More engines by russian developers

[Zhuravl2000]

I am looking for volunteers who would agree to add support for even more Russian engines to the ScummVM interpreter. So far, the interpreter supports only these engines - Nikita Game Interface (Full Pipe only), S.K.I.F./Petka (Red Comrades 1-2) and QDengine. And also, some bad Wintermute games. Same goes with WIP games (WorldSpiral: Liath (https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?titl ... ral:_Liath) and GAG: The Impotent Mystery (https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?titl ... nt_Mystery))

I would like ScummVM to support these Russian engines:

Saturn-Plus:

Nine Princes of Amber / Девять принцев Амбера (DOS)
Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty's Return / Шерлок Холмс: Возвращение Мориарти
The Adventures of Lieutenant Rzhevskiy / Приключения поручика Ржевского
Agent: Special Mission / Агент: Особое задание
The Twelve Chairs / Двенадцать стульев
Red Comrades 3: Return of Alaska / Петька 3: Возвращение Аляски
Red Comrades 4: Independence Day / Петька 4: День независимости

Unlikely (most of games are bad):

New Bremen Town Musicians / Новые бременские
Non - childish Tales / Недетские сказки
Horrors: The Sixth Sence / Страшилки: Шестое чувство
Boomerang / Бумеранг
Stupid Watch / Тупой дозор
Petrovka 38 ½ / Петровка 38 ½
Red Comrades 5: End of Game / Петька 5: Конец игры (start of franchise downfall)
Red Comrades 6: New Reality / Петька 6: Новая реальность
Shtyrlitz 4: Matrix - A Step to Death / ШтЫрлиц 4: Матрица - шаг до гибели
Buratillo / Буратилло

Note: Jazz and Faust (Джаз и Фауст) and Midnight Nowhere (Чёрный оазис), that developed by Saturn Plus, too, uses unique 3D engines. Road Stories (Дорожные истории) uses same 3D engine, that was used in Midnight Nowhere.

Trickster Games:

Tanita: The Sea Adventure / Танита: Морское приключение
Petrovich / Петрович и все-все-все...
KikoRiki: Parallel Worlds / Смешарики: Параллельные миры

Alexander Efremov:

Shtyrlitz: Operation "Bust" / ШтЫрлиц: Операция "Бюст"
Shtyrlitz 2: Pampas Tango / ШтЫрлиц 2: Танго в пампасах
Shtyrlitz 3: USSR Agent / ШтЫрлиц 3: Агент СССР
Leo-The-Cat's Summer Cottage / Дача кота Леопольда, или особенности мышиной охоты / Le Avventure Di Leogatto (Gobliiins-like game)
Clay Agent / Операция "Пластилин"
Clay Dream / Пластилиновый сон
White Sun of the Desert / Белое солнце пустыни

Gamos:

Flip-Flop (puzzle game, maybe)
Pilot Brothers 1 / Братья Пилоты: По следам полосатого слона (Gobliiins-like game)
Pilot Brothers 2 / Братья Пилоты: Дело о серийном маньяке (Gobliiins-like game)

Phantomery:

Sublustrum / Outcry: The Dawn
Phobos: 1953 / 1953: KGB Unleashed

Step Creative Group:

2D Engine:

Alice's Journey / Путешествие Алисы
Evenings at a Farm near Dikanka / Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки

3D engine:

Star Heritage Episode One: Black Cobra / Звёздное наследие: Эпизод 1 - Чёрная кобра (official remake of Russian ZX Spectrum bootleg)
Inhabited Island: The Earthling / Обитаемый остров: Землянин

Frogwares (while they working for European pubishers, they're are Ukrainian developers, their engine is similar to Virtools):

Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Silver Earring
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2004)

New Media Generation:

Escape from the Haunted House / Призрак старого парка
Star Judge / Звёздный судья

Nikita Game Interface (more games):

Magic Dream / Волшебный сон / Il Sogno Magico di Carletto
New Robinson / Новый Робинзон
Blue Beard / Новый Бармалей

Games with unique engines:

Sea Legends (DOS)
Aquarium: Ring of Time / Аквариум: Кольцо времени
DDT: Virtualia / ДДТ: Виртуалия (interface is loosely-based on Normality)
Ivan Lozhkin: Price of Freedom / Иван Ложкин: Цена свободы (DOS)
Fairy Tales on Birch Bark / Сказки на бересте: Хождения за тридевять земель (DOS)
Viy: Retold Story / Вiй: История, рассказанная заново

Unlikely games:

The Sixth Dimension / Шестое измерение / Det Röda Äpplets Hemlighet
Magic Turn / Полный улёт (Same 3D engine as The Sixth Dimension)

Some of Russia-developed games uses known engines PhoenixVR (Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy), Virtools (Aura, Dead Reefs), Macromedia Director (i dunno, which) and Wintermute (https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?titl ... mute/Games).

Some games actually don't work on modern computers, and it is also impossible to play due the StarForce. But DOS games can be played in DOSbox emulator.

I have just selected the best, most interesting and playable games from ours. Although most of our quests are garbage, so you should skip them.

Although I have never worked on game support for ScummVM and have never pulled codes from games, I hope that some of the selected games could appear on the interpreter in future.

[Praetorian]

Head's up. This will be moved to The Junkyard subforum, where the other requests for engines live. We even have a dedicated thread for those there: viewtopic.php?t=6183&start=555

[Zhuravl2000]

Well, Gamos engine is finally added. Thanks to sev. As for the rest, I'll wait. Maybe developers will disagree about this.

[sev]

These requests are such a waste of time. Please refer to our FAQ #3.1.2: https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/help ... the-future

Nobody is looking to spend several months of their life just because some random user asks for it over here.


Eugene

[Zhuravl2000]

My bad.