The popular adventure game player ScummVM has recently been updated, with what the development team are calling “possibly the biggest release we have made so far in terms of the added features and engines”.
ScummVM works differently from either emulators, recompilations or traditional compatibility tweaks and fixes. Instead it reimplements, from the ground up, various game engines that typically ran point and click adventure game titles. These games would often be made using systems such as LucasArts SCUMM engine, to allow for rapid development of these games, which relied on storytelling and puzzle solving rather than fast action and cutting edge graphics.
New games added:
- Added support for Dark Seed.
- Added support for God of Thunder.
- Added support for The Adventures of Willy Beamish.
- Added support for Heart of China.
- Added support for Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand.
- Added support for Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake.
- Added support for Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu.
- Added support for Little Longnose.
- Added support for Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of the Earth.
- Added support for Pilot Brothers 3D. The Case of Garden Pests.
- Added support for Pilot Brothers 3D-2. Kennel Club Secrets.
- Added support for Features of National Fishing.
- Added support for Mom Don’t Worry.
- Added support for Dog-n-cat: In the Footsteps of Unprecedented Beasts.
- Added support for Dog-n-cat: Island of Dr Ratiarty.
- Added support for Out of this World (Another World).
- Added support for SLUDGE-based games, such as Out of Order, The Secret of Tremendous Corporation, Robin’s Rescue and others, 12 titles so far.
- Added support for Adibou 2: Nature & Sciences.
- Added support for WAGE-based game. More than 160 titles so far.
- Added support for Penumbra: Overture.
- Added support for Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
- Added support for Mort&Phil: A Movie Adventure (Special Edition).
- Added support for Trick or Treat.
- Added support for Hodj ‘n’ Podj.
- ..and potentially many more. Other games that use the same engines as these games should now also work.
Full release notes can be found here, while the program itself can be downloaded here. You will need to provide the datafiles yourself for the games from your own copies.