Monkey Island 2 bug - Unwinnable situation

[FlavioneRM]

unwinnable like THE GAME.

[autobotsNdecepticons]

I've having a problem with Monkey Island 2 Special Edition on Steam. At the end there are a few things you're supposed to do with LeChuck and one is not working. I just keep getting zapped around. And sometimes LeChuck will come in immediately when I enter a room (especially the elevator) and do this several rooms in a row, meaning I can't do anything, other times I can wait there forever (the helium tank room) and nothing happens.

[inemanja]

what if you get back to lets say graveyard, and than back here again?

[plzonlygame]

if you're playing with scummvm try putting it on super fast (ctrl + g i think)and wait a few seconds

[LaukkuTheGreit]

@plzonlygame You mean when Guybrush is stuck at the end? I don't think fast-forwarding will make any difference.

[plzonlygame]

@LaukkuTheGreit Yeh it's weird but when I play on super fast, sometimes it pauses in that spot for like... 10 seconds or so? (which probably equals about 100 or 200 real time seconds). And then after that pause it lifts him up and continues normally.

[pipari44]

you know, there is actually a real, not glitch-based unwinnable situation. and that's when you enter the crate on that very shore, leaving for lechuck's fortress WITHOUT a drink from the bar. then you can't spit while hanging in his dungeon and you get stuck this way.

[Ascyltos]

@pipari44 Which you will already have got in order to win the spitting contest in order to get the brass plaque in order to get 6,000 pieces of eight in order to hire Kate Capsize in order to get the monkey head in order to swap for piece 2 of the map.

[pipari44]

@Ascyltos yes, the creators made sure that you would BUY a drink in order to win the contest, but you can drink it all up and thus get stucked in lechuck's cellar (a person would drink it all just for fun, no rational reasons included, but that's what makes an adventure worthwhile :)

[psoslash]

i had a similar problem

but the scabb island map music played on every place along with the other music

[NooNoo123]

Can this not be solved by leaving the area and returning to the map screen?

[LaukkuTheGreit]

@NooNoo123 The music problem can, yes. But after you get stuck at the shack, you're stuck for good.

[ToasterNiggow]

the same with the food of the parrot at the start of the 2nd chapter '4 map pieces'.. i think you cant get it again once you walked into cpt. dreads boat. pls answer if you can take it otherwise :P

[LaukkuTheGreit]

@ToasterNiggow You can always get the parrot food if you haven't picked it up yet. Once you get it, the dialogue option "I'd like to just cruise aimlessy for a while" disappears.

[ToasterNiggow]

@LaukkuTheGreit wow thanks, ive never watched at the dialogue possibilites. now i can finally sleep at night :)

[MaidenFan24568]

There are lots of games with situations which can render then unwinnable, the water temple in ocarina of time is a perfect example (you can use up all your keys early and flood areas which you need to get to later), as is the bomb guardian boss in metroid prime 2 (with lack of healing stuff anyway).

[LogicDeLuxe]

I'll look into this for the Ultimate Talkie Edition Project. I already fixed several music related bugs.

On Scabb, it is not only possible to prevent music from playing, it is also possible to prevent it from stopping. When Dread's ship is there on the north, you can quickly leave, visit and leave Woodtick again and then click on Dread's ship at a certain moment, and the Scabb music doesn't stop.

[Dorinya]

Sorry, my english isn't as well, but I try: I took the ashes-to-life(tm) before I got rid of Largo, so, when you are in Phatt Island and get in the jail, your stuff is in the envelope, but not the ashes-to-life. When you ask the Voodo-Lady to get the man on the cementary alive, she said "take it" but it isn't there... (I hope you understand, I'm from germany)^^

[Mogman12]

Can this happen on the Special Edition?

[TheftOfVanilla]

Did this accidentally once.

[internetakias1]

lol iMuse fail

[assadissa2]

not a nice thing if you get stuck next some hours of unsaved gaming...i got stuck long time ago in a "level" of the longest journey between a retarded man and a wall,

waiting had not worth and i lost 3 hours of gaming :)

amyway srry my bad english

[thevoodoosailor]

Im waiting Im waiting Im waiting

[hangman3d]

I have had this same bug!!!

[UltraSonicTH]

Well... at least its at the very start of the game, not half way through it or something, that would be cruel. LOL

[LogicDeLuxe]

@UltraSonicTH

If this happens after you just collected all map pieces, I wouldn't call it "at the very start".

[MartinusPrime]

Wow. That was well spotted. I remember in Monkey Island 1 when I got the banana picker from the cannibals and Herman Toothrot was in the village, I decided that instead of giving it back to him I'd go to the beach and try to pick some banana's instead.

Needless to say, the game wasn't programmed to do that, and when I returned to the village, Herman was gone and so I couldn't give him his banana picker back, thus rendering it unwinnable, heh heh.

[LaukkuTheGreit]

I believe you can go to HT's fort and find him there.

[thevoodoosailor]

@LaukkuTheGreit

thats what I did lol

[Kooptroopa]

Same deal if you put the feather into the cooking pot when you're trying to reach Monkey Island. You later need it to light the cannon fuse, and there's no way to get it back out once it's been added.

[LaukkuTheGreit]

You do not need the feather. You can burn something else - there are many alternatives.

[assadissa2]

@LaukkuTheGreit

agreed i remember that i put the feather to cook but i used a pice of paper got from the cereal's box

srry my bad english

[LogicDeLuxe]

@LaukkuTheGreit

There is a bug nevertheless. The cereals are the only burnable item which is available for sure. It is supposed to be burnable after cooking and Guybrush should refuse burning it before the recipe is finished. Both don't work reliable due to a script bug, thus you can indeed getting stuck here, if you didn't buy the map.