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The Secret of Monkey Island
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First release 1990
Also known as Monkey Island 1;
Monkey1; MI1;
TSOMI; SOMI; SMI
Developed by Lucasfilm Games
Published by Lucasfilm Games, Disney
Distributed by (unknown)
Platforms Amiga, Atari ST, DOS,
FM-TOWNS, Macintosh,
Sega/Mega CD
Resolution 320x200, 256 colors
Engine SCUMM
Support Since ScummVM 0.1.0
Special Edition is
not supported
Available for
Purchase
Yes

The Secret of Monkey Island was the first game in the Monkey Island series, and the fifth game to use the SCUMM scripting language. At first, the game follows Guybrush's attempts to prove himself a pirate; later, he attempts to rescue his new-found love, Elaine Marley, from the clutches of the ghost pirate LeChuck.

Versions

The Secret of Monkey Island was released in several different versions.

  • The SCUMM V4 version (EGA DOS floppy)
  • The SCUMM V5 versions (VGA DOS floppy, Amiga, Atari ST, FM-TOWNS, Macintosh, Sega/Mega CD, VGA DOS CD)
  • The Special Edition version (based on the VGA DOS CD version with high-resolution assets laid over the original V5 script data).

The high-resolution data ("modern" mode) in the Special Edition is not supported by ScummVM. It is possible to extract the files of the V5 VGA DOS CD version ("classic" mode) and make them playable via ScummVM. The process is described in this thread. Do note that by using this method, only the classic mode is playable in ScummVM.

Installation

Required data files

For more information on how ScummVM uses game data files, see the user documentation.

Amiga or Amiga demo

  • *.LEC
  • *.LFL
  • music.dat
  • sample.dat

Atari ST, PC EGA Floppy, PC VGA Floppy or PC Demo

  • *.LEC
  • *.LFL

PC VGA CD

  • MONKEY.000
  • MONKEY.001

Alternative PC VGA CD

  • MONKEY1.000
  • MONKEY1.001

Macintosh

  • Monkey Island
  • MONKEY1.000
  • MONKEY1.001

Alternative Macintosh

  • Monkey Island
  • MONKEY1.000
  • MONKEY1.001
  • MONKEY1.002
  • MONKEY1.003
  • MONKEY1.004
  • MONKEY1.005

Sega CD

  • GAME.000
  • GAME.001

Audio tracks

For more information about how to use the PC CD audio tracks with ScummVM, see the user documentation.

It's also worth noting that the CD intro never matched up quite as well with the music as the earlier floppy versions did. This is noticeable both with the sparkles on the Lucasfilm logo and the appearance of the Monkey Island logo. In ScummVM 2.6.0 the music is also likely to get cut off at the end of the Monkey Island theme, when the intro reaches the lookout scene, because ScummVM matches the timing of the original game much more closely. (It appears that the intro was timed with the assumption that there is no silence at all at the start of the track.)

To offset this, 2.6.0 also adds two sliders: "Intro Adjust", which specifies at which point the intro music should start playing, and "Outlook Adjust", which specifies by how much the start of the outlook music should be adjusted. For me, +1.14 and +0.40 respectively produce good results.

Default controls

To change these controls, use the Keymaps tab in the global or game-specific settings. For more information, see the user documentation

Hotkey Description
Ctrl + 0-9 Loads saved game
Alt + 0-9 Saves game
Crtl + Alt + d Starts the debugger
Crtl + f Toggles fast mode on/off
Crtl + g Toggles really REALLY fast mode on/off
Crtl + t Switches between 'Speech only', 'Speech and Subtitles' and 'Subtitles only'
Tilde ~ Shows/hides the debugging console
[ and ] Changes music volume down/up
- and + Changes text speed slower/faster
F5 Displays the save/load window
Alt + F5 Displays the original save/load window, if the game has one.
Space Pauses
Period . Skips current line of text in some games
Enter Simulates left mouse button click
Tab Simulates right mouse button click

Boot Params

For more information on using boot params, see the Boot Params wiki page.

Some of the boot params listed in the following table only work in the CD/Mac version of Monkey Island (and not in 'monkey-ega' and 'monkey-vga'). Those are marked with an asterisk (*) symbol.

In addition to the boot params listed below, you can use values greater than 900 to be teleported to specific rooms. To be precise, if you give the number x, then you get sent to room (x-700).

