This looks completely insane. Wishlisted.

Owners of the original on the Telltale store still have the possibility to get the original on GOG for free to use it to get the "owners of the original" discount or simply to have it on GOG and not just on Telltale. You can get your key on this site:

https://skunkapegames.com/samandmax/faq/
(See under "I own the original Sam & Max Season One. Can I get a discount")

I just tried it and all you need is you TTG mail and within seconds you will get your key.

And this is also a really interesting part of the FAQ:

"I want to buy the old version of the game, but I can't find it anywhere! Is it gone for good?"

"For now, we’ve removed the old version from stores. But don’t fret! We don’t have specifics to discuss just yet, but we’ll make sure people can still access and play the old episodes (including people who didn’t buy them before the remaster). We don’t intend to shove them in a vault. Only a maniac would make a special edition and destroy the originals!"

So some devs/publishers are obviously maniacs then ;)

Good to hear that. I agree, it's not a common practice but it really should be.

Not to mention certain filmmaker :D

Great to see this on GOG again! looking forward to the game's sequels :)

Considering that there's a downloadable file under the remaster's API entry called "Sam & Max Save the World (2007 Original Version)", I think I can guess where they do intend to shove them.

Is the 50% off for the owners of the OG time limited?

Possibly, see https://upgrade.skunkapegames.com/

For me, it didn't show as 50% off on the game page until I added it to the cart. Now the game page, AND the cart, shows 50% off.

Thanks for making this easy for me, good sir.

So this comes with the original version as a bonus feature... can anyone confirm if this is just the old GOG release renamed, or does it somehow fix the invisible Sybil bug?

That's a pretty good guess I'd say. Not perfect of course but at least it will not be gone forever.
If I did not misunderstand the original is not available anymore at the moment (except iin the case that you already own a key to the original) but MIGHT be added later to the remastered (see the post of mrkgnao). So right now it's only possible to test if they fixed this annoying issue in the remastered. However it might be a good idea (and I will do this today) to ask them if they could fix the original before releasing it. Remember: the bug has never been fixed on any digital release: not on TTG and not on GOG. They only fixed it on the DRM'd collector's DVD - so there's a good reason to update the old version and with the DVD already being fixed it should also be quite easy. This is not Telltale (which always had terrible support) anymore. These are guys that might want to make it right this time.

Edit: mail and support ticket to Skunkapegames created and sent. I suggest everybody who wants to get this fixed to do the same so that they see that we still care. The more complaints/requests they will get the higher the chances are that they will in fact fix it. Simply use this:

And already received a reply!

"Unfortunately we can’t patch the original versions of the game - those code paths and tools rotted away a decade ago and aren’t something we can reconstruct.

That said, the remaster started with the final version of the games that were shipped, so I believe the Sybil bug is fixed in the remaster.

If there are newer builds of the original game that fixed that bug, we may be able to update the old versions on GOG, but it will require some research on my part.

Again, we can’t patch the originals so no promises! That bug may just be stuck forever on that version on GOG... But I would like the archival versions of the originals to be the most complete that were made when the games were first developed, and if a fix exists that we can use, I’ll see what we can do. I will take a look. "

This really looks like an effort to me. So there still is hope.

Thanks for the reminder!