I have no Mouth and I must Scream FREE on EPIC

[Vorph]

Hello,

currently IHNM is available for free on EPIC games (until 2026-07-09)

The version provided (Nightdive Release) contains all required data for ScummVM (EN,FR,DE, IT & SP), so it might be worth a look. I have not yet figured out IF the enhanced audio is hidden somewhere, but all other required files are available - BUT the patch.re_ is missing in all languages. Where is this file supposed to com from? Was it removed in a later revision of the game? Without the file, detection fails in ScummVM. Does anyone know something about it?

Regards,
Vorph

[topolinik]

Thanks!

[QuestingHero]

I can't get ScummVM to see the game. I copied all the files listed here https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?titl ... ust_Scream (other than "patch.re_" which is not there), and ScummVM doesn't see the game

[Praetorian]

I'd say the missing file is an omission by the publisher for the Epic distribution package.

It's there on Steam and GOG --I just checked, it's under a "classic" folder where all the required files to detect/add and launch from ScummVM reside. Both GOG and Steam now distribute the "remaster(?)" from NightDive primarily, alongside the classic ScummVM launched version. Epic seems to be doing this too, but they have arranged the files differently, bundled four languages together in the same installation, and they also don't include ScummVM in the bundle.

In the ScummVM engine source code (SAGA) there's code that handles the patch resource, so it is used. I am not sure if there is a workaround or if it can be omitted from detection and still run the game without issues (except for the ones that the patch fixes probably). For the latter, you'd have to remove the file requirement from the saga detection_tables.h and then recomplie ScummVM and test.

Or a developer who has worked on the engine could provide more insight.

[chkuendig]

I looked deeper into this, and the `PATCH.RE_` file seems to already have been applied to the `SCREAM.RES` file in all versions I could find? It overrides the same data in all language variants, so it can be reconstructed from any of the files in the EGS version. Here's a quick helper script i threw together with Claude Code:

https://gist.github.com/chkuendig/1dbb1 ... 68eb884bf3


This script produces the same file from any of the language versions in the epic release: (steam files have the same hashes, so they also already apply the patch)

Code: Select all

0cf2947caaa466c16267b8284efa4617  ./IHaveNoMouthAndIMusteUkBA/IHNMAIMS_Data/StreamingAssets/disk_EN/scream/SCREAM.RES
b20dd4b2697cbb94ef018bc787049da9  ./IHaveNoMouthAndIMusteUkBA/IHNMAIMS_Data/StreamingAssets/disk_SP/scream/SCREAM.RES
b60c33762572051e6c89ce086d456526  ./IHaveNoMouthAndIMusteUkBA/IHNMAIMS_Data/StreamingAssets/disk_GE/scream/SCREAM.RES
5ceb5d5a51fc7de6e0c3167373282abc  ./IHaveNoMouthAndIMusteUkBA/IHNMAIMS_Data/StreamingAssets/disk_FR/scream/SCREAM.RES
55e89ac27ea2eac4f21339f4bcf42edf  ./IHaveNoMouthAndIMusteUkBA/IHNMAIMS_Data/StreamingAssets/disk_IT/scream/SCREAM.RES

Still always ends up with the same `PATCH.RE_` the steam release has (md5sum: a88a9182abd95ed2af059ef28af9f4700

I have a suspicion we can remove the patch from the detection, but I'm not sure if there are older version that need it (and how we could differentiate this, given that the patch affects the middle of the file)

[QuestingHero]

Here's a quick helper script i threw together with Claude Code:

This created the file and it seems to run now.

[Vorph]

That's great - works like a charm