The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar

Monkey Island - Debug Mode
An article by bgbennyboy, posted on September 16. 2003.

Back when the monkey island games were being created the developers and playtesters used certain commands to help them. Using these they could skip rooms, make the game run faster, move to a different section of the game and more. These commands are still present in the retail versions of the games - as part of debug mode.

Despite its scary-sounding name debug mode isnt complicated at all. You dont need to have your favourite hex editor tatooed on your arm just to use it. In fact its really just a cheat mode, and like all cheat codes, no matter how much you type it, a nude Lara Croft really wont appear (joke circa 1997). Debug mode is enabled by typing in a certain phrase ingame and then pressing a key combination to activate it.

The Secret of Monkey Island
Type "hardyharhar" and press control-shift-D to activate debug mode.

Skip rooms:

Press control and G and the skip room box appears.
Type in the room number or room name that you want to change to and press enter.
A new box will appear asking for the 'xpos', this is the horizontal position that Guybrush will end up in when you skip rooms, just type '200' here to end up in the centre.
You will now skip to a new room.

This works with every version of monkey island 1 ever released. If you have the CD version though there are other things you can do.

CD Version:

Control and E - Examine/set a scumm variable
Control and F - Activate fast mode
Contol and L - Enter a bootparam
Control and O - Pick up an object from another room
1 - Change character, this only works when another character is on the screen
7 or 8 - Change text colour

MI1 Room Numbers/Names

Room 1: beach
Room 2: monkey-1
Room 3: monkey-2
Room 4: monkey-3
Room 5: monkey-4
Room 6: monkey-5
Room 7: sh-captai
Room 8: sh-hull
Room 9: sh-crews
Room 10: logo
Room 11: vista-1
Room 12: monkey-he
Room 14: sh-galley
Room 15: fork
Room 16: seesaw
Room 17: sh-crows
Room 18: crack
Room 19: sh-deck
Room 20: main-beac
Room 21: gen-jungl
Room 23: cu-gov
Room 25: village
Room 27: hut
Room 28: bar
Room 29: fortune
Room 30: store
Room 31: jail
Room 32: alley
Room 33: dock
Room 34: high-stre
Room 35: low-stree
Room 36: mansion-e
Room 37: meats-hou
Room 38: lookout
Room 39: hellmaze
Room 40: pond
Room 41: kitchen
Room 42: underwate
Room 43: trainers-
Room 44: masters-h
Room 45: cu-church
Room 48: crossing
Room 49: road
Room 50: cu-brush
Room 51: circus-te
Room 52: circus-gr
Room 53: foyer
Room 57: bridge
Room 58: damnfores
Room 59: stans
Room 60: gym
Room 61: sword-mas
Room 62: cu-sword
Room 63: map
Room 64: treasure-
Room 65: hellhall
Room 69: bighead
Room 70: hellcliff
Room 71: gh-room
Room 72: gh-captai
Room 73: gh-crews
Room 74: gh-storag
Room 75: gh-hull
Room 76: cu-traine
Room 77: gh-deck
Room 78: church
Room 79: cu-bar-1
Room 80: fort
Room 81: cu-bar-2
Room 82: cu-bar-3
Room 83: cu-dock
Room 84: recipe
Room 85: melee
Room 86: cu-naviga
Room 87: seamonkey
Room 88: fighting
Room 89: cu-works
Room 90: copycrap
Room 95: part4
Room 96: part1
Room 97: part2
Room 98: part3
Room 99: icons

MI1 Boot Parameters
Boot parameters skip to a specific point within the game. So if you loose your saved game or simply want to skip ahead, you can enter a boot parameter to go there.

