[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #16421: HDB: Crash(?)/Exit when shooting the chicken

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#16421: HDB: Crash(?)/Exit when shooting the chicken
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Reporter:  raziel-  |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect   |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal   |   Component:  Engine: HDB
 Version:           |  Resolution:
Keywords:           |        Game:  Hyperspace Delivery Boy
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Comment (by antoniou79):

 A couple of clarifying questions:
 1. What mode are you playing on? Action or puzzle?
 2. Did you reach this level/state via gameplay or did you use the cheat
 system?
 3. Do you know what is supposed to happen if you shoot the chicken? Is it
 a dead-end scenario?(there is a puzzle-y way to deal with the chicken)

 I have the Linux 1.0 version of the game. I can reproduce the issue when
 loading your saved game.

 I am not very familiar with the game or its controls though (I have never
 played it far enough). Is there a key toggle to make the guy stop/start
 shooting gems?

 For the record, via cheats, this is the "Map 10" to warp to, but it starts
 you without gems -- and I don't know if there's a cheat command to get
 gems.

 I do have a potential fix, but I've spotted a few more issues while
 playing and ideally I'd like to address those as well. And with my fix,
 the chicken is just gone after you shoot it with a gem, and there's no
 apparent way to get it back to retrieve the item you need from it. Maybe
 it should respawn or this would be a "try again" type of case, or there's
 an alternate "action" solution to the puzzle that I haven't found so far.

 Also for the record, some of the other issues I've hit are:
 - Sometimes, the character gets stuck moving in one direction and keeps
 going automatically no matter if you try to stop him (...). This seemingly
 does not reset even if you start a new game. I had to go back to launcher
 and relaunch the game to fix it.
 - When a speech text bubble is too long, the text seems to be abruptly cut
 (truncated) after a character limit, and so probably the character limit
 should be expanded.
 - The ambient sounds in this level play way to frequently, resulting in an
 annoying cacophony which presumably is not how it sounded with the
 original game engine.
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/16421#comment:2>
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