HOWTO: Get Grim Fandango Working with Wine

[madscientist]

Found my son watching a youtube video of Grim Fandango yesterday and surprised him by plunging into my archives and bringing out the original CDs: loved that game.

After struggling with this to get it running for a while yesterday with Wine, I found ResidualVM: http://residualvm.org/

This is a native, open source rewrite of the underlying game engine for Grim Fandango that runs on Linux, Windows (newer versions), and Mac in both 32bit and 64bit. You just copy the data files (don't need any .exe's etc.) from the CD's to your system, then run the ResidualVM program instead of the Windows programs.

I played well into Year 2 and it worked perfectly for me: all music, dialog, sound effects, video (with 3d enabled), save/restore. Not one single glitch, restart, or futzing around. It will manage the 1.01 patch, too, just drop it into the same directory as your data files.

[marbertone]

Hello,
I apologise if the question has already been answered.
I did installation then I patched it.
Nevertheless I try to run and it says "no disc inserted".
What should I do?
Thanks,
MA

[madscientist]

Don't bother with the patch. Just use residualvm as in my post directly above yours. It doesn't use any of the EXE from GF, only the data files, so no bugs in the EXE need to be patched. I played halfway through Year 3 without a hitch, before I got sidetracked. Need to get back to that!!

[marbertone]

Thank you very much, madscientist!
Works like a charm!

[marbertone]

Just another question, please.
Fullscreen doesn't work at all.
Were you able to make it work?
Thanks.

[marbertone]

I have solved it!

You must edit .residualvmrc and go to [Grim Fandango] section, in which you have to put "fullscreen=true" (default is "false").

Thank you guys for having let me discovered Residualvm.

MA