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Toonstruck

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Toonstruck
Toonstruck cover
Developers
Burst Studios
Publishers
Retail Virgin Interactive
Digital Interplay Entertainment
Engines
Original Toon[1]
Digital ScummVM
Release dates
DOS November 4, 1996
Windows (ScummVM) February 10, 2015[2]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) February 10, 2015[2]
Linux (ScummVM) February 10, 2015[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon, Digitized
Themes Comedy
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Toonstruck on Wikipedia

Toonstruck is a singleplayer third-person adventure game.

General information

Can be run under ScummVM.
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
DOS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Demos are available from ScummVM and the Internet Archive.
The GOG.com and Steam releases do not include the original desktop icon. A replacement (as well as a higher-res Steam version icon) can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\TOONSTRK.CFG
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.SAV
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

In-game options menu, accessed with F1.
In-game options menu, accessed with F1.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 and 640x400 only, see the ScummVM or DOSBox pages for more information.[Note 1]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On by default. Can be forced off with -w command line parameter (when using DOSBox).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
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
Music, Sound Effects, Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Cutscenes natively lack subtitles. See Cutscene subtitles.
Adjustable speed.
Two fonts are available. Font 1 is stylized and all capitalized. Font 2 is a plain Arial-style font with slightly larger text and regular capitalization.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Cutscene subtitles

Install the ScummVM subtitles add-on[3]
Only available in English.
Requires ScummVM 2.2.0 or later.
  1. Download the archive labeled Toonstruck - Cutscene subtitles (English).
  2. Extract SUBTITLES.PAK from the archive to the MISC subdirectory.
  3. Start the game normally via ScummVM.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only.
German
Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam version.
Russian
Unofficial translation by Fargus Multimedia; download
Spanish
Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam version.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA 320x200, 640x400 or 640x480 (letterboxed). Set in configuration file.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
256 KB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) 8-bit sound card
Other 2X CD-ROM
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. ScummVM only supports 640x400 mode.
    An additional 640x480 mode is available in DOS by editing the configuration file; this is letterboxed, thus appearing stretched, and should only be used if having issues with 640x400 mode.

References

  1. Toonstruck: ScummVM - last accessed on May 2023
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Release: Toonstruck - GOG.com
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-01-08