SCUMMVM being picky about kyra.dat file

DukeSkinny · 21 May 2019 21:42

Copypasted from my Github issue:

Games using the Kyra engine and thus relying on the kyra.dat file won’t launch, whether kyra.dat is in the game directory, RA’s system dir, system/scummvm, or system/scummvm/extra.

I’ll gladly provide any info that might help in solving this issue.

hunterk · 21 May 2019 22:15

Can you post a log of a failure?

DukeSkinny · 22 May 2019 13:04

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/DukeSkinny/7aca703b65fa221025da0e90a9be0e14

gistfile1.txt

[INFO] [recording] twitch streaming key empty
[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.7 (Git 18fd85de24)y  6 2019
[INFO] === Build ==================================================
[INFO] CPU Model Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHzch.exe [OPTIONS]... [FILE]
[INFO] Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES
[INFO] Built: May  6 2019erbose logging.
[INFO] Version: 1.7.7   Show version.
[INFO] Git: 18fd85de24  Prints available features compiled into program.
[INFO] =================================================ro core to be loaded,
[INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.in menu. If no arguments are passed to

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This is with the kyra.dat provided by the ScummVM team themselves. It is placed in all previously mentioned folders simultaneously.

Edit I am not sure what to do with the garbage text in the log. Running .\retroarch.exe --log-file .\retroarch-log.txt -v only got me to the command line, and I had to run .\retroarch.exe separately from there to launch. The output wasn’t saved to a log file either, so I just grabbed the text straight from the PowerShell window.

Edit2 I tried replacing all instances of the file with this one, but ended up with the same results.

retrogam3 · 30 November 2020 14:41

Did anyone find a solution to this?

DukeSkinny · 30 November 2020 17:54

AFAIK it just works now, and has for a long time. If it doesn’t, I would bet you’ve got the kyra.dat in the wrong folder. Experiment.

retrogam3 · 2 December 2020 16:58

I’ve the updated scummvm core in retroarch. I have the newest kyra.dat from their github. I put it in system and in diff game folder like EOB example. All these games work fine on standalone scummvm but don’t in retroarch. Any help or suggestions?

hunterk · 2 December 2020 16:59

could be related.

retrogam3 · 2 December 2020 17:38

I understand and that’s fine if the answer is it doesn’t work right now. I am fine with that and understandable. But if it works and I am just doing something wrong. I would to have that understanding, how.

retrogam3 · 2 December 2020 19:08

I’m sorry, all the games that require KYRA.dat are working now you just need to 2.1.1 version of the KYRA.dat file. The one from ScummVM is newer and doesn’t work with RA.