Police Quest Fan Patch warning

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Wicket1138
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Police Quest Fan Patch warning

Post by Wicket1138 »

Hi,

when I start either Police Quest 1 (VGA) or Police Quest 3, I get a warning that there is a fan patch applied. I have the same issue with the GOG and Steam versions. How do I remove that patch?
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digitall
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Re: Police Quest Fan Patch warning

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Checking through the SCI engine code, the relevant section is here:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... i.cpp#L471

It appears that the patch is detected based on a modified script #994 , though there may be other patch files present. I think there would be files called VIEW.994 and similar in your datafiles which would need to be removed.
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Re: Police Quest Fan Patch warning

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You would probably need to work out what fan patch has been applied from here to see what needs to be removed:
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=SCI/Patches
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Re: Police Quest Fan Patch warning

Post by digitall »

Specifically the files from this page are probably what you need to compare for: http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updat ... dates.html
Wicket1138
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Re: Police Quest Fan Patch warning

Post by Wicket1138 »

Thank you!
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