#1619 DC/COMI: crash on startup movie

The game crashes on the startup movie on dreamcast
after 5 minutes.

thanks

[Anonymous]

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this happens in the 0.6.0 stable version

[Anonymous]

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this happens in the 0.6.0 stable version

[Max Horn]

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* Language of game (English, German, ...)
* Version of game (talkie, floppy, ...)
* Platform and Compiler (Win32, Linux, MacOS, ...)
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I use "scummvm-0.6.0-dreamcast-plainfiles.tar.bz2" this mean
that I do not compile any version, because no
existing development environment.

Before the system crash LeChuck and Elaine are speaking to
each other.
Before this happen the Speech/sound is stuttering > picture
already there, sound after 2 seconds.
I think the system get muddled because of the long video at
the beginning.

Game: Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island GERMAN PC
CDROM-Version.

There are no save games available because this is in the
beginning (and within 5 minutes)

[tito13kfm]

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* ScummVM version: Stable Version 0.6.0 (Cannot test Daily
CVS builds because I cannot compile for Dreamcast)
* Language of game: English
* Version of game: Talkie
* Platform and Compiler: Dreamcast
* This bug prevents this game from being playable in any form
on the Dreamcast. There is no way to skip the opening movie
and it freezes up about 2 minutes into the movie.
* How to reproduce it: Start a new game on Dreamcast and
wait about 2 minutes.
* Can not send a save game as it happens before you have a
chance to save the game.

I wish I could be of more help to the developers, but I do not
know how to compile a version to run on dreamcast. If
somebody could link me to a daily build compiled for
dreamcast I would be happy to test this and give you any
feedback or help that I can.

[Max Horn]

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No way to skip? So the ESC key isn't mapped on the dreamcast? Ouch

[Marcus Comstedt]

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Of course it is. It's even on the soft keyboard, for those
lacking a real one, although the soft keyboard is not
available on the 0.6.x branch.

[Marcus Comstedt]

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And since this is a SCUMM game, skipping the intro is of
course possible with Left mouse button + Right mouse button
(A+B on controller) as well.

[Max Horn]

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Marcus, you never commented on the actual bug, I think: Can you
reproduce it? If so, any chance to get it fixed?

[Marcus Comstedt]

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There is no actual bug. During the intro, scummvm allocates
more memory than what is available on the Dreamcast (16M),
so the allocation fails and scummvm exits.

The "fix" would be to make scummvm use less memory. Should
be possible, since CoMI could run in 16MB on the PC...

(Something which might help is disabling all the engines
except the SCUMM one.)

[Max Horn]

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Did this actually get better with your recent plugin code additions to
ScummVM CVS, Marcus?

[MetaFox]

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Yes it did, marginally. When you run it with only the scumm
engine plugin enabled, the entire startup movie is played.
It's still out-of-sync and stuttery (which is only expected
from a console that has to continually read from the disc
due to a lack of an external storage medium). The game
still isn't playable due to heavy disc reading, but this
"bug" is no longer applicable.