1 - Monkey Island
2 - Monkey Island Map Bottom - By Crack
3 - Monkey Island Map Centre Left - By Fort
4 - Monkey Island Map Centre
5 - Monkey Island Map Centre Right - By Monkey Head Clearing
6 - Monkey Island Map Top - By Cannibal Village
7 - Cabin on Ship - Before ship intro
110 - Outside swordmasters with sword and lechuck's note
111 - Melee lookout point with sword
112 - Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
113 - Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
114 - Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
115 - Outside swordmasters with sword (different number of insults known?)
213 - Outside cannibal hut with voodoo root
321 - Govenors mansion with sword file and idol
332 - Underwater at Melee dock
333 - Close-up end cutscene
334 - Close-up end cutscene
353 - Stans with credit note
408 - Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, leaflet, wimpy little idol
415 - Melee Island lookout point with breath mints and rubber chicken
444 - Outside governors mansion with meat and yellow petal
456 - Jail with breath mints and melting mug of grog
501 - Ship Kitchen
555 - Melee Island Bridge
666 - Scumm Bar - empty
707 - Store - storekeeper away
759 - Melee Dock
777 - Circus tent with pot and hunk of meat
789 - Monkey Island Map Bottom - By Crack with 2x rope
800 - Melee Island Forest
878 - Monkey Island River Fork
888 - Outside Smirk's with sword and 50 pieces of 8
900 - Monkey Island Upper Beach
999 - Caverns Under Monkey Island by ship with magnetic compass, head of naviagator, necklace of navigator
1111 - Ship Intro
1212 - Melee Dock with Navigator Head, Navigator Necklace, Root Beer Seltzer
1436 - Monkey Island - Bottom of crack with magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, 3 bananas, oars
2221 - Ship Kitchen with spell ingredients
2222 - Ship deck with breath mints and rubber chicken
2299 - Ship Deck with Pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, rope, gunpowder, flaming mass and pot
3777 - Melee Island lookout with 2x 300 pieces of eight, sword, shovel, breath mints, rubber chicken
4313 - Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, navigator head, navigator necklace
4444 - Monkey Island - By Monkey with 5 bananas and monkey head key
5555 - Inside Hut in Cannibal Village
6342 - Ghost Ship Main Deck, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure, navigator head, navigator necklace
6565 - Monkey Island beach by banana
6666 - Outside Monkey Head with monkey head key
6767 - Ship Intro
7777 - Monkey Island beach by banana, Guybrush and Rowboat invisible
7981 - Monkey Island River Fork after dam blown with 3 bananas, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure
8742 - Cannibal Village, outside hut with monkey head key, oars, magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure
8888 - Caverns Under Monkey Island by Bob after ship has sailed
8889 - Caverns Under Monkey Island by Bob after ship has sailed
8989 - Melee Island Church during wedding
9432 - Monkey Island Beach, with magnetic compass, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure

Monkey Island 2
Type "monkeyspit" and press control-D to activate debug mode.

In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge you can do the following:

Control and E Examine/Set a scumm variable
Control and F Activate fast mode
Control and G - Skip Room
Control and L Enter a bootparam
Control and O Pickup an object from another room
0 - Starts a slideshow of every room in the game
1 - Change character, this only works when another character is on the screen
2-6 Show Guybrush's 'pickup' animations
7 or 8 Change text colour

