Hopkins

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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

Status

  • Linux full version and demo are completable
  • Windows demos are compleatable
  • Windows full version is playable, but the Wolf3D-like maze is currently missing (so, not completable)
  • BeOS and OS/2 version not supported (yet)
  • Polish and Spanish versions to be tested, 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