How to play SCUMMVM games on the Miyoo Mini Tutorial | Monkey Island | Game list fix | REUPLOAD

hello everyone i'm reuploading this video due to a mistake in the miu gamelist.xml file instructions in the original upload this has been corrected and the process should now work correctly as expected note that you'll need to enable file extensions in windows explorer to see and edit the file types properly finally i've included a link in the description to a template xml file if you don't want to build the whole thing yourself thanks for your patience now onto the video [Music] hello and welcome back to retro breeze today we're looking at scum vm games and how to get them running on your miyu mini scumvm stands for script creation utility for manic mansion virtual machine uh let's just keep it simple it lets you play point-and-click adventure games like the classic ones from lucasarts sierra and more fun fact scumvm isn't really an emulator it's more like a game engine that uses the same scripting language as those older games for the most part anyway scum vm is easy to set up and play and there are hundreds of incredible games available before i go on i absolutely have to give a massive mega thank you to russ from retro gamecore who recently gave me a shout out on his channel i gained so many subscribers from that that it's actually crazy and so i thank everybody who subscribed as well i look forward to bringing you the utmost quality content i can thank you again russ and i really cannot express my appreciation for your support and for being an all-around awesome dude alright so this video is actually going to be divided into two parts in the first part you'll learn how to add games to your mini and find out which specific files you need for each game the second half will be about how to tidy up the game list for scum vm because by default is super ugly in the end it will look exactly like your other lists with one single entry per game including box r if you want it let's start by installing the scum vm system on your miu mini running onion os go into apps then the onion installer scroll down the consoles list until you find scum vm press a to activate it then start to return to the apps list now it's time to add some games and unfortunately it's not as simple as just dropping a zip file or something into a folder so i'm going to show you how to find the files you need for your game on the onion os wiki it says to put our games into an unzipped scumvm folder inside our sd card's roms folder we'll find another folder named scumvm inside this folder we'll add a new folder for each of your games i'm going to start with a folder for the secret of monkey island which i'll make here so exactly what files do we need to put into the folder to make the game run we'll find out by browsing over to wiki.scumvm.org this is the central hub for all of your scum vm needs a great page here is where to get the games which tells you where to buy and download the supported games holy moly beneath the steel skies freeware i had no idea anyway another great page is supported games it brings up a page with an index of all the supported games note that there's more than one page here anyway let's just skip to the good part by using the search bar to search for the secret of monkey island here i am on the web page for the game under the installation section you'll see the required data files under each bolt heading are names and types of files that you need an asterisk means that all of the files of that type are required as you can see many different versions of the game are supported however note that the cd-based versions such as that for a sega cd and pccd usually require extra steps to convert audio files this is a very common complaint with scum vm games so if you find your game doesn't have any audio be sure to check the wiki for any extra steps you may need to take to fix it here i have a floppy version of secret of monkey island in this folder we can see a bunch of lfl and lec files let's reference the wiki page for the game we can see here that we need all of the lfl and lec files as indicated by these asterisks all we need to do is just copy these files into the folder from monkey island that i made on my sd card once that's done we'll reboot the mini refresh our roms then enter a scumvm system this looks a bit different than you're probably used to on the mini rather than a list of games there's the folder inside that folder is uh yeah this is a list of all of those files we just added and it looks super ugly don't worry about it for now just choose any of these files and the game will start right up scum vm works a little differently than other systems on the mini it has its own interface which you can bring up with the start button here you can change various options such as audio balance and subtitle speed as well as potentially other game specific options too you can also save and or load states from here you cannot save states using the usual hotkeys on the mini so be sure to do it in this menu instead use the x button to go back and return to the game a great tip is that holding l1 makes the cursor move more slowly great for fine-tuning its position if you want to change the overall sensitivity of the cursor press function and select to bring up the menu then go to options in here you can fine tune your cursor to your liking if you do change anything press b to go back then go to overrides save core overrides will apply it to all of your games moving forward and save game overrides will save it just for the current game so make your choice alright let's install one more game the curse of monkey island as a recap on how to install the games on the mini first check the wiki under required data files it's telling me to make a game directory aka the folder with the resource folder inside and these three files as well note that for some games the wiki page may have further instructions such as renaming files this is why it's very important to check the wiki for each game especially if you have problems i have this game already installed on my pc actually here's the files on the hard drive on my mini sd card i'm going to go into roms scum vm then make a new folder for the game now as the wiki instructed i'll copy the resource folder and the other files with that done i refresh my roms and i should find the folder within the scanvm system running any of these comey files starts the game and this one looks absolutely beautiful on the miu mini each game may require different files and steps but that's the gist of playing scum vm games on the mio mini one more time check the