[Scummvm-devel] SCUMM Steam Releases

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Hi Team,

Despite the expressed opinions, I would still prefer to abstain from it.

Just think about it. They clearly made it in order to hide from our project
ability to directly run the games. They deliberately decided to put
additional effort and it is for sure not a mistake or oversight.

For those who are not aware, they hid the index .LFL file into engine
executable, so all those patches Matt is referring to, do extract them with
use of hardcoded tables.

I do clearly understand how pitiful this could be for end-users, and that
it could lead to frustration.

Nevertheless, the safety of ScummVM Team and project is at my highest
priority. I just want you guys to continue enjoy hacking ScummVM and
sleeping well at night, without any potential threat from lawyers.

Any other opinions, particularly from the core team?


Eugene


On 3 June 2014 16:44, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I fully share Matt and Paul's opinions.
>
> Arnaud
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Paul Gilbert <paulfgilbert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I too would like to see support for the Steam releases incorporated
>> directly into ScummVM. Whilst I've never been involved in any of the legal
>> issues in the past, it seems like this draws a parallel to the prior issue
>> of including Smacker support in ScummVM.. enough time seems to have passed,
>> and none of the other tools have had any legal challenges, that it would
>> seem to be safer to now include support into ScummVM.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Hoops <clone2727 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's about a month shy of the 5 year anniversary of the releases of
>>> the LucasArts SCUMM games on Steam. In those past few years, we
>>> haven't had any issues with that except from users frustrated that
>>> they couldn't play those games in ScummVM:
>>>
>>> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=9628
>>> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12458
>>> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=13521
>>> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7783
>>> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10579
>>>
>>>
>>> And then we just had other users write up their own patches anyway:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/symm/LAAExtract
>>> http://scummvm.bencastricum.nl/
>>>
>>> http://gazj.co.uk/blog/2012/11/updating-the-steam-lucasarts-adventures-patch-to-work-on-scummvm-1-dot-5-0/
>>>
>>> I'm completely in favor of a change to our policy on these games. At
>>> this point, even the HE SCUMM games on Steam use ScummVM. We should be
>>> supporting them out-of-the-box just like all the other games.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
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