ScummVM 0.71 XBOX WIP Release ----------------------------- Changes - 30/07/2005: New:- - screen resizing capability - hold Right-Trigger and click Right-Thumbstick. - reload ScummVM launcher - hold Rightt-Trigger and press Black. - reboot to dashboard - hold Right-Trigger and press White. Changed:- - removed optimizations for Simon The Sorceror engine. Fixes music issue. Shouldn't affect performance too much if at all. Probably changed other stuff in the time since the last release, but I can't remember what that might be! Intro Monkey ------------ This is a new port of ScummVM that I put together a couple of months ago. It is all new and isn't based on the existing scummvmx code. Originally it was of version 0.70, I then updated it once 0.71 was released. It's not finished and has been sitting on my hard drive gathering dust for the last few weeks. To be brutally honest - I've forgotten where I was up to, so I've decided to release it, get some feedback and then continue from there. Although it's not finished, it should be perfectly playable. In fact a couple of people have been using it for a while and have reported no problems. New Monkeys ----------- As well as supporting all the latest updates to the main ScummVM core, I've also added in a couple of things to enhance the ScummVM experience on the xbox. Most noticeable is support for a virtual keyboard - hit the left trigger to show/hide that. It's very similar to the one used in the Dreamcast port, just tidied up a bit. The other main change is the addition of some code that should improve the performance of some of the larger games when run from a dvd (Curse of Monkey Island for example). They won't be perfect, but they should be much better than with any previous xbox version of ScummVM. Also this release does support Roland MT32 midi emulation. If you have the correct rom files (do NOT ask me where to get them) just drop them in the folder with the xbe, then you can select MT32 emulation in the options screen. But be warned - it sounds ace, but the xbox is not powerful enough to emulate the MT32 and run the game engine. It's included more as a curio than anything. Missing Monkeys --------------- As I said - this isn't finished, there are things I wanted to do but haven't yet gotten round to. There are also things that probably should be done but as mentioned previously - I forgot where I got to! Two of the things that I know aren't in there yet are: * screen resizing - just haven't gotten round to it. * improved front end - again I meant to do this but haven't yet. So please don't tell me about those! But please do tell me about anything else. Controls Monkeys ---------------- Please not these are slightly different to the controls in previous xbox versions. Left or Right stick - move cursor A - left mouse button or select on virtual keyboard B - right mouse button Start - ESC Back - F5 X - . (full stop/period) Y - space Left Trigger - toggle virtual keyboard DPad - numpad emulation or move selection on virtual keyboard Bug Monkeys ----------- Because this isn't properly finished there may well be numerous bugs. If you find any please report them to me in the emulation forum of www.xbox-scene.com. And if you don't find any - please drop by and tell me how ace my work is! ;) Monkey Thanks ------------- Obviously massive thanks have to go out to the entire ScummVM team. Also thanks to: lantus for his work on libSDLx. TMaul and Likklebaer for being test monkeys. Iriez for everything he does for the xbox scene. XanTium for xbox-scene. Anyone that I've missed - let me know and I'll make amends in future. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy Carcharius