[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15161: SCI: EcoQuest 1 from "Sierra's School House" is reported as corrupt (and maybe it is!)

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#15161: SCI: EcoQuest 1 from "Sierra's School House" is reported as corrupt (and
maybe it is!)
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Reporter:  eriktorbjorn  |      Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal        |  Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:                |   Keywords:
    Game:  EcoQuest 1    |
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 Sierra's School House comes with a bunch of bonus games that,
 surprisingly, appear to be the full games rather than demos. One of them
 is EcoQuest 1, which ScummVM detects as either the DOS or Windows CD
 version.

 Unfortunately, when you start it you are greeted with the following
 message:

 "Missing or corrupt game resources have been detected. Some game features
 may not work properly. Please check the console for more information, and
 verify that your game files are valid."

 Question is, how broken is it exactly? Even the full CD version
 ("SierraOriginals" version) will print warning messages, but the Sierra
 School House one has few additional ones, like these:

 {{{
 WARNING: Failed to find volume for map.225!
 WARNING: Sync::start: failed to find resource sync36.400(1, 0, 0, 1)!
 WARNING: Failed to find audio entry (400, 1, 0, 0, 1)!
 }}}

 So let's compare the files of the two versions:

 Everything that's on the Sierra's School House CD is also on the
 SierraOriginals CD. The "readme" file for the latter is a lot more
 extensive, but it's mostly about boot disks, drivers and such.

 There is, however, number of files on the SierraOriginals CD that are not
 on the Sierra's School House one:

 - audio (A directory with 116 .aud files.)
 - eco.bat
 - ecopic.bmp
 - install.bat
 - install.ex$
 - install.hlp
 - install.ini
 - install.lgo
 - install.txt
 - inst.exe
 - resource.aud
 - resource.cfg
 - setup.exe
 - sierra.bmp
 - title.bmp

 Most of this is probably not even needed. What I'm hoping here is that all
 they did was strip out the speech (and maybe other digitized sounds?),
 creating a crippled but still fully playable version.

 If so, it would be nice if ScummVM didn't display that warning, or at the
 very least displayed a less intimidating one. And maybe it should be
 detected as something else than the CD version? (The readme file on the
 Sierra's School House disc simply calls it "EcoQuest: The Search for
 Cetus", while the SierraClassics readme calls it "Eco Quest CD" even
 though that's apparently not the registered trademark.)
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