Just in time for the holidays, the final release of ScummVM 2.0 is here! This version adds support for 23 brand new old games, including almost all of the 32-bit Sierra adventures:

* Cranston Manor
* Full Pipe
* Gabriel Knight
* Gabriel Knight 2
* King's Quest VII
* King's Questions
* Leisure Suit Larry 6 (hi-res)
* Leisure Suit Larry 7
* Lighthouse
* Mixed-Up Mother Goose Deluxe
* Phantasmagoria
* Phantasmagoria 2
* Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
* Police Quest 4
* RAMA
* Riven: The Sequel to Myst
* Shivers
* Space Quest 6
* Starship Titanic
* The Dark Crystal
* Time Zone
* Torin's Passage
* Ulysses and the Golden Fleece

There’s more than just new engines, too! Many existing games have been improved, a lot of work has been done to improve the overall audio and video systems, and some players will also enjoy improved joystick support and various small enhancements suggested by other users. A more complete list of changes in this release can be found in the ScummVM 2.0 release notes

And now, a big round of thanks and congratulations to everyone who made this release happen.

Our super cool code contributors, who wrote all the things which went into this release: Aaryaman Vasishta, Alexander (Tkachov), Alexander Reim, Alexandre Detiste, Alyssa Milburn, angstsmurf, Bastien Bouclet, Ben Castricum, Bendegúz Nagy, Cameron Cawley, Colin Snover, cpasjuste, D G Turner, Daniel Plakhotich, Dario Scarpa, David Fioramonti, Donovan Watteau, Einar Johan Trøan Sømåen, Eugene Sandulenko, Fedor (fedor4ever), Ferdinand Thiessen, Filippos Karapetis, Frank Richter, Hein-Pieter van Braam, Hubert Maier, iskrich, Ivan Avdeev, Joseph-Eugene Winzer, Kirben, kmar, Lothar Serra Mari, Lyubomyr Lisen, Marcus Comstedt, Martin Kiewitz, Michael Drüing, Nick Renieris, Omer Mor, Ori Avtalion, ottogin, Pala, Patrik Dahlstrom, Paul Gilbert, Peter Kohaut, Retro-Junk, Robert Crossfield, Robert Göffringmann, rsn8887, Ruud Klaver, Ryper_Zsolt, Schrijvers Luc, Simei Yin, stevenhoefel, Strangerke, Sven Hesse, Sven Kochmann, Tarek Soliman, Thierry Crozat, Thomas Fach-Pedersen, Tobia Tesan, Torbjörn Andersson, upthorn, vanfanel, VelocityRa, Vincent Bénony, Vincent Pelletier, Walter van Niftrik, Willem Jan Palenstijn, and Zbyněk Schwarz!

Our extra awesome community members and testers, who kindly banged on ScummVM and reported issues which were fixed during this cycle: ADeadTrousers, albadross, AlessioR, Alien-Grey, AndyILC, Arjak89, badungu, Bakhtosh, Bastien Bouclet, Ben Castricum, Benjamin Hodgetts, Bill Niakas, bramvandijk, carquinyoli, Colin Snover, counting_pine, ctoroman, cyberskull, d3p4z, dafioram, Daniel Wolf, danieljaeger, David Dew, david_corrales, dch216, dego93, Derek Warren, dominus, DustyShinigami, elaseela, Eliot Lash, enclume, EricOakford, esziarko, exmensa, Farmboy0, Filippos Karapetis, forge017, g5ppc, garethbp, gatesbillou, GeekZolda, George Kormendi, GermanTribun, greencis, Gualtiero, Hein-Pieter van Braam, henke37_2, hkzlab, Hubert Maier, Ignaz Forster, ilya13, Indy4-Fan, IntEmu, Ivan Lukyanov, Jan Sperling, Jarosław Jaworski, JCaesar13, jcmanciot, joachimeberhard, jomalin1, kervala, Kurufinwe21, Laylia27, legluondunet, legoking831, Lothar Serra Mari, Lyubomyr Lisen, macca8, maplesyrup, Markus Mahlstedt, Matan Bareket, Max Tabachenko, mcknallski, mthreepwood, MusicallyInspired, oddfff, Omer Mor, Ori Avtalion, Paul Gilbert, pegasusepsilon, PetrCejpek, Petter Sjölund, pliesenfeld, Quietust, r-alf-the-alf, Robert Megone, rsn8887, SeanW1975, Sergey, sluicebox, softwarespecial, Stefan Seeland, Stephane Lapie, Sven Hesse, Tarek Soliman, telanus, tgfmfc, Thierry Crozat, tobiatesan, Tomasz Grzegurzko, Torbjörn Andersson, Uukrull, vonmagnum, vorph999, Walter van Niftrik, Willem Jan Palenstijn, Windle Poons, zaurak, and zorbid.

