The Secret of Monkey Island - Versions Comparison (HD) 

@Streets! I used to work with Deluxe Paint since 10 yrs a**hole. Just read about it.

@Streets! The official story as remembered by Ron Gilbert himself is this : one day Tim Schaffer asked "How do we call this Guybrush?" and Steve Purcell "Why not Guybrush?"

This is correct. on the Amiga, filename extensions are not limited to 3 characters, and when brushes are saved they default to having a .brush extension. The reason it was guy.brush is because originally you were going to be able to play as a male or a female - so a guy or a gal. So the original filename for guybrush was guy.brush and this is covered in detail in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xgqEneDNQto.html

@Streets! on the Amiga, you're not limited to 3 letters for extensions, so no, it's not bullshit. The Amiga versions of Deluxe Paint default to a .brush extension when you save a brush. You just showed everyone that you never used the Amiga version and made a foolish claim my friend. I can prove this in a video if you need proof my friend.

@@heidirichter The Amiga is not a PC! PC DOS suffered of a 3-character limitation. Only the Amiga was a computer with more than that. Please turn on Amiga or emulator and try Deluxe Paint. Or try renaming the file .

Me too, I remember playing this on the Amiga in the art room after school with a mate. Fond memories.

Amiga OCS version as Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000 can all play it. Amiga 500 was just a computer model like XT, AT, 286 are etc.

I still play Amiga games often, both on real hardware and emulation. Got "Amiga longplays" on my channel.

@@iamironclaw And an awesome channel it is! Any chance of an amiga longplay on "The Clue!"?

@@HaquinusDeGothia It's on my to-do list. And as you just asked about it, I'll move it closer, so will probably do it next month.

FM Towns best

I totally agree with your words. 👍

Yes. Some soundtracks were missings, but the graphics were superb. Almost like the VGA version.

I had a similar experience in the summer of 2010, where I played this on xbox360 after a digital download. One of the warmest games with a strange charm, it was summer so that may have added to it.

Me too. I played during the summer and spent months trying to complete it. It really felt like an epic adventure!

I believe when Lechucks ship is sailing away it does some pallete trickery

I couldn't believe they could truly capture so much artistry with 16 colors. I sat and counted.on a freeze frame, and sure enough they did. Was such a stunning game.

In the CGA version as well. But there, the sun is cyan. And there is no moon in the CGA/EGA versions.

also the fm towns version in the scumm bar the pirate swinging on the lamp is removed

Good call, I remember that sunset so that's how I know I played the EGA version back in the day.

Believe or not i am 12 and i actually played this game and it’s sequel!

@@Boykissing_foxman I think it is not about having played this game. It is about having played the game a lot. Seen it a lot. Thinking to know exactly how it looks and sounds and then see the game at a friends house and it totally looks and sounds different. It is the same game, but it feels like a different universe somehow. There was no youtube with comparison videos back then.

@@krux02 Sitting down in the evening, dark outside, crickets, lovely and warm, tinny old desktop speakers and you are playing monkey island / day of the tentacle / MOST of the lucasarts library for the 100th time.....

Im 14 and this game is my childhood

Yeah. 256 colors was a huge leap at the time, even in comparison to the consoles at least until the SNES came out.

I played the Amiga, EGA and VGA versions back then. It was a golden time.

Yes, got better and better - to a certain point. I think the lowres graphics is much more artistic than the special edition. Also allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. Much more powerful I think.

@@twisterwiper I still fire it up from time to time, on my Amiga's, 486/VGA or my 286 with EGA monitor.

What "gameplay"? It's a point & click adventure. It basically has no gameplay.

@@uhu4677 solving puzzles is gameplay

I needed quite some time to digest the midi from my pc back then, compared to the mod (like midi but if i recall you could change the samples from the default per occasion) that my Amiga used.. Different class (especially in other games)

M. Seepgood was quite a shock as well.

I wonder if it is possible to replace Guybrush in the Special Edition? I suppose if it was we'd have had a fan made replacement made years ago.

@@HerecomestheCalavera you can change to the original look at the push of a button any time in the game.

As you wish, sir 😊

Always thought it was a shame we had no AGA version though.

It is, but the disketteswapping is pretty awful and gets worse in Monkey island 2.

@@soylentgreenb Just install it to HD :)

@@soylentgreenb Best part was when you were pretty far into the game, and one disket wouldn't work

@@shredd5705 Yep, that's the real curse of monkey island.

Looks pretty rough on the Amiga!

@@Viperspider1 it was rather slow

Yeah, unlike the second special edition the game looks pretty much worse than in the original but...man, having voices balances things up

I like it.

@@lillith3159 what sucked was that you lost the voices when you switched to classic mode...

@ yeah thats true. The second part made it pretty good anyway. The designs were pretty neet and you could still hear the voices in the classic mode

FYI, there's a mod for the Special Edition to make Guybrush's hairstyle consistent with the second game's Special Edition.

I think the first time I saw a PC was as a kid in the house of a friend of mine. They were playing Monkey Island 2 on DOS.

I agree. But I enjoyed the special edition also. It made it more cinematic. Both had totally different feels/experiences to me. But the nostalgia that's added to the DOS version will never be replaced.

Yup. I'm not too thrilled about the art direction that the new game is going to take but hey, Ron Gilbert's back!

@@itsfine5818 Wait... are you saying Ron Gilbert is making another Monkey Island game??!!!???!!!!

You can still play the special edition as the DOS VGA version. It allows you to flick instantly between classic and special versions with a single key press - very nice for comparing the old with the new!

The SVG version would make more sense

Sadly it will be buried now as disney owns the IP and they dont want anything competing with the pirates of the Caribbean Which the disney ride was the actually inspiration for monkey island

@@radcow Yeah its a shame!

