Elementary, my dear Watson

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:46 pm

Sherlock Holmes, greatest detective of all times, has a pair of puzzling cases to solve. Firstly, a gruesome murder outside a theater. Police are clueless. Could it be the work of the notorious killer, Jack the Ripper? Then, in his second case, his brother Mycroft is nearly killed in an explosion. In this case, you'll play initially as Watson, who tries to snap Sherlock out of his despair, and then as Sherlock, as he tries to piece together why Mycroft was attacked, and why he called for him just prior to the explosion.

The ScummVM Team is proud to announce support for both games of the The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.. The Case of the Serrated Scalpel, and The Rose Tattoo. Many thanks go to Electronic Arts, for allowing us access to the original sources. Both games are now playable in ScummVM using the latest daily builds and ready for testing. For Serrated Scalpel, currently only the PC version is supported.. the 3DO version is mostly playable, but still needs further work. As usual, all bugs should be reported to our bug tracker following our bug submission guidelines. While you play through the game, we would also love it if you could take some screenshots for us.

So, have a play, and see if you're up to the challenge of stepping into the shoes of the great Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot. Or in this case, games

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:09 am

Congratulations, and thank you!

A GREAT addition to ScummVM:)

PS. Will you be adding a required datafiles listing for these games?

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 12:54 pm

Longcat wrote:PS. Will you be adding a required datafiles listing for these games?

Thanks, and good question. I've never sat down to figure out the files needed for the different versions. I'll try and figure out a full list this evening, unless anyone else wants to take care of it.

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:27 pm

dreammaster wrote:
Longcat wrote:PS. Will you be adding a required datafiles listing for these games?
Thanks, and good question. I've never sat down to figure out the files needed for the different versions. I'll try and figure out a full list this evening, unless anyone else wants to take care of it.

Great! I would help, if I knew how. Thanks!

Rne_v_H · Post by **Rne_v_H** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:46 pm

WOOHOO.

Thanks team

karsten · Post by **karsten** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:41 pm

Awesome, thank you!

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:21 am

I've now updated the Datafiles page.

Freddo · Post by **Freddo** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:57 am

Well done!

Very nice of EA to give you the source too.

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:29 am

dreammaster wrote:I've now updated the Datafiles page.

Wonderful, thanks!

md5 · Post by **md5** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:01 pm

Great work dreammaster, well done!

Reckless · Post by **Reckless** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:28 pm

Great work on extending the game count yet again!

albadross · Post by **albadross** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:44 pm

I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to the end of both the Sherlock games in the last few weeks (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). Many thanks to dreammaster.

In the second game, I was highly delighted to win at darts first time - probably due to my hand/eye co-ordination skills developed over the years using the 3-click method of playing the Links 2003 golf game. I feared getting stuck there - but no!

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:04 pm

albadross wrote:I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to the end of both the Sherlock games in the last few weeks (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). Many thanks to dreammaster.

In the second game, I was highly delighted to win at darts first time - probably due to my hand/eye co-ordination skills developed over the years using the 3-click method of playing the Links 2003 golf game. I feared getting stuck there - but no!

You're very welcome, and I'm glad that you were able to enjoy them.

scoriae · Post by **scoriae** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:19 pm

I was going over the required data files this morning and realized it asks for many files I don't have in my copy (CD re-release).

For example, I do not have any of the following files:
sample.*
*.dig
*.mdi
*.vgs

This leads me to believe I have a different version. For the record, this is after installing the game and running the install file (in other words, I'm not just looking at the contents of the CD).

The game does start for me, but the behavior seems odd as opposed to playing it in dosbox. When I click one time at the intro screen in DosBox it skips from the city skyline to the cat knocking a bottle over in the alley (opening cut scene). However in scummvm it skips directly to the first moment of gameplay.

I allowed scummvm to just run through without clicking and it did play this scene, so maybe it's not a huge deal.

I suppose I need to play it more to see if my version doesn't work or works fine with these missing files.

Nikioko · Post by **Nikioko** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:21 am

scoriae wrote:I was going over the required data files this morning and realized it asks for many files I don't have in my copy (CD re-release).

For example, I do not have any of the following files:
sample.*
*.dig
*.mdi
*.vgs

This leads me to believe I have a different version. For the record, this is after installing the game and running the install file (in other words, I'm not just looking at the contents of the CD).

The game does start for me, but the behavior seems odd as opposed to playing it in dosbox. When I click one time at the intro screen in DosBox it skips from the city skyline to the cat knocking a bottle over in the alley (opening cut scene). However in scummvm it skips directly to the first moment of gameplay.

I allowed scummvm to just run through without clicking and it did play this scene, so maybe it's not a huge deal.

I suppose I need to play it more to see if my version doesn't work or works fine with these missing files.

The datafile list is for both games. If you are missing files, it must be files which are for the other game only.