Safecracker

What works

Sound and mouse, you can respond to the phone call in a phone booth at the very beginning.

What does not

Character can't move, looks like affected by the 46431 bug.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Pretty much nothing as character can't move

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Macromedia flash 3MB issue patch is required to bypass an error message on the startup.

Version of the game tested - from the CD re-released in 2000.

OS kernel: 6.1.0-21
Graphics: dummy (wine running inside a docker container)

Windows version set (winecfg): Windows 95

WINEARCH: win32

Tried with a quicktime which comes on the original CD and without it - no difference.

Language: English

Macromedia Director Player 5.0/6.0 (which Safecracker is developed in) has a bug that it does not correctly recognize available RAM, possibly due to the program being old. This issue presents itself with a popup at startup saying "This program requires at least 3mb of free virtual memory to run".
In order to remove the error popping up at the start of the game (post installation), one need to patch the .exe-file using the method described here https://www.sacah.net/2008/01/how-to-edit-director-player-60-to-stop.html. (mirror http://web.archive.org/web/201...)

Scrolling through the inventory in-game is too fast for it to be usable on modern computers. This is bypassed by temporarily slowing the process down to 5% with e.g. cpulimit (https://manpages.org/cpulimit) when needed. 

$ ps -eo pid,command | grep sc_

pid C:\SC\sc_(eng|swe|esp|ita etc.)

$ cpulimit -p pid -l 5

Process found