Photosensitivity Warning. Watch the alternative encode below and adjust to a slower speed if need be:
Riven: The Sequel to Myst also known as Riven (1997) these days is an expansion of the first title.
A title so big it came in multiple CDs 'til its DVD release.
Impossible Ending is achieved where you don't have Catherine's journal and yet you were somehow able to open the hatch on the telescope.
The game provides an ending for those who cheat, load a saved game with the combo, or just guess the telescope combo.
Atrus doesn't come and you just fall into the fissure.
The stuff
- ScummVM - v2.8.0 (jammy)
- Honestly, I should've made this on 23.10 just so I can go (mystic)
- libTAS v1.4.5
- Riven: The Sequel to MYST
- All languages will sync (Validated; English, Japanese & Italian).
- The RedOrb release should also sync as a note, but I have not validated that.
- The same apology note to the Judge and the Publisher/Encoder.
To get the important part out of the way, how do we go about dumping this?
Dumping from frame 0 will result in an audio only encode.
Dumping with a custom configuration will result in a garbled video feed.
Dumping, after starting the movie (so from frame 1) will dump the TAS correctly.
As a note, due to the special way ScummVM has to be encoded with Myst & Riven the first frame is missing.
Add a blank frame in post if you want it to be accurate.
video.trim(0,36) + \
video.trim(37,150).AssumeFPS(10, true).ResampleAudio(44100).ChangeFPS(60) + \
video.trim(151,13880+300).fadeout(60)
Oh yeah, the ending song goes for longer, no idea how long so uh... 👍
Setting up ScummVM
Everything is left on default settings, except for one bit. Keymap.
Two extra inputs have been bounded, this is to copy the digital release where diagonal clicks are set to Numpad 7 & 9.
For the sake of those that have a 10keyless I set it to standard 7 & 9.
ScummVM version choice
Accuracy go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Code Sequences
For the "Telescope Code" there's no speed here, you click and hit escape to skip repeatable.
Since
some idiot managed to have the input sequence I just ripped it right out and plastered it into this newer one.
Special Thanks
- Gelly - Without their assistance in dealing with the RNG the fastest codes wouldn't have been found which weren't used, but I still needed a code.
- Jaffra - For their World Record run which helped with any confusion I had.
- Exo - For pointing out the true explanation of what "impossible ending" actually is.
- Spikestuff - Their input was easy to be stolen and actually is the reason why the rerecord count is like that.
- The Myst Community for answering any of my dumb questions that I had during the making of this TAS.
