The International House of Mojo

Still having problems with the Emi Demo ? well fear not because The Scummbar team have put together this trouble shooter where you can find help !
You might also want to check out this post on our Trouble shooting forums, where 'Trinity' has posted a long and detailed email from LucasArts Tech support.

If you are having trouble running the EMI Demo on Windows 2000 then NT Compatible has the answer:

After the WinExec failed error, click on OK, open explorer, go to the WINNTTemp directory, and run mnkydemo.exe

Thanks for that, seems easy enough !

Source: Bluesnews

The German MI Site monkeyislandiv.de has some unreleased footage of Lucre Island from EMI. This footage is not from the Demo (because that island wasnt in it ! God only knows how they get all this stuff...) Anyway, the demo is in MPeg format and the page is in German Bluesnews suggests using Babel Fish to translate

Source: Bluesnews

So the demo isn't enough for you, eh? Well if thats the case you're in luck, as LucasArts has updated their EMI product spotlight with some concept art, character biographies, and shots of what looks to be maps of all of the game's islands, although Monkey Island is still remaining mysterious (secretive even). If I'm not mistaken this is our first look at the fairly small, yet cleverly named, Knuttin Atoll (could Knuttin be the "half" of the "two and a half" islands Sean Clark was talking about in the GameSlice interview?). You can see a few of the screenshots below.

Software Developer Aspyr Media has been contracted to make a port of LucasArts' upcoming game Escape from Monkey Island for the Macintosh! Big news for all of you Mac users out there. For more information, check out Mixnmojo's own LucasMacs.

LucasArts has updated their Escape from Monkey Island page today, updating it from an "In Production" feature to a full blown product spotlight. This of course came about with todays releasing of the playable EMI demo, currently available for download in four formats (Large, Not-So-Large, Small, and cinematics only) from this location at cdmag.com as well as our list of mirrors below. We'll have more to come soon, including our own review! Here's the list of mirrors.

Lots of great EMI news, Firstly LucasArts have organised an online chat with Sean Clarke and Michael Stemmle; The chat is scheduled for Tuesday, October 17th from 6-7pm PST. The chat room will open around 5:30pm so you can hang out with other Monkey Island fans and send in some questions before the event begins.

Right also Amazon are doing a great deal whereby you preorder EMI and get Grim Fandango FREE!

The EMI Demo is set to be released this friday (October 6th) the demo is 116mb download, and 130mb installed.

Finally LucasArts Insider newsletter brought us a look at the EMI box art, although it was apparently an exclusive, this box art was seen a few days before on Amazon.com. See below.

I saw over on The Scumm Bar the following news items ! - one that Nvida are reporting that EMI will use transform and lighting, a feature of their Geforce cards.

LucasArts' store are selling CMI at a new reduced rate of $19.95 and are including the 'Monkey Madness' CD with the purchase. 'Monkey Madness' is a CD containing the first two Monkey Island games, originally bundled with LucasArts Archives volume 3. The LEC store will not ship outside of the US.

All this and more at The Scumm Bar

Update: Sorry i wrongly reported that it was a pre-order of EMI on the site. i aologise. however you can pre-order it here