[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #9744: SCI: GK2: Gabriel Knight 2 GoG version with German Patch

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#9744: SCI: GK2: Gabriel Knight 2 GoG version with German Patch
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Reporter:  badungu  |       Owner:  sluicebox
    Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed
Priority:  normal   |   Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:           |  Resolution:  invalid
Keywords:  sci32    |        Game:  Gabriel Knight 2
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Changes (by sluicebox):

 * owner:  csnover => sluicebox
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid

Comment:

 GK2 is a six CD game. Because of that, there are six resource volume
 files. If instead you have *one really big one*... you don't have the real
 files.

 There are fan tools that repackage resources this way. Excellent tools,
 but they're incompatible with ScummVM's approach of only supporting and
 detecting known original files / legitimate releases.

 GOG's GK2 release is packaged this way, so we have a detection entry for
 that.

 We routinely get invalid "new variant detected" tickets like this and I
 close them and say Go Get The Real Files. Unfortunately that's the nature
 of SCI files and detection. If I added a NEVER AGAIN detection entry for
 each, there would be a lot of junk.

 I had already considered removing this entry. I have a stronger opinion
 now! It didn't even keep the same person from reporting it twice. This
 isn't a pirate release, it's something anyone can generate from their own
 files using popular tools. Someone just happened to upload theirs to a
 website once. Why build a monument to that?

 But we don't need to think too hard about if a giant volume-zero file came
 from six 90's CDs. =)
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