The Secret of Monkey Island 4K! (Ultimate Talkie Edition)

The Secret of Monkey Island No Commentary play-through in 4K.
The is the Ultimate Talkie Edition. That is the original graphics with the full talkie from the remake version. Available as a patch here: gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/
This is the canon ending where Guybrush sinks his ship. This is the ending that is consistent with Monkey Island 4.
Why encode a 320x200 video game in 4K? More information below.
Compression. 4K videos have a higher bitrate on youtube. So even viewing the 4K version on a normal HD monitor will show significant reductions in compression artefacts. (Particularly in the background gradients.) Compare the pixels of both versions!
Scaling from perfect pixels. Even though Monkey Island is 320x200, old monitors stretched the image height by about 20%. i.e. The game uses rectangular pixels! To correct the aspect, the master video was recorded at a whopping 3200x2400. This gives a nice round pixel size of 10x12. This master was uploaded directly to youtube for it to re-encode. Ensuring the best possible looking pixels!

[@m9mike9]

These games caught the sweet spot of my teenage mind where any gaps or shortcomings of the technology were filled by my imagination. Games don't have to be perfect!

[@paulkocyla1343]

This game was perfect :-D No seriously: Today´s technology brings fully immersive visual experience, but there is no storytelling anymore, only sh00ting, speed and action. MI pulled us into the story 100x more with 100x less ressources. Unfortunately, the new MI game has cr4ppy graphics. This pixel graphics is ten times more detailed than the new game, wondering why they chose to go that way.

[@RealityAlwaysWins]

I miss those times, even a few years ago writing and character's were so balanced that the imagination could fly away. For example: Beyond Good & Evil, it was a glorious world but you could still imagine the worlds around it, who Jade's parents were and why did the DomZ know her. I miss games like this, where you could dive in and make it your own world, now it's infected with all kinds of crap no one wants, so I'm watching this instead :D

[@LERobbo]

This game will never fail to put a smile on my face.

[@Globi1982]

Thank you so much for all your uploads without commentary... this is the way to enjoy these games!

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

I am still playing this game nowadays. The fun is the same when i played this on my 386 , The second is fun as this but bigger , with graphics that leaved me speechless back at the early 90s.

[@MrFaranox]

Oh man, I just beat the special edition yesterday. I wish I knew about Ultimate Talkie edition! Loved the voiceover, but wanted the original graphics.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Next time!

[@shmehfleh3115]

You can switch to the original graphics in the Special Edition.

[@DocGrooveNL]

@@shmehfleh3115yes but unfortunately it’s not possible to have the voices with the original graphics

[@e.x.watson9997]

One version to enjoy the music, one version to enjoy the dialogue

[@Gazing-09]

I just LOVE the voices! Especially Lechuck! I miss this game so much!!!

[@Felix_Fausto554]

He sounds a bit like Robotnik and it's cool.

[@Pingwn]

One of the most awesome games of all times in the best version there is!

[@markhamilton3215]

actually the remaster include all this...

[@Pingwn]

@@markhamilton3215 the remaster do not include voice acting in the old version

[@jamiehav0k62]

Yeah this version has a lot of tweaks like let you play with the new music in the old version as well, spiffy the dog close up etc. Not to mention you can run it on pretty much any platform you want.

[@LegendaryZA]

Look at all the sea of thieves pirates playing this game to get up to speed with the lore for legend of monkey island

[@grasslandgraphics]

"Rubber Tree" that was so funny when we were kids.. man

[@Michel190778]

Haha definitely! I was like "FFS I didn't save!" Lol

[@RetroCoderTV]

Love this tune so much

[@sammycolwill]

Simpler times. Thanks for the upload.

