Difference between revisions of "Hopkins"

Revision as of 10:17, 7 January 2013

Hopkins
Engine developer	dreammaster, strangerke
Companies that used it	MP Entertainment
Games that use it	Hopkins FBI
Date added to ScummVM	Error: Invalid time.
First release containing it	N/A

The Hopkins engine was used by MP Entertainment for the game Hopkins FBI, the only game they ever published. The game was released for several different operating systems, and due to a fortunate oversight, debug information (names of variables and methods) was left embedded in most of the applications. This made it much easier to reverse engineer and implement a ScummVM engine.

Games

Hopkins FBI

Status

Linux full version and demo are completable
Windows demos are compleatable
Windows full version is playable, but the Doom-like maze is currently missing (so, not completable)
OS/2 and BeOS are playable and don't require the Doom-like level, so they may be completable. They require a playthrough.
Polish and Spanish versions are yet to be tested, because they are not owned by developers

Known Bugs

Palette glitches when exiting a dialog
Some random crashes when hitting F5/F7 due to text arrays memory issues
(to be compared to the original) some non-optimal path-finding issues

Original bug fixed

In the "Empty Lot", the animation when searching the empty box was corrupted and was crashing the game

Resources

Engine repository on github

External links

MobyGames article

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 * Windows demos are compleatable
 * Windows full version is playable, but the Doom-like maze is currently missing (so, not completable)
-* BeOS is playable and doesn't require the Doom-like level, so it may be completable. '''It requires a playthrough.'''
+* OS/2 and BeOS are playable and don't require the Doom-like level, so they may be completable. '''They require a playthrough.'''
-* OS/2 version is not supported (yet)
 * Polish and Spanish versions are yet to be tested, because they are not owned by developers