So if someone have the time to give me a hand with this problem(s) so that I can get to play my all time favourite game again.
Yes I did find a post inhere where it says somethink about it, but I already have the latest drivers for my grafic card and the other thing it says could be a solution for that problem I don't know how to do. I just don't understand this stuff cause when i start up scummVM it starts up with a transparent window and just stays there. Obviously, I was pretty excited when Double Fine announced that a remastered HD version of Day of the Tentacle - or DOTT for short - was on its way. So I ofcause wanted to try and see if it helped. Ive worn out my original floppy disks, re-bought the game on cd-rom, played it again and again in the ScummVM emulator.
Then it goes on for another 2 seconds and then just shuts down, or freezes if run from the command promt.īeen searching the net for the last two days and finally found some stuff saying that scummVM could help solve this problem and make the game compatable with Windows XP. I'm trying to run Day of the Tentacle as the topic name indicates but what happens when I start the game up is that about 2 seconds into the game it says "WARNING: Ems detects less then 2 megabytes". (Sure the new art wasn't that lovely done and could have been a lot better.) What I want from HD re-releases are more polished improved games, not just cheap rip-offs often based on fan patches and mods.I've searched the forum for all kinds of helpful information but haven't found anything that could help in my case. Beside all these cheap rehashes, the Monkey Island 2 re-release was great, one could switch between the old and the new graphics art on the fly by pressing a key. Or the Turok remastered release, which still looks like the 1998 3D game even with all the fog that was needed with early 3D cards but not in 2016. Or Age of Mythology which hasn't been improved graphical wise at all, was already used as base for Age of Empire Online and later re-released as HD edition again.
A low point of the "remastered"/"HD" versions is certainly Age of Empires 2 HD where Microsoft closed their former studio and lost all its game arts and therefor the HD re-release featured the same graphics and just provided higher screen resolution as single feature that come from a fan patch years ago. It was certainly easy to vectorize the vector-art style of DoT, but the "remastered" Grim Fandango basically featured blown up background pictures out of Photoshop. This is a tutorial on how to get your old favourite Lucasarts games running on a nintendo DS and. And those "remastered" versions are only very slightly improved due the lack of original game art graphic files. How to Run Day of the Tentacle on DS Using SCUMMVM: Okay. On the otherside, the new "remastered" version uses the SCUMM (open source Lucasarts game engine virtual machine) that was made by fans and can be used to run the old games on modern systems. On the one side it's great that a slightly improved is now available. Not saying you should teach your kids programming (although, why not) :)ĭay of the Tentacle is one of the best adventure games. For maintenance, even in small companies, comments need to be in English so why use PT/ES in the first place for codoing. I see that the better coders in our team and switch their computers to EN and follow the English tutorials so why not do that straight away.
Why not let them play the games in English? I live in Spain now and the major complaint the youth makes about learning English is that everything is available and usually forced (dubbing in movies and tv shows included) in Spanish so even if they write/speak English I cannot really understand it too little real case practice.Įdit: also I see in daily life how my Portuguese colleagues struggle finding answers because they read docs/learn and have errors/feedback in PT and so search answers in Google in PT as well which often works but in some cases does not and usually I have to figure out what the problem is in English which will usually provide the answer. Serious remark: I am Dutch and when I was very young and computers and games were rare I played text adventures and they were English only: I do not think I can imagine a more efficient way of learning reading and writing as a young child.