ScummVM 0.12.0 Released — Support For New Games, Wiimote 76
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."
Re:Scummy Game Creation? (Score:3, Informative)
Suggestions for other Free/OS interactive graphic novel creation tools are welcome.
The ScummVM maintainers recommend [scummvm.org] using Lua or Python with some layer around DirectX [pygame.org]. No, I don't know of any code libraries or other tools to make creation of an interactive graphic novel easier.
Re:Great support (Score:1, Informative)
The only things I would like ScummVM to handle now are AGI and SCI games so we can play the Space Quest, King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry games on it.
Re:I tried ScummVM for my Wii, not impressed (Score:4, Informative)
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
Re:iPhone port (Score:3, Informative)
I had some problems with scummvm on the iPhone (tried Monkey Island 2 & Indiana Jones 4).
The main problem is that the games aren't designed for it, and so you have to click on things that are a tenth of the area of your finger, most of the time I just missed them. Additionally, you don't see the items highlighted, because you aren't moving the cursor around at all.
I had to switch to trackpad mode all the time, and then my finger was obstructing the screen.