Our exceedingly fantastic translators, who have helped bring ScummVM 2.0 to the users of 24 different Earth languages: Alex Jakovleff, Alexandre Folle de Menezes, Arius, Ben Castricum, Carlos, edward, Einar Johan Trøan Sømåen, Erik Zubiria, Ettore Atalan, Eugene Sandulenko, Fernando Sarmento, Filippos Karapetis, George Kormendi, Gilles, Hampus Flink, Ivan Lukyanov, JanShing, Jennifer McMurray, jepael, jeroen klop, John Doe, Jordi Vilalta Prat, Jose Roses, Joseph-Eugene Winzer, lorz, Lothar Serra Mari, Luis, Lyubomyr Lisen, Manuel, Martin Schoenmakers, Max von Werner, Michael D., Milo Casagrande, mézes gergely, pablobecerra, Paolo Bossi, Pavel Kungurtsev, Pere Orga, Peter Johansson, Petter Sjölund, poulsen93, Purple T, rafaelmessias, Rafał Będźkowski, Rafał Rzepecki, Rodrigo Vegas Sánchez-Ferrero, Rossano, Rouven Bauer, Santiago G. Sanz, Santiago Sanchez, selmiak, Sergio Carmona, Simon Sawatzki, Steffen Nyeland, Thierry Crozat, Timo Mikkolainen, Timofonic, Tobia Tesan, TomasM, Vitor Santos, Víctor Martínez Pajares, Walter Agazzi, wreednumero2, and Zbyněk Schwarz.

Our extremely good looking porters and packagers, for turning ScummVM into something you can actually run: Bastien Bouclet, Cameron Cawley, Colin Snover, Joost Peters, Keith Scroggins, Luc Schrijvers, Manuel Alfayate, Marcus Comstedt, Tarek Soliman, Thierry Crozat, and Willem Jan Palenstijn.

Our very wonderful technology sponsors, easyname, who provide us with servers and bandwidth so we can actually manage and send these releases to you.

And, finally, thank you to you, exceptional user, for using ScummVM, and (with deep apologies) to everyone else whose names I could not dig out of a database. Your support means a lot. You rock!

(And remember—shameless plug—if you want to see your name here, all it takes is one contribution to improve ScummVM!)

With no further ado, download ScummVM 2.0, our gift from us to you this holiday season.

Release team, signing off until next time!

Great, can't wait to try it!

Maybe GOG should implement this into Starship Titanic since there still are several display issues with it which they could not eliminate completely i the version they offer now (they offered me a refund then and I used dgVodoo as workaround).

It would certainly be feasible for them. Barely a day after the 2.0 release, Riven was updated to use ScummVM. So we can remain hopeful that Starship Titanic could likewise be updated to use it in the near future.

Sounds good. I will point them to this to make sure they know.

Does this include running ScummVM on a Mac and then using the Startship Titanic game (Windows only, 2.0.0.4) from GOG? What about using ScummVM within a wine wrapper?

I've tried the Mac version of ScummVM, and I've also tried the Windows version of ScummVM within a WINE wrapper (via Wineskin). For both I had to use the WINE wrapper to install the game initially. I'm using version 2.0.0.1 with Sparkle for macos, and just 2.0.0 for Windows, according to the downloaded files names. I have macos 10.13.2, including the supplemental update, too. And with Wineskin Winery 1.7, made a wrapper with Wineskin 2.6.2 and engine WS9Wine2.22

For the Mac version of ScummVM I added the game by choosing its folder within the wrapper. For the Windows version of ScummVM I installed it within the wrapper and chose its executable to launch for the wrapper, then when running it I added the game by choosing its folder within the same wrapper.

Either way it seems to work rather well (perhaps the same?), but also crash for the same type of event, that of chatting with bots. It's because it started crashing in the Mac version of ScummVM that I bothered to try to use the Windows version of ScummVM within the wrapper. However, it still sometimes crashed when chatting with bots.

It seems to not matter what's being said or which bot, but always immediately when pressing return to make a statement. Upon replay, making the same statement to the same bot doesn't cause a crash, but eventually a different statement might. Chatting with the bots in the lobby at the beginning seems to be the easiest way to test it out, however it has happened elsewhere.

Doesn't seem to be any auto-saving either… I haven't ever played Starship Titanic before and am not using a walkthrough. I haven't gotten very far, just walked everywhere I could in the beginning, chatted with bots, and picked up a few items. Because it crashes and hasn't auto-saved, I've had start over from the very beginning pretty much every time.

One time I did save very early on, just before talking with Krage after checking in at the reception desk. Not long afterwards a crash eventually occurred in that conversation. I tried loading the save and saying the same statement immediately, but it didn't cause problems. Instead it happened later with some other statement but not after the same amount of time. Maybe an exact series of statements would cause the crash? I don't know yet, I need a break for now.

Either should be fine as long as the GOG/PC version is being used.. we don't support the native Mac version of the game. As far as the crash you're describing, I certainly hadn't previously noticed any crash like that when having conversations with the bots. Maybe it's a system specific problem, considering most of the testing was done on PCs. If you can replicate the crash, we'd be thankful if you could post a bug on bugs.scummvm.org with all the details of your system, language, the problem, and an attached savegame, so we can look into fixing the problem.

Amazing job, really happy this in now officially part of ScummVM.

Dreammaster, thank you for all your work to add Starship Titanic support to ScummVM, particularly given the poor performance of the GOG release as-is on modern versions of Windows (I couldn't even get past the introductory sequence before encountering major graphical glitches that prevented further progress). I've looked at some of the code for the ScummVM Starship Titanic engine on github and it looks like quite the undertaking.

For all its flaws, Starship Titanic is a rather unique game (I'm a big fan of the environmental design) and it's nice to have the ability to revisit it after more than twenty years!

If anyone wonders, game works perfect in ScummVM on Linux too.
Just install ScummVM from distro repositories or official site, install Starship Titanic .exe through Wine and add install directory in ScummVM.

You're welcome :). Just an FYI, we're gearing up for our next release on October 9th, which will contain a further few minor bugfixes for Starship Titanic. It'll also be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the original first ScummVM release. What with various new engines and games newly added, not the least of which is AGS integration, it's going to be one heck of a release. \o/