It always bothered me Quest for Glory 3 skips to Manu the monkey's second encounter if there wasn't a first encounter before the conference. There were 4 SCI games in that series and I don't remember any similar
avoidable skip, especially as the character acts like it already met you. I mean, all the game had to do was patiently wait until the user went to the Lost City's overhead map and meet Manu for the first time. In fact, the game does exactly that in another event (Thieves have to randomly go there in order for a prisoner to appear in the Simbai village).
In fact I've even tried to fix it myself by taking the original conditions of:
- Crossing from room 160 (Savannah panorama) to 170 (Jungle panorama)
- After having Flag 43 (After Conference) set
And adding to them:
3. Having
Flag 109 (Manu Released) set.
But this of course means you'll have to meet Manu at
room 180 (Lost City panorama) and then go back to
room 170 (Jungle panorama), which the game never anticipated. This means you'll re-meet Johari (treated like her final encounter) while browsing the Jungle itself (
170 will make you enter random Jungle room
700).
Is there any way to avoid this?
A SCI diff file of what I've tried + a ScummVM savegame (before meeting Manu for the second time without the first time) are available at
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/11432If you manage to make it work, please consider also
converting it to ScummVM so all future players will enjoy it.