2.2.0 "Interactive Fantasy" (2020-09-27)

New games:

• Added support for Blazing Dragons.
• Added support for Griffon Legend.
• Added support for Interactive Fiction games based on the following engines:
  • ADRIFT (except for version 5)
  • AdvSys
  • AGT
  • Alan 2 & 3
  • Archetype (newly reimplemented for Glk from the original Pascal sources)
  • Hugo
  • JACL
  • Level 9
  • Magnetic Scrolls
  • Quest
  • Scott Adams
  • ZCode (all ZCode games except the Infocom graphical version 6 games).
  Currently, more than 1600 games are detected and supported.
• Added support for Operation Stealth.
• Added support for Police Quest: SWAT.
• Added support for English translation of Prince and the Coward.
• Added support for Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar.
• Added support for Ultima VI - The False Prophet.
• Added support for Ultima VIII - Pagan.

New ports:

• MorphOS port got a major rewrite.

General:

• Autosaves are now supported for all the engines.
• Errors are more likely to open the debugger, and be displayed, than just crash ScummVM.
• Games are sorted in GUI ignoring the articles.
• Now Hebrew is displayed correctly in GUI (requires FriBiDi library).
• Updated the Roland MT-32 emulation code to Munt 2.4.0.
• Added option to select the default voice for ports that support Text-to-Speech.
• Added support for Discord Rich Presence integration on supported platforms (Windows Vista+, macOS 10.9+ 64 Bit)
• Major improvements to the keymapper.

BBVS:

• Added support for the demo, available from our website.
• Added support for the Loogie minigame demo.

Dreamweb:

• Added support for Russian fan-translation.
• Fixed animation speed.

Illusions:

• Fixed subtitle speed (set it to max for good speed).
• Added support for Russian Duckman.

Kyra:

• Added support for the SegaCD version of Eye of the Beholder I (with CD-Audio, animated cutscenes and map function).
• Added support for the PC-98 version of Eye of the Beholder I.
• Added support for the Spanish versions of Eye of the Beholder I and II, Legend of Kyrandia 1 (CD-ROM fan translation) and Legend of Kyrandia 2 (floppy version and CD-ROM fan translation). Fix Spanish Lands of Lore support (floppy version and CD-ROM fan translation).

Lab:

• Fixed sound looping in some rooms.

Neverhood:

• Added support for bigger demo, available from our website.

Prince:

• Fixed inventory item descriptions display.
• Added English translation.
• Fixed bug with infinite loop when looking at some objects.

Queen:

• Fixed loading a save game from the launcher.
• Fixed random long delays when starting a game.

SCI:

• Major improvements to Amiga and Mac sound drivers.
• Improved MIDI playback and fixed many audio issues.
• Fixed 30 original script bugs in ECO2, GK1, KQ4, KQ5, KQ6, KQ7, LB1, LONGBOW, PHANT2, QFG1, QFG3, QFG4, SQ5 and SQ6.
• Fixed a script bug responsible for rare and random lockups in most Sierra games between 1992-1996.
• Added support for Inside the Chest / Behind the Developer's Shield.
• Added support for German LSL6-Floppy.
• Added support for Hebrew Torin's Passage.
• Added support for Italian Lighthouse.
• Added support for Polish KQ5, LSL2, LSL3, LSL5 and LSL6-Floppy.
• Fixed Russian LSL1 error when hailing a taxi.
• Fixed Phantasmagoria 2 error when attempting easter eggs.
• Fixed QFG3 auto-saves.
• Fixed QFG4 and Shivers save game thumbnails being obscured by control panels.
• Fixed a random crash in the Windows version when exiting a game.
• Added support for Roland D-110 sound driver.
• The "Prefer digital sound effects" checkbox works correctly now for SCI01/SCI1 games.

SCUMM:

• Fixed palette issues leading to incorrect colors in MM NES intro and dark rooms.
• Fixed the rendering of the flashlight in MM NES to match the original version.
• Replaced the existing NES palette to a more accurate NTSC palette based on Mesen.
• Added a new GUI option to switch to an alternative NES palette based on the NES Classic.
• Improved colors in Apple //gs Maniac Mansion.
• Fixed crash when entering garage in Apple //gs Maniac Mansion.
• Added support from Classic Full Throttle from Remastered release.

Supernova:

• Improved English translation.

Sky:

• Fixed syncing of music volume between native settings panel and ScummVM configuration.

Sword1:

• Added support for localized menus in Novy Disk Russian Trilogy release.
• Added support for Spanish playable Demo available from our website.

Sword2:

• Added support for Spanish playable Demo available from our website.

Titanic:

• Fixed Barbot crash after asking what else he needs.

Wintermute:

• Added subsystem for tracking achievements, implemented for 10+ games.

Xeen:

• Add missing sprite drawer for enemies hit by Energy Blast.
• Fixed freeze due to bad mob data at the top of Witches Tower.
• Fix crash loading some savegames directly from the launcher.
• Fix curing the well in Nightshadow.
• Fix loading of wall items from savegames.
• Fix U/D keys not working on Quests dialog
• Fix incorrect mirror destination for Dragon Tower
• Fix crash reading book in Great Pyramid safe
• Prevent attributes from going negative
• Fix border faces animation during Clairvoyance

ZVision:

• Fixed regression in the safe puzzle in Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands.
• Fixed getting perfect score in Zork: Grand Inquisitor.

Android port:

• Added support for immersive fullscreen mode.
• Improved keyboard and mouse input.

iOS port:

• Fixed unsupported graphic mode for some games (such as SCI games with high quality video scaling enabled).
• Removed Quit button to follow the iOS design guidelines.
• Removed virtual keyboard input assistant bar. In particular this means that we no longer see a bar at the bottom of the screen when using an external keyboard.
• Added save of current game state if possible when switching to a different task and restore game state when returning to the ScummVM task.

Linux port:

• Added option to use the system file browser instead of the ScummVM file browser.

MacOS X port:

• Fixed blurry on Retina screens. Unfortunately this required dropping support for the dark theme for window decorations.
• Fixed Taskbar icon display when running a game (this was broken since ScummVM 1.9.0).

RISC OS port:

• Added a VFP optimized build for newer hardware.

Windows port:

• Added support for using additional OneCore voices for text to speech.
• Active support for Windows Vista and lower is now discontinued. While we still provide builds for those systems in the foreseeable future, some newer features might be missing.