[@BaronGrackle]

*Auditing your Sea Monkey haggle* Stan's Appraisal: 10000 (will accept 8000) Reject Porthole Defoggers: -450 (bug fixed for Ultimate Talkie Edition) Stan's Appraisal: 9550 (will accept 7550) Reject 6 Other Extras: -450 x 6 = -2700 Stan's Appraisal: 6850 (will accept 4850) Walk Away: -1000 Stan's Appraisal: 5850 (will accept 3850) Offer 2000: Sets bottom as 2000 Offer 3000: The offer ratio is now -500 Stan's Appraisal: 5350 (will accept 3350) Offer 5000: SOLD! Thanks for the fun video! :D

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Ha, ha, thanks! I'm aware it's possible to buy for as low as 2000 (in ultimate talkie) but it always struck me as odd that they went to the effort of letting you negotiate him down that far - after all it has zero impact on the rest of the game...

[@BaronGrackle]

@@THESCUMMBAR Yeah, the game has so many weird quirky things to it. I love it all. :D

[@FlockOfHawks]

32:17 Lost for words - pure gold - who wouldn't be ?

[@FlockOfHawks]

1:32:57 Part 2 - The Journey

[@masquerade0133]

If there's ever a movie about Monkey Island, I would love to see Jim Carrey act as Stan!

[@GelNerd]

Best game ever! Nice touch with the talkie also on the classic original! Fab, comforting video. RIP Earl Boen 🐒🏴‍☠🌴

[@usern4metak3ns]

oh man this game brings back memories. anyone else remember the cannibals being black?

[@malafob]

Good old Times ...

[@aaronb3130]

You can actually screw yourself over in part 2 of this game. If you use every item that you can in the pot. Then when you need something to burn the rope of the cannon with, you'll be stuck in limbo. Still, not quite on the same level that Sierra would screw you over in their games though.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

There's actually a way out of that situation. Guybrush won't burn the dancing lessons/treasure map or let you put it in the pot. But once you reach Monkey Island, he will let you burn the dancing lessons with the unique dialogue "On second thoughts they're only dancing lessons" I'm not sure if that was a fix introduced in the VGA version, or if it was always the case.

[@Fjallderall]

THATS WHERE I RECOGNIZED YOUR NAME FROM! Sorry, I had a lightbulb moment.

[@Pingwn]

Happy 30th anniversary! (two days late but still...)

[@RobotsEverywhereVideos]

Perfection.

[@bjornburger9865]

Thanks for the quality upload, had a very specific question. At 3:30 when your talking to Spiffy and it has the original close-up! Where can I get my game to look like this because in the Ultimate Talkie patch with SE I always get the graphic from the new art style. Its a minor detail, and I know they had to cut the close-up in the original release to save disk space but I always wondered if there was some method of re-adding it?

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Long answer... This is provided in Ultimate Talkie. You can use CTRL+p to toggle between the two Spiffy portraits. You can also use CTRL+a to toggle the narrator voice and CTRL+q toggles the subtitles between original text and match voice acting. However there's a big BUT... ScummVM has a long-standing bug where key combinations don't actually work. :( This has been broken for over 2 years: bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/10644 So if you are desperate to this this in action, you'll have to download an older version of ScummVM: 1.9.0. This is the last version before the bug was introduced. You can get it at downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.9.0/ Hope that was helpful!

[@gamesfan1693]

Want to be a Pirate1:37 Pirate Leaders 3:54 🧟‍♂️LeChuck 8:30 🎪10:47 🗺️Map Seller 14:39 🔮Voodoo Lady 15:57 Shop 18:18 21:21 28:14 👨🏻Fester 22:44 👩🏻‍🦰Elaine 31:08 👨🏻33:32 🗡Smirk39:36 42:01 ⚔️Carla 57:05 59:03 Kidnapped 1:00:08 ⛓Otis23:54 29:10 1:02:35 🧟‍♂️Trouble 1:03:53 🔮Quest 1:06:05 ⚔️ 1:24:08 🪝Meathook1:25:43 1:26:24 1:28:58 Credit 1:12:31 1:13:11 🤠Stan1:08:41 1:16:07 1:17:14/1:21:02 Ship & Crew1:31:05 🚢Cruise 1:33:29 Captain’s Log 1:34:41 📜Monkey Island Recipe 1:37:20 Mysterious Voyage1:39:31 🏝️Castaway 1:41:31 Toothrot 1:45:14 1:50:06 📝1:42:04 1:43:59 🧟‍♂️1:49:46 🍋Cannibals 1:52:39 1:57:58 1:59:14 👀2:02:27 🐵Monkey Head 2:04:57 👀Head of the Navigator 2:06:57 Root 2:11:05🐵🐵🐵 💀2:12:14 🍾Root Beer 2:14:50 Interrupted Wedding2:16:07 2:18:06 🤠 2:18:44 Ghost-be-Gone 2:19:53 👩🏻‍🦰Very Romantic 2:20:42

