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Guest tylordurton
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Guys, as you seem to have this up and running I was hoping you could offer me a little bit of advice.

I have managed to get scummvm loaded (after installing the apk manually). I have downloaded the free version of Beneath A Steel Sky and transferred all of the zipped files to a new folder on my SD card via Android Manager. However when I select this folder to load a new game via the scummvm interface I just receive an error message advising there is no game contained within my game directory.

It seems I am quite close to getting this up and running so any suggestions would be great.

Kind Regards

Tylor

Guest sipart
Posted
Couldn't get that version to work, had the 'error downloading data' message, which I couldn't cure even by copying the folder onto the sd card as suggested.

Look at post 35 in the website conments for location to put it

Guest sipart
Posted
Guys, as you seem to have this up and running I was hoping you could offer me a little bit of advice.

I have managed to get scummvm loaded (after installing the apk manually). I have downloaded the free version of Beneath A Steel Sky and transferred all of the zipped files to a new folder on my SD card via Android Manager. However when I select this folder to load a new game via the scummvm interface I just receive an error message advising there is no game contained within my game directory.

It seems I am quite close to getting this up and running so any suggestions would be great.

Kind Regards

Tylor

Check what data files are needed for the version you are trying to run: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles

Guest tylordurton
Posted
Check what data files are needed for the version you are trying to run: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles

Ok I re-downloaded Beneath a steel sky and it only contains the two files files listed in the datafile section, the game now starts to load but after the intro it crashes out to the desktop. Is there anything else I can d to troubleshoot?

Thanks for the help so far

Posted
Ok I re-downloaded Beneath a steel sky and it only contains the two files files listed in the datafile section, the game now starts to load but after the intro it crashes out to the desktop. Is there anything else I can d to troubleshoot?

Thanks for the help so far

i get the same, gets to where the eyes are on the intro the just exits completly with no force close warning.

Guest paraffinbrain
Posted
From the link posted earlier (http://anddev.at.ua/load/scummvm_svn55055/1-1-0-7) Curse of Monkey Island works brilliantly (inventory mapped to vol rocker) but all my other games crash on loading... Still, I'm more than happy with CoMI to be going on with...

Hmmm - now I haven't updated anything but now MI1, MI2, MI3, Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max all work fine. So am even happier

Guest goldenbolux
Posted

Where do u get the actual roms for the games from

i have had a look about but cant seem to find them

Guest paraffinbrain
Posted
Look at post 35 in the website conments for location to put it

I think this has been superceded. Just download the zip linked in red text just above the comments, put it at the top of the SD then unzip - will go into correct structure. That's what fixed it for me

Guest goldenbolux
Posted

Can anyone help where to get these roms and then i can annoy my ipad owning monkey island loving workmate

Posted
Can anyone help where to get these roms and then i can annoy my ipad owning monkey island loving workmate

Most are copyright so it would be against forum rules to post where they can be had, however some including Beneath a Steel Sky are copyright free and available on the a ScummVM site.

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras

On another note, I have managed to build the Mohawk engine apk for use with Living Books. Its not currently in the stable release but it works well enough to keep my 4yr old daughter entertained.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17486207/scummvm-engine-mohawk.apk

I can't take any credit for the actual engine code, all I did was build it.

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Guest hullmackem
Posted
i get the same, gets to where the eyes are on the intro the just exits completly with no force close warning.

Yep me too :unsure:

Guest tylordurton
Posted

After more reading I am having a little more success, now for a really noob question....

How the hell do I bring up the keyboard to enter numbers on the monkey island2 code wheel to enable me to start the game?

Posted

BASS

If you're having problems with Beneath a Steel Sky, you need to make sure you have the sky.cpt file. You can find it here:

https://scummvm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot...ne-data/sky.cpt

I find though that it just crashes on me halfway through the first cutscene so haven't made much progress.

MONKEY ISLAND 2

I don't think you can get the keyboard to come up for the code wheel. From what i read, you don't actually need to enter anything other than 0 and 0, but the scummVM doesn't seem to work.

SAVE GAMES

I find that saving via ScummVM (i.e. bringing up the menu and saving from there) is more reliable than using 'in-game' save menus. Broken Sword 2 a case in point - which works very well btw.

It might be worth knowing that Good Old Games flogs many of these games for PC. I bought BS2 from them and was delighted to find that they actually use the SCUMMVM engine to make the games play on PC - so copying everything over is a very simple process. If you don't have the CD, $4.19 seems rather worthwhile to me!

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/broken_swor..._smoking_mirror

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Guest juancaretta
Posted

Sorry for bumping this thread, but could anyone get ScummVM working on Corvus5? I've tried a lot of different versions of ScummVM and none of them worked, they either closed or force closes.

Guest G0OSE
Posted (edited)

got monkey island 3 working, but how do you select things?

I can move around, but can't seem to interact with things?

btw found out you can tap the screen like a mouse to get inventory up, hold on finger down then tap another (as if using a mouse)

I still cant interact though, I did see it flash up for a split second but cant make it happen again!

Found out , you sort of click once quickly, then click again and hold!

Edited by G0OSE

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