Maniac Mansion Creator Supports Indie Ports

trueneutral writes "SCUMMVM is a project that has ported a large number of the Lucas Arts adventure games. But what's amazing, is that Ron Gilbert of Grumpy Gamer, the creator of the majority of these games, actually supports it. He applauds their efforts, and seems to have no problems with the project. It's really refreshing to see a good attitude about these things. I think Gilbert realizes that this is a fan based effort to play his games on modern platforms. From the article: 'As the person that created SCUMM and along with Aric Wilmunder coded the original system, my hat is off the SCUMMVM team and contributers for this undertaking. I am in awe. Especially since I could never get anything to run from one version of the system to the next...'"

Similiar Positive Experience

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After growing up losing countless hours of sleep playing SkyRoads [bluemoon.ee], last fall a friend and myself decided to extract the level data from the game and port it to SDLRoads [sourceforge.net], a rather faithful recreation of the game.

We ended up running the game via dosxbox in gdb, dumping the entire memory region, and searching the heap for the levels. It didn't take all too long before we had the raw data converted to the SDLRoads native format.

We passed the levels off to the SDLRoads guys, and they got permission to use the original levels in their port. Thanks BlueMoon!