Secret of Monkey Island

[Jimi]

I went on that. It's actually quite scary the first time, because there is a little drop in the water. It just made me jump!

[Timosity]

I probably shouldn't ask this here, but it's the right topic for people that might know the answer.

In EMI I'm still stuck on the bolders, And I know what to do but my timing is off.

Anyone know the precise timing.

Eg. what's supposed to happen:

Throw bolder in right tunnel - wait for 1st root to move
then throw bolder in middle tunnel - wait for 2nd root to move
then throw bolder in left tunnel - wait for 3rd root to move
then throw final bolder in left tunnel.

In theory 1 ball should go through the middle chute at the bottom.

When I do it either 2 balls go through the middle chute or they miss and none go down.

does anyone know the precise timing?

ie throw just as the root starts moving
or throw in the middle of when the root is moving
or throw just after the root stops moving

or is there a combination of the three.

cause the roots aren't precise for the signal to throw.

I never remember having this much trouble last time I played it.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

[Stue]

I have to admit, I was kind of annoyed that they didn't use the SCUMM interface in CMI.

Just in case you didn't know. CMI used an updated version of the SCUMM engine and so does Grim Fandango. They are SCUMM based games, just different art and new features I guess.

[scotch]

Isn't Grim Fandango an entirely new engine?
Yeah CMI was scumm engine.. but it didn't use the classing LEC interface.  Personally I prefer the CMI one though.

[Gonzo]

Well they called it SCUMM over several incarnations of it. When people here refer to SCUMM, they're usually referring to that great verb box GUI of Monkey Island 2 and Indy Fate Of Atlantis.

I believe that they ditched the 'SCUMM' tag for Grim and EMI though, wasn't it called GRIME or something?

[Jimi]

I definately know that Grim Fandango used GRIME.

[Timosity]

Damn it, I figured out what I had done had worked, so I was just wasting time, I was waiting for a cutscene to tell me I'd finished the part but it doesn't happen.

Oh well I finished the game now. So onto CMI

Just on EMI, I think the monkey kombat is really clever, more challenging than the sword fighting. Some people think it sucked, probably cause it took them a while to figure out the system, but it's quite easy once you make a table or something.

Still, Grim Fandango is the best Game I've played, I'm so glad I heard people mentioning it on these forums or I would have never bought it, hence missing out on one of my favourite gaming experiences so far.

[Jimi]

I wish I could change this threads name to "Lucas Arts Games Discussion". I've not played Grim yet, but I'm planning on it once I've finished the MI series.

[AGA]

You can, edit the title of the first post in the thread.

[Jimi]

Really? I tried that before but it didn't work!

[Timosity]

I just played and finished CMI today, really enjoyed it again,
now onto MI2.

I love playing these games once in a while.

Edit: OK, now I've completed MI2, Now onto SMI

[veryweirdguy]

Hey Jimi, are you going to play Sam 'n' Max or Day of the Tenticle?

[Jimi]

I'd like to. When were those games made? They may not sell them anymore. (I tried to buy MI1 + MI2 but they didn't sell them)

[veryweirdguy]

You can get them both here:

http://aw.localhost.ee/aw/

I think it's legal but sometimes you can't be sure.......

[Jimi]

OK. Can you tell me how you have got different Avetars everytime I see it?

[veryweirdguy]

I am going to change the goose's hairstyle ( or hat or whatever ) every so often. I have a few set up.

[Jimi]

So how does Tímósíty have his change then? Are you english VWG? or american, or from Isreal, or whatever?

[veryweirdguy]

I'm English, but I live in Scotland. You?

[Jimi]

I live in England. In the west Midlands. It's near Wolverhampton, which is kind of near Birmingham.

[Timosity]

Jimi, to get the random avatar thing happening, First you need a host that supports PHP

Then you need to make a page that contains this code

Code: ags

<? 
$absolute_path = "avatar";
$dir = opendir($absolute_path); 
while($avatar = readdir($dir)) { 
if (($avatar != "..") and ($avatar != ".")) { 
  $avatars[] = "$avatar"; 
} 
} 
$avatars = str_replace(chr(32),"%20",$avatars); 
$random = array_rand ($avatars, 1); 
$randomAvatarURL=$avatars[$random]; 
$avatar = fopen("$absolute_path/$randomAvatarURL","r"); 
while (!feof ($avatar)) { 
        print fread($avatar,120); 
} 
fclose($avatar); 
?>

call the file avatar.php or something like that

create a folder on your site "avatar"

Then all you have to do is put the avatars you want into that folder.

also you need to link to the page instead of an image eg.

yoursite.com/avatar.php
instead of
yoursite.com/avatar.gif


Note this line
$avatar = fopen("$absolute_path/$randomAvatarURL","r");

it is automatically changed from just 1 letter rrr to are

It's that text fixeruper thing