#Scummvm files code#
Of course nobody except the developers (and perhaps their immediate managers) knew whose code is in there. They found no bugs, passed the work to Majesco, and those reported about successful project completion to Atari. Consider this: These programmers from Mistic Soft just provided the binaries to their Quality Assurance department, and the games worked well (as ScummVM does). This is a pretty common thing among the lawyers, and also as I understand, they were not aware of the issue. We got a lawyer which specializes on such violations, and pretty soon we sent a letter to Atari in Germany (the fact that the games being sold in Germany eased the work considerably).įirst they started to deny everything. Thus, we started to discuss what should we do with the case, and decided to approach.
#Scummvm files full#
It looks like Mistic Soft took money for all the porting efforts but instead of that just stacked together a ScummVM build! Of course, it was easier (my estimate, that it requires about 2 full time weeks to port ScummVM to new platform), since as I suspect, original interpreter is not very alignment-safe and is not endianness-agnostic as ScummVM is. There could be other bugs, but that was enough. It is right at the beginning of the game, when Freddi reads a letter from the bottle, and is easy to spot on the console. Note that gfx glitch on Freddi's left eye. Pretty fast we found a 0.9.0-era bug in Freddi Fish. Then we performed some playtesting on the real thing in order to find clues that ScummVM is inside. Judging from the symbol names they rolled out their own backend, and used Nintendo tools for that.
#Scummvm files how to#
Inspection of the game binary (we dumped it on SD Card on Wii with homebrew channel, it's pretty small) showed that they based their work on ScummVM 0.9.0, inside there were full credits to ScummVM Team (with couple placeholders for their names, though they left them empty), as well as such goodness as "This might be broken - please report where you encountered this to Fingolfin" or "Tell sev how to reproduce it". These Mistic Soft guys got the game assets and sources (this is obvious from the fact that they were able to insert their names into game credits seamlessly), but instead of performing actual work they went a cheap way.
#Scummvm files software#
I got 2 independent reports from 2 completely different sources, even from different countries that apparently there is ScummVM inside. Suddenly something quite unexpected happened. Thus, as soon as the games were on sale, couple of developers bought them. Thus, we were pretty glad and interested to hear that there are upcoming Humongous Entertainment titles on Wii. One of the main reasons is provide an up to date information on our Where to buy games list. We are not happy about the outcome, cyx and Fingolfin included.Īs you may imagine, we are closely watching the market for ScummVM-supported games. Other developers are not, and there is pretty handful of them who know at least beginning of the situation. They are not allowed to talk about the case. Let me present here some more details about the case.įingolfin and cyx are bound by the agreement signed by the lawyers. I am sure you saw the news post item about certain GPL violation.
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