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Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake
xDCDx writes "LucasFan Games have just released an impressive 256 color remake of Maniac Mansion. There is a sequel to Zak McKracken available too. Their website is scarce in details, but the games speak for themselves. It seems the perfect timing for this release, now that LucasArts is obsessed with killing the graphical adventure genre. (If only Ron Gilbert would buy Monkey Island rights and made Monkey Island 3a: The Real Story...)"
There is an 8 minute wait to download the game from the severs provided but you can instead get it from your favorite p2p. I found mine on edonkey (mld) just search for "mmdsetup.exe" for Maniac Mansion and "fanadv_zak2.exe" for Zak McKracken. About 16 sources of each.
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Here's a hint: the front door key is under the doormat. It took me almost an hour to figure that out the first time around (but then I was only 7 years old).
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Also, watch out if you empty the pool
This game seriously freaked me out as a kid.
Hrm, whatever they're using to host the file doesn't seem to like me...
Not only that, but it looks Windows only (not using the *actual* scumm engine, but a free thing that's similarish)
http://freecache.org/http://www.tentakelvilla.de/t homas/mmdsetup.exe
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If you start looking for remakes, you will find out one of the most active "scenes" is the Sinclair Spectrum games remakes. Check out www.remakes.org
also have some remakes of older games, in this case the first two in Sierra's venerable King's Quest series. You can check them out at http://www.agdinteractive.com/
The FAQ says that the game was remade in AGS (Adventure Game Studio), a no programming required adventure game creation tool. Check Here.
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There are 4 endings ti Indy. 3 are common and in the hint guide. The 4th is indy getting out of atlantas but Sophie becoming a god and being destroyed. There is some hidden dialog for that ending as well. To get it you have to get the path where Sophie ends up in the jail cell near the end, and DONT free her. Play the game on through and she will pop up at the end on her own.
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I'm fairly certain if you look through the source, you could find out enough to write your own game.
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dont bother downloading it. The game uses AGS, and this one is ported to linux, but it relies on a plugin written in C++, which cannot be ported, since the Linux AGS version does not support plugins.
If you have the original game, you can use SCUMM VM to work as the script engine for many Lucas Art games. This way you can still enjoy the classics, without having to fiddle around with DOS emulators and such. :)
Sorry about the double post, my posting finger slipped.
I just installed and ran it with CrossOver Office. It's not perfect (the resolution is a bit skewed, I had to manually switch X11 screen resolutions with CTRL-ALT-+, and had to use my windowmanager to get the mouse cursor out of the game and back to doing *real* work), but it's playable.
I have not tried Wine proper, or dosemu.
There were several ways to win.
1) Summon the Meteor Police. Involves fixing the big radio using the vacuum tube from the one in the lounge. They arrive, and if you've opened the lab doors they'll storm right past Purple and Dr Fred, and arrest the Meteor. Then you just have to go in yourself and switch off the Meteor's mind control machine to release Dr Fred.
2) Dispose of the Meteor yourself. Persuade either Green or Weird Ed to help you beat Purple, then go into the Meteor's lair, take it and launch it into space in the trunk of the Weird Edsel.
Both (1) and (2) get much the same ending sequence: don't be a tuna head.
3) Get the Meteor a publishing deal. Have Wendy improve the Meteor's manuscript using the typewriter, and send it off. Get past Purple (with either Weird Ed or Green's help) and go into the Meteor's lair. Give the Meteor the contract, and he realises he doesn't have to be evil any more. This gets a really cool ending where the Meteor's on the sofa in some TV interview show.
4) Nuke the house. Several ways to do this: draining the pool, for instance, and letting the reactor overheat, or pressing the Red Button (which is marked 'Do Not Press - Under Any Circumstances)
5) Get all the kids killed. Weird Ed will kill you if you mutilate his hamster, Green will kill you if you get a publishing contract for either yourself or the Meteor, radioactive steam will kill you if you microwave water from the pool, and if you refill the pool while someone's in it they drown.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Gloriously wrong, I'm afraid. The tiny writing was in the attic above Edna's room, beside the safe; it was the combination for the safe, and could only be read using the Really Powerful Telescope. The combination for the inner lab door was, in fact, Fred's high score on the Meteor Mess arcade game. A bug in the programming on the NES version meant that until the cutscene where Dr Fred plays the game, the combination was 0000.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The New Adventures of Zak McKracken
Maniac Mansion Deluxe
There's also a FreeCache mirror somewhere in the article, if you want to use that instead.
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Uhmm... There was a telescope in the room above edna's bedroom. To distract her you'd have to call her from the lobby (where you got the tape (behind the lose cupboard)) but first you must repair the telephone afaik. And you'd have to repair the power cable. I think it is in the room with the strange plant (the one you have to grow with water from the pool and feed with something else I don't remember).
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Well, if you got to the telescope at last, you need a dime and point it in the right direction (two times right?). Than you'll finaly see the code.
Man, that's wierd.
For anyone interested in old game remakes there are remakes of King's Quest 1 + 2 in VGA here:
http://www.agdinteractive.com/
They're also currently in the middle of redoing Quest for Glory 2 which I've been drooling over for the last two years as it's my favourite Sierra game.
And here's a link to nearly all of the new text-based adventure games. Enjoy!
Why is it in 256 colors??
Well, why not? 256 colors is plenty if you use them right. A lot of people don't realise that 8-bit graphics can actually look better than 16-bit graphics under the right circumstances(e.g there are only 32 shades of red in 16-bit).
And using 32-bit graphics for simple 2D is just plain silly...
If some of you don't already know, ScummVM (available at scummvm.sf.net) is "a 'virtual machine' for several classic graphical point-and-click adventure games. It is designed to run: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so check back often." -- from www.scummvm.sourceforge.net.
With ScummVM you can play Maniac Mansion (original), Maniac Mansion (enhanced), Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (original), Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (enhanced), Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (256 - FmTowns), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (256), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (256 - FmTowns), Loom, Loom (256 - FmTowns), The Secret of Monkey Island (EGA), Passport to Adventure (Indy3, Monkey and Loom demos), Loom (256 color CD version), The Secret of Monkey Island (VGA Floppy), The Secret of Monkey Island (VGA CD), The Secret of Monkey Island (Alternative VGA CD), The Secret of Monkey Island (Sega CD), Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's revenge, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's revenge (DOS Demo), Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis, Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis (Demo), Putt-Putt Joins The Parade (DOS Demo), Putt-Putt Joins The Parade (DOS), Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon (DOS Demo), Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon (DOS), Putt-Putts Fun Pack,
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There are usually a dozen or so adventures in development at any given time. Just because you don't buy them doesn't mean they don't exist. A few of them suck outright (usually the MYST clones), but there are a lot of great ones. Click through to Adventure Gamers and have a look at games like Dreamfall, Fahrenheit, and The Westerner among others. The adventure genre is not dead by quite a ways. It's just moved to Europe