That’s the kind of content restoration I love!

I have a vague memory that I may have a version where it was enabled. Unfortunately I won’t have access to all my game editions this week.

(It might just be me misremembering things, though.)

I have a vague memory that I may have a version where it was enabled.

I guess I should double-check that it can't be triggered in any other way.

Judging by Nutcracker, at least in the English DOS CD version there are no references to that flag or that message outside of the entry script. So I see no possible way of triggering it in any other way.

When asking around on Facebook, two people so far said they recognized the message but one admitted he might be suffering from the Mandela effect.

Aric Wilmunder chimed in to say that his copy of the script (from March of 1992) had this bug. Facebook probably made mincemeat out of the formatting, but this is probably what he meant the script looked like:

enter {
    start-script bak run-water
    break-here
    if (said-hot-monkey-line) {
        said-hot-monkey-line = true
        say-line SH-HULL-LINE1 ;"Yech!!!":
    }
}

He agreed that it should have been if (said-hot-monkey-line is false) or if (!said-hot-monkey-line), and speculated that it might have been changed during the FM Towns conversion. He suggested looking at the 16 color version. Unfortunately I don't have that one, but a YouTube playthrough I found didn't have the message. So the mystery remains unsolved for now.

Very interesting.

So Aric sometimes looks in his Vault for such stuff, very cool. I may have a few things where it'd be quite useful (e.g. that "cut" script where Wally would cry for help when you start walking down the stairs in LeChuck's fortress in Monkey2) but I guess that's something for later 😄

Anyway, this change looks good to me. Don't worry about that vague memory of mine. Maybe it was in the patches of the Ultimate Talkie edition. I don't have access to all my games this week, but it's OK to me to check them myself after it's merged.

Thanks for your work! Merging

Hi,

It appears that this caused a V1/V2 regression in daily builds.

Commit 920513e should explain why and should provide a quick fix for this.

@eriktorbjorn: Could you check whether this new change is fine to you? Thanks!

@dwatteau Thanks for catching that! I remember being a bit worried about it at first, but thought I was safe. I didn't realize that earlier versions used o5_notEqualZero() with a different readVar().

I think this is the only use of o5_notEqualZero() in that script, so that we wouldn't really have to check which variable it used at all. But that seemed unnecessarily optimistic to me. So the current version looks good to me.

OK, thanks!

Coming back to this:

When asking around on Facebook, two people so far said they recognized the message but one admitted he might be suffering from the Mandela effect.

So, I've checked all the copies I have (including the ones I had in the Monkey Island Anthology from LimitedRunGames), and yeah, I was misremembering and having a Mandela effect too. None of my English or French copies displayed it, before this enhancement.

The Ultimate Talkie edition didn't display it either.

I guess I had a memory of having already seen this line, because of… the years I spent working on my own translation with scummtr, and never finishing it, eh.

Also, for posterity, here was Ron's answer about this game script:
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/114299438195152396

"[...] Not sure I'd call that a coding error. The lines were just cut. But what do I know. [...]"

So yeah, maybe it was originally cut because it was a bit long, or something like that.