[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15843: DGDS: Willy beamish DOS CDROM unknown game variant and no voice

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#15843: DGDS: Willy beamish DOS CDROM unknown game variant and no voice
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Reporter:  ahrib   |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal  |   Component:  Engine: DGDS
 Version:          |  Resolution:
Keywords:          |        Game:  The Adventures of Willy Beamish
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Old description:

> My environment
> * ScummVM on macOS
> * Game is the PC version from GOG
>

> Expected behaviour
> ----------------
> * Game identified correctly when adding to list
> * Full Speech an MT32 music
>
> Actual behaviour
> ----------------
> * gae not recognised. 'pick the game' menu appears. The Adventures of
> Willy Beamish (DOS/English) appears but so does a list of games that it
> is definetly not
> * when running the game there is MT32 music but no speech
>
> What I have tried
> ----------------
> * Manually selecting The Adventures of Willy Beamish (DOS/English) from
> the pick list
> * confirmed that sound effects and music work as expected with a
> different game (Beneath a steel sky)
>

>

> scummvm.log
> ----------------
> [2025-04-03 22:58:08] ScummVM 2.9.0 (Dec 15 2024 21:08:13)
> [2025-04-03 22:58:08] Vorbis FLAC MP3 TiMidity RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth
> EAS OpenMPT Theora VPX AAC A/52 FreeType2 FriBiDi JPEG PNG GIF taskbar
> TTS cloud (servers, local) ENet SDL2 TinyGL OpenGL (with shaders) OpenGL
> desktop only RetroWave
> [2025-04-03 22:58:08] --- Log opened.
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug
> channels were added, list is empty!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug
> channels were added, list is empty!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Volume and map version not detected,
> assuming that this is not a SCI game!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Path component detected in entry for
> 'toltecs:toltecs' but no kADFlagMatchFullPaths is set!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] The game in 'Adventures of Willy Beamish (CD DOS)'
> seems to be an unknown game
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] variant.
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] Please report the following data to the ScummVM
> team at
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of
> the game you tried to add and
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] its version, language, etc.:
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] Matched game IDs for the sci engine: astrochicken,
> christmas1988, christmas1990,
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] iceman-demo, camelot-demo, longbow-demo, ecoquest-
> demo, funseeker, hoyle1,
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] hoyle2, hoyle3-demo, jones, kq1sci-demo, kq4sci-
> demo, laurabow-demo,
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] lsl1sci-demo, lsl2-demo, lsl5-demo, cnick-lsl,
> cnick-kq, cnick-laurabow,
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] cnick-longbow, cnick-sq, mothergoose256-cd,
> msastrochicken, pq2-demo, qfg1-demo,
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18] qfg2-demo, sq1sci-demo, sq3-demo, 120degrees
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]   {"resource.001", 0,
> "07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c", 151525997},
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]   {"resource.map", 0,
> "99adb7a5e2438992f0fff48328650496", 27237},
> [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] Running The Adventures of Willy Beamish
> (DOS/English)
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.001: 07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c,
> 151525997 bytes.
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.rme: 09bc7bcb83b6d036c5988c81a769cf0c,
> 44247 bytes.
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : intro.sx at pos 6372726
> has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : global.sx at pos
> 7855523 has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : willy.sx at pos
> 18262884 has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : house.sx at pos
> 23051692 has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : oldtowne.sx at pos
> 25987656 has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : toot.sx at pos 70534413
> has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : mansion.sx at pos
> 72411294 has negative size??!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
> [2025-04-03 22:58:42] --- Log closed successfully.

New description:

 My environment
 * ScummVM on macOS
 * Game is the PC version from GOG


 Expected behaviour
 ----------------
 * Game identified correctly when adding to list
 * Full Speech an MT32 music

 Actual behaviour
 ----------------
 * gae not recognised. 'pick the game' menu appears. The Adventures of
 Willy Beamish (DOS/English) appears but so does a list of games that it is
 definetly not
 * when running the game there is MT32 music but no speech

 What I have tried
 ----------------
 * Manually selecting The Adventures of Willy Beamish (DOS/English) from
 the pick list
 * confirmed that sound effects and music work as expected with a different
 game (Beneath a steel sky)




