Meteor Police doesn't arrive (Enchanced version)

[desowin]

I have tried to deal with meteor by calling meteor police. Bernard got the lamp from radio and used it in the equipment upstairs to call the police. I have opened the lab and kept waiting for the meteor police to arrive. I waited quite some time and they never arrived... This looks like the https://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/bugs/4111/ bug. Is it possible that it'll get fixed in the Steam release?

When I gave up waiting, Michael went to develop the films for Weird Ed and I eventually send the meteor to the space in a car...

[cygnia]

2025 and they still haven't fixed this particular bug. :(

[eriktorbjorn]

Originally posted by cygnia:

2025 and they still haven't fixed this particular bug. :(

That particular ScummVM bug report was closed as invalid four years ago, actually: https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/4111

comment:13 by tag2015, 4 years ago

Using the attached savegame, when called with the door open, the Police arrives normally (not immediately of course).
The OP didn't wait enough, or called when the door wasn't open yet. There's also an overlapping cutscene with Dr. Fred that extends the wait.

Recording: ​https://youtu.be/JyPgVotr3LI

Can be safely closed, I think.

I can't test it myself, because the savegame on the bug report is for the German version, and I only have the English ones and I had no problem reaching the Meteor Police ending when I played those a couple of years ago. Of course, it's possible that there still is a bug that just happens under different circumstances, but someone would have to file a bug report about that with either a savegame or steps to reproduce.

Then again, if the Steam version is like the GOG version (which I believe it is), they're using ScummVM 2.0.0 which is now more than seven years old. Good luck getting Disney/Lucasfilm Games to update it! I've been trying (admittedly not very hard) for years to get them to even fix the cracked enhanced version they're selling. You can tell if it's cracked if any puzzle involving a keypad (phone numbers, safe combinations, etc) accepts any incorrect code as long as you get the last digit wrong. (ScummVM 2.5.0 and later detects and works around that crack. It's a single byte that's been modified in one of the files.)