SCI: Fix LONGBOW broken pub messages

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/engines/sci/engine/kernel.cpp b/engines/sci/engine/kernel.cpp
index 29d16ab753..44eb816a7d 100644
--- a/engines/sci/engine/kernel.cpp
+++ b/engines/sci/engine/kernel.cpp
@@ -905,6 +905,22 @@ Common::String Kernel::lookupText(reg_t address, int index) {
 	int textlen = textres->size();
 	const char *seeker = (const char *)textres->getUnsafeDataAt(0);
 
+	if (g_sci->getGameId() == GID_LONGBOW && address.getOffset() == 1535 && textlen == 2662) {
+		// WORKAROUND: Longbow 1.0's text resource 1535 is missing 8 texts for
+		//  the pub. It appears that only the 5.25 floppy release was affected.
+		//  This was fixed by Sierra's 1.0 patch.
+		if (index >= 41) {
+			// texts 41+ exist but with incorrect offsets
+			index -= 8;
+		} else if (index >= 33) {
+			// texts 33 through 40 are missing. they comprise two sequences of
+			//  four messages. only one of the two can play, and only once in
+			//  the specific circumstance that the player enters the pub as a
+			//  merchant, changes beards, and re-enters.
+			return "** MISSING MESSAGE **";
+		}
+	}
+
 	int _index = index;
 	while (index--)
 		while (textlen-- && *seeker++)