Freddi Fish 3: The Case Of The Stolen Conch Shell

Freddi Fish and The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell is the third Freddi Fish title. This time, Freddi and Luther have been invited to the Founder's Day festival by Luther's Uncle Blenny. Upon arrival, they discover the great Conch Shell (a horn-type thing) has been stolen, and Blenny has been wrongfully imprisoned for theft as he is the Conch's keeper. It's up to Freddi and Luther to find three golden pipes to make a lazy dogfish find the Conch and make sure everyone is able to celebrate the creation of their one-sided society.

Unused Subtitles
Like most Humongous Entertainment games, Freddi Fish 3 includes subtitles, but there is no way to turn them on in-game. Adding the line TextOn=1 to hegames.ini will display the subtitles. The subtitles can also be turned on through ScummVM's interface.

Debug mode
Like many Humongous Entertainment games, this game features a debug mode. Adding the line SputmDebug=40468 to hegames.ini will enable the following debug rooms:

Room Debug


Press G during gameplay to bring up the room debug (room 42 in ScummVM). Click on any room to warp to it.

Item Debug


Press I during gameplay to bring up the item debug (room 43 in ScummVM). Clicking on any item crosses it out and places it in Freddi's inventory.

Path Debug


Press C during gameplay to bring up the path debug (room 44 in ScummVM). Here, you can set the locations of the golden pipes and change many other variables. This menu is quite large compared to the debug rooms from other Humongous Entertainment games.

Room 45
Warping to room 45 in ScummVM shows this strange screen that depicts the inventory bubbles clustered together in a pink background. Not quite sure what this is.

Theif's Bag


While the thief's bag does show up in the game, it is not an item that can be picked up and it only shows up in the ending -- the only interaction after Freddi and Luther find it before the credits roll is deciding who the thief is with the item inside the bag as evidence. The item debug allows you to actually pick up the bag and place it in the inventory. It doubles as unused dialog; examining it will cause Freddi to say "It's the bag that the conch thief dropped." It has no known use though.

Five Sea Urchins


Only four urchins will be in the game at once, but the graphic for five is in the data anyway.

Four Golden Pipes


There are only three golden pipes in the game, but an inventory graphic containing four is in the game data anyway. There does not seem to be any evidence that they were planning to have four in the game at any point in time, so it may have been added as fall back.