Benny Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Confirmed - it is VAG. Play it back with something like MFAudio. You'll need to strip the headers from the .scx file first (up to the VAGp header) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Beta version of EMI Launcher - lets you choose a custom resolution, includes the "windowed mode with higher res" fix. Doesn't include the 'black the background out' fix - I can't get it to work yet and doesn't yet include the 'double size' movies patch. EMI Launcher 1.5 Beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 EMI Viewer 2.6 I've dug out my PS2 copy of EMI and its a German PAL version. I can upload some files if you need to compare. Thanks heaps, that's great a little app I've got English NTSC. If you (or anyone else) see anything much different between mine and yours then it'd be great if you could upload them. Note there are art files in the root of the disc and also in subfolders by island - they seem quite redundant so I'm not sure which the game actually uses. I've found copies of guy.meshb in artall, melee/cdt and melee/wed. Confirmed - it is VAG. Play it back with something like MFAudio. You'll need to strip the headers from the .scx file first (up to the VAGp header) Ah, thanks. I had worked out that MFAudio could play them if I manually set the frequency and channels - didn't realise there was an extra header I needed to remove to make it work automatically. Anyway, the voices don't sound any different to me so I'll put that one to rest for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 The guy.meshb is identical, at first glance it doesn't look like anything is particularly different. I don't imagine that any of the assets apart from the text will have been changed. Thanks for sending me your .exe, unfortunately i still get dont get the backgrounds blacked out for videos. Perhaps its somehow dependant on graphics card drivers. I've updated EMI Launcher again so that it lets you play in windowed mode if you're using a higher resolution (link is the same as that above). If anyone can, I'd still appreciate some suggestions for what the 'built-in' resolutions in the drop-down list should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp-30 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Don't suppose any of this will be transferable to Grim Fandango? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Sadly not I think. I tried patching Grim into a higher resolution years ago. I think I've deleted the screenshot from my site but essentially - Manny could move around in the larger window - but the backgrounds didnt scale up and we're just shown in a 640x480 window in the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 The guy.meshb is identical, at first glance it doesn't look like anything is particularly different. I don't imagine that any of the assets apart from the text will have been changed. Hm, thanks. Did you notice when playing if the models are smooth or not? Anyone else who has the PS2 version, let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radogol Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qY40P41Z2U - gameplay video from the PS2 version. The models LOOK smoother, but it's hard to tell with such a low resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 Here's a quick list of some common resolutions... 5:4 1280x1024 4:3 (not very common at all now but I think these two at least are important) 1024x768 1280x960 16:10 1280x800 1440x900 1680x1050 1920x1200 16:9 1366x768 1920x1080 Personally I would never use a ratio other than 4:3 because I hate stretching Does anyone know who made luadump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJoe Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 How much progress has been made with the cutscenes? Can they be incorporated into the launcher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMonkey Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 The only thing I really want to know is how adding the Monkey Kombat chart into the game is going. It would make that part of the game so much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 Things like the monkey chart aren't possible unless someone makes a compatible lua compiler. I don't think it'll ever happen, sadly. As for the cutscenes... any news, bgbennyboy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Whoops! I forgot about this. I shall sort it in the next few weeks, if I dont feel free to remind me and or chastise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 *poke* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Whoops! I'll get back into this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 sweet:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Right now I'm trying to update the installer to stop the issue where it hangs when iterating through the drives. If anyone has the problem where the installer just hangs when it loads please contact me - I need to test a fix with you and I cant reproduce the problem myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 sorry, I'm on holiday right now, but I can help with testing once I get back home next week:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 Cool. Will the new installer install the patch.m4b file from the v1.2 CDs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 I cant remember - did you send me a list of all the files on your cds so I could compare? I dont have access to all my email on this computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted August 6, 2010 Author Share Posted August 6, 2010 Yup - I'll send them to you again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 I'm nearly done making changes to the installer but I'm still confused by your version of EMI. As far as I know V1.1 is the latest release and that version is the last patch that Lucasarts released. It would seem that you have some unknown version - not just the game with the patch slipstreamed but a version beyond that. Just to clarify (and to record it here for anyone else in the future): You have the English version of EMI Its an official genuine release The readme identifies it as v1.2 of EMI (and ingame in the gee-whiz screen) Your version includes patch.m4b and secrets.m4b If possible can you send me secrets.m4b, monkey4.exe and the readme? I'm particularly interested in secrets.m4b - your dir listing shows it to be an 8 byte file - but it doesn't exist in my EMI - either patched or unpatched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted August 11, 2010 Author Share Posted August 11, 2010 This is off topic but I just found this really odd screenshot. Um, how do you get there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unicornfoal Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 This is off topic but I just found this really odd screenshot. Um, how do you get there? That looks like the section of the dock that was cut out of the main game... the only time Guybrush is ever there in the final thing is at the very beginning, and he's not player-controlled at that point. I'd have to assume this comes from a pre-release version or from some form of photoshopping. *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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