DIRECTOR: Interactive Bible For Kids - The Life Of Paul [D5] (A Full Compatibility Report)

[VictorVVictoria]

The Life Of Paul kind of works but it is vary unstable and temperamental

Reverse engineering
I'm not 100% sure about this but some reverse engineering might be required, 11 files on the disk have no file extension and the following files with extensions can also found on the disk

T.Background
You.01
Dir_Temp.232
Dir_Temp.348

There seems to be something weird going on with the game files that might be effecting ScummVM's ability to run it.

Main Menu
The buttons have gone from not working to unpredictable, sometimes they work, other times they don't. sometimes they work but then for whatever stop working (and vice versa) the behaviour of each button is random and all over the place.

The "Interactive Bible For Kids" series has a character that shows up in every game, the main menu has this character in the middle pointing to each activity when you hover the mouse over an option but in scumm, the character is replaced with random objects

WARNING: NinePatchBitmap::NinePatchBitmap(): Bad bitmap!
WARNING: Adding \0 to String.
WARNING: Failed to open You intro!
WARNING: stream is 0!
Label paul background plain.pict not found!

Storybook - Paul and the Bright Light:
The story part sometimes causes Scumm to Crash (well, not responding) with no console messages, it has also work as intended at least once.

Discover The Bible:
Works but gives messages related to sound
WARNING: SNDDecoder: Unsupported command: 0!
WARNING: Sound::load(): Invalid loop bounds detected. Disabling looping for cast member id 294, sndId 765!

Hall of Fame
I got to work only once, usually it does nothing but give this console message
WARNING: Label Hall.Black.PICT not found!

Bible-Time Theater
Works well, videos play without graphical issues

Fun & Games:
The game menu also gives these errors
WARNING: Sprite::getShape(): kCastMemberSprite has no cast defined!
WARNING: Sprite::getShape(): kCastMemberSprite has no cast defined!

Matching Game:

Works with some graphical issues
WARNING: STUB: Score::loadFrames(): frame1Offset: 0x14, version: 7, spriteRecordSize: 0x18, numChannels: 50, numChannelsDisplayed: 48!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte1tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte2tid 0 isn't loaded!

Maze:

Broken graphics makes the game unplayable
WARNING: STUB: Score::loadFrames(): frame1Offset: 0x14, version: 7, spriteRecordSize: 0x18, numChannels: 50, numChannelsDisplayed: 48!
WARNING: Cursor::readFromCast: Needs array of 2!
WARNING: Cursor::readFromCast: Needs array of 2!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte1tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte2tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte1tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte2tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte1tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte2tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte1tid 0 isn't loaded!
WARNING: RTECastMember::load(): rte2tid 0 isn't loaded!

Dot to Dot:

Broken graphics makes the game even more pointless then it all ready is.

Bible Quiz:

Pressing the "I'm ready to try" button makes all buttons in the bar below like the main menu, back and even the help button unclickable, effectively softlocking the game
WARNING: Frame::readMainChannelsD5(): STUB: unk2: 0x00 0x01!
WARNING: Frame::readMainChannelsD5(): STUB: unk2: 0x00 0x01!
WARNING: b_puppetTransition: Transition already queued!
WARNING: b_puppetTransition: Transition already queued!
WARNING: b_puppetTransition: Transition already queued!
WARNING: b_puppetTransition: Transition already queued!

Puzzles

Crashes Scummvm
WARNING: Sprite::getShape(): kCastMemberSprite has no cast defined!
WARNING: BitmapCastMember(): Duplicating source 40 to target 30!

Word Games

Crashes Scummvm
WARNING: Unknown file type for todd1!
WARNING: stream is 0!
WARNING: BitmapCastMember(): Duplicating source 35 to target 111!