[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM] #10433: Gold Rush! not detected in nightly build

[T. J. Brumfield]

#10433: Gold Rush! not detected in nightly build
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  Reporter:  enderandrew  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  Engine: AGI
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Game:  Goldrush     |
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Comment (by enderandrew):

 This isn't a cracked version. I initially tested from my own preserved
 copy of the game I'd had for years.

 In adding and testing various games I find it odd that for some games, all
 kinds of versions are detected and supported (multiple platforms and
 revision levels of the game). I've noted with some games however, that
 only one particular version is supported, and at times, the data files are
 only accepted in a weird format.

 For example, copying the game.dat file from the floppies for Troll's Tale
 doesn't work. I found a "ROM" that someone put out of what is recognized
 for Troll's Tale, and it is a disk image file. Why does the data need to
 be in a disk image file rather than copying the original files? In this
 case, the pirated version is being supported, but it would be difficult to
 get the original version working.

 To be thorough, when my copy of Gold Rush didn't work, I then turned to
 "rom" sites (though these aren't truly roms) just to test and see if my
 copy wasn't really a supported version. I found two different versions
 online that are listed as working in ScummVM specifically and they don't
 in the nightly build I'm testing with now.

 Digressing a bit, but I'm seeing a similiar issue with "Hi-Res Adventure
 #3: Cranston Manor". There are cracked versions floating around most of
 the Apple II sites. I have an original copy of the floppy that isn't
 cracked, but ScummVM won't recognize it. For this game, it wants a 13
 sector floppy disk image, even though it doesn't support or look for this
 type of format for any of the other Hi-Res Adventure games from the Apple
 II. Why is this the only version supported? I spent quite a bit of time
 trying to figure out how to convert what I have into the 13 sector disk
 image. I'd literally have to fire up an Apple II and run a special version
 of ADT to do that. I didn't file a bug report because as far as I can
 tell, this is intended behavior to only support this one odd image.

 I get conceptually that ScummVM does not want to be seen as a piracy tool
 or supporting piracy. For old C64/Apple II/Atari games in particular,
 often the only versions that are preserved are cracked versions, which may
 behave differently. Preserving original copies of old floppy games is
 difficult and important where possible. But for some of these games, the
 support structure seems a bit obtuse.

 More specifically for Gold Rush, if non-cracked files from the floppies
 aren't working currently then I don't know what to say. I also spoke to
 others who were able to get the "rom" version working previously, which is
 what that copy was distributed as a version that specifically works in
 ScummVM. This may need to be tested again against nightly, which is why I
 opened a bug report.

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