As well as patches fixing old glitches there is also the possibility of bugs that were inadverdently left in the code that were never fixed. These are not readily apparent upon a casual playthrough, but they will once you spend a good enough amount of time speedrunning. Why is that? Certain tricks, such as the mashing movement tech, does not work quite as well in ScummVM due to a longer pause when getting the "X" cursor.Ĭ: ScummVM is an old emulator with many MANY patches thrown into it over the years that have make subtle changes in the games. The following two points will be focused on the GOG distribution as Steam comes packed with DosBox 0.74, but is still pertinent as the version and configuration conflicts with what is used for runs.ī: ScummVM artifically throttles, or sets the cpu it is emulating to a certain mHz, which makes it fine for a casual experience, but not for speedrunning. The configurations were not mandated by any Sierra employees, but Our goal in speedrunning is to complete the games as fast as possible, and as such we have researched the best emulator and configurations to meet that end. They were configured as such by individuals (or even an individual for the DosBox distribution) to cater to the casual audience. Here is a link to a wiki page listing all the different SCI (or Sierra Creative Interpreter) engine games and their respective versions: Ī: These distributions are meant for a casual experience. Versions of Dos games refer to revisions of the engine, game's code, and localizations done by Sierra. These distributions come bundled with an emulator that has been configured to work on modern PCs, as according to them. This is because GOG and Steam are distribution platforms selling digital "distributions" of these games. So why are these distributions not suitable for running King's Quest VII?įirst of all I would like to address something: you may notice that I am putting "version" in quotation marks when I refer to GOG and Steam.
Unless you have an old 32-bit PC knocking about, then an emulator is necessary. If you were to download the files for the game and run the sierra.exe executable in the folder you will get a prompt from Windows stating "This app can't run on your PC" meaning that dos based applications do not run on a 64-bit PC natively. This is because the Steam and GOG "versions" use emulators named "ScummVM" and "DosBox" as a means to play the game on a modern computer. However, after a few runs they may wonder why their times are not competitive with the other runs on the board. New players may find it convenient, and legal, to buy the Steam or GOG "versions" of the games and use them to speedrun.
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