Kings Quest 5 EGA 5,25" 360k Version

[ns394]

The game in 'KQ5-360\' 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 sci engine: kq5-fallback

{"resource.000", 0, "281c51f7ebbaf9d6507ef3442165069e", 180936},
{"resource.001", 0, "0087ecc427b29c9d6e97215a1c401403", 351165},
{"resource.002", 0, "446a416628584d0e0ecb5fd999fec26b", 355432},
{"resource.003", 0, "b8caa1a0ebd9533a7bdef8b1777acd48", 355008},
{"resource.004", 0, "121e271ef5e9a453a14f084171e2829c", 355459},
{"resource.005", 0, "ea0a562146887a98be994a2ed6199e90", 308649},
{"resource.006", 0, "9f17cf9064908491e611befae4334460", 352973},
{"resource.007", 0, "877143d23a5e01bb68942deabed99a2b", 308216},
{"resource.008", 0, "5f7c8b08393546048305f3eccf09e971", 272561},
{"resource.009", 0, "a0aad5edec946254bb33ed18ea84886c", 286519},
{"resource.010", 0, "caa65f21e62c82d994a617e1e1058f9a", 302497},
{"resource.011", 0, "c21a052c1a64c3e470705ac9a7f490d6", 329490},
{"resource.map", 0, "c6c167ee097517f10eb5825678a4d9e0", 6876},

[sluicebox]

Hello! Wow, thank you for reporting, this is very interesting. I did not know there was a 360k floppy version of KQ5. (Or SQ4 from your other ticket: #15572)

The ​KQ5 reference card says:

"If you only have low density 360K 5.25" drives, put ALL the disks away where they won't confuse you. You can't use any of the them. You 'II need to call our Customer Service hotline at (209) 683-8989 and order KING 'S QUEST V in the special low-density version directly from Sierra On-Line."

That may be what this is! I have a few questions about both games so that we can add the detection entries:

1. Are these 256 color or 16 color versions?
2. What version number is KQ5? Clicking Help in the upper right and clicking About KQV will tell you. There may also be a text file named VERSION or some other QA file.
3. Where does SQ4 say the version number 1.065? That version number has not been seen before, so I want to make sure it is correct.
4. Do you still have the physical floppy disks? If so, could you pictures? I don't think anyone has seen these yet!

It would also be nice to know the interpreter versions, but those can be tricky to figure out so don't worry about it if that's too hard. They are strings in the executable, but the executables are compressed, so sometimes it takes extra work to figure out.

I also have a few questions that are off topic for this bug tracker; if you wouldn't mind could you ​email me or ping me on the scummvm discord?

[sluicebox]

Added in: 80ee2b5102d0494a85fea02aef81990f8591656f

This will appear in our next daily build: ​https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/dailybuilds

Thanks for the additional info, and thanks again for reporting!