So ResidualVM has merged with SCUMMVM

retropieuser555

https://www.residualvm.org/

https://www.scummvm.org/

They've announced it on both their sites. What does this mean in terms of the scummvm emulator on retropie? Will that begin to support the 3d click & point games? (escape from monkey island, grim fandango etc?)

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 they already have the residualvm in the experimental menu to install if that's what you want.

i believe that in time scummvm will run both on the Pi,

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv Yeah that's the hope, scummvm is a great app, oddly I've never downloaded residualvm, wonder how it runs on pi4? Well I say runs, I imagine it varies game to game

mitu

I imagine at some point scummvm will include support for the games supported by residualvm, then we'll retire/archive the residualvm scriptmodule in RetroPie.

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 it ran ok for the most part that i did mess with it on my Pi3 so as long as it compiles. i believe it will run great on the Pi4

shavecat

residualvm
have it on my pi4
with the 4 games it supported and i can say
its runs Great ! :)

GeekOB

Hi @mitu. I've built the 2.3.0git version of ScummVM on RetroPie 4.7 and successfully tested Grim Fandango, Escape from Monkey Island, Myst 3 and The Longest Journey after some tweaks and tinkering with the help of the ScummVM team.
The first stable version to support these former ResidualVM games will be 2.3.0, so it's not possible to play them with the current binaries available from the RetroPie Setup optional menu. But I thought I would let you and @BuZz know that it's looking good so far and it should be a straightforward update when 2.3.0 is ready :)

retropieuser555

@GeekOB How do you build the early 2.3.0 branch? I'd be curious to give it a try and see how it runs with Grim Fandango & Monkey Island 4

GeekOB

@retropieuser555, it's important to note that I have only tested this on a Raspberry Pi 4 and the following instructions are for a daily, unstable development build, not officially supported by RetroPie.

You have to make the following changes to the ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/scummvm.sh file:

Line 37:

 gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.git v2.2.0

replace v2.2.0 with "master" (quote marks included) so that it looks like this:

 gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.git "master"

save the file, and go to the RetroPie-Setup menu and update ScummVM from source, it will take a while so be patient. Once it's done, run ScummVM as usual and you should be able to add the former ResidualVM games. Ensure to make the necessary changes in the runcommand menu to reassign the games to be run by scummvm instead of residualvm.

Note: you won't be able to update RetroPie with the RetroPie-Setup script until you do:

git reset --hard

from the ~/Retropie-Setup folder. This will revert the changes made to the scummvm.sh file. If you update from source or binary after that, you will lose the 2.3.0git version.

retropieuser555

@GeekOB Ahhh I didn't realise if I use the master branch it will build 2.3.0git, thanks! I'll make a backup and give it a try for fun.

Edit: Awesome, Grim Fandango & Escape from Monkey Island load. I think they'll need to change the keymapping for those specific games but plugging in my keyboard makes the games work. Also do you find with Monkey Island 4 it crashes if you let the beginning video run upto a certain scene? Obviously I get it's early days and I'm sure they'll find these bugs anyway

plimbs

I’m using the most recent dev build of SCUMMVM. So far, Monkey Island 4 and Grim Fandango play better than they did on the ResidualVM engine. But I cannot get The Longest Journey to run on Pi 3b. It works great on my Pi 4 with Residual, but does not work at all on the 3.

Just wondering if anyone else tried it?

Lolonois

@retropieuser555 Just gave master (commit 1ccb38c) of scummvm a try on a Rpi4. Works well, no crashes on EMI intro video.

Lolonois

@plimbs you might bend over here for a solution: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30107/building-latest-scummvm-with-the-longest-journey-playable