![]() ![]() It is currently in early alpha phase, so there are likely to be bugs present since it hasn't been fully tested yet. Tobias has released a Mac and Windows build of Grim Mouse, and the sourcecode is freely available if you want to compile it to try it on other platforms. Luckily, ResidualVM's PatchR code allows for fan patches to be applied at run time, so all that is required to run this is the original game, just as the main ResidualVM branch. In order to accomplish this feat, Tobias had to make major modifications to both the ResidualVM code and the game source. It also has a new point-and-click inventory system. Grim Fandango can now be played with point and click control in all scenes, including the scenes where the camera shifts to close-up view. I've played ScummVM on Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS, GP32, Dreamcast, Wii, and iPad and ResidualVM on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Ī programmer named Tobias Pfaff has released Grim Mouse, a modified ResidualVM and Grim Fandango so that the game can be played completely with point and click mouse control. I'm playing through Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers in ScummVM right now, and it works really well despite being WIP, and I played through Grim Fandango in ResidualVM before it received a stable release. I enjoy testing out engines as they're WIP, and there's often some times when the engines play straight through to completion long before they're added to a stable release. So much so that I actually prefer to play adventure games through these programs. ![]() I'm a huge fan of the 2D adventure game program ScummVM and it's sister project for 3D adventures, ResidualVM (and the sister project ScummVM-Misc which includes an engine for text adventures made with Inform) by extension. BREAD.There's been quite a few threads about specific games in ScummVM and ResidualVM, but never one all-encompassing thread, so I figured I'd make one since ScummVM and ResidualVM are ever-evolving. ![]() And lets not talk about the endless cycling through his inventory, the close-up of his chest as he pulled the items out of his pockets, one by one. I have many fond memories of Grim Fandango, yet they are tarnished by the frustration of trying to drive Manny like an unresponsive tank through screen after screen, hitting the brakes as he passed an item that made him briefly glance in its direction, throwing him into reverse to rewind him to the precise spot, missing, and shoving him forward again. The quote I'm looking for is: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should !" That's the quote that makes me want to punch Richard Attenborough in the belly so hard his glasses fall off. Of course, this is the old Grim Fandango, the one where LucasArts attempted to take the "point" out of "point-and-click." Why did they do it? What were they thinking? Well, I think this quote from Jurassic Park might sum it up: "I've been present for the birth of every single creature on this island! " Wait, wrong quote. The game will start in that little window, like magic! Know what I mean? Anyway, however you want to do it, find your GRIM folder and select it. Like, it thinks C:/ is the end-all-be-all of file locations. When it runs, you'll see a window with a button that says "Add Game." Click it, and navigate to the desktop GRIM folder you've been adding files to - OR - you may want to preemptively move the GRIM folder to an easier spot to navigate to, because it's one of those kinda archaic file browser things that makes it hard to browse to your desktop. Here is the download page for the various versions (remember, I'm using Windows 7 in this example) and I used the auto-installer to save a few steps. ResidualVM is the doohickey that will let you play Grim Fandango (and tons of other LucasArts games) on your modern PC. Step Three: Install ResidualVM and Put Grim Fandango Into It Don't run it, just download it and stick it into the same folder you put the. While you're dragging stuff into that folder, you'll also need download the official Grim Fandango patch. As you're moving those files, your computer will ask if it should copy/replace a couple things, or if it should not. ![]()
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