ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

As this is a test release, here is a link you might need: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.0.0

The list of changes which are prepared for you in this release is quite long. The most outstanding ones are:

Added support for Discworld
Added support for Discworld 2 – Missing Presumed …!?
Added support for Return to Zork
Added support for Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
Added support for The Manhole
Added support for Rodney’s Funscreen
Added support for Cruise for a Corpse
Improved GUI vastly: added quick search, introduced per-game options, improved mass-add dialog
Broken Sword 1 & 2 now run with original cutscenes
Increased The 7th Guest microscope puzzle difficulty to match original
Major improvements to PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports
New port for GP2X Wiz handheld game console.

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

pedroduarte0 updated his Playstation 2 port of Doom. Original files are required.

Release notes:

New features:

– Savegame handling for different WAD : Now savegames from doom1 and doom2 and other WADs can happy cohexist at the same memory card.

Important: This means that your previous saves needs to be renamed at the PS2DOOM memory card folder. Use uLaunchELF for that (copy the save files to a USB storage device for example, rename those at your computer – see below, delete those same files at the memory card and copy the renamed saves from the USB device back to the PS2DOOM memory card folder). Refer to uLaunchELF documentation for this operations (I won’t offer help at this subject).

Until now, the saves follows the scheme for all the WADs : doomsav0.dsg, doomsav1.dsg, and so on. For now on, the saves reflect the WAD name:

For doom2.wad savegames, you should use the the naming scheme : doom2sav0.dsg, doom2sav1.dsg, etc. Similarly for doom1.wad saves, this will be doom1sav0.dsg, doom1sav1.dsg.

For doom.wad, the filenames should be doomsav0.dsg, etc. You get the picture (sorry to explain this to detail, but I wanted to keep this clear).

Bug fixes:

– Should work with the doom2f.wad (I don’t own it). It should run with previous versions (memory requirements issue since sounds weren’t being downsampled)
– Previous/next weapon selection was buggy (some weapons weren’t selectable) – fixed
– Fixed a crash when a lump is not found (doom.wad at “menu slideshow”) – original sources bug?
– Save/load file handle fixed (no more trying to load/save from empty slots)

I also realised the the source files cosmitoFileIO.c and cosmitoFileIO.h weren’t being included at the distribution archives… Going to fix that.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://ps2homebrewing.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/ps2doom-v1-0-4-1/

pedroduarte0 updated his Playstation 2 port of Doom. Original files are required.

Release notes:

Well, almost a entire month has passed since the last update and I can assure you it was been a hell of a 4 weeks at the job. No spare time to do anything than work. No cinema, no walkings, no friends, no life. And yes, no ps2doom.

It took me only about 2-3 hours of quality free time on this week end to understand how strafe was implemented at lsdldoom and how key/button events are handled in Doom. So, implementing strafe for the right analog stick was almost a linear task and for better, it wasn’t necessary to change the code dramatically.

Now ps2doom plays beautifully with strafing If you never tried this feature on ps2 lsdldoom port, you don’t know what you’re missing now on ps2doom! It tooks the gameplay to another dimension completely. Actually, I feel the gameplay with a Dualshock PS2 controller surpasses by large keyboard gameplay at action time, not accounting for the extra functions you can quickly access though keyboard.

Have a try and lots of fun! Doom is incredibly addicting, even after you finished it over and over.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://ps2homebrewing.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/ps2doom-v1-0-4-0/

LionX created this sample to show how reflection is done on the cars in Gran Turismo 1 and 2.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12025

pedroduarte0 updated his Playstation 2 port of Doom. Original files are required.

Release notes:

This time, good news for people who want to run PS2Doom from memory cards:

Now the .WAD file is loaded from the same directory ps2doom.elf resides, so this avoid the mess of having files at the root of USB storage devices. As a consequence, the files can be entirely placed at memory cards. USB storage devices are still supported, of course.