wiki for the required files make a folder for the game in the roms scum vm folder then drop those files in alright that's the first half of the video out of the way now what about that game list nobody likes a dirty game list so let's fix this up we're going to use a very special feature of onion os called miugameless.xml by setting this file up the game list will ignore all folders and files except for the ones specifically mentioned in that file the first thing to do is to get our game directories ready open the folder that contains your scumvm games and go into one of the game folders right click and select new text file change the name of the text file to the title of the game and the file extension to dot scum vm agree to change the file type when you're prompted inside this file we just need one single line of text the game id otherwise known as the short name to find the short name for your games browse to scumvm.org forward slash compatibility you'll see a list of games with the short names in one of the columns hit control f and search for your game here's the secret of monkey island and i can see the short name is simply monkey i'll type monkey into my file and save it note that any extra spaces line breaks or anything else will break the file if you have trouble make sure your text editor isn't automatically adding a line breaker or something i had this issue and it took me ages to work that out we'll want to add these dot scum vm files for all of our games one by one curse of monkey allen's short name is comey beneath the steel sky is sky etc okay now we need to modify the scumvm console to use the miu gamelist.xml file on your sd card go into the emu folder then into scumvm make a backup of the config.json file by copying out the folder then open the original file on the sd card with notepad we're going to add a new line which i like to put just underneath image path because it's nice and tidy there make a new line and add the following including the quotation marks and a comma game list colon dot dot forward slash dot dot forward slash roms forward slash scum vm forward slash miugameless.xml this line tells onionos to look for a miu file inside the roms scumvm folder at the bottom of the file you'll see ext list add scumvm between the quotation marks and then save the file by the way if you power on your mini and the scumvm console is suddenly missing it's because you messed up this file that's why we took a backup be sure to check the commas every line except the bottom one should have one at the end all right so now we need to build miugameless.xml return to the roms forward slash scumvm folder and create a new text file change the name of the text file to miugamelist and the extension to xml agree to change the file type when prompted this xml file is more or less a way of presenting the game list instead of the os doing automatically we're doing it ourselves using this file this isn't a coding lesson so just follow along as best as you can by the way there is a way to do this automatically using scraper but i'm not going to go over it in this video because i think it's actually more difficult than the manual method in my opinion if you do happen to have just a huge collection of scum vm games and you really want to do this automatically let me know in the comments below it's pretty quick to do manually though and you'll learn something too so let's just get to it first add this top line to the xml file xml version equals 1.0 exactly how i've written it here this line is just telling the file what type of xml file it is we don't really care then we're going to open and close our game list tags these two tags define a list called gamelist the first tag opens it and the second one with the forward slash defines the end of the list within the game list tags will define a new game like this with game and forward slash game and now inside these tags we're going to add three properties to the game path which is the path to the game itself name which is the name that's going to be displayed in the games list and image the image or box art for the game let's fill this out for a secret of monkey island it looks like this open with game set the path to dot forward slash the secret of monkey island forward slash the secret of monkey island.com vm closed path name the secret of monkey island closed name image dot forward slash images forward slash the secret of monkey island.png close image close game the file considers paths in its own folder the first period is representative of the base folder so dot forward slash the secret of monkey island refers to this folder here then forward slash the secret of monkeyellen.scumvm refers to the scumvm file inside that folder that we made earlier we want to simply point to the images folder with dot forward slash images then the png file for that game inside save the file then reboot your mini it should look like this now doesn't that look so much better than before now you might notice that the curse of monkey island is now missing by using the miyu gamelist file you need to be aware that your games will no longer automatically appear in the game list even if you refresh the roms instead you'll need to edit the miugameless.xml and add a new game entry every time you want to add a new game right now mine looks like this with six games remember it's just one game list with several games to find inside and here's the results on the miyu mini once you get it all set up it looks absolutely amazing and completely worth it in my opinion even though it is a little bit of work there's no better way to format the game list for scum vm you can stick to the raw folders and files if you want but that's up to you and that about wraps this video up we've covered quite a lot here but at the end of it i hope you have a beautifully formatted game list and plenty of amazing scum vm games to play i recommend of course the secret of monkey island in fact that entire series is one of the funniest games ever made and beneath the steel sky which is apparently free now there's also broken sword really the list goes on and on and on so anyway that's it for this video thank you very much for watching thanks for your patience on this video i haven't uploaded for a while but hopefully i'll get back on a more consistent upload schedule now thanks very much for watching retro breeze and i will see you next time

Channel: RetroBreeze

Views: 16,243

Keywords: miyoo mini, miyoo, miyoomini, retro handhelds, retro handheld, retro gaming, retro games, scummvm, scumm vm

Id: pTriq0vyYwM

Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 04 2022