MI2 Room Numbers/Names

Room 1: part1
Room 2: scabb-isl
Room 3: sky
Room 4: shore
Room 5: campfire
Room 6: weenie
Room 7: woodtick
Room 8: cartograp
Room 9: bar
Room 10: cu-spit
Room 11: grill
Room 12: inn
Room 13: largos
Room 14: laundry
Room 15: woodshop
Room 16: cemetery
Room 17: graves
Room 18: crypt
Room 19: cu-coffin
Room 20: swamp
Room 21: voodoo
Room 22: dred-cabi
Room 23: dred-clif
Room 24: dred-deck
Room 25: part2
Room 26: phatt-isl
Room 27: wharf
Room 28: pier
Room 29: jail
Room 30: library
Room 31: catalog
Room 32: cards
Room 33: casino
Room 34: alley
Room 35: waterfall
Room 36: faucet
Room 37: beach
Room 38: cottage
Room 39: rums
Room 40: basement
Room 41: phatts
Room 42: stairs
Room 43: bedroom
Room 44: cu-phatt
Room 45: booty-isl
Room 46: ville
Room 47: spitvile
Room 48: antique
Room 49: costume-s
Room 50: funeral-p
Room 51: kiosk
Room 52: mansion
Room 53: front-man
Room 54: back-mans
Room 55: entryway
Room 56: boudoir
Room 57: kitchen
Room 58: clifftop
Room 59: cliffbot
Room 60: tree-base
Room 61: tree-top
Room 62: tree-hous
Room 63: under-shi
Room 64: water
Room 65: over-gall
Room 66: galleon
Room 67: part3
Room 68: le-fortre
Room 69: le-explos
Room 70: le-dock
Room 71: le-passag
Room 72: le-hall
Room 73: le-door
Room 74: le-office
Room 75: le-jail
Room 76: le-cel
Room 77: le-dynomi
Room 78: le-closeu
Room 79: le-tortur
Room 80: bone-map
Room 81: kates-shi
Room 82: map
Room 83: raft
Room 84: part4
Room 85: dinky-bea
Room 86: dinky-spo
Room 87: dinky-hol
Room 88: elevator
Room 89: melee
Room 90: storage
Room 91: maintenan
Room 92: lost-foun
Room 93: undergrou
Room 94: icons
Room 95: whoopmap
Room 96: junglea
Room 97: jungleb
Room 98: junglec
Room 99: f-turf
Room 100: f-foregro
Room 101: f-trees
Room 102: f-plants
Room 103: open-cred
Room 104: f-rapinfl
Room 105: f-rapothe
Room 106: f-rap2inf
Room 107: f-rapshri
Room 108: copycrap
Room 109: long-shot
Room 110: bigwhoop

MI2 Boot Parameters

123 - Men of Low Moral Fiber, laundry claim
213 - won drinking contest, telescope, mirror, bottle near-grog
323 - call box in forest
332 - booty island overhead, invitation
333 - booty island overhead, invitation dress
353 - booty island outhouse
408 - scabb island swamp with crate
409 - stans with hammer and nails
415 - costume shop with invitation
456 - woodtick
494 - captain dredd's ship, heap of stuff
495 - woodtick, gold, monacle, shovel
498 - woodtick hotel, voodoo doll, pins
300 - governor phatt
400 - forest?
500 - hotel with mud
550 - outside drinking contest house
600 - elevator
800 - card catalog
850 - map
900 - scabb island overhead, with crypt key, pirate quotes, ash-2-life
1000 - scabb island outside shack, heaps of stuff
1050 - phatt island overhead
1100 - wally hanging on chains in lechucks dungeon
1300 - scabb island swamp
1350 - lechuck's fortress docks
1550 - Men of Low Moral Fiber
1600 - fish?
1700 - underground tunnels
1800 - wally at desk
1850 - cliff side

Curse of Monkey Island
Use Serge's CMI debug patch to enable debug mode. Instructions and the appropriate keys are in the readme inside the zip

MI3 Room Numbers/Names

Room 1: logo
Room 2: thx
Room 3: icons
Room 4: chapter1
Room 5: chapter2
Room 6: chapter3
Room 7: chapter4
Room 8: chapter5
Room 9: cannon
Room 10: cannon-v
Room 11: waterln
Room 12: treasure
Room 13: plndrmap
Room 14: fortbase
Room 15: town
Room 16: chkn-int
Room 17: cu-elpol
Room 18: offstage
Room 19: stage
Room 20: spotlght
Room 21: brbr-int
Room 22: clring-a
Room 23: clring-b
Room 24: pistols
Room 25: banjo
Room 26: bchclub
Room 27: beachhot
Room 28: brimbch
Room 29: voodoo-e
Room 30: voodoo-i
Room 31: snake
Room 32: quiksand
Room 33: danjrbch
Room 34: danjrbay
Room 35: lc-deck
Room 36: lc-qurtr
Room 37: lc-plank
Room 38: elanemap
Room 39: shipmap
Room 40: shipcom1
Room 41: shipcom2
Room 42: shipcom3
Room 43: shipcom4
Room 44: armsdlr
Room 45: opdeck1
Room 46: opdeck2
Room 47: opdeck3
Room 48: opdeck4
Room 49: opdeck5
Room 50: opdeck6
Room 51: appldeck
Room 52: gb-deck
Room 53: bloodmap
Room 54: shipwrck
Room 55: village
Room 56: volcano
Room 57: altar
Room 58: firefly
Room 59: wndml-ex
Room 60: hotel-ex
Room 61: hotelbar
Room 62: recipes
Room 63: storerm
Room 64: portrait
Room 65: gestroom
Room 66: closet
Room 67: cemetery
Room 68: doghouse
Room 69: stancrpt
Room 70: famcrypt
Room 71: crakwall
Room 72: morts
Room 73: stump
Room 74: litetop
Room 75: eggbeach
Room 76: undrwatr
Room 77: skulisle
Room 78: clifftop
Room 79: clifface
Room 80: smglcave
Room 81: gondola
Room 82: snow-dia
Room 83: rum-dia
Room 84: hang-dia
Room 85: tort-dia
Room 86: carnival
Room 87: easyhard
Room 88: chapter6
Room 89: comb
Room 90: crownest
Room 91: credits
Room 92: saveload
Room 93: endcred
Room 94: m-island