[@aaronb3130]

I always wondered what would happen if you managed to randomly guess the combination for the safe and pick up the note of credit before the part of the game that it was needed, then get the storekeeper to open the safe later on in the game. Or, if you could get the combination from the storekeeper of a particular play-through, then by going back to a previously saved file of the same play-through, try using the same combination. It would probably just glitch the game out or something.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

My guess would be the game doesn't generate the correct combination until you ask for the credit note for the first time. But an interesting experiment!

[@aaronb3130]

@@THESCUMMBAR I tried it out as I was curious lol. You can actually get the note before it's needed in the game. I managed to get the combination, then go back to a previous saved game and played through it again to the part where you have to ask the storekeeper for a note of credit. However, this line of dialogue just doesn't appear if you've got the note already. I did manage to find some hidden dialogue though, by trying to give the note back to the storekeeper. Guybrush will then say "I'm not that stupid", and the storekeeper will reply with "I never said you were... Not out loud, at least." Show less REPLY

[@yomimono_]

@@aaronb3130 It turns out you can guess, and that's what speedrunners do!

[@LizardOfOz69]

Was Rob Paulson in this? That second in command guy in Lechuck's ship sounds like Yakko and one of the fettuchini brothers sounds like Dr.Scratchandsniff.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Good ear! In fact he was: www.imdb.com/title/tt0244783/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

[@imyerpepper]

It's good to hear Rob Paulson's voice again.

[@OneShortEye]

I'm working on a video about speedrunning The Secret of Monkey Island. I wanted to ask your permission to use short clips from your video as b-roll (giving you credit, of course). The quality here is excellent.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Go ahead. I look forward to seeing the video!

[@tangerinedream8297]

you should upload this awesome version of 4K but with the whole conversation in the Scumm Bar, your name is that and you did rushed that part :((((( also with the improved lock key of the cannibals

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Message received. A lot of people are asking for this.

[@kernelpanic7326]

@@THESCUMMBAR I wish you end up uploading a longrun like this but with that specifications of tangerinedream

[@harthstonebrew7714]

@@THESCUMMBAR please could you do It

[@kernelpanic7326]

@@harthstonebrew7714 I wish he do It..... It would be the perfect run...

[@Brunoki22]

What version is this one? I mean graphically only, I know the voices come from the special edition. Also, is this what people say it's the best version?

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Graphics are from the VGA/CD version. Ultimate Talkie Edition is widely considered to be the best version.

[@brianbagnall3029]

I never got the scene at 35:30 with Elaine. The ghost ship takes off with her. Probably because I solved the trials.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

It depends on the order, you get that scene if you do the the thievery trail last.

[@miracleflame]

Good God! Thanks a million for the 4K!!! resolution, otherwise this game's graphics would not make any sense at all.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Not sure if sarcasm? The 4k resolution is for people that like the "clean pixel" look and want to avoid the blurriness that you get blowing up a small video to 4k. More details in the video description.

[@Mosestylez]

Will this Talkie edition also work for Android? :)

[@THESCUMMBAR]

It'll work with any up-to-date version of ScummVM. :)

[@JFinnerud]

320x200 in 4K!

[@jaycorbin]

When are you going to play through the new Monkey Island game?

[@dementia8745]

Hmm? What new game? There is a new game? With the same voices?

