ScummVM helps you to play classic games on structures they had been never designed for

ScummVM is a software which allows you to run positive conventional graphical journey and position-gambling games, provided you have already got their statistics files. The smart element about this: ScummVM simply replaces the executables shipped with the video games, permitting you to play them on systems for which they have been in no way designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator.

ScummVM helps a massive library of adventures with over 250 video games in general. It supports many classics published by way of mythical studios like LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan, Inc. And Westwood Studios. Next to ground-breaking titles just like the Monkey Island collection, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner and countless other games you'll locate some definitely obscure adventures and clearly hidden gems to discover.

You can discover a complete listing with information on which video games are supported and the way well at the compatibility web page. ScummVM is usually enhancing, so check again frequently. Among the structures on which you can play the ones video games are Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, PS Vita, Switch, Dreamcast, AmigaOS, Atari/FreeMiNT, RISC OS, Haiku, PSP, PS3, Maemo, GCW Zero and many more.

What's New

The crew turned into quite busy running on new engines and enhancing present ones. The listing of supported video games grew exceedingly, and we now help these additions:

• Adibou 1
• Classical Cats
• The Dark Eye
• Dark Side
• Escape From Hell
• Gadget: Invention Travel and Adventure
• Gobliiins five
• The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
• Kingdom: The Far Reaches
• Might and Magic Book One
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Nancy Drew: The Final Scene
• Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
• Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill
• Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger
• Nancy Drew: Treasure within the Royal Tower
• Primordia
• Reah: Face the Unknown
• Schizm: Mysterious Journey
• Shardlight
• Strangeland
• Syberia and Syberia II (macOS versions best)
• Technobabylon
• The Vampire Diaries
• Whispers of a Machine
• Wrath of the Gods and four other Director titles.
• 14 AGS titles by using Stranga and Cloak and Dagger

All collectively, we have introduced 50 new games and five new engines.

New systems

We are happy to peer the RetroArch port being nicely rewritten, and the port is now part of our source code. The Atari port has also been redone from scratch and now talks natively to the hardware, skipping SDL as an intermediate layer. That made many extra games playable on the platform. The Atari FireBee port continues to be the usage of the SDL library, though.

Speed-optimized pics

Thanks to the work of one of the GSoC contributors this year, Wyatt Radkiewicz (a.Okay.A. Eklipsed), we now use CPU-particular SIMD commands together with SSE, AVX2, and NEON for drawing images inside the AGS engine and in a few everyday routines. This led to four-14x speedup in drawing for lots cases.

Networking games

This yr, we merged with the Backyard Sports Online assignment, which made it possible to play Backyard Football, Backyard Baseball 2001 and Backyard Football 2002 over the net with other human beings. Also, the Moonbase Commander support is in energetic playtesting mode, though now not yet ready for prime time.

Notable engine enhancements

The AGS engine has been introduced up to model three.6.Zero.Fifty three from upstream.

For many engines, we added guide for severa Chinese and Japanese recreation variations.

Believe it or now not, we applied a whole lot of native GUI dialogs for SCUMM games, bringing them toward the authentic experience. We also rewrote the sound code for the SCUMM Humongous Entertainment video games, making them ideal.

We achieved a deep review of the Broken Sword 1 game engine, implementing some small, previously disregarded such things as scene transitions, in-recreation menu peculiarities, correct fonts, idle animations, and greater. Now, the sport is truely devoted to the original.

Previous release notes

Twenty years in the past these days, on Tue Oct 9 sixteen:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which changed into model zero.0.1 of the mission. Time flew quick and, fast-forward to the cutting-edge, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5.0 "Twenty years ago today..."

The listing of adjustments is great.

First of all, this is the primary launch that helps 2.5D games (nearly 3-D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this launch we announce aid for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped directly to 2.Five in our versioning. Please word that simplest laptop systems presently help those games and other structures may or may not benefit the guide later depending on their skills.

In addition to those 3 games and engines, we formally support 10 extra new engines and subengines that upload compatibility with the following video games:

• Little Big Adventure
• Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
• Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
• Transylvania
• Crimson Crown
• OO-Topos
• Glulx interactive fiction games
• Private Eye
• AGS Games variations 2.Five
• Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
• The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
• Crusader: No Remorse
• L-ZONE
• Spaceship Warlock

We love localized recreation releases and a couple of platform variations, for that reason with this launch, we more suitable the assist for Lure of the Temptress Konami launch, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-ninety eight, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to call but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy three are actually additionally supported.

Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.Zero brings many excellent improvements and new capabilities. We have finished a main transform of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters anywhere. The GUI additionally adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI displays. The Nintendo DS port has been drastically rewritten. We brought GOG and Steam achievements to a massive variety of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in greater games. Thanks to the paintings of one in every of our GSoC college students, we've now delivered an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.

You may also discover all of this goodness to be had to a number of structures on our downloads page, or let the autoupdater kick in on Macintosh and Windows.

We wish you extraordinary adventuring, satisfied puzzle-solving and exciting trips to RPG worlds, and wish to peer you round within the coming years.

And with the aid of the manner, GOG.Com is walking a special promo tied to the discharge and our anniversary, in which you can purchase many ScummVM-supported games at a discount.