LBA2 Ida edition

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About

Little Big Adventure 2 (also known as Twinsen's Odyssey) is a 1997 adventure game developed by Adeline Software International and published by Electronic Arts, the sequel to Little Big Adventure. This is a Windows-only fork of the LBA2 Classic Community engine source (building on the 'yaz0r' branch) that focuses on making the port fully playable rather than adding new features. It has been fully playtested across every scene and is described as completable, with all gameplay bugs found during that testing fixed.

How it differs from the original

Compared to the community engine port it builds on, it fixes memory corruption that made Twinsen's tunic disappear, broken car handling and car sounds, missing video and music playback, audio crackles in dialogue, and situations where actors could get stuck and block progress; it also restores the original French voice dialogue and adds full-screen rendering.

Getting started

Building it requires Visual Studio 2022 with the C++ and Windows development workloads, PowerShell, and Git; after cloning and fetching submodules, a configure script asks for the Common folder from a GOG or Steam LBA2 install, and the project then builds in Visual Studio. A release build's output files are copied into the existing LBA2 install folder (next to, not inside, its Common folder).

Requires original assets. Requires a legitimate copy of LBA2 from GOG or Steam to provide the game assets.