Hello, Aaron (I hope you read this), I'm having big troubles with Grim Fandango. I'm not a native English speaker, so I will try to write the best way I can...
When I executed the game, I tried to play with the number pad on the keyboard. With the key "Bloq Num" I have been able to play with this section of the keyboard, but I have problems. If you are pressing "8" (advance), "Shift" (run) and then you press the "5" key (examine), Manny will disappear from his current position and he will appear in a kind of default position of the screen. That will happend in every different screen, everytime you press the combination I told you about.
So... I tried to play with the other section of the keyboard: the cursors keys and the letters. I had even more problems. If you, accidentally, press the shift key (run) and "P" (pick up), Manny will jump to another section of the game. For example, if you are in the beginning of the game (I think it's "El Marrow" in English) and you press "Shift" + "P", Manny will appear in Rubacava suddenly (in Act 2). And if you press those two keys again, Manny will appear under the water (Act 3). ItΒ΄s as if the game entered in a kind of "debugger mode" where Manny goes jumping from one act to another.
Another weird problem: if you press "Shift" + "O", there will appear words on the screen. Every word is over each interactive object of the screen. Grim Fandango is not supposed to have that words, so... it's a little weird, because when you enter in the inventory, the words that appeared over every object are floating over the screen even when you are seeing Manny's jacket in a close up view.
Oh, and another problem. Everytime I load Grim Fandango, the game continues automatically where I left the last time. Grim Fandango is supposed to start from the beginning everytime, but I can't restart the game anymore. If I use F12 and press "restart game", it won't work. The only way to restart the game is deleting some files from the registry of DREAMM.
I don't know if this problem just occurs to me. Anyone here had such problems? I'm playing the English version with the 1.01 patch and I'm using the latest version of DREAMM from Aaron's webpage.
Thank you very much.