Difference between revisions of "Humongous Entertainment/Progress"

Revision as of 23:30, 19 August 2014

General Issues

Add descumm support for the array changes in HE72+ games to help solve bugs.
Convert wizImage to image file (BMP?), when printing is requested, to allow printing of images by other programs.
Fix broken sync. of songs, if the game is paused during a song.
Dog and probably other games may write non-ASCII characters and '=' into .ini fields values.

 An example of such entry is highscore: "_HS=!$Q!B  Ñ‘=m4". Hex representation of the value is
 "21 24 51 21  42 20 20 a3 3d 6d 34". Probably we substitute non-ascii characters as well as '='
 by \xYY like it is done in C.

Sound system

Complete support for music/sound engine of the games

Add extra sound flag (4), purpose unknown (Looping related?)
Add extra sound flags (32, 64, 128) in HE100 games (Where are they used?).

Backyard Soccer

Fix bad memory reads after scoring a goal: the game nukes the playing sound resource.
On rare occasions, the soccer ball can leave a trail over the GUI.

Blue's Birthday Adventure

Fix flood fill issue in the end minigame of the left adventure of the Yellow disc (screenshot).

Blue's Treasure Hunt

Add support for switching between the two sets of resource files, and detecting when that switching should occur.

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo

Issues which effect demo and full version (HE72 version only)

When you encouner Kenya the lion cub for the first time, you see a short cutscene. When Kenya tries to jump, her back is teared off with waterfall drops. Actor 1 (Kenya) is an AUX image and actor 2 (Waterfall drops) is only displayed around Kenya (Not overlapping). But the complete background of actor 2 is been reset, causing the glitches.

Fun Shop titles

Add support for processWizImage modes 13, 14 & 15, used after selecting text button. Creates and displays the text written on cursor.
Add support for processWizImage mode 17, used draw circle when first selecting shapes button.
Add support for thickLine code for processWizImage mode 10 (fillWizLine), used when selecting the shapes buttons and cycling through the shapes.

Russian versions

The Russian company logo shown at the start of many games, is missing most of the white color sections. The missing sections use palette slot 255, palette slot 255 is skipped when setting the room's palette, due to a RGB of 255, 255, 255. Caused by a missing palette difference somewhere or maybe a color miscalculation in drawStripHE() ?

Freddi Fish 1

Input is disabled in the updated version, after clicking on Fiddler Crab (When he is still trapped in cage), if animation shown, starts with a shaking of the cage. This problem occurs in the original version too.

Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries

The updated version has a bad picture in the resources, which shows up as garbage, even in the original version. It crashes ScummVM (under Windows), and is caused by the cleanup of code in drawStripHE() in the past.

Pajama Sam 2

Add support for the custom localization code used to handle speech, in this particular port.

Future

Add sound compression support for music/speech files?
Add support for resource queuing, to help playing from CD?

16bit Color Games

Add support for drawWizPolygonTransform 0x800000 flag, used when selecting slot to save game.
Add support for copyMaskWizImage 0x9000000 flag, used for fade effects.

U32 library calls

Complete the U32 library calls, triggered by case 2001 of kernelGetFunctions/kernelSetFunctions. Unfortunately the U32 library calls are unique in each HE game series.

The U32 code controls the players movements on field in basketball
The U32 code controls various aspects of the game in moonbase

Backyard Baseball 2003

Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.

Backyard Football 2002

Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.
Incorrect cursor color is shown in the Windows version when picking team members and when choosing a play.
Before the field goal and endzone backgrounds show, a black frame appears quickly. It looks like we're calling _moviePlay->handleNextFrame() at the wrong time.

Backyard Soccer MLS Edition

See Backyard Soccer issues.
The cursor and ball leave a trail if they go over the GUI in the bottom part of the screen.
During a penalty kick, the ball looks like it goes through the net before it bounces off the net.

Backyard Soccer 2004

See Backyard Soccer issues and Backyard Soccer MLS Edition issues.
Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.

Freddi Fish 5

Add support for fade effects, which are used by the title screen.

Moonbase Commander

Add support for additional wizImage compression types (4, others) used.

