[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15857: SCI: Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers Problems

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#15857: SCI: Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers Problems
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Reporter:  Mesandro  |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect    |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal    |   Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:            |  Resolution:
Keywords:            |        Game:  Gabriel Knight 1
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Comment (by Mesandro):

 Replying to [comment:6 m-kiewitz]:
 > Sierra had some patches too, those are indeed useful, but that's
 official patches made by Sierra.
 > I think we still implemented some smaller official fixes made by Sierra
 into ScummVM, so that users do not even have to use these official Sierra
 patch downloads.
 >
 > Not fan made patches using fan tools, which as I said sometimes
 introduce additional bugs or don't solve the bugs properly.
 >
 > ScummVM also supports different platforms, for example Japanese PC-98,
 FM Towns and Macintosh versions. Same problem there, because some of these
 Non-DOS platforms use different scripts, and if you use these fan patches
 for these game versions, they may also break, meanwhile the generic game
 patches under ScummVM should patch bugs common on all the different
 platforms, even when the byte order is different.
 >
 > I'm not sure about Midi. Our current code is reusing generic ScummVM
 code, and that's not really perfectly accurate, because SCI did not work
 like most other game engines in regards of seeking inside the music track.
 > It would be great if you could try this out under plain DOS, so that we
 can make sure that it's not a game issue, but an issue with ScummVM. We
 can in theory fix both of these, but we need to know which is which, at
 least for documentation purposes.

 Exactly, in fact I wanted to specifically test the original versions using
 only official patches (with the exception of the NRS patch that I
 described before that didn't work anyway). However, apart from the block
 on day 5, I played the floppy version without any other problems until the
 end. As for the midi issue, in the end it's a small problem that doesn't
 affect playability but is still present in the CD version. This makes me
 understand that it is strictly linked to the audio files of the CD version
 since the problem doesn't exist on floppy. Unfortunately, I don't have the
 possibility to test the game under native DOS, otherwise I would have
 gladly cleared up this doubt...
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