[Scummvm-devel] Fan translated versions of games

[Filippos Karapetis]

These are supported already.... if you read the threads, you'll see that
they
mention that you need DOSBox or ScummVM to play these

Regards
Filippos

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:53 AM, timofonic timofonic <timofonic at gmail.com>wrote:

> So what about efforts like "The Secret of Monkey Island: CD Talkie
> Version" (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=199288) and
> "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Ultimate Talkie Edition Projekt"
> (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205508". It got
> discussed in the forum too
> (http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=61860).
>
> It's not exactly a "fan translation", but an effort to play the talkie
> part on the classic games. They even add some fixes and improvements,
> most of them can be disabled too.
>
> I'm just curious about this, to see if coders from the SCUMM team
> would like to add support to those project. Those look very
> interesting from the user POW, as it's a way to have some improvements
> over the original games and a way to get those games easily too.
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Paul Gilbert <paulfgilbert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev at scummvm.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The main problem with fan-translations is that they are not always
> >> final, and in case there is some bugfix, your md5s may go all wrong.
> >> With md5s you come with a dilemma either support all different versions
> >> of that translation, or just one, final. /That/ is the main reason for
> >> us not adding them easily.
> >>
> >>
> >> Eugene
> >
> > Thanks for providing the clarification. It might be worthwhile
> > cut-and-pasting the explanation into a wiki page for reference.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
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