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As many of you will be aware, we at Mixnmojo have been helping Aaron Giles track down some of the obscure international releases of the LucasArts games to ensure that they're supported in his brilliant DREAMM emulator. This has been somewhat tricky because some of the LucasArts adventure games have been released in countries as far flung and diverse as Israel, China, South Africa and Brunei, and while in most cases these were released with localised boxes and/or manuals, the games themselves have remained in English. So, as far as DREAMM is concerned, there's no difference between the English release of Escape From Monkey Island and the South African release, because the resource files are identical. However, some lucky countries received these games in a fully localised form, be it either translated texts, or a fully voiced re-dubbed talkie version. These ones of course have different resource files to the English versions, and DREAMM can now identify and run effectively all of them. This is a remarkable achievement and I salute and thank Aaron Giles for taking the time to make sure that these relatively obscure versions of the game work as originally intended. Now, the reason I'm posting this is to share the master list of versions we've compiled, and to request that if you know of any translated versions of games that aren't on the list, to please let us know about them (and wherever possible, to send a copy of the game files to Aaron so that he can check them out and add them to DREAMM's list of recognised titles). I'm not particularly interested in English releases in foreign countries (the list of these is incomplete because DREAMM will always be able to recognise the English versions of the resource files, so it simply isn't a pressing issue), but if you live in say Bulgaria and happen to know that a local distributor did sell eg. Monkey Island 1 with a Bulgarian manual, please feel free to share this in the comments. Also, if anyone happens to have a copy of the Japanese DOS/V version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis with the Japanese game text, please share a copy with Aaron as we've been unable to find this particular game anywhere outside of extremely expensive Japanese auctions! As a separate project I'm collecting scans of boxes, disks and manuals of any international versions for the Mojo games database, so if you happen to have any images of obscure versions please share them in this thread (assuming you're happy for Mojo to make use of the images in future). I'll share some images and scans of the more interesting versions I've found in replies to this comment. For now, here's a chart documenting what we've found, and thanks in advance for any contributions you can make to this! (Upated 11-Sep-23 with Israeli releases courtesy of Daniel Albu; 12-Sep-23 to correct Fate of Atlantis errors courtesy of Laserschwert). (The below was a separate post, but the forum merged them.) So, as promised here are a few interesting versions I've come across in the last few days: China / Taiwan Soft-World releases Korean Dongseo Game Channel releases (I love these long boxes!) Hebrew MechKat releases: By necessity these images have been acquired from around the web, so if I've used a photo that belongs to you here and you'd like it removed, please let me know.

OK, let me help you out a bit with regards to the Israeli releases. It's true that Loom EGA is the only LucasArts game that has been fully translated. But many of the games in the list got a localized box with the game itself being the original English version. The games are: Escape from Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Curse of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit The Road, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I'll try to find photos of each one of these boxes and I'll share them below. Sam & Max Hit The Road:

https://bossfightbooks.com/products/day-of-the-tentacle-by-bob-mackey I'm so interested in this book... but it costs more to ship to the UK than it does to buy! If anyone has any luck finding a place to buy it for reasonable costs on this side of the Atlantic, do share. (The best I've been able to find is Amazon Belgium for some reason: https://www.amazon.com.be/-/en/Bob-Mackey/dp/1940535336?language=en_GB).

Here's Monkey Island 2 and its floppy disks

I've updated the original post and managed to find a few images of the Monkey Island 2 release via YouTube - the video is worth a watch as you get to see some of the box contents in Hebrew

Right, novices. Let old Thrik show you how it’s done. … For GOD’S sake. Monkey Island Heardle #355 🔇🟥⬛️⬛️🟥🟥⬛️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle

As elTee said, Fate of Atlantis Japanese is the big remaining missing one but there's also some games for which there are ripped copies but not disk images. (Ripped refers to a copy of the files from when the game has been installed). Disk images are much better for preservation and its easier to tell if they've been modified. If you have any of these games or know someone who does please let us or Aaron know. Do you have any of these? Disk images wanted for: Curse of MI PC Korean LastCrusade PC Ega French v1.3 (CD version) LastCrusade PC Ega Spanish v1.4 [1990-04-20] 6x360kFloppy (There's a v1.4b version of this from 1990-05-09 but there are already disk images of that) Loom PC Ega Hebrew 6x360kFloppy Lucasarts Adventure Pack (a Japanese compilation that included Fate of Atlantis, Indy Desktop Adventures and TheDig) ManiacMansion PC Enhanced French v1.0 1x720kFloppy MI1 PC Ega French 4x720kFloppy MI1 PC Ega French 8x360kFloppy MI1 PC Ega German 4x720kFloppy MI1 PC Vga French v1.0 [SPUTM v5.0.16] 8x720kFloppy MI1 PC Vga French v1.0 [SPUTM v5.0.18] 4x1.4MFloppy SamAndMax PC Spanish v1.2 7x1.4MFloppy Zak PC Enhanced French 3x360kFloppy Zak PC Enhanced Italian 2x720kFloppy Zak PC Enhanced Spanish 3x360kFloppy

For those who prefer the more classic look I whipped up a more traditional SeMI logo. Do with it what you will

Quicker than expected, I've added the new Last Crusade poster to the main post (in 6 different flavors).

Just trying to enjoy some pizza during my lunch break and... wait, what is that? Oh, that's right. We forgot to fix the USA flag at the end of Day of the Tentacle. This is the timeline we live in.

Three times in a row! That isn't Monkey Island Quake. THIS is Monkey Island Quake: