DGDS: Willy beamish DOS CDROM unknown game variant and no voice

[ahrib]

My environment

• ScummVM on macOS
• Game is the PC version from GOG

Expected behaviour

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• Game identified correctly when adding to list
• Full Speech an MT32 music

Actual behaviour

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• gae not recognised. 'pick the game' menu appears. The Adventures of Willy Beamish (DOS/English) appears but so does a list of games that it is definetly not
• when running the game there is MT32 music but no speech

What I have tried

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• Manually selecting The Adventures of Willy Beamish (DOS/English) from the pick list
• confirmed that sound effects and music work as expected with a different game (Beneath a steel sky)

scummvm.log

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[2025-04-03 22:58:08] ScummVM 2.9.0 (Dec 15 2024 21:08:13)
[2025-04-03 22:58:08] Vorbis FLAC MP3 TiMidity RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth EAS OpenMPT Theora VPX AAC A/52 FreeType2 FriBiDi JPEG PNG GIF taskbar TTS cloud (servers, local) ENet SDL2 TinyGL OpenGL (with shaders) OpenGL desktop only RetroWave
[2025-04-03 22:58:08] --- Log opened.
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug channels were added, list is empty!
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: DebugManager::addDebugChannels(): No debug channels were added, list is empty!
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Volume and map version not detected, assuming that this is not a SCI game!
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] WARNING: Path component detected in entry for 'toltecs:toltecs' but no kADFlagMatchFullPaths is set!
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] The game in 'Adventures of Willy Beamish (CD DOS)' seems to be an unknown game
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] variant.
[2025-04-03 22:58:18]
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] Please report the following data to the ScummVM team at
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of the game you tried to add and
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] its version, language, etc.:
[2025-04-03 22:58:18]
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] Matched game IDs for the sci engine: astrochicken, christmas1988, christmas1990,
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] iceman-demo, camelot-demo, longbow-demo, ecoquest-demo, funseeker, hoyle1,
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] hoyle2, hoyle3-demo, jones, kq1sci-demo, kq4sci-demo, laurabow-demo,
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] lsl1sci-demo, lsl2-demo, lsl5-demo, cnick-lsl, cnick-kq, cnick-laurabow,
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] cnick-longbow, cnick-sq, mothergoose256-cd, msastrochicken, pq2-demo, qfg1-demo,
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] qfg2-demo, sq1sci-demo, sq3-demo, 120degrees
[2025-04-03 22:58:18]
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] {"resource.001", 0, "07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c", 151525997},
[2025-04-03 22:58:18] {"resource.map", 0, "99adb7a5e2438992f0fff48328650496", 27237},
[2025-04-03 22:58:18]
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] Running The Adventures of Willy Beamish (DOS/English)
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.001: 07eaebf5c9e569347308ff097bc6607c, 151525997 bytes.
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] resource.rme: 09bc7bcb83b6d036c5988c81a769cf0c, 44247 bytes.
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : intro.sx at pos 6372726 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : global.sx at pos 7855523 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:31] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : willy.sx at pos 18262884 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : house.sx at pos 23051692 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : oldtowne.sx at pos 25987656 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : toot.sx at pos 70534413 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Res RESOURCE.001 : mansion.sx at pos 72411294 has negative size??!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
[2025-04-03 22:58:32] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
[2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
[2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 6!
[2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
[2025-04-03 22:58:35] WARNING: Unknown music type 22!
[2025-04-03 22:58:42] --- Log closed successfully.

[mduggan]

The "pick game" dialog is not great but expected - it should show Willy Beamish and then a bunch of (Unknown variant) options. This is because it includes the same file names as a bunch of Sierra games.

As for the sound, I'm also using the GOG version and it works fine here - could you double-check that the SFX is enabled in the game menu?

That is, from the esc menu and not

[ahrib]

Hey there, are you on macOS also?

