Bermuda Syndrome (bs)

Bermuda Syndrome (bs) emulates Bermuda Syndrome game. It reads 5 files, 3 of them required: without a required file it does not start games.

About this profile

Detail	Value
Type	standalone
Classification	Game engine
Source	https://github.com/cyxx/bermuda
Version	0.1.7
Revision	cyxx/bermuda@cf6bdb68d53a
Profiled	2026-10-22
Profile	YAML, JSON
Cores	bs
Systems	Bermuda Syndrome game

Install this emulator's files

With EmuELEC: the installer finds EmuELEC and its BIOS folder, then downloads only the files Bermuda Syndrome (bs) reads there and checks each one.

On the device

Open a terminal on the device. Or connect from a computer with SSH, a terminal over the network. Paste the line. Press Enter.

Terminal

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/install.sh | sh -s -- --emulator bermuda

Technical notes

Gregory Montoir's rewrite of the Bermuda Syndrome engine (Century Interactive, 1995), reversed from the Windows executable. It plays the retail and demo data. EmuELEC builds this revision as bs and starts it with --datapath=/storage/roms/ports/bermuda/ from that same directory. ref: README.TXT:9-14, main.cpp:17-19, EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/bermuda/package.mk:4-5, EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/sources/ports.yaml:25-36

The data directory is walked recursively at start and every name is matched case-insensitively against that list. A path from the scripts starting with ..\ is taken from the data root, any other from SCN/. A single file starting with -rom1fs- is read as a romfs image of the same tree. ref: fs.cpp:40-52, fs.cpp:96-121, fs.cpp:237-321

The release is told from its first scene: -00.SCN marks the demo, -01.SCN the German release and _01.SCN the French and English ones. None found stops the engine. The demo skips bermuda.ovr. ref: game.cpp:67-84, resource.cpp:44-49

Music: each MIDI cue is replaced by track<NN>.ogg in the music directory (MUSIC by default, EmuELEC passes none) when that file exists, the CD soundtrack ripped to 22 kHz Vorbis, else the .mid from the data. Videos under DATA/ are skipped when absent. Korean text is drawn with BT16.TBM, the Hangul bitmap font of Windows 3.x, read from the working directory and checked for its signature. ref: game.cpp:1108-1156, game.cpp:1078-1095, resource.cpp:461-478, game.cpp:27-31

Files

5 files: 3 required, 2 optional.

By kind: 5 game data.

In this collection: 0 in repo and 5 missing.

Game data

_01.SCN required missing game data

First scene of the retail release (French, English), -01.SCN for the German one, -00.SCN for the demo

• Path: SCN/_01.SCN
• System: Bermuda Syndrome game
• Aliases: -01.SCN, -00.SCN

• Source: game.cpp:67-84, fs.cpp:237-260

bermuda.wgp required missing game data

Bag and status bar bitmaps

• System: Bermuda Syndrome game

• Source: resource.cpp:51, resource.cpp:130-138

• Opened at the root of the data directory, and a missing file stops the engine.

bermuda.spr required missing game data

Common sprites

• System: Bermuda Syndrome game

• Source: resource.cpp:60-65

bermuda.ovr optional missing game data

Overlay data of the retail release

• System: Bermuda Syndrome game

• Source: resource.cpp:44-49

• Read unless the data is the demo, which has no such file.

BT16.TBM optional missing game data

Windows 3.x Hangul bitmap font

• System: Bermuda Syndrome game

• Size: 322.6 KB
• Source: game.cpp:27-31, resource.cpp:461-478

• Loaded only when the dialogue text is CP949, the Korean release. Must start with "TTBITMAP VARIABLE-PITCH HANGEUL" and carry 16x16 glyphs.

Next steps

• Get your files, for the setup you play on
• Every system, and the files each one needs
• When a game does not start

Data as of 24 October 2026.