[@jaycorbin]

@@dementia8745 Return to Monkey Island. Released on PC and Console last year.

[@tessagoode8616]

Exactly the same as simon the sorcerer with the three wizards

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Yes, that scene in Simon the Sorcerer was a clear wink to Monkey Island.

[@mkalic]

How do you enable text, i cant find it anywhere?

[@THESCUMMBAR]

F5 brings up the options menu. It's in there under 'options'. Or configure the game in the scummvm main menu and set it from there.

[@mkalic]

@@THESCUMMBAR Thank you very much for your answer, but i forgot to mention I'm running this version on a DOS machine, not scumm. If anybody else has the problem, I figured it out, just press CTRL+T.

[@lurkerrekrul]

I hate that they ruined the "Made by Lemonhead" joke in the Special Edition. Someone said it was that way in the DOS CD version as well, but I've never played that one and can't find a video of it.

[@imperia777]

What is it?

[@imperia777]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3m9qK16hN-hgZI

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@imperia777 You mean, what's the joke? In the original, non-talking version, you give the small idol that you stole, to the cannibals and they show it to Lemonhead. He looks at it and says "Oooh, that's nice. Simple. Just like one of mine. And little. Like mine. And it says "Made by Lemonhead"... ...Just like one of mine! We should take this to the Great Monkey." This version, and I guess the original talkie version, cut out most of that and just have him say "And it says "Made by Lemonhead"... ...Just like one of mine! We should take this to the Great Monkey." The first makes them sound really clueless as he runs through all the similarities to his own work, but doesn't realize that it IS his work, while the second just seems weirdly abrupt.

[@LizardOfOz69]

If this is the canon ending, then how herman got to Mon- I mean "Dinky Island"? MI4 contraditcs MI2.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Unfortunately, Monkey Island 4 has a bizarre relationship with the established canon. When you meet Carla and Otis again in MI4, they reference that you left them stranded on Monkey Island. This seemingly confirms this as the canon ending. However, you a right that Herman being on Monkey/Dinky Island in Monkey 2 seems to contradict this. The only way to resolve both these is to assume that Guybrush did "rescue" him in Monkey 1, but he returned afterwards for reasons unknown. I won't even get started about how the backstory Herman gets in MI4 contradicts the backstory presented in this game and Monkey 2. Basically, Monkey 4 is a mess.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

Also it's worth considering that events that happen "off screen" might not have occurred exactly as described to us. As both Guyrbush and LeChuck are established to be unreliable narrators.

[@LizardOfOz69]

@@THESCUMMBAR yeah, MI4 is so freaking weird in terms of.... well EVERYTHING. The tone is off, the gameplay is jank and like you said, plotholes galore. It didn't even get a new rendition of the MI theme. The only thing it's got going for it is the novelty of a 3D LucasArts MI game. But for all the hate Tales gets in terms of recycled body types and easy puzzles, at least it's actually funny. Which is more than I can say for MI4. What are your favourite MI games in order of least to best?

[@THESCUMMBAR]

I think Tales is very good and doesn't get as much love as it deserves. Puzzle design in particular is excellent and actually might be superior to classic Monkey Island. As for my favourites... I have to admit I am heavily biased by nostalgia. But I'd say from most to least: 1, 2, Curse, Tales and Escape. If I'm honest I think 2 and Curse are probably better games than 1. But remembering back to when I was young and exploring Melee Island for the first time, I can't help but put the original first. I can't even bring myself to dislike Escape despite all it's flaws. (Well, maybe Monkey Kombat... sigh!)

[@LizardOfOz69]

@@THESCUMMBAR I have to say, I would've liked Curse a lot if it weren't for the fact that controlling the ship on my android scummvm emulator is a fucking pain. It's hard to both move and shoot the canonballs at the same time. It was really fun until that part though.

[@imyerpepper]

You forgot one very important thing... WALK TO THE SUN.

[@THESCUMMBAR]

"Oh sure. Walk to the sun." 😂