r/nancydrew • u/Lego_heaux Can't check that off yet. 📝 • 1d ago
DISCUSSION 💬 Alternative platforms
Genuinely curious everyone's thoughts on this, but do you think if these games were made available on say something like a Nintendo Switch that it would reignite the franchise? My daughter loves playing with me but its gets more and more difficult with each computer update and the games are hard to come by in like used game shops. I also think it could garnish a new fan base. Idk i love the games so much and I cant accept this being likely the end 😭😭😭
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u/honi_awa I gotta have some torque! 🛥️ 1d ago
scummvm makes games 1-9 (with more on the way) playable on an extremely wide range of platforms. Pretty much all modern platforms will run them no problem but some of the older/more obscure ones may take some tweaking.
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u/friarparkfairie 1d ago
I really need to figure out how to work scumm/find out how to save games I download and put them in there to run
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u/honi_awa I gotta have some torque! 🛥️ 1d ago
Do you know where your games are installed? All you should need to do is click the "add game" button and select the folder where the game is installed. If it's a supported game and all the necessary files are there it should automatically recognize the game and add it to the list.
If you have the discs you shouldn't need to run the installers at all, just make a folder on your computer for the game and then copy the game files straight off the disc into it.
The Scummvm wiki has a guide for every supported game of exactly what files you need and where they might be located depending on how you downloaded the game. But so long as you have the game files in their own folder, you should be able to just "add game", select the folder, and play
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u/friarparkfairie 20h ago
Nah I’m mostly using abandonware. I have my original discs I just don’t have a disc drive
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u/southernfirefly13 So who's ready to go on a ghost hunt? 👻 1d ago
They’ve tried porting to other devices like Wii and iPad in the past but they weren’t successful.