Opened 3 weeks ago

Closed 7 days ago

Last modified 7 days ago

#16685 closed defect (fixed)

NANCY: Missing conversation option

Reported by: tunnelsociety Owned by: Filippos Karapetis <bluegr@…>
Priority: normal Component: Engine: Nancy
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game: Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

Description (last modified by tunnelsociety)

ScummVM 2026.2.1git3639-g9495bc24f39 (Apr 17 2026 20:34:49)

Call the Hardy Boys in a new game and wait for the first dialogue to finish. (Joe: So what's going on?)

In the original, Nancy is able to ask "I haven't been out to the park yet ... Any suggestions?"

In ScummVM, that option is missing. (Note that a very similar "Any suggestions as to my next move?" option is present in both.)

(For all I know, this is actually a bug in the original. The responses from Frank and Joe kind of imply familiarity with the amusement park, as if I've already entered it.)

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Screenshot_20260417_210311.jpg (138.7 KB ) - added by tunnelsociety 3 weeks ago.
met harlan.SAV (93.6 KB ) - added by tunnelsociety 3 weeks ago.
nancy8-1.016 (17.4 KB ) - added by tunnelsociety 3 weeks ago.
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Change History (8)

by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

comment:1 by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

Description: modified (diff)
Game: Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel
Summary: NANCY: Carousel: Missing conversation optionNANCY: Missing conversation option

by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

Attachment: met harlan.SAV added

by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

Attachment: nancy8-1.016 added

by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

comment:2 by tunnelsociety, 3 weeks ago

Okay, after meeting Harlan and playing a couple games at Midway, the conversation option appeared. But now, Nancy has the option to say both "I'm in the park" and "I haven't been to the park yet" LOL.

Here are save files and screenshot (left original, right ScummVM) calling Hardy Boys where I've done the exact same activities in each (except in the original, I already did the "Haven't been to the park" conversation earlier, when I was in the hotel at the beginning of the game).

comment:3 by Filippos Karapetis <bluegr@…>, 7 days ago

Owner: set to Filippos Karapetis <bluegr@…>
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In d3b61403:

DEVTOOLS: Fix missing dialog options in Nancy 8-11 and regen nancy.dat

  • Fix an incorrect dialog check in Nancy 8 - fix #16685
  • Fix incorrect handling of OR logic checks in Nancy 9 - fix #16754

I mistakenly implemented dialog checks with OR boolean clauses as AND.
These have been fixed now for Nancy 9, 10 and 11.

comment:4 by bluegr, 7 days ago

This was a mistake in the dialog logic extracted into nancy.dat. Please download the newly generated nancy.dat

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