Saturday, 21 January 2012

Running Grim Fandango on Windows 7 and OSX

Amongst the excitement surrounding this project it seems that a lot of people aren't even aware that they can play Grim Fandango right now on modern PCs/Macs (provided you own the game), including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, OSX, Linux, and... Amiga(!). It works perfectly with x86 or x64, and all modern graphics cards, including those made by NVidia and Radeon.

Here's the steps you need to take to play Grim Fandango on your computer:

1. Own Grim Fandango -- Unfortunately the hardest step as the game is no longer available to buy new. Your best bets are eBay (US/UK) or Amazon (US/UK).

2. Copy Grim Fandango to your Hard Drive -- the following files from your Grim Fandango CDs to a new folder on your computer (e.g. c:\grim ). The files should be found in a folder called "data" on your Grim Fandango CDs.

Note: Some files are found on both CDs, just click "OK" to overwrite them if prompted.
CREDITS.LAB
DATA000.LAB
DATA001.LAB
DATA002.LAB
DATA003.LAB
DATA004.LAB
GRIM.TAB
MOVIE00.LAB
MOVIE01.LAB
MOVIE02.LAB
MOVIE03.LAB
MOVIE04.LAB
VOX0000.LAB
VOX0001.LAB
VOX0002.LAB
VOX0003.LAB
VOX0004.LAB
YEAR0MUS.LAB
YEAR1MUS.LAB
YEAR2MUS.LAB
YEAR3MUS.LAB
YEAR4MUS.LAB
 You may also have additional .LAB files if your version is non-English.

3. Add the official patch - Download the free official LucasArts patch from here:

http://www.lucasarts.com/support/update/grim.html

Place the Gfupd101.exe file you downloaded into the folder you previously created above (amongst all the .LAB files):
4. Download and install ResidualVM - This amazing bit of software will be running the game for you and can be downloaded here:

http://www.residualvm.org/downloads/#daily

Just download the correct copy for your system and run the file to start the installation.

5. Let ResidualVM know where Grim Fandango is installed -- Within Residual click "Add Game..." and then navigate to the folder on your Hard Drive where you copied the game files (e.g. C:\Grim) and click "Choose".



6. Enjoy Grim Fandango -- If all goes well you just need to select Grim Fandango and click Start!

Posted by Johnny Walker at 11:24

32 comments:

  1. It is worth noting that more hardware OSes, even modern, will run it with some tweaks. There are often sound bugs and other minor problems but on both computers I have tried to install it on it was more then playable and even ran perfectly after some setting fiddling.

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  2. I'm not sure what you mean "more hardware OSes"?

    As I understand it, the game will not even install (never mind getting to play it) on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. And even if you use a replacement installer (like the one by BGBennyBoy) or hack it yourself (as seen here), and then use the replacement launcher (found here), you still have to use "Software Mode" otherwise get the problems shown here, and that's only it doesn't crash.

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  3. Actually, step 3 is a bit simpler than it used to be now, all you need to do is get gfupd101.exe and place it in the game's folder, no need for extraction (which was tricky on non-windows anyhow, and not perfect there either if you hadn't installed properly).

    It's also worth noting that there MIGHT be additional .LAB-files on dubbed versions of the game, and that those are needed aswell.

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  4. Thanks for your words of encouragement, Yury, but we cannot be associated with what you described, so I had to delete your comment. I hope you understand.

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    1. Dude, you're awesome!
      Do you think you'll ever actually complete the project?

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  5. A bit of nitpicking from me again to this very usefull guide:

    The most recent builds got an updated theme that has the ResidualVM-logo instead of the Residual-logo, might want to update to them :P

    Cheers
    Somaen

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  6. Bah! I'll do that eventually ;)

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  7. Hi guys. I am running OS X 10.5 and I am having trouble applying the patch. I have the patch file and game files saved in a folder in my hard drive. The game run perfectly except for the elevator puzzle. I am currently wading through Xcode but I am not a talented or a competent coder.

    Any advice or suggestions ?

    Chris

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  8. Sorry, Chris. You'll need to post your question on the ResidualVM forums: http://forums.residualvm.org/viewforum.php?f=1

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  9. thanks for great post
    it worked very well

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  10. Ahhhh! I still have my original copy, but I can't extract data003.lab from disk A! I have the french version... Think you can help?

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    1. Similar problem here. I´ve got the Portuguese version and the only file that fails to copy is data003.lab ;-(

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  11. Thanks. Works perfectly. Too bad you can't save the game and continue playing later, or can you?

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  13. Hi Johnny,

    Thanks for the How-to.
    Unfortunately my laptop is running Windows 7 in 64-bit and the cut-scenes in the game are just blank, any way of getting it to work?

    I have been playing it on my girlfriends Macbook and works a treat on that.

    Thanks in advance!

    -Fil

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  14. realy thx realy realy thx .... i can play this game in windows 7 64x with 2 amd crossfire 6970 :D

    ... life is beauty :D

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  15. Game works fine so thank you very much =)
    Only issue I have is the cut scenes being white, only showing subtitles. Any ways to rectify this?
    Other than that, brilliant =)

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  16. hmmm. This isn't working for me at all. Windows 7, 64-bit. I just keep getting an error message that says that it's an unsupported version and to download the patch and put it in the game data files directory. I'm pretty sure I've done that, although maybe I have to label the directory or something? Ideas?

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  17. Hi i've got the game running fine via residualvm OS Win7 but can't get it fullscreen at all can someone help please??

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  20. Johnny, thank you very much, this is the only tutorial that has worked for me. Thanks to you I can play once again the awesometastic adventures of Manny :D

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  21. It coul be easier if they just launch the Hd version for ps3 and PC

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  22. How do you save your game on a macbook?! f1 doesnt work...

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    1. Have you tried pressing FN and F1 together?

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  23. So happy to have found this.
    The computer I originally installed GF on finally passed on a couple of years ago and I'd been wondering if there was any possible way I'd be able to install and play again on my new computer running Windows 7.
    It'll be so good to see Manny and the crew again.
    Thanks!

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  24. Sorry, I would play this game, but even if I done every steps when I press "start" on residualVM close all windows!
    Can you help me?

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  25. the error:
    warnig: SearchSet::add: archive 'C:\Grim|' already present!
    thanks

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  26. just want to say thanks for this, as although can install and play Grim on my win 7 64bit system it doesn't like my GeForce GTS 450 graphics card so could only play in window mode, but this lets me play fullscreen again :)

    Link for new installer
    http://quickandeasysoftware.net/software

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  27. Glad I fixed mine. Thanks for the instructions!

    www.ruggedxpress.com

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