Gob/TODO

TODO List
Name	Gob Engine TODO
Technical Contact(s)	Gob Engine Team
Subsystem	Engine

Bugs, glitches and ToDo's

Script bugs

• Bargon Attack: Graphical glitch when loading a save made on the Bargon bridge after transforming self (the original actor appears as well).
• Fascination: Some versions have incorrect timing in several places as they used loading time. Fixing the scripts is required in those cases (before entering the lab was the most visible example) - Now fixed in Amiga and Atari versions
• Fascination: The game sometimes hangs in the parking lot when the card is used directly, without the code. - This also occurs in the original exe
• Gobliins 2: Leaving Vivalzart's screen and returning after putting the mushroom into the machine yields another mushroom in the inventory. Letting Winkle use that one with the machine locks him up.
• Gobliins 2: In music land, trying to switch the screen should be prohibited by the scripts, but isn't. A workaround keeps ScummVM from crashing and shows a dialog box instead. [Bug #3155]
• Gobliins 2: In the bubble screen, the game lets you try to release the prince before acquiring the safety pin, leaving you in an unfinishable state. [Bug #3392]
• Goblins 3: 'A Bell' button hotspot disappears. [Bug #3805]
• Goblins 3: Chessboard scene reloads after the rat is first used. [Bug #3986]
• Goblins 3: Unable to enter the Battlefield. [Bug #4022]
• Goblins 3: Unable to progress through queen's throne room. [Bug #4016]
• Lost in Time: sprite gets corrupted during a dialogue. [Bug #3839]
• Woodruff: Infinite hypnotic CDs. [Bug #3750]
• Woodruff: Access to the Laboratory. [Bug #3751]
• Woodruff: Wrong code for safe in temple. [Bug #3777]
• Woodruff: Bluxtre nut not drawn after leaving it on the ground. [Bug #3742]

General

• Mouse cursor sometimes shown when it shouldn't and vice versa. (Introduced when I changed cursor handling to the CursorManager; my solution isn't all that great, apparently.)
• The number of used jokers isn't saved correctly: you'll always have 5 to spend again after loading. This is a result of using individual files for each save slot and letting the user exit with CTRL-Q (the number of jokers is saved globally for the whole game and only when exiting using the menu).

Graphics

• A few graphical glitches remain:
  • Goblins 3: double sprite glitch in the queen level [Bug #3401]
  • Lost in Time: sprite gets corrupted during a dialogue [Bug #3839]
  • Lost in Time: palette issue with sprites [Bug #3838]
  • Woodruff: Palette glitch [Bug #3768] (Also happens in the original)
  • Woodruff: Graphic glitches [Bug #3848] (2 of 3 also happens in the original)
  • Woodruff: GFX Glitches [Bug #4491] (Also happens in the original)

Sound

• Ween: Wrong speaker sound when putting away items on some machines.
• Fascination: The duration of short sounds is sometimes incorrect. The most obvious problem is the sound of the keys of the phone: the sound is not played for each key (first room). This may be similar to the Ween sound issue.

Engine-specific tasks

• Add OBC Support (OBC is the new Script system which used in DEV7)

File-specific tasks

video.cpp

• Add support for other rendering modes (EGA/CGA/Hercules) lega.gdr, l360.gdr, lcga.gdr.

sound/sound.cpp

• Gobliiins Mac: musmac1.adl isn't played correctly at all.

surface.cpp

• implement loading of various Picture formats (JPEG,BMP,BRC)

dbase.cpp

• Add support for memo files. A memo file is an external data file .DBT, segmented into "blocks". Each memo field in a record is an index this file.

inter_v1.cpp

• add implementation for case 55 and 56 in o1_padLoad()

inter_v7.cpp

• continue the implementation in o7_initScreen()

map_v2.cpp

• implement case id 65529 in loadMapObjects()

Game-specific tasks

Adi 2

• Add missing opcodes.
• Add support for Applications.

Adi 4

• Add missing opcodes.
• Add support for Applications. (Geographie kind of works, compared to the main Environment itself)

Adibou 1

• Implement workaround for German CD version, so that the user can use both Applications 4-6 Years and 6-7 Years. [Bug #14553]
  • Potential solution: if BOUALL.ITK exists from example from 4-6 Years and you have to copy the 6-7 Years BOUALL.ITK as BOUALL67.ITK, and then if only BOUALL.ITK is found use 4-6 only and if both are found open an Dialog window from ScummVM, which let you choice the the Application you want to play.
  • Current Workaround: ScummVM's detection is aware of these two versions, so you can one directory and copy both CD contents into one Folder and you can choice between 4-6 Years and 6-7 Years from the ScummVM Launcher.

Adibou 2

• Add Printer support
• Add Microphone support
• Add support for the other Applications (Music, Sciences, English)

Fascination

• Add support to the RAC file, which is used by the protection of the CD version. (not really required, the game works with extracted STKs)

Inca 2

• The (hard-coded) space shooter isn't yet implemented.
• A few graphic glitches remain.

Little Red Riding Hood

• Handle direction keys, so that the arcade part is playable

Playtoons

• Creation tool is not working properly.
• Clicking on a word should spell it, not the first word of the sentence

The Last Dynasty

• Space shooter is hard-coded there, too.
• The game currently loops strangely, thanks to the faked shooter return code.
• Make the Segmented VMD resources working

Urban Runner

• When mousing over the register in the hotel action sequence, the inventory pops up.
• Corrupt encoded frames in videos are skipped or masked by original interpreter. Need to do the same.
  • Most of these are now detected and corrected masked, but three cases still remain as of 2011-04-26:
    • < 1sec white glitch in video triggered when Max approaches Door in Basement ("mxport2").
    • ~1sec white glitch in video as Adda escapes from warehouse.
    • Large red/orange glitch in Inspector Van Dell video shown after Max complete Pool Hall entry ("sn6").