[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #11883: STARK: Unsupported variant, which seems to be an even older demo

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#11883: STARK: Unsupported variant, which seems to be an even older demo
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Reporter:  aquadran  |      Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect    |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal    |  Component:  Engine: Stark
Keywords:            |       Game:  The Longest Journey
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 When looking for the Polish demo of The Longest Journey (I think there
 isn't any), I found a weird version of what it seems to be an even older
 version of the demo marked as "Old Demo". This demo is available here
 https://archive.org/details/Najdluzsza_Podroz_demo – a link to the file
 can also be found in the source the archive suggests:
 http://www.przygodoskop.pl/dema.htm which is a Polish site about adventure
 games.

 After unpacking there are 16 data folders that are called after actual
 level names, and inside are folders called by actual locations and items
 names respectively, inventory folder and then the regular global, fonts as
 well as directx which seems empty. Judging by the names, the levels are
 from the beginning of game, unlike other demos. I didn't try launching the
 game under Windows, and under Wine I only got the Launcher.exe to display
 anything, but there are more EXE files there, including SETUP.EXE (even if
 game seems to be installed and repacked).

 When trying to load it, I get the regular ScummVM could not find any game
 in the specified directory! error and the following in stdout:

 The game in '/mnt/hdd/TheLongestJourney/TLJ_przygodoskop.pl' seems to be
 an
 unknown Stark Engine engine game variant.

 Please report the following data to the ResidualVM team at
 https://github.com/residualvm/residualvm/issues along with the name of the
 game
 you tried to add and its version, language, etc.:

 Matched game IDs: tlj

   {"x.xarc", 0, "6c6c388f757adcc49e7f33b0b2cccf96", 2904},
   {"chapters.ini", 0, "6ee43a176a5eb94153c2d813261c3226", 252},
 When trying to add those ids to detection.cpp as a new entry, the when the
 game can be added that way, it didn't want to start.

 I didn't try to rename the files to see if it's working and/or extract the
 x.arch file or replacing the files from otherwise working version of the
 game.

 It would be nice if someone would evaluate if it is possible to make that
 version working with ResidualVM.

 Information about the game: The Longest Journey, unsupported demo
 Language of game: English?
 Platform: Linux

 https://github.com/residualvm/residualvm/issues/1440
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