Elvira needs your help

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Kirben
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Elvira needs your help

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ScummVM currently offers support for the following Elvira games, produced by HorrorSoft:
Elvira 1 - Mistress of Darkness (Amiga)
Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Any version)

The games could use more testing, to see if they are completable, and in order to find more bugs.

Please check the known issues, before reporting any issues, and submit any bugs into the bug tracker.

Unfortunately there aren't any playable demos available.

Also if anyone has the German versions of Elvira 1 or 2 (DOS). Could you please add a bug report, and attach the executable file (runit.exe or runvga.exe), so I can extract the font data.
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Post by spookypeanut »

Though there are no demos available, it's probably worth pointing out that these are 2 of the few games supported by ScummVM that can still be legally bought:

http://www.adventuresoft.com/acatalog/O ... games.html
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Post by saulob »

Does this game will enter the 0.10.0 release ?

It's not avaiable at the Release Testing page
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Relea ... ing/0.10.0

Just wondering...

Thanks :)
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Post by Kirben »

saulob wrote:Does this game will enter the 0.10.0 release ?
Maybe, if the Elvira 1/2 games are confirmed to be completable, and if no major bugs are found.
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Post by derboo »

Elvira 1 is completeable (current Win32 daily build) with a few glitches which I posted on the bug tracker.
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Post by Kirben »

Thanks for testing the game, and the bugs reports. It is good to know the game is actually completable :)
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Post by marzipan »

spookypeanut wrote:Though there are no demos available, it's probably worth pointing out that these are 2 of the few games supported by ScummVM that can still be legally bought:

http://www.adventuresoft.com/acatalog/O ... games.html
Are these the original DOS games or new Windows ports, or something?
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Post by eriktorbjorn »

marzipan wrote: Are these the original DOS games or new Windows ports, or something?
DOS games.
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Post by PsYcO »

marzipan wrote:
spookypeanut wrote:Though there are no demos available, it's probably worth pointing out that these are 2 of the few games supported by ScummVM that can still be legally bought:

http://www.adventuresoft.com/acatalog/O ... games.html
Are these the original DOS games or new Windows ports, or something?
Minimum system :- 386, CD-ROM, Sound card, VGA graphics, 570k free base memory, 20mb hard disk space. Only works on Windows 95 or 98.
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Post by derboo »

That could possibly just mean it doesn't run under never Windows Versions...
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Post by Kirben »

Elvira's Horror Pack still includes the DOS versions of the games, but with an added installer for Windows.

The system requirements are misleading, as there are no Windows versions.
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Post by Glorfindel »

Hi, i've send a bug report with the italian exe of Elvira II (and relative md5s):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=418820
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Post by Kirben »

Thanks, I added the details and font table for the Italian DOS version of Elvira 2, use the next snapshot of ScummVM 0.11.0svn.
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Spanish font

Post by mac_es »

I have reported bug 1740750 whith spanish dos version of elvira2's runit.exe

PD: Seems that fingolfin has moved it to a request...
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Post by Kirben »

Thanks, I added the font table for the Spanish version of Elvira 2, use the next snapshot of ScummVM 0.11.0svn.
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