DIRECTOR: False Positive Detection of Ancent Empires and Museum of Madness CD

[dreidrachen]

The game in 'F:\' 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: nekojiruudonss-win

{"INSTALL1.EXE", 0, "t:9ef34796c3a6c8bc4e5a9aca562a0b81", 90304},

[dreidrachen]

The game in 'F:\' 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: nekojiruudonss-win

{"INSTALL1.EXE", 0, "t:9ef34796c3a6c8bc4e5a9aca562a0b81", 90304},

[tag2015]

Thanks for the report, could you provide more information? Is this ​https://www.mobygames.com/game/6495/museum-madness/ one of the games you are referring to?

[tag2015]

Anyway, I think this is a false positive.
Could you please download a master daily build ​https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/dailybuilds add the disc again and see if ScummVM detects anything?

[tag2015]

Ping :)
Have you tried a daily build as asked above?

[digitall]

False positive from DIRECTOR engine due to this entry:
​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/engines/director/detection_tables.h#L7167

These could do with tightening to avoid matching various games since install1.exe, install2.exe are very generic names.

[tag2015]

Replying to digitall:

False positive from DIRECTOR engine due to this entry:
​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/engines/director/detection_tables.h#L7167

These could do with tightening to avoid matching various games since install1.exe, install2.exe are very generic names.

The false positive shouldn't happen now, because that entry expects INSTALL1.EXE to be in the subdir WIN_SS.

Anyway this kind of false positives is a recurring problem in Director, there are entries that have been added a bit liberally, in some cases pretty obscure games/applications that are almost impossible to find. And the fact that one of the archivists is AWOL doesn't help :/