Where to download SoMI.
I've recently played and completed the first ToMI game, and is also the first Monkey Island game i've ever played, and i must say, I TOTALY LOVED IT!! I can see y it was so popular in the 90's. I can't hold my excitment for the next episode, so does anyone know a good place to download the first Monkey island game? I need so much Threepwood action that it hurts my spleen!!!!
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You can buy it from Direct2Drive or with Steam.
If you have an Xbox 360, you can also purchase it from the Marketplace, and if you have an iPhone, it's also available on the app store.
Good to see ToMI did it's job.
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/
Seriously, it's great to see that new fans are being drawn to the epitome of piratey goodness!
MI3 is excellent! So is 2.
GO BUY IT NOW!!!
*ahem*
Wait for LucasArts to re-release the classic version.
You can switch between classic and new in the Special edition so I don't know what you are complaining about.
EDIT: After looking at your profile I realise that you are a member of the MI Speech project which I presume means that you hate SE as it beat you to recording voices and recorded them much more profesionally.
Probably he hates it because there's no option to have the voices in classic version... Actually, I hate that too...
Your constant, obnoxious, pushy and loudmouthed hate towards SMI:SE is getting annoying. You don't like it. We get it. Doesn't mean others don't either. In fact I think you're in the minority. Get over it. No one's going to join your crusade.
hahah, I looked at the site, there is only one Joe or Joseph of any kind:
Joe Davison – Project Founder & Monkey Island 2 POC compiler.
SUCKS TO BE YOU!! Haha, The whole project will be down the toilet if MI:SE's success leads to MI2:SE before they can finish it. Seeing as it has taken them a whole year to get it to 40%, it will likely happen that way. I bet a lot of the crew and many of the cast will drop out when they see that there really isn't any purpose to it and then he won't ever be able to finish it!
This is why he is mad:
http://speechproject.mixnmojo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=115
Don't listen to TheJoe, he is just pissed he missed out on his chance at internet fame and is grasping at straws to have his big project mean something. If he would have taken it like a man and support LA, then he would probably have maintained some credibility going into another project or continuing that one still, but he is sort of shooting himself in the foot by going on this, as MusicallyInspired put it, crusade.
Seriously, MI:SE is a great product, and should be bought by any fans, I honestly believe that if LucasArts does make another they will give us the ability to have the voices in classic mode, one way or another. So support support support!!
I still hope the Speech Project continues - I like the Special Edition but was a little disappointed that you couldn't play the old version with voices.
I'd rather play the new version with good voices than the old version with horrendously awful voices.
I thought they were terrible, especially the one for Herman Toothrot.
just like many other old games from the amiga/C64/Dos era.
It's not even remotely legal, especially since Lucasarts is likely planning on selling it in some form very soon, so please don't tell people that it's legal.
To the OP, I recommend getting the special edition version. There are some issues I had with the game when I played it (the new Guybrush and Elaine avatars are just horrible, whereas most of the new backgrounds are good and the new Ghost LeChuck is actually pretty awesome), and there were some quality issues that should not have made it through, such as the placement of the text going way off from where it's supposed to be and the hotspots for text being atrocious. But overall its a good chance to play the classic without being put off by dated graphics, so I recommend trying it to the OP, especially since you can switch between SE and classic seamlessly at the touch of a button so you quickly switch over to see what people originally experienced back in the day every now and again.
However, if you do managed to get a copy of the game, I do recommend using ScummVM for running it, as these games just won't run on most modern machines at all, but with ScummVM not only can you run it but it will not have any problems at all (on mine anyway)!
That said, anyone wanting to run LucasArts' (and Humongous Entertainment's, amongst others) old adventure games pratically requires a copy of ScummVM.
making the host of the games indeed 100% illegal.
MY BAD!!!
to download old Lucasarts games:
just go to the direct download site: HERE
Yeah, I was certain that I had read somewhere that the Broken Sword games had been released as freeware, but after checking around and not finding anything official to support this I reckon I must just have assumed this somewhere after seeing it up for download. Damn, my memory must be going with age, thanks for the correction.
As shown above, I made the exact same mistake while trying to correct you for yours.
Since Monkey Island 2 is missing from all the games, and the fact they showed a redone version of Guybrush from MI2 in several interviews about SoMI;SE, I truly believe that LA is gearing up for a MI2;SE soom time soon... even if they sort of deny it...
...This is pretty standard from Monkey Island fans that I've met...
If it doesn't meet up to the standard of their memories of the old games, it sucks.
Not entirely true... While I imagined the SE to be different (would have loved to see it in CoMI style, sprites and flow), I love the release... and I'm sure many original fans my age do.
the only thing wrong with it is that you can't have the option for the voices in the classic mode (like most users state)... but I imagine this could be done with a patch or something.
to me that would completely go against the whole idea of classic mode - ie the original version in it's original form.
There really isn't a reason for there to be a voices on/off switch that is independent of which graphical mode it is in. Some people might want new graphics without voices some people might want old graphics with voices, no reason to deny any of those when it is possible not to.
I was referring more to some of the posts directed towards Joe, rather than his feelings for the special edition... although I don't agree with his opinion, I think he has a right to express it like everyone else does.
But back on topic, I would really like to be able to play the classic version of Secret with the "official" voices - I can't really imagine Guybrush with any voice but Dom's (or maybe Majus's
I thought it was odd they didn't have that option in the special edition, when for the re-release of Loom and the Dig, both games had voices as standard (although I understand the voices dated from the previous releases of the game?).
am i the only one that noticed that the "classic mode" in the special edition is in fact not the original version? it's the cd-version, without cd-audio tracks i guess...the graphics have more colors than the original ega version and are slightly improved and the verb interface and inventory have been replaced with the ones from mi2.
So you're complaining that they included the best version of the original rather than a crap EGA version?
The original version would be CGA/EGA with a not very appealing inventory interface....
Just the VGA version would still have the simple interface...
So the CD-VGA-Version is the best "classic" SoMI version to go with foor LA
That's really dumb since he should be a BIG monkey island fan then most of us here if he's helping to voice dub the the first and/or second MI games. Even if I was working on the project I would be ecstatic that a special edition with voice work is coming out.
Plus even if the team did finish it and it came out before the Speical edition did. I wouldn't care who they are at all. Just like I don't care who the production assistant is in any game I play.
I hope that someone will come up with a patch that allows this, and that it will come as standard in MI2:SE (provided there is one).
I think they probably wouldn't release Maniac Mansion separately any more - they'd probably want you to get Day of the Tentacle, because it includes Maniac Mansion as a game within the game.
the only real abandonware would be if the original copyright holder is no longer existing and no one inherited the copyright. i don't know what would be legal with that though.
complaining? no...i just wanted to share some useless information with the kids of today, who don't know a world before vga.
I don't see the need for the Speech Project anymore, actually. Their main purpose was to record the dialogue. Even if in the SE you can't play the voices over the classic version, all the new recorded dialogue is already done and exists in the game's files. Why continue recording new dialogue when all the material exists there done by professional actors? All the speech project should focus on doing is ripping those professionally done sound files and applying it to the classic game, not new recordings, in my opinion.
Hehehe.... OWNED!!!!