ScummVM 0.12.0 Released — Support For New Games, Wiimote

Croakyvoice writes "The ScummVM Team has released a new version of their program that allows owners of many systems to play the old point and click adventure games of yesteryear. This release sees support for 5 new games — The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate, The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge, Lost in Time, The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble and Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back. The new version officially supports, for the first time, the Gamecube and the Wii, and also the ability to use the Wiimote as a controller. The binaries and the source code are both available."

Comments

Thanks devs!

[XanC]

Because of the ScummVM guys, we can play these fantastic older games in completely modern environments. Can anything beat Monkey Island, I ask you?

Re:Thanks devs!

[Hatta]

I can beat Monkey Island.

Wii Adventure Games

[AndrewStephens]

Nintendo should really be pushing its developers to do this kind of thing. The Wiimote is perfect for point-n-click adventures and the gameplay would suit the causal, cooperative style of play that the Wii embodies.

An official, licensed version of Monkey Island (for example) would more than pay for itself, especially since the dev costs would be minimal.

Re:Wii Adventure Games

[quantumplacet]

Zak and Wiki was a well funded, well advertised original IP in the vain of classic point and click adventures developed specifically for the Wii. It sold extremely poorly. I doubt we'll see studios lining up to make adventure games for the console. The simple fact is it was once a great genre and still has it's fans, but it's quasi interactive style just feels outdated in the modern gaming world.

Re:Wii Adventure Games

[Jorophose]

Zak and Wiki was an excellent game but it got overshadowed by 1st party games.

Blame the retailers. 1st party games remain king but they won't keep cool looking games like Zak and Wiki because they want to try out shovelwares (possibly to prove they're shovelware).

(please stop using IP in that sense, when you do you ruin the point of being alive some days. "intellectual property" should be illegal. It's not an acronym we should all know by heart. =/)

I tried ScummVM for my Wii, not impressed

[AbRASiON]

Firstly the graphics code was stock standard, none of the sweet filtering options were available, it looked blocky and jagged (I tried several games, including Full Throttle)
The Xbox 1 version however, the graphics code was substantially better./

What is far, far more interesting though, is how terrible the Wiimote is as a mouse device, it's not comfortable to be moving my wrist around constantly up down left right, a little left, a little right, diagnol left and up, hold this button unhold that.
In a surprise result, I found playing on my Xbox 1 far more relaxing, laying back, both hands on my lap with the big old 'duke' controller in my lap just using the thumbsticks, perhaps they have better acceleration and accuracy code than you'd expect but honestly - using the XB controller is really not bad at all.

Oh one other thing, the Wii read performance from the SD card is abysmal - absoloutely frightfully abysmal, that system really shows its limitations when you start peeking under the hood. (SD only, not HDSC for example) - I wouldn't be surprised if the USB ports were 1.0 or 1.01 (I don't know?)

Good to see more releases though, Scumm VM is fantastic.

Re:I tried ScummVM for my Wii, not impressed

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

The Xbox 1 version however, the graphics code was substantially better./

Well, hacking the xbox is fairly well understood now & code is very mature their. Wii hacking on the other hand is very new, poorly understood & still in alpha.

What is far, far more interesting though, is how terrible the Wiimote is as a mouse device

See my first point. Why are you comparing an alpha release to an ancient release?

I wouldn't be surprised if the USB ports were 1.0 or 1.01 (I don't know?)

Nope 2.0