{"slug": "scummvm", "name": "ScummVM", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 8, "warners": 0, "score": 5.993, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2026-01-01", "latest": "2026-10-09", "why": "Scummvm supports Eye of the Beholder and I used it to take screenshots to compare against my own work.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Scummvm supports Eye of the Beholder and I used it to take screenshots to compare against my own work.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "scummvm.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.scummvm.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["ScummVM"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800434464, "item_id": 50027154, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027154", "by": "shellwizard", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it.", "excerpt": "The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it. You can track its current status here: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Director/Games?hl=es-ES", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware"}, {"id": 785769522, "item_id": 49110595, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110595", "by": "b3lvedere", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can play it on almost anything by now", "excerpt": "Can't say i disliked Return to Monkey Island much. I liked the art style and the characters. The story wasn't amazing. MI1 will always be the top for me i guess, but i still remember almost every scene after all these years, so it's not really fun to play again and again. You can play it on almost anything by now [1] [1]: https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"}, {"id": 783303266, "item_id": 48956454, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956454", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SCummvm itself supports tons of graphical and text adventures", "excerpt": "For games Mednafen and PCSXR do wonders; and SCummvm itself supports tons of graphical and text adventures (even modern ones such as Technobabylon) and tons of source ports (and recompilations such as Super Mario 64) will run fine with just the bundled GL 2.1 adapter. Instead of Mint I'd pick something like Alpine Linux with LXQT: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/LXQt Also, adding ZRAM will fly on that machine. Also", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}, {"id": 773791888, "item_id": 48361993, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361993", "by": "p0w3n3d", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Numerous games avaiable on GOG are playable via ScummVM.", "excerpt": "Numerous games avaiable on GOG are playable via ScummVM. Just install it on Mac and download the installer. This includes my beloved Monkey Island series including 1,2,3 and you might try 4 (status Bugged on https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/) <ADVERTISEMENT> and other great titles like Gobliiins, Police Quest, King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Indiana Jones, Sam & Max hit the road, The Day of The Tentacle and ma", "context": "", "use_case": "running classic adventure games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"}, {"id": 770534448, "item_id": 48158403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158403", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ScummVM still makes releases so you can totally play Blade Runner in a PSP", "excerpt": "I used to have that; it was a better GBA than a GBA itself, and I could even play Nethack on the go. WIth a custom CFW you OFC could play Nethack at 50MHZ (With a MIPS CPU even 25MHZ would suffice), where I was more hooked than with Castlevanias... Oh, and Scummvm, too with Broken Sword, Future Wars and the like. And ScummVM still makes releases so you can totally play Blade Runner in a PSP (and far more).", "context": "", "use_case": "playing adventure games on PSP", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Bought a \"Junk\" PSP from Japan: Here's How It Went"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "anthk", "context": "HP Mini netbook user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956423", "date": "2026-07-18"}, {"by": "noufalibrahim", "context": "recreating an old game for education", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452358", "date": "2026-01-01"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["running classic adventure games", "game engine", "playing adventure games on psp", "running old games for reference"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907063", "title": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252", "title": "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020901", "title": "Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107246", "title": "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895763", "title": "A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356603", "title": "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800434464, "item_id": 50027154, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027154", "by": "shellwizard", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it.", "excerpt": "The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it. You can track its current status here: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Director/Games?hl=es-ES", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware"}, {"id": 785769522, "item_id": 49110595, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110595", "by": "b3lvedere", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can play it on almost anything by now", "excerpt": "Can't say i disliked Return to Monkey Island much. I liked the art style and the characters. The story wasn't amazing. MI1 will always be the top for me i guess, but i still remember almost every scene after all these years, so it's not really fun to play again and again. You can play it on almost anything by now [1] [1]: https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"}, {"id": 783372688, "item_id": 48960793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960793", "by": "burnhamup", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "slapping it inside the SCUMMVM", "excerpt": "I'm curious too. The original developers were Humongous Games (Putt-Putt & Freddi Fish) whose other titles used the SCUMM engine. My guess would be Backyard Baseball was as well. I dug up this article that seems to go through the process but not in great technical detail: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/backyard-baseball-97-interview-save-state/ What I don't understand is why just grabbing the original game file", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game"}, {"id": 783303266, "item_id": 48956454, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956454", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SCummvm itself supports tons of graphical and text adventures", "excerpt": "For games Mednafen and PCSXR do wonders; and SCummvm itself supports tons of graphical and text adventures (even modern ones such as Technobabylon) and tons of source ports (and recompilations such as Super Mario 64) will run fine with just the bundled GL 2.1 adapter. Instead of Mint I'd pick something like Alpine Linux with LXQT: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/LXQt Also, adding ZRAM will fly on that machine. Also", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}, {"id": 783302778, "item_id": 48956423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956423", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Oh, and Scummvm with games from Blade Runner to Ultima I-IV", "excerpt": "HP mini there, with ZRAM it's really fast. I use Flubox+UXTerm+a bunch of CLI/TUI tools among mpv, nsxiv and mupdf. The OS I use it's hyperbola GNU/Linux, A bit outdated but most modern stuff it's compiled from source. For gaming I have mednafen, frotz, pcsxr, Flare RPG (git), GearHead 1 and 2 and a few more. Oh, and Scummvm with games from Blade Runner to Ultima I-IV, Technobabylon, Virtuaverse, The Longest Journey,", "context": "HP Mini netbook user", "use_case": "running classic adventure games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}, {"id": 773791888, "item_id": 48361993, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361993", "by": "p0w3n3d", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Numerous games avaiable on GOG are playable via ScummVM.", "excerpt": "Numerous games avaiable on GOG are playable via ScummVM. Just install it on Mac and download the installer. This includes my beloved Monkey Island series including 1,2,3 and you might try 4 (status Bugged on https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/) <ADVERTISEMENT> and other great titles like Gobliiins, Police Quest, King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Indiana Jones, Sam & Max hit the road, The Day of The Tentacle and ma", "context": "", "use_case": "running classic adventure games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"}, {"id": 773319745, "item_id": 48332484, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332484", "by": "happy-ferret", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "GLAND ships with its own VM but also has an option for setting a ScummVM path", "excerpt": "My first post here. Somebody on Discord reminded me of Hacker News, which I've been reading plenty times before but never felt I had a project to show off. GLAND (named in the tradition of trusty LucasArts tools such as CYST, BYLE, FLEM, MMUCAS and the shortlived SMEGMA) is an all-in-one multiplatform (macOS, GNU/Linux, Windows. Potentially, it could be made to run on BeOS and Amiga OS 4 too) IDE for not only creatin", "context": "", "use_case": "game engine", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 770534448, "item_id": 48158403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158403", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ScummVM still makes releases so you can totally play Blade Runner in a PSP", "excerpt": "I used to have that; it was a better GBA than a GBA itself, and I could even play Nethack on the go. WIth a custom CFW you OFC could play Nethack at 50MHZ (With a MIPS CPU even 25MHZ would suffice), where I was more hooked than with Castlevanias... Oh, and Scummvm, too with Broken Sword, Future Wars and the like. And ScummVM still makes releases so you can totally play Blade Runner in a PSP (and far more).", "context": "", "use_case": "playing adventure games on PSP", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Bought a \"Junk\" PSP from Japan: Here's How It Went"}, {"id": 749554912, "item_id": 46847182, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847182", "by": "brynet", "date": "2026-02-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it works great for a number of free/commercial games", "excerpt": "ScummVM added support for AGS a few releases back, it works great for a number of free/commercial games. https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS/Games", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"}, {"id": 749554657, "item_id": 46847166, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847166", "by": "brynet", "date": "2026-02-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SummVM has integrated support for AGS a few releases back", "excerpt": "Yes they still do, and fun fact, SummVM has integrated support for AGS a few releases back, so one of my favourite titles from Wadjet Eye Games, Unavowed, works great on a ton of different OSes/platforms. https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS/Games I've played it on OpenBSD before! https://pobsd.chocolatines.org/2953591878", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"}, {"id": 743237728, "item_id": 46452358, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452358", "by": "noufalibrahim", "date": "2026-01-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scummvm supports Eye of the Beholder and I used it to take screenshots to compare against my own work.", "excerpt": "Yeah. I recently stumbled across this in an interesting way. Went down a rabbit hole. I was recreating an old game for my education[1]. Scummvm supports Eye of the Beholder and I used it to take screenshots to compare against my own work. I was doing the intro scenes and noticed that the title screens are 320x200. My monitor is 1920x1200 and so the ratios are the same. It displays properly when I full screen my game ", "context": "recreating an old game for education", "use_case": "running old games for reference", "switched_from": "", "story": "When square pixels aren't square"}]}