SCUMMVM TO MIDI FILE CODE
SCUMMVM TO MIDI FILE MAC

It's still early days, but the students working on improving support in ResidualVM for Escape from Monkey Island have already created fixes for some issues in EMI that have been merged to trunk, so support is already better than before.

In ScummVM, uruk is adding support for the adventure game Sfinx by LK Avalon and translating it to English from Polish, and Lukaslw is adding support for The Prince and the Coward from Metropolis and also is translating the game to English. In ResidualVM, JoseJX and akz are going to be working on improving support for Escape from Monkey Island, and subr3v is improving the TinyGL implementation. And this year, the students are going to be working on lots of those. It's always fun to follow the progress of the GSoC students working on anything that improves ScummVM, but my personal favorite projects are those that add new games or improve the support of games in existing engines.

This year though, they are acting as an umbrella for their sister project ResidualVM as well.

SCUMMVM TO MIDI FILE CODE

The Google Summer of Code is going on now, and ScummVM has been accepted again. If you want to participate in the testing, or just want to try it out for yourself, head over to the Grim Mouse thread on the ResidualVM forums. It is currently in early alpha phase, so there are likely to be bugs present since it hasn't been fully tested yet.

SCUMMVM TO MIDI FILE MAC

Tobias has released a Mac and Windows build of Grim Mouse, and the sourcecode is freely available if you want to compile it to try it on other platforms. Luckily, ResidualVM's PatchR code allows for fan patches to be applied at run time, so all that is required to run this is the original game, just as the main ResidualVM branch. In order to accomplish this feat, Tobias had to make major modifications to both the ResidualVM code and the game source. It also has a new point-and-click inventory system. Grim Fandango can now be played with point and click control in all scenes, including the scenes where the camera shifts to close-up view. I've played ScummVM on Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS, GP32, Dreamcast, Wii, and iPad and ResidualVM on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Ī programmer named Tobias Pfaff has released Grim Mouse, a modified ResidualVM and Grim Fandango so that the game can be played completely with point and click mouse control. I'm playing through Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers in ScummVM right now, and it works really well despite being WIP, and I played through Grim Fandango in ResidualVM before it received a stable release.

I enjoy testing out engines as they're WIP, and there's often some times when the engines play straight through to completion long before they're added to a stable release. So much so that I actually prefer to play adventure games through these programs. I'm a huge fan of the 2D adventure game program ScummVM and it's sister project for 3D adventures, ResidualVM (and the sister project ScummVM-Misc which includes an engine for text adventures made with Inform) by extension. There's been quite a few threads about specific games in ScummVM and ResidualVM, but never one all-encompassing thread, so I figured I'd make one since ScummVM and ResidualVM are ever-evolving.

Scummvm to midi file