Furthermore, in the CD/Mac versions of Monkey (target 'monkey' or 'monkey-mac', not 'monkey-vga' or 'monkey-ega'), you can specify a boot param between 3000 and 3777 (including both numbers). These will spawn you in the lookout with various flags and objects:

2nd digit (3#..)
0 nothing
1 trial 1 done
2 trial 2 done, poodles sleeping flag set
3 trial 1 done, trial 2 done, poodles sleeping flag set
4 trial 3 done
5 trial 1 done, trial 3 done
6 trial 2 done, poodles sleeping flag set, trial 3 done
7 trial 1 done, trial 2 done, poodles sleeping flag set, trial 3 done
3rd digit (3.#.)
0 nothing
1 sword, shopkeeper sword flag set
2 shovel, shopkeeper shovel flag set
3 sword, shopkeeper sword, shovel, shopkeeper shovel flag set
4 300 pieces of eight
5 sword, shopkeeper sword flag set, 300 pieces of eight
6 shovel, shopkeeper shovel flag set, 300 pieces of eight
7 sword, shopkeeper sword flag set, shovel, shopkeeper shovel flag set, 300 pieces of eight
4th digit (3..#)
0 nothing
1 breath mints, shopkeeper breath mint flag set
2 nothing, insult fight flag set
3 breath mints, shopkeeper breath mint flag set, insult fight flag set
4 chicken
5 breath mints, shopkeeper breath mint flag set, chicken
6 insult fight flag set, chicken
7 breath mints, shopkeeper breath mint flag set, insult fight flag set, chicken

Finally, boot params not covered by the list below will be interpreted as raw room numbers and cause the game to start in that room.

Param Description
1 Monkey Island
2 Monkey Island Map Bottom - By Crack
3 Monkey Island Map Centre Left - By Fort
4 Monkey Island Map Centre
5 Monkey Island Map Centre Right - By Monkey Head Clearing
6 Monkey Island Map Top - By Cannibal Village
7 Cabin on Ship - Before ship intro
110 Outside Sword Master's with sword and LeChuck's note
111 Melee lookout point with sword
112 Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
113 Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
114 Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
115 Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
213 Outside cannibal hut with voodoo root
321 Govenors mansion with sword file and idol
332 Underwater at Melee dock
333 Close-up end cutscene
334 Close-up end cutscene
335 Clearing with dusty book (floppy VGA only)
353 Stans with credit note
408 Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, leaflet, wimpy little idol
415 Melee Island lookout point with breath mints and rubber chicken
444 Outside governors mansion with meat and yellow petal
456 Jail with breath mints and melting mug of grog
501 Ship Kitchen
555 Melee Island Bridge
666 Scumm Bar -empty
707 Store - storekeeper away
749 Part Two cutscene (floppy only)
759 Melee Dock
777 Circus tent with pot and hunk of meat
789 Monkey Island Map Bottom - By Crack with 2x rope
800 Melee Island Forest
878 Monkey Island River Fork
888 Outside Smirk's with sword and 50 pieces of 8
900 Monkey Island Upper Beach
999 Caverns Under Monkey Island by ship with magnetic compass, head of navigator, necklace on navigator
1111 Ship Intro
1212 Melee Dock with Navigator Head, Navigator Necklace, Root Beer Seltzer
1436* Monkey Island - Bottom of crack with magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, 3 bananas, oars
2221 Ship Kitchen with spell ingredients (floppy only)
2222 Ship deck with breath mints and rubber chicken
2299* Ship Deck with pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, rope, gunpowder, flaming mass and pot
3333 Ship Deck with rope, gunpowder, flaming mass and pot (floppy only)
4313* Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, navigator head, navigator necklace
4444 Monkey Island - By Monkey with 5 bananas and monkey head key
5555 Inside Hut in Cannibal Village
6342* Ghost Ship Main Deck, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, navigator head, navigator necklace
6565 Monkey Island beach by banana
6666 Outside Monkey Head with monkey head key
6767 Ship Intro (floppy only)
7777 Monkey Island beach by banana, Guybrush and Rowboat invisible
7981* Monkey Island River Fork after dam blown with 3 bananas, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure
8742* Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure
8888 Caverns Under Monkey Island by Bob after ship has sailed (escape with Toothrot)
8889 Caverns Under Monkey Island by Bob after ship has sailed (escape with crew)
8989 Melee Island Church during wedding
9432* Monkey Island Beach, with magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure

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