Backgrounds Fix Patch

[LordTrilobite]

I posted this on http://www.lucasforums.com some time ago, and thought it might be worth it to post it here aswell.
I'm working on a patch for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition that fixes all the problems in the backgrounds. In the official game there are lots of graphic bugs, ugly alpha channels and pixels that remained from the classic version that are still visible through the new backgrounds. So this mod changes these small faults that may be annoying during play, it changes nothing in terms of graphical style.
Note that this mod is not finished yet. Though this may take some time to finish.

Backgrounds Fix Patch Version 5 (unfinished)

Download Mirror on Mediafire:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dfom2ffk2zn/MISEBackgroundfix5.rar

List of fixed content:

- 30_store_______Melee Island Store_________________alpha fixes
- 41_kitchen_____Scummbar Kitchen_________________moving plank fix and alpha fixes
- 44_masters-h___Swordmaster's House Closeup________retouched artefact pixels
- 49_road________Melee Island Road_________________retouched artefact pixels
- 53_foyer_______Governers Mansion Interior__________alpha fix
- 57_bridge______Forest Bridge______________________retouched artefact pixels, alpha fixes and other minor retouches
- 59_stans_______Stan's Store Sign__________________sign font fix
- 64_treasure-____Forest Treasure Site_______________retouched artefact pixels, alpha fixes and other numerous fixes
- 70_hellcliff______Monkey Island Underground Cliff______minor retouch
- 73_church______Melee Island Church________________alpha fixes and other retouches
- 100_forest-1____Melee Island Forest________________retouched artefact pixels and alpha fixes
- 102_forest-2____Melee Island Forest________________retouched artefact pixels and alpha fixes
- 105_forest-6____Melee Island Forest________________retouched artefact pixels and alpha fixes


Screenshots:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/olofmoleman/Monkey%20Island/screenshotstore.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/olofmoleman/Monkey%20Island/screenshotforest.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/olofmoleman/forestfixanim.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/olofmoleman/Monkey%20Island/fishanim.gif

Updated April 4 2010


For those interested, I also made a small mod that re-adds the smile on the Scummbar sign in the high res version.

Scummbar Smile Mod
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ekwnhyyljbg/ScummbarSmile.rar

Screenshot, Classic, SE old and SE with smile mod:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/olofmoleman/Monkey%20Island/SCUMMsmile.jpg

[LordTrilobite]

Bump, I updated the patch with fixes for some more backgrounds.

[PurSpyk!!]

Hi, thanks for making these updates, hopefully they might get added to a future patch.

[cipher86]

Yeah I never caught onto the whole "Red Herring" thing. First time playing the game, and maybe if it had looked like a loose plank, I would have thought to step on it instead of getting frustrated that no item would get rid of that damn seagull, and I wouldn't have resorted to the hint system.

Installing this now in hopes that it'll prevent future use of the hint system.

[LordTrilobite]

Rejoice!

I have uploaded a new version of the backgrounds fix.

New additions include:
- Melee Island road
- Melee Island Troll Bridge
- Swordmaster's house closeup
- Stan's Store Sign fix made by Khar
- Other improvements on already modified locations such as the kitchen of the Scummbar

Check the first post for the download mirror.

[True_MD_Geist]

I´ve installed your fanpatch and it crashed up my complete GUI.
I guess it dont works with german subtitles.

[LordTrilobite]

It doesn't touch the GUI so I fail to see how it can do that. It only replaces certain backgrounds with fixed ones. And I've never had any crashes with or without it.

[True_MD_Geist]

When I install it like descripted I have no more items or Hotspots.

When I delete the Folder with your new backgrounds it´s working again.

Did you tried it with subtitles in different languages?

greetz

[LordTrilobite]

When I install it like descripted I have no more items or Hotspots.

When I delete the Folder with your new backgrounds it´s working again.

Did you tried it with subtitles in different languages?

greetz
No I haven't I'll check it out soon to see if it crashes for me too in different lanuages. If it does I'll probably add it to the discription.

You could try to change to the English version and see if it works then.