Strange Problem with ScummVM

[pwormwood]

Hi!

I have s strange problem with ScummVM.

Some of the games won't load others work just fine. (e.g. Beneath a Steel Sky works fine Broken Sword wont load).

It seems like Gameex isn't even starting the emulator. I switched on debugging and saw that the runitgame.bat was empty and no command line window popped up when I tried to start one of the games that dont work.

Any Ideas?

thx

Edit: I use ScummVM 12.0 and the latest Gameex. All games work ok when I start them directly via the Scumm GUI.

[Joe C]

You know, I actually had a similar problem about a month or so. Initially the problem I had was with a bogus torrent I downloaded. Found a complete one, and like you, maybe 1/3 of the games would load, the others would just go to a blank screen for about 1-2 seconds and back into gamex. It appeared it was doing this for all my favorites like monkey island 1 & 2 and indiana jones. The only way I got around it was by using the wrapper utility created by headkaze and greatflash. The files which list the roms are dummy files which gameex will identigy as the list of games. With this said, I just replaced each file with a .bat file to run the game. The following is an example of what one .bat file would look like.

@echo off

start d:\Emulators\scummvm\scummvm.exe -f -pd:\scummvm\roms\monkey2\ monkey2

As you can see here, very simple. Load the .exe, then go to full screen, then to the path of the rom

I'm not sure why some worked and some didn't and to be honest with you I'm not sure if this is even the most practical way to do it, but it worked for and every game works great!

Thats my 2 cents at least. I'm tired of asking all the questions.

-Joe

[pwormwood]

First of all thanks for the hint. Everything is working now!

I think there must be a bug in Gameex because I didnt even create valid .bat files.

Here is what I did.

- Create a file named sword1.bat containing:

start c:\emulators\scummvm\scummvm.exe -f -p I:\emus\scummvm\games\sword1 sword1

- Sword1 starts fine

- Copied the .bat file to sword2.bat without changing the content

- Sword2 starts ok

- Added .bat to all the remaining dummy files and all other games work ok

Really strange but the important bit is that everything is working now

[pwormwood]

Coming to think about it seems like all games with a name longer than 4 characters didnt work.