[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15061: SCITetris detected as template and fails to run (win11, scummvm dev build)

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#15061: SCITetris detected as template and fails to run (win11, scummvm dev build)
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Reporter:  necros2k7  |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect     |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal     |   Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:             |  Resolution:
Keywords:  sci        |        Game:
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Comment (by sluicebox):

 This game is deliberately excluded from the detection table because it
 doesn't work in ScummVM.

 https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/4368a380c4afcc3130e203c0938afb07e6cde0db

 The game's high score script has many mistakes: it tests the wrong `FOpen`
 return value and passes characters instead of pointers. The room number is
 also wrong so that suggests even more problems. It would take many
 workarounds and patches to accommodate these mistakes, and even then, the
 game is currently unplayable.

 The site you've linked to is hosting version 1.0 of this game, but in the
 message board thread that announced the game, someone made a version 1.1
 that removed the broken high score code and fixed other things. The thread
 ends with a request to update the game page, but they didn't.
 https://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php?topic=1917

 I loaded version 1.1 in ScummVM and it's unplayable. It drops events, so
 most key presses don't work. That's why I didn't add it years ago.

 I may take a look at this eventually, but it feels like we may be past the
 threshold of reasonably supporting this game. It's only from 2020, but the
 author doesn't appear interested in updating it, and sciprogramming.com
 doesn't appear interested in updating the version.
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