#6120 closed defect (fixed)
SCI: KQ6 Spider Scene Game Freeze
| Reported by: | SF/kjps86 | Owned by: | sluicebox |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCI |
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| Cc: | Game: | King's Quest 6 |
Description
In King's Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, when playing either the DOS talkie/CD or Windows talkie/CD version, once you speak to the Black Widow on the Isle of Wonder and pull the part of her web to distract her and snatch the piece of paper from her web, the game becomes stuck with the crown icon for the cursor. You can't change to any other cursor (hand, walk, look, etc.) though you can save the game/quit/change options. You cannot leave the screen or do anything else. I've tried changing the time I attempt this by doing other things in the game first but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Language: English Version of Game: DOS and Windows version, from the King's Quest Collection disc from Sierra Platform: Windows 7 64-bit and Android 4.04 (problem is identical on both) ScummVM version: 1.5.0 Save game of Windows version is attached. It places you right before you talk to the spider, simply select the eye and click on the web to start interacting with the Black Widow.
Any help is greatly appreciated, I am very grateful for the work the ScummVM has done so far.
Ticket imported from: #3555404. Ticket imported from: bugs/6120.
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Change History (10)
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | kq6-cd-win.000 added |
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comment:1 by , 12 years ago
| Summary: | Spider scene causes game freeze → SCI: KQ6 Spider Scene Game Freeze |
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comment:2 by , 12 years ago
kjps86: I vaguely recall this issue, but having trouble finding when and if this was fixed.
I think this might be possible to work around by changing the Game Speed to Maximum.. Can I suggest trying this?
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
Ah, located it. Bug #3291115 - "KQ6: Game freezes when getting paper from web" : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3291115&group_id=37116&atid=418820
This was solved by commit 5654e1257551bf176c7fd06c756612bec3d79033
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:5 by , 12 years ago
Please excuse my ignorance, this is my first time reporting a bug in a piece of software of any kind. I see you say this issue was solved (I visited and reviewed the link you provided)--is there anything I can do to get a version of ScummVM, or compile it from source, that would resolve this issue? Is there a Readme file I should have read beforehand? I'm willing to do the legwork but did not see any info regarding where to start.
Incidentally, I already had the Game Speed set to maximum, it didn't make a difference, though I also didn't try setting it to a lower speed, so I can't be sure if that would have made a difference.
Thanks
comment:6 by , 12 years ago
kjps86: Thank you for being considerate, asking constructive questions and providing sufficient information. That already is helpful. You could try playing this from a new game with v1.2.1, v1.3.1 and v1.4.1 and seeing if you observe the same bug. The fix I mentioned was added between v1.2.1 and v1.3.0 releases, but this may be not directly related.
In terms of other version you could test, I would normally ask you to test with the latest nightly development Git master build from: http://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html But since v1.5.0 was only released a short while ago, I doubt this will show any difference. Please feel free to test and report here though if you have time.
Apart from the included README file, NEWS file which cover various issues, we have a wiki which holds more detailed documentation, as well as detailed TODO, known bug in the original game lists etc. I have already checked the SCI engine pages here and not found anything relevant to this: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SCI
If you find that a previous version does not exhibit this bug, but the current version does, then the next step if you are capable of using a C++ compiler and command line tools is to run a Bisection to locate the regressive commit: http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Pinpoint_regressions_with_Git
The instructions on how to checkout a Git repository of our codebase and build on various platforms can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Developer_Central#Getting_started http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Compiling_ScummVM
comment:7 by , 12 years ago
Turns out that this was a script bug after all. Fixed in 8524ebd699254a6786033f0e41b9a45c563feb11
comment:8 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:9 by , 17 months ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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This turned out to be a script bug that relied on undefined values and not a sound bug. Fixed in with a script patch in: 33c6fe11317880fd61682acb12fd76da928dde02
Save file from Windows version of game