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The Last Express

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The Last Express
The Last Express cover
Developers
Smoking Car Productions
Windows DotEmu
macOS (OS X) DotEmu
Publishers
Phoenix Licensing
Engines
Gold Edition Cocos2d
Release dates
DOS March 30, 1997
Windows 1997
Mac OS (Classic) 1997
Windows (DOSBox) January 26, 2011
macOS (OS X) March 17, 2015[1]
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Quick time events
Art styles Cel-shaded, Digitized
Themes Europe, Historical, Industrial Age
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The Last Express on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Gold Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\TheLastExpressSteam\
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/252710/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\TheLastExpressSteam\*.egg
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\252710\remote\*.egg
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/252710/pfx/[Note 2]
In the original version settings are copied in each .egg

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings (Gold Edition).
General settings (Gold Edition).

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Gameplay is 4:3 pillarboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Gold Edition can run in windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Gold Edition can run at 60 FPS.
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keyboard not used in the original version. Gold Edition uses Esc to pause, close menus and exit the game.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Originally only non-English dialog is subtitled. There's a user-made mod that includes English Discussed here. Replace HD.HPF in game folder.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and Steam only.
German
Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com version
Italian
Retail and Steam only.
Spanish
Retail and Steam only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD Gold Edition.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 DX2
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster 16
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.1.2
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 601
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 MB
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/252710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (252710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References