[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:                |  Resolution:
Keywords:                |        Game:  EcoQuest 1
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Comment (by m-kiewitz):

 You can't really handle missing resource.aud for a Talkie version
 gracefully. Tons of content is missing, the warning is valid and this is
 indeed a corrupt copy of the game.
 This can in fact cause all sorts of silly issues depending on what the
 scripts did, the user has to know about that.

 I think Eco Quest 1 had subtitles as well as audio, and I think we added a
 dual mode, for both audio + subtitles at the same time. The game defaults
 to speech if I remember correctly, which in your case should be 100%
 broken.

 And in fact we can't differentiate yours and the actual CD version but
 with missing resource.aud. Yours seems to be super rare. So if we removed
 the dialog, it would be gone for the CD version, which would be terrible.
 The message is there for a reason. We had bug reports where that file was
 missing, but we will let people continue, so it's not blocked and I don't
 see a problem with that message. The user gets informed that critical data
 is missing, continues. Notices that CD audio is missing, remembers the
 message and it's all fine.

 Don't you have Windows running anywhere? I wonder what the original
 interpreter did.
 It is weird that they used the CD version, but then removed essential
 files.

 They could have compressed the CD version, or yeah rather used the floppy
 version.
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