Wintermute/TODO

Status

See Wintermute Games for a list of the current state of the various games.

Main ToDo items

Missing Features

• Screenshots are missing for most of games
• Non-English input
  • Required for Russian version of Alpha Polaris
  • Optional for Pole Chudes word guessing game
• Some plugins are not implemened:
  • Standard plugins (however, there are no known games that use them)
  • wme_displacement.dll for Beyond the Threshold
  • wme_vlink.dll for Sunrise
  • wme_blackandwhite.dll for Stroke of Fate dilogy
  • wme_shadows.dll for Stroke of Fate dilogy
• Some externals are not implemented:
  • routine.dll for Stroke of Fate dilogy
  • protect.dll for Stroke of Fate dilogy
• Sound effects like SoundFXEcho and not implemented

Various ToDo

• Render issues:
  • PSP: Pixel Format RGBA8888@4 is not supported [Bug #12585]
  • WME3D: rendering does not support screen size change [Bug #12630]
  • WME3D: rendering does not support overlays [Bug #12631]
• Nice to have:
  • Debugger & Compiler
  • Debugger: Implement a way to warp to desired scenes without completing the game to reproduce some game-specific bugs
  • Implement script patches (like in SCI) for fixing original bugs (like, 1 1/2 Ritter slider) and accessing interesting dead code (like, debug screens and level editors bundled inside game packages)

Known Issues

• Last letter of text lines is missing sometimes. Notable case: 1 1/2 Ritter - Menu font problem [Bug #11007]
• Dirty rects are working wrong sometimes. Notable case: Helga Deep in Trouble - Graphic mistake [Bug #9683]
• WME: Engine doesn't use correct screenmode [Bug #11160]
• WME: Theora player issues [Bug #6500]

Legacy ToDo List

Not sure if this is already fixed or not. Need to look at this later.

• Optimize UITiledImage
• Use more than one dirty rect
• Font-sizes are wrong enough to allow Dirty Split to draw text that is hidden in the original game (most visible on the coin-interface)
• Alpha-masks for Theora-videos are broken on big-endian platforms

Bugs Also in the Original

In the following you will find a number of bugs which actually already occur when using the original interpreter / .EXE. That is, those errors are bugs in the games themselves, not in ScummVM. Still, we sometimes are able to implement workarounds, meaning ScummVM at times works better than the original ;).

Note that neither of these lists is complete.

Not Fixed

• WME: Dirty Split - Dialog coming out of wrong character [Bug #6203]
• WME: 1 1/2 Ritter - Graphical slider issues in sound options menu [Bug #6567]
• WME: Some games are using same fonts for selected and normal text [Bug #11287]

Fixed

• WME: Bickadoodle - Assertion on climbing the mountain [Bug #6594]
• WME: The Kite - Overlapping bug [Bug #6721]
• WME: Rosemary - Sprite flaw on going upwards [Bug #6572]
• WME: Add save thumbnails to Corrosion [Bug #11032]

Known Issues for specific 2D games

Known Issues for Monday Starts on Saturnday & Golden Calf

• Temporary screenshot bmp is not generated at the right location
• File.Copy is not implemented

Known Issues for FoxTail

• selection arrow in dialogues menus seems to be drawn a pixel off comparing to original game (need more testing with different FoxTail versions)
• text in books contains extra '^' character at the beginning of some paragraphs (incorrect split? some kind of specially added control character?)
• saveload progress bar is not drawn under overlay (I need to learn how to deal with dirtyrects to fix this)
• savegame description encoding seems to be wrong for some reason for Russian (may be caused by changing encoding during the game)

Known Issues for Rosemary

• WME: Rosemary - Text glitch [Bug #6453]
• WME: Rosemary - Icons glitch [Bug #6454]
• WME: Rosemary - Flickering images [Bug #6571]
• WME: Rosemary - Font error [Bug #6573]

Known Issues for Ghost in the Sheet

• WME: Ghost in the Sheet - Freeze of final cutscenes [Bug #6533]

Known Issues for Rhiannon

• WME: Rhiannon - Animation freeze of the final outtro [Bug #6569]

Known Issues for Vsevolod

• WME: Vsevolod (DEMO) - Assertion in Intro [Bug #6612]
• WME: Vsevolod (DEMO) - Assertion on taking the dagger [Bug #6613]
• WME: Vsevolod (DEMO) - Font too big(?) [Bug #6634]

Known Issues for 5MA

• WME: 5MA - wasps animation is too slow [Bug #6649]

Known Issues for White Chamber

• WME: white chamber - bot flickers when changing directions [Bug #6652]
• WME: white chamber - slow scrolling [Bug #6653]

Known Issues for The Kite

• WME: The Kite - Script runtime errors [Bug #6722]

Known Issues for Helga Deep in Trouble

• WME: Helga Deep in Trouble - Graphic mistake [Bug #9683]

Known Issues for The Shine of a Star

• WME: The Shine of a Star - Problems at shovel puzzle scene [Bug #9720]

Known Issues for Space Madness

• File.Copy() is not implemented, so extras wallpapers are not exported to saves folder from data.dcp

Known Issues for J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

• Some methods should be added for JULIA subengine

Known Issues for J.U.L.I.A.: Untold

• It's unknown if level editor is accessible and working correctly

Known Issues for J.U.L.I.A. (original)

• Requires sprite-rotation for a puzzle

Known Issues for East Side Story

• wants "framd.ttf"

Known Issues for specific 2.5D games

Known Issues for Alpha Polaris

• Cyrillic input is required for Russian version of Alpha Polaris to be completable

Known Issues for Art of Murder 1: FBI Confidential

• Directory.GetDirectories() is required

Known Issues for The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

• Some methods should be added

Known Issues for Sunrise

• Plugin wme_vlink.dll for new video codec should be added

• File() method should return hardcoded values