[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #10931: SHERLOCK: SCALPEL: Nobby Charleton won't talk to Sherlock

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#10931: SHERLOCK: SCALPEL: Nobby Charleton won't talk to Sherlock
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  Reporter:  ignaciojn                           |      Owner:  dreammaster
      Type:  defect                              |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal                              |  Component:  Engine:
                                                 |  Sherlock
Resolution:                                      |   Keywords:
      Game:  Sherlock Holmes: Case of the        |
  Serrated Scalpel                               |
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Comment (by techfixes1):

 Usually the ordering goes like this: "Talk first to the spectator, and pay
 him for info. Then talk to Nobby Charleton as suggested (you should try
 several times). Talk to the barman (particularly about the "man in
 yellow"), and finally to Jock Mahoney, who will tell you the whereabouts
 of Antonio."

 A bit of googling reveals that game jamming up in ScummVM when trying to
 talk to Jock Mahoney is a fairly common occurrence (may be a crash, as
 later in the game it is possible to induce a crash with the shed door so
 that it is no longer openable).

 Either the animation for the game of billiards stops working or plays very
 slowly, making the window of opportunity to talk to the man in yellow very
 small (I was able to finally get some headway after an hour or two of
 fiddling and talking to him over and over and getting rebuffed - in my
 wife's game it was impossible to progress the game at all). It is
 definitely a bug affecting the enjoyment of the game as it was originally
 intended.
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/10931#comment:8>
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