[Scummvm-devel] Sierra games naming

[Johannes Schickel]

On 01/04/2011 08:36 AM, Filippos Karapetis wrote:
> The double "SCI remake" is wrong in KQ4, and it will be fixed. 
> However, some SCI games are unique cases...
>
> - King's Quest 4: There is both an AGI and a SCI version, which are, 
> in fact, completely different games, each one using a different engine 
> and rewritten from scratch
> - Leisure Suit Larry 1, Police Quest 1, Space Quest 1: All three of 
> them were initially released using the AGI engine (which was EGA). 
> Then, they were released as SCI versions, both for VGA and for EGA. 
> The SCI EGA versions used dithered 16 color graphics from the VGA 
> versions. The "AGI EGA" version and the "SCI EGA" versions are again 
> completely different games, so the "SCI remake" description is again 
> necessary in these cases, cause there are 3 variants of each game
> - Quest for Glory 1, Mixed up Mother Goose: Same case for both: the 
> first version to be released was using the first version of SCI, i.e. 
> the EGA SCI0 version. Both were subsequently re-released, using 
> updated graphics and a newer version of SCI: QFG1 was released as a 
> VGA remake using SCI1.1, and MUMG was rereleased three times with 
> updated graphics, one version using SCI1, another SCI11 and the latest 
> one SCI21 - madness!
>
> So, to sum up, we have the following unique cases:
> - KQ4 AGI and SCI (both EGA)
> - LSL1 AGI, SCI EGA, SCI VGA
> - PQ1 AGI, SCI EGA, SCI VGA
> - SQ1 AGI, SCI EGA, SCI VGA
> - QFG1 SCI EGA, SCI VGA (both versions being completely different)
> - MUMG SCI EGA (SCI0), SCI VGA (SCI1), SCI VGA CD (SCI11), SCI SVGA CD 
> (SCI21)

Actually that doesn't sound that bad, one can just specifiy the version 
like "SCI0 EGA" etc. in the extra description field and say use 
"mothergoose-sci0-ega" or something similar as default target.

>
> All of the SCI1 games were also released for Amiga and Mac, which 
> further complicates the game descriptions.

How does that complicate the game descriptions? We already have a 
standard way for specifying game platforms, inclusively target name 
additions of platforms.

// Johannes