is different. This is obvious.
I can in fact confirm this with the fact the LSL3 source contains bat files and makevols scripts to create both "360" and "720" versions. In fact, there's an "overnite.bat" that does everything short of actually copying things to diskettes, for both four and eight disk versions. Hence the name. They're nightly builds, and they come in both 5.25" and 3.5", from the exact same resources.
If the 5.25" version is appreciably rarer in the wild today than the 3.5", I think translators may not need to worry about supporting the latter. Might simply not be worth the hassle.
Yep, resource conservation is key. It's a great thing to catalogue everything.
It's a shame that Sierra games have so many bugs. Also the original translations are very poor. I think the worst in terms of bugs is QFG4.
I have a question: When the version and the interpreter are the same, but the hash is different, is it the same game or is it an alternative version?
I grabbed that archive. Painfully slow going through archive.org. It will take sometime to go through the fluxes to add them into my collection. I have not done any new streams for a while since my 5.25" floppy drive died and the price on them has shot up.
As to the Version Tool, I am starting to go through it to see what releases it has that are missing in my collection. It did have one of the earliest versions of KQ4, version 1.000.106, interpreter 0.000.247. It predates SCI's ability to accept external patch files. There does seem to be one earlier release that has interpreter 0.000.247, but I don't know what game version it is or anything more about it. If anyone knows about it, please let me know.
Where are you getting the different hash? Through the tool? If so, the hash generator accessible through the tool menu item was simply generating the wrong hash. That is the problem with a project that has say on the back burner for years. You forget things. The SCI method to get the MD5 hash does what SVM does. It only reads up to the first 5000 bytes of the target file into the byte array. This is to speed things up when scanning larger files. It also generates hashes consistent with SVM. The stand alone hash generator was using the entire file. The current version, which I will probably upload towards the end of the week uses the same method.
ETA: the MPC version of QfG4 is far less buggy than the floppy version. It still has a couple of timer bugs that are solved by the NRS patches.
I've discovered this guy and we've been talking quite a lot recently, I'll help him validate/complete his already impressive collection with my own fluxes. This is probably today's best ongoing effort for a complete database and validated original dumps and images of all Sierra games:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527
He's also actively developing an image checking/cleaning/manipulation tool that may be useful to you and your own fluxes, Collector: https://github.com/Digitoxin1/DiskImageTool
If you (or anyone else) have your own set of fluxes or original images files missing (or needing validation) and would like to contribute, feel free to hit me up
It's a sublime preservation effort of original media in unaltered form! Of course that's a bit different from what you are doing @Threepwang with the fan translations and all, but a very important cause nonetheless
Please, do you have a source for the official Italian translation of Leisure Suit Larry 6. I can't find anything that indicates its existence. I know you have a long experience with SCI games, that's why I'm asking you
My source was HwM, back in the original thread over at MegaTokyo:
https://helmet.kafuka.org/megatokyo/topic_1690.html#:~:text=LSL6%20has%20a%20German%2C%20French%2C%20Spanish%2C%20Italian%20%26%20Portuguese%20version
I never had any information about this version myself.
Would the LSL6 Italian be a fan translation? Enrico Rolfi wrote his TraduSCI for translating SCI games, specifically GK2 to Italian. Not sure how many games have been translated using his tool, but I am not aware of too many Sierra games with an official Italian localization.
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