What Is ResidualVM?What Is ResidualVM?
ResidualVM is a cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' LUA-based 3D adventures: Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, provided you already have their data files. ResidualVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ResidualVM is continually improving, so check back often.
Our forum and IRC channel, #residualvm on irc.freenode.net, are open for comments and suggestions. Please read our FAQ before posting.
Latest DevelopmentsLatest Developments
We have reached a rather important milestone for ResidualVM, we are gearing up for our first release, which will support Grim Fandango. To make sure that we don't have any big showstoppers, we need your help.
We need people to play through the game thoroughly on all our supported platforms, preferably testing all the optional parts that aren't required for completion too. If you are interested download our 0.1.0 pre-release builds (not the unstable builds), and start playing. Any bugs should be reported to our issue-tracker on GitHub, and when you complete, you should post in our forums.
Details can be found here.
Since our last update, there has been a quite a bit of development, 340 bugs have been fixed in our issue-tracker, and although quite a few still remain, development continues. Those interested in a bit more detail, can take a look at giucam's blog
One of the more interesting bugs found and solved, was the one about missing dialogue in Year 3, which actually was as old as the original game.
On another note, our forums has had an interesting turn of events, quite a few of the members have joined together to work on improving the original graphics of the game in a project called Grim Fandango: Remastered JohnnyWalker2001 has set up a blog where updates on this effort are posted.
Grim Fandango support still remains in active development, and a little bit of work has been done on Escape From Monkey Island. Now you can atleast play the intro video in the demo. Still, no promises on the EFMI improving any more any time soon.
As always, any contribution is greatly appreciated. If you wish to help, we can be contacted on #residualvm (freenode), or in our forums.
It's been over 2 years since the last news on this page, and a lot has happened.
We have switched from svn to git, and quite a bit has been fixed, which leads me to today's headline:
Grim Fandango just changed status to "completable with a few minor glitches".
Yes, that's right, you can now play Grim Fandango right through to the end. As a sidenote we now also accept Bug Reports for Grim. So, get on over to the download page, and grab a fresh nightly. Oh, and that compass in the handle, sure will come in handy too!
