Absolutely love this video - Maniac Mansion was one of our most played NES games back in the day 😊 keep the vids coming! 😀
@et_andersson
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I'm so happy - kind of - that you noticed the broken keypads in the enhanced versions. Well, I already knew I wasn't the only one - speedrunners have been taking advantage of it for a long time - but anything to raise awareness is good. A single byte has been changed in one of the game's data files, affecting the script that handles all keypads in the game. Obviously this was done by someone to skip the security door copy protection, not realizing the consequences. I've seen that crack circulated on Usenet back in the 90s, but it was probably old even then. I tried reporting it to GOG, since that's where I bought it, but they say they can't do anything as it's the files they got from the developers. I tried reporting it to Disney, who thanked me and told me they had forwarded it to the appropriate team. Since that was more than a year ago, I can only assume my bug report is now sitting somewhere in the Disney Vault, hidden behind stacks of Song of the South and the theatrical versions of Star Wars. The version that was embedded into the remastered version of Day of the Tentacle (there are tools for extracting it) are fine though. The files are identical to what was was included on my 1992 "LucasArts Classic Adventures" collection. Back in July 2021 I reluctantly added some code to ScummVM to detect and repair the cracked script. (ScummVM already bypasses the copy protection the same way LucasArts did it when re-releasing the game without a manual: Force the security door to stay open.) It's included in ScummVM 2.5.0 and later. I was not happy about having to do this, because traditionally we've ignored bug reports caused by pirated copies of the games. But now it's Disney themselves doing the piracy! Two months ago, I finally sat down and played through the whole game. (A few days earlier, and it would really have been "Twenty years ago today..." from when I first heard of ScummVM!) As far as I could tell, there were no other significant problems with it. (I used a much more recent version than what's distributed with the game, of course.)
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