[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15149: PINK: Hokus Pokus Pink game crashes right after the girl turns into a mermaid

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#15149: PINK: Hokus Pokus Pink game crashes right after the girl turns into a
mermaid
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Reporter:  Grimfangs   |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect      |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal      |   Component:  Engine: Pink
 Version:              |  Resolution:
Keywords:  crash,font  |        Game:  Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink
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Comment (by antoniou79):

 At the point of the crash:
 - A cutscene has finished and the script requires loading a new module
 ("Module2") and a new page ("HouseCut").
 - There is no such page in Module2 and so ScummVM crashes.
 - With a crude fix, if in this case, we set the page to be the first page
 in the module (as we do when the page name is an empty string), the scene
 sort of works, but you get a full scene animated transition and Pink
 Panther enters the room from the right. This is different from what
 happens in the original (no scene transition, Pink stays in place).
 - I also experimented with a hack monstrosity, whereby I wouldn't allow a
 module switch if the page in the new next module did not exist, but switch
 to that next module in the first future page transition (to a page that
 exists in the new module). Which seemed to work (no scene transition, Pink
 stays in place) up to the point where Pink tries to then use the black
 hole in the room. That would lead to a crash. (I may have botched the
 module queue I quickly hacked though, who knows).

 I have only marginally worked on the PINK ScummVM engine to fix a few
 reported issues, but I cannot tell if in this case this is a script
 mechanic that the ScummVM engine does not implement as the original, or if
 this had some specific hack or a patch (eg. it did not work in the
 original version but worked in a subsequent/patched or re-release one) in
 the original that ScummVM does not implement.

 Someone more experienced on the engine should probably implement the fix
 for this.
 I hope the above info helps.
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/15149#comment:3>
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