mads:nebular crash to debugger in scene 604

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When exploring the abandoned city, if you try to travel to either the North Sea Window or the Residential location, the game crashes to the debugger:

ERROR: FabDecompressor - Decompressed data does not match header decompressed size!

According to the debugger we are in scene 604.

scummvm compiled from git, reproduced using:

ScummVM 2.9.0git2186-g126c19855a9 (Mar 2 2024 17:52:10)

This crash makes it impossible to complete the game.

The attached savegame can be used, get in the car and try to travel to either location. Alternatively you can enter the debugger and issue the 'scene 604' command to save time.

This happens with a fresh reinstall using the original Microprose installer.

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Just to be explicit, this is from an original floppy installation. The 8.49 update is applied too, but that only changes the main .EXE

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Another data point: I recompiled using the 'v2.8.0' tag

sha1sum of the non-sound data files:

aa221e4752782c5e087ff9c9f129ec4baf6df4d7 GLOBAL.HAG
73300566a34d9ae36a61af106c565b6d476061a5 SECTION1.HAG
568ff505588501f6a8243b205f6201aceeb95a0d SECTION2.HAG
23ad0b703fdbfb21d0cbb72b25cec7e26b6f399f SECTION3.HAG
b46b427c02b2ff8436a2e9e970c4550918548d8f SECTION4.HAG
395e5748dbdf44acdd1579a77a550f1b51d401f3 SECTION5.HAG
add17b195300dedf149462e9789ca1dca310084f SECTION6.HAG
46a9a26b7a64c47eaecbea552eb31458d491a524 SECTION7.HAG
1560da50f4570a046de5a372d595aa6ec03bc541 SECTION8.HAG
647ac8c1f9395f20c7068f9bd982ffb6d4cc7334 SECTION9.HAG

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I was able to get the game going under dosbox, enter cheat mode, and warp into scene 604 -- and lo, the onscreen image is corrupted. looks like my install media was damaged but the installer didn't report it. lovely.

I guess we can probably close this.