ScummVM DS v0.10.0 Beta1 now out for public testing

June 30, 2007

If you’re a fan of old point and click adventure games, then you’ve probably heard of ScummVM. In the odd case that you haven’t, it’s an emulator for your DS that allows you to play games using the LucasArts‘ famed Scumm engine.

It looks like agentq (Neil Millstone) and the rest of the ScummVM team have recently rolled out the Beta 1 version of ScummVM DS v0.10.0. So early adopters may want to help them out by testing it and submitting bug reports to the developers.

It was announced by agentq that there are no full instructions for this release since it’s still on beta, though they did come up with the changes that were implemented along with the games supported by the latest build. Here are the changes:

Changes in This Version:

New engines supported: AGI, CINE, and SAGA.
Option to show the mouse cursor
Word completion on keyboard for AGI games
Plenty of optimisations

Supported Games:

Build A:

All Lucasarts games from Manic Mansion to Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Build B:

Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen

Build C:

Simon the Sorcerer 1/2

Build D:

Sierra AGI games
Gobliiins 1 – 3
Bargon Attack
Ween: The Prophecy
Future Wars

Build E:

Inherit the Earth

Build F:

The Legend of Kyrandia

If you’d like to try it, download ScummVM DS v0.10.0 Beta 1 from the download link below. Keep checking back here for the latest homebrew for your DS.

Download: ScummVM DS v0.10.0 Beta 1

Via ScummVM Forums