DIRECTOR: Majestic (Mac/Win) can't go past the loading screen

[Fehlversuch]

The game in 'MAJESTIC' seems to be an unknown game variant.

Please report the following data to the ScummVM team at https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of the game you tried to add and its version, language, etc.:

Matched game IDs for the director engine: majestic-mac

{"Majestic", 0, "d:ab6ba48edb4a93ca034c63905f615865", 23374400},

Good day,
also, I couldn't select an entry for
Majestic Part 1: Alien Encounter
in the Game-Selection-Menu when creating this ticket,
so the Game-entry is
(unset)
Habe a great day,
Jörg Berning

[tag2015]

Hi, thanks for the report!
Could you please tell us

• Language
• Director version

Also, is this mac-only or hybrid? In the latter case we'd be interested in the windows version, too

Thanks!

[Fehlversuch]

Hi, more info:
after clicking
Add anyway
the entry for
Language:
is pre-set with
English
greyed-out and not selectable,

the entry for
Plattform:
is pre-set with
Macintosh
and could be changed.

Director version is, when looking into
~/Library/Logs/scummvm.log
Switching to Director v404

I had some trouble with mounting my iso-image,
did use the following solution under macOS 14.4.1 (23E224),
as mentioned under ​https://thejoelpatrol.github.io/fusehfs/:
macFUSE 4.7.1
fusehfs-macos-installer-x64-0.1.5
The hfs-image gets mounted as
macfuse_hfs
I did check for a hybrid via
sudo diskutil list
but it does not look promising:

/dev/disk8 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +283.3 MB   disk8
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         1.0 KB     disk8s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS MAJESTIC                257.9 MB   disk8s2

By the way, the start of the game is sort of hanging, the music is playing in a loop and the last message after two pictures is
LOADING...
in white on black.
I don't know if it makes sense to further troubleshoot this.
If you like to, I could open another ticket and get the messages from
~/Library/Logs/scummvm.log

Thank you for looking into this =)

[tag2015]

Thanks for the quick reply, ScummVM can't autodetect the language, do you know if the game is in English, in a different language or multilanguage?
Also since this is a hard to find version it would be amazing if you could attach some pictures of the disc/box/manual etc...

Thanks!

[Fehlversuch]

Well, the file
Read me
is in English, no other languages are used.

I checked a few of the .mov-files and found lettering in the English language:
cargo hold
Captain's quarters

Hexedit didn't help, too.

and it says "LOADING..." when starting...
So I guess the game is in English.

If you like we can close the ticket...

[tag2015]

Hello, sorry but I hadn't noticed that the checksum is not correct.
Do this:

• Process your iso using dumper companion: ​https://www.scummvm.org/dumper-companion (leave the default settings)
• Extract the resulting .zip and add the folder to scummvm. It should properly detect the mac version of Majestic

In any case, we have a regression. This game should be playable, now it gets stuck on "loading...", so we need to fix it.

[Fehlversuch]

when using the mounted image:

