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    Phokal 2:06 pm on July 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Guide to installing Grim Fandango 

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    Grim Fandango is one of the few games that simply has trouble on new machines.  One of the first official patches helped fix puzzles that ran to quickly on anything above a 400mhz processor.  I waited for the Lucasarts Steam announcement, but was left still needing to research this dilemma.

    Upon inserting the disc you are greeted to an autoplay that *may* reject your harddisc space due to inaccurate readings, and the Setup.exe will not run under any variant of 64bit Windows.  I am testing under Windows 7 RC, so this should work under Windows XP, Vista or 7.

    1. Instead, place disc A in the drive, then download and run this Custom installer available here: http://quick.mixnmojo.com/grim-fandango-setup
    2. I installed to the default Program Files(x86)\
    3. When prompted, insert disc B.
    4. Included in this custom installer is a Custom Launcher (available separately here; NOT NEEDED for this install): http://quick.mixnmojo.com/grim-fandango-launcher
    5. After installed, go to the Options of the Launcher and make sure there is a green check next to Run from Harddrive.

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      Malus 8:24 am on September 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      ok So im one of the few who love this game, but the patch did help with windows 7 build 7600 64bit, i tested before and after

      have fun

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      Jeremy 3:26 am on October 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hey, can anyone send me the installer? the site is down!

      minkshaman@gmail.com

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      Ian 12:27 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Hey, had a similar hankering for Grim Fandango and downloaded your installed (running Windows 7 as well) but am having some troubles with sound. It’ll work just fine or a few minutes, and then something will set it off and it’ll either endlessly repeat 1 second of sound like a bad remix or go mute all together. Have you had this problem?

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        Mark B 6:09 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I have the same problem with sound… after a minute or so it goes mute or stutters. I’m running it on Windows 7 Home Premium on a PC with a bog-standard on-board High Definition Audio Device. I’ve tried running it in compatibility mode and as an admin but no joy.

        I might try running it under a VMware XP virtual machine, but then I might not bother, because no matter how much I’d love to play this game again, whilst testing it out I just recalled why I never got very far with it before… the controls are bloomin’ awful.

        I always wished they had just made it a point and click. To be honest, I’d love it if they remade it as a proper 3D third-person version that works the same way as Tim Schafer’s other classic, Psychonauts. But there’s probably about as much chance of that happening as there being a Psychonauts II.

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      Mark B 6:23 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Okay, I found out that if you set compatibility mode to Windows 98/Me it works fine… I’ve also just discovered my wired Xbox 360 controller works with the game, and makes it a lot easier to control :)

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      Brown 2:22 pm on March 15, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Will be trying this out as soon as I discover the hiding place of my GF disks from 6 years ago! Funny how you have to mess around with the old school games to get them to run. You should see what you have to do to the thief games!

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    Phokal 12:04 pm on July 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Grim Fandango, lucasarts, , point and click   

    Lucasarts Adventure games coming to Steam 

    My next post was going to be how I got my old copy of Grim Fandango running on Windows 7.  I may, however, just wait for Steam to solve this problem for me.

    Some old Lucasarts adventure games are coming to Steam; I’m hoping Grim is amongst them.

    Thanks, Kotaku.

     
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    Phokal 5:39 pm on July 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: game club, Grim Fandango   

    Game Club: Idea – Who wants to play Grim Fandango? 

    Lately, I’ve been thinking of playing Grim Fandango. I’ve also thought about turning this into a more social experience: a game club (like a book club).

    The game would be Grim Fandango, and the subject would be “Why did adventure gaming die?”

    Some may say adventure gaming isn’t dead. Syberia, Indigo Prophecy, Telltale’s Sam and Max revival are all critically well received. They are, however, never compared directly to The Longest Journey or Grim Fandango; the last great classic adventure games.

    Whether adventure games died due to archaic mechanics, that other genres incorporated adventure mechanics into themselves, or the average gamer’s attention span has simply shrunk, Grim Fandango should help in this examination (and be fun to play).

    I’m thinking play could be 1-2 hrs a week with a weekly posting here on the blog for discussion. Throw in meeting in person roughly once a month, and you have a book club.

     

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