/sci-scripts

Sierra Creative Interpeter - Scripts

This repository contains decompiled scripts for Sierra's SCI games.

  • All games: King's Quest IV (1988) - Leisure Suit Larry 7 (1996)
  • All platforms: DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, PC-98, FM-Towns, Windows
  • All scripts: 100% decompiled
  • Allotta versions: 300+

Scripts are the code that make up each game. The originals were written in Sierra's proprietary programming language and compiled to bytecode. The scripts in this repository are generated from that bytecode by my decompiler and heavily auto-annotated for readability. If you're familiar with a game, you should recognize a lot. If you want to learn how a game's puzzle works (or doesn't) then try searching for nearby game text.

How Do I Use These?

The code is in the .sc text files. If you just want to casually browse, you can ignore everything else. But if you're serious...

The best way to view scripts is with SCI Companion, a Windows program that lets you view resources and create games. You will also need the game. Find your version in this repository and copy the files to your game directory. Open the game with SCI Companion and it will recognize the scripts as if it had generated them. SCI Companion doesn't support every game and version, but it works with most.

Can I Compile These?

Maybe! If SCI Companion fully supports the game, then it can compile most scripts. You may need to fix a Sierra bug or two, or make some other adjustments to make SCI Companion happy. My goal is to show what's really going on in the scripts, bugs and all.

What Are The Files?

  • *.sc: Script files
  • *.sco: Script object files that SCI Companion needs for compiling
  • src: SCI Companion needs .sc and .sco files to be in this directory
  • game.ini: SCI Companion needs this file to find the scripts

If you don't care about compiling, you don't need the .sco files. If you don't use SCI Companion, you only need the .sc files.

Why All English?

Localized text has been replaced with the original English for script diffing. How else will you find Italian Phantasmagoria's exclusive bug fixes? Or the not-so-temporary test code that ruins Spanish EcoQuest?

Whodunnit?

This repository is dedicated to every Sierra reverse engineer from the past 35 years. And Sierra's real engineers too. You're all insane! And you all made this possible!

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SCI Games
brain1 The Castle of Dr. Brain
brain2 The Island of Dr. Brain
camelot Conquests of Camelot
cb The Colonel's Bequest
cnick Crazy Nick's Software Picks
eco1 EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
eco2 EcoQuest II: Lost Secret of the Rainforest
fairytales Mixed-Up Fairy Tales
fpfp Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
gk1 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
gk2 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
goose Mixed-Up Mother Goose (SCI Remake)
goosevga Mixed-Up Mother Goose (VGA Remake)
goosedeluxe Mixed-Up Mother Goose Deluxe
hoyle1 Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1
hoyle2 Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2
hoyle3 Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3
hoyle4 Hoyle Classic Card Games
hoyle5 Hoyle Classic Games
hoyle5solitaire Hoyle Solitaire
iceman Codename: ICEMAN
jones Jones in the Fast Lane
kq1 King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (SCI Remake)
kq4 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
kq5 King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
kq6 King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
kq7 King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
lighthouse Lighthouse: The Dark Being
longbow Conquests of the Longbow
lsl1 Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (SCI Remake)
lsl2 Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
lsl3 Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
lsl5 Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
lsl6 Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
lsl7 Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
pepper Pepper's Adventures in Time
phant1 Phantasmagoria
phant2 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
pq1 Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (SCI Remake)
pq2 Police Quest II: The Vengeance
pq3 Police Quest III: The Kindred
pq4 Police Quest IV: Open Season
pqswat Police Quest: SWAT
qfg1 Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
qfg1vga Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (VGA Remake)
qfg2 Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
qfg3 Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
qfg4 Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
ra The Dagger of Amon Ra
rama RAMA
shivers Shivers
slater Slater & Charlie Go Camping
sq1 Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (SCI Remake)
sq3 Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
sq4 Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
sq5 Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
sq6 Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier
torin Torin's Passage