Syberia 1 and 2 now supported on SCUMMVM

[TheLimeyDragon]

Syberia 1 and 2 now supported on SCUMMVM

You can now play Syberia 1 and 2 via SCUMMVM and solve a lot of the issues playing it on newer systems. The caveat is that it's only the Mac version of the game that is supported. (It used a different game engine to the Windows release)

If you don't use MacOS you can download/Get the MacOS version by going to this link:
steam://open/console

The Steam Console will open and type these in:

@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType macos
@sSteamCmdForcePlatformBitness 32

Now download the game as normal.
Once done, browse to the game files and you want to copy the Contents folder that's inside of Syberia.app somewhere.

You can now uninstall the game/and restart Steam to reset your settings back.

[Just Call Me York]

will i lose my saves? are there any grapihcal improvements/benefits or stability fixes? personally my game crashes in normal version when alt tabbing

[TheLimeyDragon]

If you're on Windows,

Just downloading the Mac version of the game shouldn't touch your saves. You can always back up if you want to feel safer. You can also use a program like steamdepot downloader to download the mac version to a location on your computer of your choice.

However, I don't think SCUMMVM supports old save files for these games, even if it does it will only support the mac-version not the windows version. So you'd have to restart from scratch anyway.

Graphically it's the same graphics as the Mac version of the game. Yes it's stable because it's using SCUMMVM. If you want to say one benefit, you can resize the game window/fullscreen as large/small as you want.

The main differences are changes made in the Mac port from the original release.

I looked at he game options in SCUMMVM for Syberia 1 and there is a checkbox named "restore missing scenes" so I assume, there are a couple of scenes in the data files that don't exist when playing naively on a Mac but SCUMMVM restores. The checkbox does not exist for Syberia 2 so I assume there are no removed cutscenes and/or there is no data that it can restore.