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 == General Issues ==
-* Improve descumm support for HE72+ games, to help solve bugs.
+* Add descumm support for the array changes in HE72+ games to help solve bugs.
 * Convert wizImage to image file (BMP?), when printing is requested, to allow printing of images by other programs.
 * Fix broken sync. of songs, if the game is paused during a song.
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 * Add extra sound flags (32, 64, 128) in HE100 games (Where are they used?).
-== U32 library calls ==
+== Backyard Soccer ==
-Complete the U32 library calls, triggered by case 2001 of kernelGetFunctions/kernelSetFunctions. Unfortunately the U32 library calls are unique in each HE game.
+* Fix bad memory reads after scoring a goal: the game nukes the playing sound resource.
-* The U32 code controls the players movements on field in soccer
+* On rare occasions, the soccer ball can leave a trail over the GUI.
-== Backyard Baseball ==
+== Blue's Birthday Adventure ==
-* Array out of bounds errors often occur, after playing the game for a long time.
+* Fix flood fill issue in the end minigame of the left adventure of the Yellow disc ([[Media:BluesBirthdayFillBug.png|screenshot]]).
-* When players attempt to catch the ball, after a hit, their actor movements are strange and actors often completely disappear from the screen.
-* When the ball is hit, the distance of ball defies the laws of physics. For example, a distance of 2753 feet.
-== Backyard Football ==
+== Blue's Treasure Hunt ==
-* A freeze occurs, when the computer picks a player, when choosing teams.
+* Add support for switching between the two sets of resource files, and detecting when that switching should occur.
-== Fatty Bear ==
-* Add support for pitch changes in XMIDI music, which is used by the piano notes in DOS version.
-== Pajama Sam's Lost & Found ==
-Issues which effect HE98 version only
-* The sprite image used to mark an item as collected is often incorrect. The sprite image is adjusted twice when the issue occurs, as the collected items are been detected multiple times for some reason. Some examples are:
-** Collecting the comic book on level 6 (Passcode is K1E6W)<br>
-** Collecting the teddy bear on level 8 (Passcode is J4V1Y)<br>
-* The amount of items collected at the end of a level is often incorrect, as the collected items are been detected multiple times for some reason.
-Issues which effect all full versions
-* The password for last level reached, isn't saved to the config file. The original version used the script of VAR40 (Script 65) to save information, but not sure when exactly the VAR40 script should be used.
 == Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo ==
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 * Add support for processWizImage mode 17, used draw circle when first selecting shapes button.
 * Add support for thickLine code for processWizImage mode 10 (fillWizLine), used when selecting the shapes buttons and cycling through the shapes.
-== SPY Fox In Hold the Mustard ==
-* Find way to extract the level details from 'map(i)' file, for the Macintosh version.
 ==Russian versions==
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 == 16bit Color Games ==
-* Add support for Bink videos, maybe via DXA conversion?
 * Add support for drawWizPolygonTransform 0x800000 flag, used when selecting slot to save game.
 * Add support for copyMaskWizImage 0x9000000 flag, used for fade effects.
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 * The U32 code controls the players movements on field in basketball
 * The U32 code controls various aspects of the game in moonbase
-* The U32 code controls the players movements on field in soccer2004/soccermls
 === Backyard Baseball 2003 ===
 * Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.
-* The background of main menu is blank, when the game is first started, due to skipping the introduction videos.
 === Backyard Football 2002 ===
 * Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.
-* An array out of bounds error, when the computer picks a player, when choosing teams.
+* Incorrect cursor color is shown in the Windows version when picking team members and when choosing a play.
-* Incorrect cursor color is shown, when picking team members.
+* Before the field goal and endzone backgrounds show, a black frame appears quickly. It looks like we're calling _moviePlay->handleNextFrame() at the wrong time.
-* Black lines are shown on the field, when playing a game.
+=== Backyard Soccer MLS Edition ===
+* See [[Humongous Entertainment/Progress#Backyard Soccer|Backyard Soccer issues]].
+* The cursor and ball leave a trail if they go over the GUI in the bottom part of the screen.
+* During a penalty kick, the ball looks like it goes through the net before it bounces off the net.
 === Backyard Soccer 2004 ===
+* See [[Humongous Entertainment/Progress#Backyard Soccer|Backyard Soccer issues]] and [[Humongous Entertainment/Progress#Backyard Soccer MLS Edition|Backyard Soccer MLS Edition issues]].
 * Add support for fade effects, used when moving between menus.
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 === Moonbase Commander ===
 * Add support for additional wizImage compression types (4, others) used.
-=== Pajama Sam: Games to Play on Any Day ===
-* A freeze occurs, after the introduction of the Jumping Beans mini game.