Currently, HDD is not yet supported. To detect the device name and full path of ps2doom.elf I just parse the main’s argv[0] string. It seems that when launching from HDD using uLaunchELF, the device name appears as “host:”… So I’m not sure on how to detect when ps2doom is executed from HDD. Any help?

I believe HDD support will be added along with a config file where would be listed all the .WAD paths to feed a WAD selector.

Another feature added :
– The Quit option menu now boots back to the OSD PS2 Browser

Next stop: Strafe support.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://ps2homebrewing.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/ps2doom-v1030/

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Release notes:

It was not that long since our previous release, and now here is a new bugfix release hot off the press!

The list of fixed bugs is quite long, and you could read all of it in the release notes, but here is a summary for those of you who are too lazy to follow the links and eager to play the games better.

SAGA: Inherit the Earth is completable again; AGOS, Groovie, Sword2: fixed many sound-related issues; Parallaction: fixed a bug in one of the puzzles; squashed a number of bugs in the GUI. Also iPhone, Symbian, WinCE ports are much improved and NDS and PS2 ports are back again since 0.11.0.

We won’t bother you anymore with the details. Go, download ScummVM and enjoy your play!

Changes:

AGOS:
– Fixed crash after OmniTV video is played in The Feeble Files
– Fixed crashes when exploring Jack the Ripper scene in the PC version of the Waxworks
– Fixed palette glitches in the AtariST version of Elvira 2
– Fixed noise that can occur when sound effects are played, when exploring Pyramid scene in the Waxworks

Gob:
– Fixed a crash in the Italian version of Woodruff

Groovie:
– Fixed some issues with music in The 7th Guest

Parallaction:
– Fixed the sarcophagus puzzle in Nippon Safes

SAGA:
– Fixed a crash in Inherit the Earth
– Fixed glitches in the save/load dialog.

Sword2:
– Fixed random sound corruption when using the original sound files.

Game launcher:
– Fixed a case where memory could be corrupted
– Fixed the small cursor in the modern theme
– Fixed a bug in the theme engine, which could cause crashes
– Made the file browser bigger in 1x mode

iPhone port:
– Fixed backspace handling on the iPhone soft keyboard

DS port:
– Added support for the Global Main Menu feature

PS2 port:
– Switched to the new GUI and theme code
– All possible devices are supported to store, play and save games (CD, HD, USB, MC and remote)
– Optimized cache/read-ahead for every media
– Added support for the Return to Launcher feature

Symbian port:
– Added Bluetooth mouse support
– Added support for the Return to Launcher feature

WinCE port:
– Fixed an issue which could cause random crashes with VGA devices

http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

pedroduarte0 updated his Playstation 2 port of Doom. Original files are required.

Release notes:

Finally, it’s possible to save/load from memory card!

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com and http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://ps2homebrewing.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/ps2doom-v1022/

EP has released a new version of his Unofficial version of LaunchELF. uLaunchELF is a front end or operating system or sorts for the Sony Playstation 2 that allows you to browse and boot homebrew from various sources including memory cards, usb devices, hard drives and the built in dvd-rom drive.

Changes:

-Fixed a bug from previous beta v4.39y preventing access to MC folders having a ‘hidden’ attribute bit set.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-39-stable-v4-39z-beta.html

EP has released a new version of his Unofficial version of LaunchELF. uLaunchELF is a front end or operating system or sorts for the Sony Playstation 2 that allows you to browse and boot homebrew from various sources including memory cards, usb devices, hard drives and the built in dvd-rom drive.

Changes:

-Merged in new MCMAN and MCSERV modules by jimmikaelkael
-Modified FileBrowser to allow renaming of all MC file/folder objects
-Fixed “DEVICE_UNITS” again, to really allow 10 USB drives/partitions in FTP

Thanks to hitman43 / http://www.modcontrol.com for the news and brakken / http://www.tehskeen.com for the reminder.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-39-stable-v4-39y-beta.html

Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc … on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

– updated USB/FAT driver. Thanks to Matzino for help in testing;
– improved M3U playlist randomization

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/