TWP: Franklin ghost never appears and I’m stuck in the hotel

[ploum]

In TWP, part 3, you are supposed to go to the hotel and, after visiting Franklin’s room, a cut-scene will happen and you can start to play Franklin’s ghost.

In my case, the cutscene never happened despite many visit to Franklin’s room. Also, visiting Boris’room spin the door making it impossible to leave the hotel. When that happen, you are also unable to switch Ray and Reyes, except if both are in the hotel. So the game becomes unplayable.

The bug happened with Scummvm 2.9.1 running on Debian unstable.

I’ve been able to confirm it on
ScummVM 3.1.0git21392-g54b5d8b5e8b (Dec 6 2025 04:08:23)
Using SDL backend with SDL 2.32.4

TWP games files were extracted from the Windows installer 1.0.938

I attach a saved game where the bug is immediately visible : you are agent Ray in the hotel lobby, the door is spinning but there are no ghosts (as supposed to be according to various walkthrough)

[ploum]

Where the bug is directly apparent

[ploum]

Earlier in the game, where you could play and check no cutscene happens

[DjDiabolik]

@scemino i have pass this point of game many months ago. so could it have appeared after some recent fix?

[scemino]

Strange, I started from scratch with latest version ScummVM 3.1.0git202-g1a370604a87
and when Ray wants to go out of Franklin's room, the cutscene starts:

[scemino]

Can you try again with this savegame in attachment: twp.010 ?

[luissagasta]

Hello. I am having the same bug with the daily build 18 Dec 2025.
I tried with the twp.010 savegame but the custscene doesn't appear.

[luissagasta]

I tyried with the stable version (2.91) and the twp.010 savegame and the franklin cutscene is not shown. I am using Windows.

[scemino]

Replying to luissagasta:

I tyried with the stable version (2.91) and the twp.010 savegame and the franklin cutscene is not shown. I am using Windows.

Try the daily build, not the stable one.

[luissagasta]

I also tried with the daily build fron 18 Dec (I wrote it in my previous comment).
The cutscene is not shown in stable version nor in daily build.
I cannot continue game. Any idea? Thank you.

[luissagasta]

In the console log appears a line that can be important: "WARNING: slot for actor franklin not found!"
I am using Thimbleweed Park from Epic Store: Thimbleweed Park (EPIC Games/1.0.955).
It is Windows x64 daily build 3.1.0git21493-g6cb5a2b33fa (Dec 26 2025 04:31:49).

[scemino]

Replying to luissagasta:

In the console log appears a line that can be important: "WARNING: slot for actor franklin not found!"
I am using Thimbleweed Park from Epic Store: Thimbleweed Park (EPIC Games/1.0.955).
It is Windows x64 daily build 3.1.0git21493-g6cb5a2b33fa (Dec 26 2025 04:31:49).

Yes, this warning is "Normal", it has no effect on the game.

[luissagasta]

ok. Thank you for your clarification.
I couldn't finish the game but thank you very much for your effort, I appreciate it.

[emuman1]

I'm having this bug on Linux 32bits with the ScummVM stable version 2026.1.0 and also with the latest github version. I have also tried the github version previously mentioned by scemino, 3.1.0git202-g1a370604a87, and the bug is still there. All three were running under SDL2 version 2.0.9. The version of the Game is GOG 1.0.958. I tried all the savegames in this ticket and the cutscene won't appear after leaving Franklin's room. I have managed to download a different savegame where Franklin is already selectable and this character works perfectly even tho in the console I'm also getting the same warning reported by luissagasta previously: WARNING: slot for actor Franklin not found.

[emuman1]

Ok, I have noticed something with this bug that maybe could be of any help to the developer to pinpoint the origin of this bug.

After loading any of the attached savegames in this ticket I entered Franklin's room with Ray and something I have noticed there is that the gum that should be sticked to the camera was not there so this made me wonder if the room I just entered, in one of the savegames the room name was HotelRoomA901. was really Franklin's room or not.

To check this I manually switched to Franklin with this command in the console:

! selectActor(franklin)

In the room where Franklin was waiting, called HotelRoomFranklinFB , the gum was sticked to the camera and Ray was not there.

I used again a command to manually change Ray from the HotelRoomA901 to this room where Franklin was waiting:

! actorAt(ray, HotelRoomFranklinFB)

and after selecting her again and leaving this this room the cutscene with the ghosts greeting Franklin and so on got triggered and after that Franklin became a playable character. Of Course if you have previously made Franklin to leave that room the cutscene becomes messed up and never ends but it seems that you can skip it pressing ESC.

I don't know if this the game can be played all the way through or not after this procedure.Maybe there's something else not properly initialized.

At least with the savegames twp.008 and twp.009 included in this ticked Franklin received all his tasks and after scaring two persons at the fountain the ghosts have their meeting at the penthouse, the hotel doors became unlocked, the guest in the room appears and I managed to scare him making the hotel manager do a phone call.

With the savegame provided by Scemino, twp.010 something funny happens during and after Franklin's cutscene, the ghosts just tell you to scare just one person at the fountain and after doing that the ghosts just went to the penthouse for a meeting but the hotel guest never appears and the whole thing about the hotel manager spying on him and his phone call never happens.