ScummVM Wii - Wiimote Edition Released

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Hi guys. I'm LewieP, I run the blog SavyGamer, and noticed some traffic coming from these forums, so thought I would pop along to say hello.

Hello!

Anyway, I thought you guys might want to know about this fantastic piece of software that just has been released -

ScummVM Wii - Wiimote Edition

SavyGamer wrote:

The ScummVM interpretor is a piece of software that allow you to play a bunch of classic Adventure games on a range of platforms. It has now been ported to the Wii, with Wiimote support, meaning you can use the Wiimote pointer to replace the functionality of the mouse.

You can download it here.

The Scumm engine was originally made for Lucasarts Maniac Mansion, but it was used for a whole host of fantastic games. My personal favourites are Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Beneath a Steel Sky.

There is some fantastic homebrew coming out for the Wii, and it's only just getting started, I can't wait to see what's down the line.

I strongly suggest you head over to #extras" class="postlink">ScummVM.org and download the charming and hilarious Beneath a Steel Sky.

I needed an excuse to replay BASS, and this is as good as any.

CUS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 21:05

Hi! Wow, welcome indeed sir, you've saved me a good £50 or so in the last 3 months alone, I'd say. Very welcome indeed!

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

Good day fine fellow! :hat:

I shall keep an eye on this wiibrew malarky. I'm slightly worried that I'll somehow break my console though, and then Mrs Squirt will beat me to death.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Monkey Island on my Wii? Hell YEAH.

Malc · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 21:29

ComicalGnomes wrote:

Monkey Island on my Wii? Hell YEAH.

I have a Wii

I loved BASS

how do I play this on my wii?

do I need to mod it?

I am tired

Malc

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Glad to hear you like the blog CUS!

All you need is an SD card and a copy of Twighlight Princess on the Wii.

Follow the link in the OP to download the ScummVM Wii .dol file, and then head to wiibrew.org for instructions on how to load .dol files.

Edit: and if you guys have Digg account, I would love it if you would Digg the article, to get it out to people asap.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Worth a digg - dugg.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

I basically made this guy what he is. That's how awesome I am.
Infact I convinced him to make the blog in the first place.

And it's a wonderful, wonderful blog. Far better than mine,

I've been meaning to invite you and Mr Grinch (and a couple others from the UK thread) over but we've been going through "difficult times" recently.

That and I was worried a bunch of the less mature PA'ers making it's way over here probably wouldn't be the best thing whilst we are finding are feet.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 22:53

Hello Lewie, good to meet you.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Nice to meet you too!

Lave wrote:

I basically made this guy what he is. That's how awesome I am.
Infact I convinced him to make the blog in the first place.

This is all 100% true.

Lave wrote:

And it's a wonderful, wonderful blog. Far better than mine.

Also true.

Lave wrote:

I've been meaning to invite you and Mr Grinch (and a couple others from the UK thread) over but we've been going through "difficult times" recently.

That and I was worried a bunch of the less mature PA'ers making it's way over here probably wouldn't be the best thing whilst we are finding are feet.

Sounds like a good idea to me. I would PM him and a few others but my PM box is perpetually full.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

But watch it on my blog! Ben "Guardian" Goldacre at least at some point quite liked it. That makes me best for all way.

I'll PM Grinch asap but I'll wait a while for the others because we've been through a lot here recently. We are only about a month old. There was lots of internet drama and this place was created from those of us who walked out of World of Stuart.

World of Stuart was ruled with an iron fist by Stuart Campbell, and we are still working out how to live now that we are free from his control.

(This post is quite tempered by Stuart Ashen saying he's off - this has made me quite sad)

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I actually inadvertently walked into the middle of the whole thing somehow, by posting a comment on Bruce Everiss's blog (having never even heard of worldofstuart before). I then got a fairly angry (albeit mostly polite and rational) email from Stuart, explaining his side of the story.

I don't know exactly how I feel about the whole thing.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

I actually had no idea that had happened.

This was all before that.

It doesn't need dragging up again - I'll PM you.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 23:32

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

One of the benefits of signing up to a new forum is a new PM box to abuse.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 23:35

CUS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 23:36

That reminds me of a dream I had earlier. I wish there was some foreign film where an insane and evil robot or talking computer happens to be called Thatcher. A bit like Skynet.

Thatcher's gone insane! Sir our (space) docks are being destroyed by Thatcher's minions before our very eyes! It rights itshelf.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Would it have the (old, saggy) titty machineguns from Austin Powers?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:04

LewieP wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

One of the benefits of signing up to a new forum is a new PM box to abuse.

If anyone runs out of space on this board, they only have to ask.
I think I've given you all plenty, though.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Grim... wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

One of the benefits of signing up to a new forum is a new PM box to abuse.

If anyone runs out of space on this board, they only have to ask.
I think I've given you all plenty, though.

I literally never delete anything. Gmail has spoiled me.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

This got a 'via' on kotaku too!

Here

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:17

LewieP wrote:

Grim... wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

One of the benefits of signing up to a new forum is a new PM box to abuse.

If anyone runs out of space on this board, they only have to ask.
I think I've given you all plenty, though.

I literally never delete anything. Gmail has spoiled me.

My Yahoo! account has been unlimited for years and years - all you young Google whipper-snappers, I don't know...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

My late-90s style downloading emails to Outlook is similarly only limited by my hard disk space.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Lave wrote:

This got a 'via' on kotaku too!

Here

I am relevant to the wider internet.

Bask in my reflected glory.

Seriously though, that's great. The more people that get to know about this, the better.

MikeB · **Joined:** 2nd Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 47

Oo. This sounds ace. How does it work exactly - in a similar fashion to a light-gun as you point at the screen I presume?

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

MikeB wrote:

Oo. This sounds ace. How does it work exactly - in a similar fashion to a light-gun as you point at the screen I presume?

Yep, like navigating the Wii menu.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 13:23

Grim... wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Grim... wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

You can't, his PM box is perpetually full.

One of the benefits of signing up to a new forum is a new PM box to abuse.

If anyone runs out of space on this board, they only have to ask.
I think I've given you all plenty, though.

I literally never delete anything. Gmail has spoiled me.

My Yahoo! account has been unlimited for years and years - all you young Google whipper-snappers, I don't know...

Although the ability to add +whatever to your email address is a nice way to see who is selling your emails - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2 ... -your.html

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Surely crappy parsing rather than a feature though.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 13:26

Possibly. Either way, it's worked out nicely. The dots thing is worthless, though.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

That's a damn fine thing to know, and one I will be using forthwith.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 16:27

Grim... wrote:

Possibly. Either way, it's worked out nicely. The dots thing is worthless, though.

I like the idea. I get fed up of work emails, as some have dots and others don't, and it should be uniform.

Be Excellent To Each Other

ScummVM Wii - Wiimote Edition Released
play Beneath a Steel Sky now.

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ScummVM Wii - Wiimote Edition Released
play Beneath a Steel Sky now.