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."

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?

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:What's wrong with the games industry:

[Anonymous Coward]

Monkey Island 2 is one of the most beautiful sequels [mobygames.com] to ever grace the game industry. If you haven't played it (which seems to be the case from the sound of your post), you should give it a try -- it's still a wonderful game 17 years later.