@@radcow Aaaaaaand luckily for us all ou have been proven wrong xD

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Never had an FM Towns. I used to read ACE magazine back in late 80s / early 90s and the FM Towns was often featured in it. Compared to my spectrum then Amiga, it looked amazing.

I first played the vga version and though I later also owned the cd version I still somewhat prefer the midi soundtrack. But that might just be nostalgia speaking.

General Midi can sound just as good as the CD Version.

Me too, on my 286 back in the day. This was as a young teenager, before I'd even heard of dedicated sound cards.

And a monochrome monitor!

Sound have nothing common with video.

Me too

I played DOS VGA on a 468 without Soundblaster and the PC speaker sound was like the CGA version.

@JM Coulon oh hey! Thanks, I should check it out

@Samiya Masih there is a conscious artistic view on the ega style, while the VGA ones are mostly gradients

There is a way to mod the sound (or the voice tracks seperately) from SE into the original game in SCUMM.

Yeah, I finished the Amiga 500 version a long time ago, and recently that PC CD version. It's perfect.

What about ms dos version?

@@Trulte60 Almost perfect, music is worse than on Amiga or PC CD.

The Amiga had been surpassed with Wolfenstein, but especially once Doom came along.

@@RMoocher LoL, not at all xD Wolfenstein 3D was crap. Doom made some difference, yes. But still it was stupid to buy an PC or gaming at that time, because the Amiga featured a game library of much better games by a factor of multiple hundreds compared to the few good PC games in 1993.

@@elmariachi5133 haha, not that it mattered, as commodore Amiga was dead by 1994, and that year, a good wealth of quality DOS games left Amiga for dead in quality, and PC's were starting to become more affordable.

@@RMoocher Amiga was dead even earlier. When Commodore failed to release an worthy successor in time.

@@elmariachi5133 indeed, the AGA A1200 and A4000 were jokes.

Erm... Are you so sure about that? So, a CGA DOS PC (which are generally older/lower end PCs) is more powerful than the FM Towns (which is said to be similar to DOS CD)? I mean, the only other one without the pirate spinning was the SEGA CD version (at least from what I saw)... which probably is weaker than the old DOS PC, but that leaves us with a 50% accuracy in a sample size of 2. Not exactly an ideal way to tell if a machine is weaker or not...

Same with Atari ST vs Amiga!

But it didn't make sense, after all it was always 10 o'clock on the island..

It’s not an underskirt but ribbons but I agree with you color wise

Pues da gracias que tenias EGA y no CGA como otros.

@@retrodave79 Desde luego, pero incluso en CGA tenía su encanto.

Agreed. The SE is a disgrace.

You can press f10 at any time during the game to instantly switch the graphics back to the old style.

i also dont like the style of the special edition. guybrush looks not good, the bridge scene at the beginning is overload with ships whyever (by the way, if you are in the kitchen of the scum bar, you should see the ships - but you dont). the darker and quiet atmosphere from the original got completely lost with that big moon.... to be fair, the special edition from monkey island 2 is better than the original.

Considering the Special Edition contains the classic version, accessible at the push of a button, I think calling it a disgrace is a massive exaggeration. Also the voice acting is top notch.

@@Jayce_Alexander the problem is: there is no voice over while playing the original version. and this is again a disgrace because the voice acting adds a lot to the game. good news is there is a mod for playing the original graphics with the new voice over. ( gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html ) wish they had included that in the SE right away.

Do you still have the VGA upgrade pamphlet ?? Many stores wouldn't stock a VGA only game at this time, so some games came with a VGA upgrade option (this one included) that cost additional $.

How?

@@KimDahl77 .) Buy *The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition* from e.g. *gog.com* .) install the game .) download *MI1 Ultimate Talkie Edition **1.02.zip** * from ***gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html* .) Extract *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_**1.02.zip* .) Put the *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder folder* where you have *Monkey1.pak* installed. .) download *DirectXsdk2009.zip* from *gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html* .) extract *DirectXsdk2009.zip* .) put *xWMAEncode.exe* inside the *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder\tools* subfolder. .) run *install_flac.bat* (inside *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder* folder) .) wait for the MI1 Ultimate Talkie Edition to be created (this can take a couple of minutes) .) it will tell you when installation is finished and ask you to press any button to continue For the SE's extended environment tracks: .) run *extended_SE_tracks_to_game_folder.bat * (inside *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder* folder) .) The *tracks 25 - 29* from the folder *se_music_ogg* or *se_music_flac* must be moved into the game`s main folder. :) run *ScummVM* .) add game (choose game folder) .) highlight/choose game in *ScummVM* main menu .) click on *options* .) click on *Paths* tab .) click on *Extras* .) choose *MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder\MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition\se_music_flac* folder .) start the game from *ScummVM* main menu It`s a bit of a pain in the ass but worth it

Good work. But who says TSOMI? Just say MI1. We know you don‘t mean Mission Impossible by that.

We love it too!

The MUNT MT-32 emulator is almost indistinguishable from the real thing these days.

Why would he even do that if he didn't replace it? :(

​@@arnvonsalzburg5033 I know, I REALLY REALLY wanted that computer, and he just, threw it away! It will be 20 years this year since he threw it away, and I'm still upset about it!!!! I used to have hours of fun playing my PC games. He even recently threw away my screen which I specifically told him, very directly several times NOT to throw it away. Yet he did!!! ) :

Such a cool name for a soundcard. These days though, I'm happy I went with Soundblasters ;) I only regret never having a GUS.

No wonder, as it was Chris Hülsbeck who did the music on the Amiga version.

@@HarveyHirdHarmonics i know, ja ich weis :D

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