I only just bought the GOG release, it is listed as version 1.00 CS (​https://www.gogdb.org/product/1405562076#builds)

The in-game menu does not work for me, actually I have just noticed some dialogs appear strange as well

To summarise, the consolidated list of glitches I am experiencing:

1. game not recognised. 'pick the game' menu appears.
2. when running the GOG version (1.00 CS) of the game there is MT32 music but no speech
3. when I hit ESC the game menu does not pop up at all, the game just pauses. Hitting ESC resumes gameplay
4. some dialog boxes have a strange light blue background and it makes them unreadable https://bugs.scummvm.org/attachment/ticket/15843/problem%204%20-%20scummvm%20-%20in%20game%20dialog.png

Its been many years since I have played this game, so to compare I decided to try it with Crossover - it worked as expected - except of course the ScummVM feature of having mt32 music on the CDROM version of the game.

please let me know if you would like me to split this into separate bug reports

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Just in case it helps, here are md5 hash of the files in my installation below (using the md5 command line.. i.e. full contents of file)

Directory ./WILLYCD
fa7a25eb044ab5047acfff9fd5257f06 goggame-1405562076.hashdb
555470a8ef731a919f4a5cc2a41076c5 goggame-1405562076.ico
7cb08d98d307b85c88220aedd66ea05f goggame-1405562076.info
7c5edaa64b6392ac0799f831fab83966 goggame-1405562076.script
d04995c5aa71cca126ba9eb55e3ba9f2 HintBook.pdf
a3d78c538a948f5565f61904d7981471 INSTALL.144
c60ba473bcce5444e11ca4333ec8a334 INSTALL.BAT
cbc451d8e8c512a012aa0b031cd44652 INSTALL.HLP
34d673213c08b0dba1e6da7ef73bf841 INSTALL.SCR
85e697e706b511ad845c5cf021b91cca INSTALL.TXT
2a580d2a89e9035a5a5023b76e90f535 Manual.pdf
c9e99299dae0ff27a7a2f6d6cb700116 PizzaramaMenu.pdf
e6e07ac1f5336a36ee360dc9adb056cf PROAUDIO.DRV
aea618545b2b9d8b8ba6b1d3f70c34ba README
ddb2ca8176e00719efa9946450e3019c RESOURCE.001
954c17f0484fe0d51016003b70d94db0 RESOURCE.CFG
eaa386d9463f7952265beee7d6d4a89c RESOURCE.EXE
ee70604d1fcac9c7fa04e64cbb54fa47 RESOURCE.MAP
285f6558e37c6da35109a0ef021784fa RESOURCE.RME
33fd2158eebc211b91ccbc4b68d4cab4 SNDBLAST.DRV
62079d71ee6aa884acb760c06ff2fa08 WILLY.EXE
df21dd0cf8c248a72d09d989c1ac501d WILLY.TFA

Directory ./WILLYCD/FDD
556985a6a9eea01ac188e1f50be31e68 CHKLIST.CPS
867ca345e6464f7c66fdc0e259134d05 INSTALL.COM
6d13541d2cedd620921d41aece9c01d3 RESOURCE.CFG
64d66ce7d526b57bc2b55cb33ae7115c VOLUME.001
162ebf63d76e4f17ed6f4d6e9faade07 VOLUME.002
257c42f28f99fbc726176e89f3bb7bd9 VOLUME.003
010c3779ee42c9836b11f9f47da7ae05 VOLUME.004
bed499c2c72c5a7d1ac943543a2da118 VOLUME.005
cb6a826ce282a03b7689dee21b76ea7d VOLUME.006
ac1401456f2849d65295a5a05a9338f4 VOLUME.007
506dd3a0ef2da743499ac00a332ee51c VOLUME.RMF
be1919eb7b617971073224feed372e2b WILLY.EXE

[mduggan]

Oh sorry, I missed in the initial log you posted that you are running ScummVM 2.9.0. Willy Beamish is not supported in the 2.9.0 release, it will only be supported in the next major release. For now you'll need one of the latest daily builds to play it.

See the announcement and wiki page for more details:
​https://scummvm.org/news/20250319/
​https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=The_Adventures_of_Willy_Beamish

[ahrib]

I had missed that support was in the nightly in the announcement!

Using master-4c5af9f9 and loving it. Thank you so much!