samkusin/clemens_iigs

Failed to load the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" IIGS game

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I download the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" IIGS game from the 4am collection below.

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_IIgs

I imported disk 1 into S5,D1 and disk 2 into S5,D2, then reboot the IIGS emulator. After the IIGS GUI have successfully loaded, I double clicked "Carmen.World" to start the game

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After the Borderbund Logo showed up, I clicked on the screen to bypass the splash screen but then I got a dialog box of "Insert original Carmen.World2". However, the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" disk 2 is already inserted into the S5,D2

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I clicked the Play button in the following URL and performed the above steps, I was able to see the game was successfully loaded without problems. So it looks like the problem is in the IIGS emulator itself.

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_IIgs

I have included the screenshots below:

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This was due to the disk emulator's 3.5" read timings being slightly off - which would only manifest as a result of the copy protection scheme used by the IIgs version of Carmen Sandiego (tracks 20,21 side 1 for future reference.)

This has been fixed by PR #132 .