monkey island remake

[spud]

has anyone done a remake of monkey island
like the kings quest remake

even if its a slapdash effort im still interested

[evenout]

The problem is that monkey island graphics are impossible to improve, so there's no need to make a remake.  If anyone as started such a remake, they are not likely to ever finish it with all the tedious (not to mention unpaid) work ahead of them.

[Kairus]

There's already been a "remake" of MI1, it was first in 16 colors graphic and then it went to 256 colors. I don't think it would be necessary to make a higher resolution remake, it would spoil most of the fun of playing it, Monkey Island is perfect the way it is.
Well, that's my opinion, at least...

[Scummbuddy]

The problem is that monkey island graphics are impossible to improve, so there's no need to make a remake.  If anyone as started such a remake, they are not likely to ever finish it with all the tedious (not to mention unpaid) work ahead of them.

I beg to differ(on graphics not being able to improve... although I think this has fallen through.

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=6462;start=msg79005#msg79005


If the pics dont come in, then dont fear, I have them all saved on my comp

[spud]

i never got to play monkey island 2

boo hoo hoo

and it took me 3 weeks to finish the first one so that was why i asked.

[Gilbert]

There's already been a "remake" of MI1, it was first in 16 colors graphic and then it went to 256 colors.

Damn I thought that the game was originally 256 colours. I bought MI1 CD together with LOOM CD some 10+ years ago, and that's teh only version of MI I had played and seen, I know Loom was 16 colours but I never played teh original version tho (I did have teh PCE CD version of it bought even earlier).

[Sluggo]

I'm almost positive I have the original game box and floppies, and it seems to have both VGA and EGA, for people with older systems that didn't support VGA I guess. Gilbert, try installing MK1 in dos, and in the command prompt when you type "monkey1" or whatever it is, type:
monkey1 e

That should bring up EGA graphics if you want to see it.

[evenout]

hehe, let me re-word

"The problem is that monkey island graphics (as a whole) are impossible to improve."


Coffee Lady was attempting to improve MI2 graphics for a small demo, and she gave up.  Please, any AGSer that challenges the graphics of MI or MI2, please create art for a new game! We're dying to play it.

[Nacho]

I think that MI was originally in EGA, but inside of that EGA version box, there were tickets to change the EGA floppies to the new Version in VGA, so, the VGA version was very close in time to the original 16-colours.

What was really an improvement (IMHO) was the conversion of the Indiana Jones and the Last crusade to 256 colours. In adittion, I must say that LucasFan made a supperb work when comparing the original Zak graphics with the supperb graphics of his second part.

[Esseb]

Far: LucasFan didn't update the graphics himself when making Zak2. He used the graphics from the official VGA version of Zak that LEC made. It's only available on the FM Towns console but if you look hard you can find it on the net somewhere with the music converted to mp3. ScummVM supports it so it's fully playable on a PC.

[Nacho]

Oh! I once saw a maravellous conversion of a photo to a FOA style made by LF... So, I thought that he was able to improve the graphics of Zak to VGA, sorry.

[Kinoko]

I totally agree with everyone who has said "Don't!". MI is perfect. There's just no point making it again. It'd only look dicky in a much higher resolution anyway. Simple graphics done well should be celebrated and cherished! ^_^ It's a lost art...

[Gonzo]

We don't be wanting no George Lucas-style revisionism of the original classic here.

I love the way SoMI looks in its 256 colours, I wouldn't change it for the world. I replay the first two MIs all the time and I never wish the graphics were better. Working within the limitations of the time, those two games looked beautiful (as well as being packed with great gameplay of course).

[edmundito]

You know, back in '97 I e-mailed LucasArts (when they had an e-mail thing going on) and I told them that it would be cool if they Improved Monkey Island and made it liked Monkey Island 2.....

Later I found that they had actually done that. So there is a good version of Monkey Island out there,  spud, with CD music and great old-school 256 colored graphics. Check out this link at the SCUMM bar for more info on the different versions.

[m0ds]

Cool. I'd never heard of any remakes before. I think if one was made there'd be a HELLUVA lot of "contreversy" or whatever. Big angry mobs.

But Coffee Lady's drawing is highly inspiring.

[Sluggo]

So there is a good version of Monkey Island out there,  spud, with CD music and great old-school 256 colored graphics.

I have that one too, it came on CD with MK2 (called Monkey Madness). It's barely an improvement from the regular version. The music just sounds like a recording of a midi thru an MT-32.

[Scummbuddy]

They just made the inventory items actual pictures instead of text and used MI2's GUI.  plus they took out the stump joke.

and yes, Coffee lady's simple smudging floored me.

[Ren]

I would remake it. The problem is i dont even know where to start...

[Tuomas]

How about deciding how to and why remake it?

[Ren]

Because MI1 only had 16 (or more) colors.