Escape from Monkey Island
There are debug functions in the game, but no-one has been able to activate them yet.

Other miscellaneous things:
Once you've activated debug mode, you dont need to do it again every time you want to enter a debug command.

If you skip rooms in the middle of a cutscene or a scene when the inventory dissapears you can end up with some really strange effects.

In MI1 use bootparam 4444, give all the bananas to the monkey and change to room 35, the rat will now follow you, just as the monkey would normally.

In MI1 you can walk round the game as 'tiny Guybrush', change to room 2 (the map) then change back to another room.

If you have MI1 CD you can use boot parameters on the command line, eg. starting "Monkey1.exe 15" will make the load the game with Guybrush in the Cannibal Village.

There is also debug information that cant be accessed. For example in MI1 Ega there is a function to detect the machine speed as either 'Molasses machine', 'Street legal machine', or 'Trans-warp drive machine' and there is a function to switch between a one button interface and a two button interface.

Debug mode is present in lots of other Lucasarts adventures, see the original forum thread for more information.

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DarkMonkey January 29. 2004

Hm, Intresting article. BTW, does anyone have Monkey Island sprites that I can use for my fan-game? I've been searching for days with no succes...

Lewis16 January 25. 2004

Balthazar December 08. 2003

Is the first Monkey Island game even capable of recognising the ten minutes you need to kill Guyrbush?

LHWMonkey November 23. 2003

to kill guybrush in mi 1 you have to let him stand underwater for ten minutes ehrn mr shinetop throws you down with the idol.....arr!

LHWMonkey November 22. 2003

hehe im making a monkey island fan game........ keep looking out for it as a demo is released soon

kevsyd November 19. 2003

how do u Kill Guybrush in MI1, i heard it was possible but never found out how

Beavers October 13. 2003

Ive beaten many a games in my life but none were as fun and/or funny as this one.How the story unfolded was genius,and the lines like "Thats the second biggest duck i've ever had in in my pants"They keep you laughing and yet very content in playing this game and not putting it down until you've seen it all.That is why (I love this game!!!) Also if anyone has any "Monkey Island"roms i would like to get them.

Orange October 06. 2003

How did you find out how to get into debug mode? Was there an insider that told u how? What the hell is Wally gonna do with all that Dynamite???

dave October 06. 2003

i like monkeys

Viking Girl October 06. 2003

Great great I gonne try this when i am home:D

curly October 02. 2003

i with i could have monkey is land 1 and to for free cuz i can never find them together anywere,*sigh* owell

Rapp Scallion September 18. 2003

The rat and the monkey isn't the only one that follows Guybrush after Guybrush has given the monkey all the bananas. The Melee Island lookout does too!

-Rapp Scallion

Lagomorph September 17. 2003

You can also in the monkey island directory from dos just type:
"monkey 28" for instance to go to the scummbar, you can even go to some places you can't really visit in the game (like on Elaine's face)

LucasTones September 16. 2003

Yes! Thanks Benny, I had read about this a while ago and never got round to trying it.

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