 scummvm.log
 ----------------
 [2025-04-03 22:58:08] ScummVM 2.9.0 (Dec 15 2024 21:08:13)
 [2025-04-03 22:58:08] Vorbis FLAC MP3 TiMidity RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth
 EAS OpenMPT Theora VPX AAC A/52 FreeType2 FriBiDi JPEG PNG GIF taskbar TTS
 cloud (servers, local) ENet SDL2 TinyGL OpenGL (with shaders) OpenGL
 desktop only RetroWave
 [2025-04-03 22:58:08] --- Log opened.
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug
 channels were added, list is empty!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug
 channels were added, list is empty!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Volume and map version not detected,
 assuming that this is not a SCI game!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Path component detected in entry for
 'toltecs:toltecs' but no kADFlagMatchFullPaths is set!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] The game in 'Adventures of Willy Beamish (CD DOS)'
 seems to be an unknown game
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] variant.
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] Please report the following data to the ScummVM team
 at
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of the
 game you tried to add and
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] its version, language, etc.:
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] Matched game IDs for the sci engine: astrochicken,
 christmas1988, christmas1990,
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] iceman-demo, camelot-demo, longbow-demo, ecoquest-
 demo, funseeker, hoyle1,
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] hoyle2, hoyle3-demo, jones, kq1sci-demo, kq4sci-
 demo, laurabow-demo,
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] lsl1sci-demo, lsl2-demo, lsl5-demo, cnick-lsl,
 cnick-kq, cnick-laurabow,
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] cnick-longbow, cnick-sq, mothergoose256-cd,
 msastrochicken, pq2-demo, qfg1-demo,
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18] qfg2-demo, sq1sci-demo, sq3-demo, 120degrees
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]   {"resource.001", 0,
 "07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c", 151525997},
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]   {"resource.map", 0,
 "99adb7a5e2438992f0fff48328650496", 27237},
 [2025-04-03 22:58:18]
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] Running The Adventures of Willy Beamish
 (DOS/English)
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.001: 07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c,
 151525997 bytes.
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.rme: 09bc7bcb83b6d036c5988c81a769cf0c,
 44247 bytes.
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : intro.sx at pos 6372726
 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : global.sx at pos 7855523
 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : willy.sx at pos 18262884
 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : house.sx at pos 23051692
 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : oldtowne.sx at pos
 25987656 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : toot.sx at pos 70534413
 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : mansion.sx at pos
 72411294 has negative size??!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
 [2025-04-03 22:58:42] --- Log closed successfully.

--
Comment (by ahrib):

 Hey there, are you on macOS also?

 I only just bought the GOG release, it is listed as version 1.00 CS
 (https://www.gogdb.org/product/1405562076#builds)

 The in-game menu does not work for me, actually I have just noticed some
 dialogs appear strange as well

 To summarise, the consolidated list of glitches I am experiencing:
 1. game not recognised. 'pick the game' menu appears.
 2. when running the GOG version (1.00 CS) of the game there is MT32 music
 but no speech
 3. when I hit ESC the game menu does not pop up at all, the game just
 pauses. Hitting ESC resumes gameplay
 4. some dialog boxes have a strange light blue background and it makes
 them unreadable


 Its been many years since I have played this game, so to compare I decided
 to try it with Crossover - it worked as expected - except of course the
 ScummVM feature of having mt32 music on the CDROM version of the game.

 please let me know if you would like me to split this into separate bug
 reports


 ----

 Just in case it helps, here are md5 hash of the files in my installation
 below (using the md5 command line.. i.e. full contents of file)

 Directory ./WILLYCD
 fa7a25eb044ab5047acfff9fd5257f06 goggame-1405562076.hashdb
 555470a8ef731a919f4a5cc2a41076c5 goggame-1405562076.ico
 7cb08d98d307b85c88220aedd66ea05f goggame-1405562076.info
 7c5edaa64b6392ac0799f831fab83966 goggame-1405562076.script
 d04995c5aa71cca126ba9eb55e3ba9f2 HintBook.pdf
 a3d78c538a948f5565f61904d7981471 INSTALL.144
 c60ba473bcce5444e11ca4333ec8a334 INSTALL.BAT
 cbc451d8e8c512a012aa0b031cd44652 INSTALL.HLP
 34d673213c08b0dba1e6da7ef73bf841 INSTALL.SCR
 85e697e706b511ad845c5cf021b91cca INSTALL.TXT
 2a580d2a89e9035a5a5023b76e90f535 Manual.pdf
 c9e99299dae0ff27a7a2f6d6cb700116 PizzaramaMenu.pdf
 e6e07ac1f5336a36ee360dc9adb056cf PROAUDIO.DRV
 aea618545b2b9d8b8ba6b1d3f70c34ba README
 ddb2ca8176e00719efa9946450e3019c RESOURCE.001
 954c17f0484fe0d51016003b70d94db0 RESOURCE.CFG
 eaa386d9463f7952265beee7d6d4a89c RESOURCE.EXE
 ee70604d1fcac9c7fa04e64cbb54fa47 RESOURCE.MAP
 285f6558e37c6da35109a0ef021784fa RESOURCE.RME
 33fd2158eebc211b91ccbc4b68d4cab4 SNDBLAST.DRV
 62079d71ee6aa884acb760c06ff2fa08 WILLY.EXE
 df21dd0cf8c248a72d09d989c1ac501d WILLY.TFA


 Directory ./WILLYCD/FDD
 556985a6a9eea01ac188e1f50be31e68 CHKLIST.CPS
 867ca345e6464f7c66fdc0e259134d05 INSTALL.COM
 6d13541d2cedd620921d41aece9c01d3 RESOURCE.CFG
 64d66ce7d526b57bc2b55cb33ae7115c VOLUME.001
 162ebf63d76e4f17ed6f4d6e9faade07 VOLUME.002
 257c42f28f99fbc726176e89f3bb7bd9 VOLUME.003
 010c3779ee42c9836b11f9f47da7ae05 VOLUME.004
 bed499c2c72c5a7d1ac943543a2da118 VOLUME.005
 cb6a826ce282a03b7689dee21b76ea7d VOLUME.006
 ac1401456f2849d65295a5a05a9338f4 VOLUME.007
 506dd3a0ef2da743499ac00a332ee51c VOLUME.RMF
 be1919eb7b617971073224feed372e2b WILLY.EXE
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