[2024-05-09 17:10:55] ScummVM 2.8.1 (Mar 24 2024 20:21:47)
[2024-05-09 17:10:55] Vorbis FLAC MP3 TiMidity RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth MikMod Theora VPX AAC A/52 FreeType2 FriBiDi JPEG PNG taskbar TTS cloud (servers, local) ENet SDL2 TinyGL OpenGL (with shaders) OpenGL desktop only RetroWave
[2024-05-09 17:10:55] --- Log opened.
[2024-05-09 17:11:11] The game in 'MAJESTIC' seems to be an unknown game variant.
[2024-05-09 17:11:11]
[2024-05-09 17:11:11] Please report the following data to the ScummVM team at
[2024-05-09 17:11:11] https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of the game you tried to add and
[2024-05-09 17:11:11] its version, language, etc.:
[2024-05-09 17:11:11]
[2024-05-09 17:11:11] Matched game IDs for the director engine: majestic-mac
[2024-05-09 17:11:11]
[2024-05-09 17:11:11]   {"Majestic", 0, "d:ab6ba48edb4a93ca034c63905f615865", 23374400},
[2024-05-09 17:11:11]
[2024-05-09 17:11:46] Running Majestic Part I: Alien Encounter (Macintosh/English)
[2024-05-09 17:11:46] Majestic: ab6ba48edb4a93ca034c63905f615865, 23374400 bytes.
[2024-05-09 17:11:46] WARNING: SearchSet::add: archive '/Volumes/MAJESTIC' already present!
[2024-05-09 17:11:46] Starting v400 Director game
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] Director pixelformat is: CLUT8
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: NinePatchBitmap::NinePatchBitmap(): Bad bitmap!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: NinePatchBitmap::NinePatchBitmap(): Bad bitmap!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Lingo Inited!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: No LINGO.INI!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: RIFX: type: APPL!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: RIFX: type: MV93!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Lingo::openXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Movie is from later version v404!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] Switching to Director v404
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] Reloading builtins
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Lingo::closeXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Lingo::openXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: STUB: Score::loadFrames(): frame1Offset: 0x14, version: 4, spriteRecordSize: 0x14, numChannels: 50, numChannelsDisplayed: 48!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: STUB: PalXObj::m_patchIt!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'PatToWindow' dropping return value: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] Found font substitute for font 'Geneva-1-14' as 'Geneva-0-14'
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] Generated font 'Geneva-1-14'
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node2"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node3"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node4"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime1"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime2"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime3"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime4"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "buzz1.aif"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "piranha"!
[2024-05-09 17:11:47] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "istvan pely"!

when using the zipped version gotten from ScummVM Dumper Companion:

[2024-05-09 17:13:28] ScummVM 2.8.1 (Mar 24 2024 20:21:47)
[2024-05-09 17:13:28] Vorbis FLAC MP3 TiMidity RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth MikMod Theora VPX AAC A/52 FreeType2 FriBiDi JPEG PNG taskbar TTS cloud (servers, local) ENet SDL2 TinyGL OpenGL (with shaders) OpenGL desktop only RetroWave
[2024-05-09 17:13:28] --- Log opened.
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Running Majestic Part I: Alien Encounter (Macintosh/English)
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Majestic: 01be45e7241194dad07938e7059b88e3, 483518 bytes.
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: SearchSet::add: archive '/Users/god/Documents/ScummVMgames/Majestic(MAC-HFS)' already present!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Starting v400 Director game
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Director pixelformat is: CLUT8
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: NinePatchBitmap::NinePatchBitmap(): Bad bitmap!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: NinePatchBitmap::NinePatchBitmap(): Bad bitmap!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Lingo Inited!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: No LINGO.INI!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: RIFX: type: APPL!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: RIFX: type: MV93!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: mmap: version: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Lingo::openXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Movie is from later version v404!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Switching to Director v404
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Reloading builtins
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Lingo::closeXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Lingo::openXLib: Unimplemented xlib: 'XCMDGlue'!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: STUB: Score::loadFrames(): frame1Offset: 0x14, version: 4, spriteRecordSize: 0x14, numChannels: 50, numChannelsDisplayed: 48!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: STUB: PalXObj::m_patchIt!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'PatToWindow' dropping return value: 0!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Found font substitute for font 'Geneva-1-14' as 'Geneva-0-14'
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] Generated font 'Geneva-1-14'
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node2"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node3"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "node4"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime1"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime2"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime3"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "chime4"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "buzz1.aif"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "piranha"!
[2024-05-09 17:13:51] WARNING: Builtin 'preLoadCast' dropping return value: "istvan pely"!

Guess I have to join the party, today is Ascension day/Father's day,
Cheers! =)

[Fehlversuch]

One more thought: I got a working Xcode-environment for iOS & macOS, @2.9.0git...
If I should do some further testing...
Have a great one.