Kyra

Kyra
Engine developer	athrxx, cyx, LordHoto, vinterstum
Companies that used it	Westwood Studios
Games that use it	The Legend of Kyrandia, Hand of Fate, Malcolm's Revenge
Date added to ScummVM	2004-04-09
First release containing it	0.9.0

Status of the Kyra engine

General

The file kyra.dat is required in order to run the games. It can be found in the ScummVM sources in the directory "dists/engine-data" (kyra.dat for latest ScummVM SVN, kyra.dat for the latest ScummVM Release).

The Legend of Kyrandia

Since version 0.9.0 of ScummVM the Kyra engine can play through The Legend of Kyrandia (some graphics glitches still occur).

Hand of Fate

Hand of Fate is completable as of 0.12.0 SVN from 21 Mar 2008. Some graphics glitches still exist.

Malcolm's Revenge

Malcolm's Revenge is completable as of 0.12.0 SVN from 28 Apr 2008.

Status of the Source Release

Negotiations for the release of the source to Kyrandia (and possible freeware release) have been conducted with Electronic Arts LA. The original code and assets from the Westwood-era have been confirmed to still exist on backups.

Action has stalled, mostly due to confusion over the franchise ownership and licensing. As of the last update, EA has reconfirmed their ownership of the rights.

Games using this engine

• The Legend of Kyrandia (1992)
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate (1993)
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge (1994)

TODO

• Complain if no game data was found in specified directory instead of assert() and producing bunch of useless warnings.
• make sound working properly (MIDI sound has some problems)
• Reduce kMD5FileSizeLimit from 1MB to e.g. 80 kb (this might require recomputing some MD5s, but is faster, and good enough for finger printing)

Tech info

The items and map lists may include spoilers for the games, so do not look at them if you want to play the games on your own.

Kyrandia 1

• Opcodes (list of unimplemented functions)
• Items (Kyrandia 1)
• Maps (Kyrandia 1)
• Savegames (Kyrandia 1) (for the sake of reference only)

Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate

• Items (Kyrandia 2)
• Maps (Kyrandia 2)
• Opcodes (Kyrandia 2)

Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge

• Items (Kyrandia 3)
• Maps (Kyrandia 3)

External links

• ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/kyrandia1/ - Kyrandia 1 - update, demo, sample music, screenshots