Lego Island

Lego Island

Developers
	Mindscape
Engines
	Omni
Release dates
Windows	September 26, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Open world
Vehicles	Automobile, Bicycle, Helicopter, Track racing, Truck
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Contemporary, Comedy
Series	Lego Island

Lego Island
Subseries of Lego
Lego Island	1997
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge	2001
Island Xtreme Stunts	2002

Lego Island is a singleplayer first-person action, adventure and open world game in the Lego Island series.

Modern systems need workarounds for some compatibility problems; see Installing on modern versions of Windows. Keyboard control is extremely twitchy due to the game being programmed for low framerates. Using the LEGO Island Rebuilder is recommended.

General information

Rock Raiders United - A fan forum for all of the classic Lego games.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		See Run without a CD

An official release of the soundtrack was never made. A project to restore the soundtrack to 44.1 kHz stereo from the original composer's backup tapes (compared to the 11.025 kHz mono found in-game) can be found on the Project Island website.

The Italian release uses SecuROM DRM copy protection.

Essential improvements

LEGO Island Rebuilder

Allows for frame rate capping, patching the notoriously-twitchy keyboard controls, and music replacement.

Runs on hardware near-contemporaneous with the original release; see Frame rate (FPS).

Works without administrator privileges.

Game freezes when placed on the secondary monitor of an extended desktop. Game continues when being moved back to the primary desktop.

Error: "Lego Island failed to start"

Run the games CONFIG.EXE as administrator[citation needed]
Right-click on the shortcut CONFIG.EXE. Left-click Run as administrator. Set RGB Emulation as Direct 3D Device. Notes This fix only needs to be applied once.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\

Video

External options screen.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Edit the registry or use ICU Windower. This feature is incomplete; it always uses the same rendering mode regardless of what is chosen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Frame rate (FPS).
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Frame rate (FPS)

The game locks its framerate to 90 FPS when exploring the world and either to 30 or 90 FPS in certain indoor environments.

Since the game was never intended to run this fast (it was designed with 10 FPS in mind), many timer issues also arise as a result; for example, turning is very sensitive and many of the animations run too fast. A 30 FPS cap is recommended, to prevent animations from running too fast.

Cap the frame rate[citation needed]

Use LEGO Island Rebuilder
Download LEGO Island Rebuilder and extract it to <path-to-game>, then run it. Set the option Turning: Unhook From Frame Rate to True. Select "Run" to run the game. Notes Turning is significantly easier and is restored to the intended speed.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Danish				Titled Panik på LEGO Øen.
French				Titled Aventures sur L'île LEGO.
German				Titled Abenteuer auf der LEGO Insel.
Italian				Titled Isola LEGO.
Japanese				Titled レゴアイランドの大冒険.
Korean				Titled 레고 아일랜드.
Brazilian Portuguese				Titled A Ilha LEGO. / Also released in Portugal.
Russian				Titled Остров LEGO. Published by Noviy Disk in 2002.
Spanish				Titled La Isla LEGO.

Issues fixed

Installing on modern versions of Windows

Use alternate installer[citation needed]
Use Lego Island Alternate Installer. Notes The full install also counts as a no-CD patch.

Install with workarounds[citation needed]

Install by exploring the CD and running INSTALL.exe (the Autorun menu will crash if trying to use it). Go to \redist\directx on the disc and copy d3drm.dll into <path-to-game>. Run <path-to-game>\CONFIG.exe Click Advanced. Ensure Ramp Emulation is selected. Alternatively, use Direct3D HAL for better transparency and filtered textures in combination with dgVoodoo 2. Run the game from the executable. Notes The game will crash if it's exited via ESC but is otherwise playable.

Progress doesn't save

Close the game with Alt+F4[citation needed]
Notes Trying to close the game via Esc causes a crash and does not allow the game to save the progress. Instead, close the game using Alt+F4. The progress should be seen the next time the game starts.

Run without a CD

Copy Scripts to the drive[citation needed]
Open the game's disk and go to the Lego folder. Select the Scripts folder and copy it. Open the folder the game is installed to and go to the Lego folder there. Paste the Scripts folder into this folder, merging it with the Scripts folder already there. Overwriting NOCD.SI is not necessary. Once the files have finished copying, remove the disk.

Change the cdpath registry value[citation needed]
Copy the full contents of the disk to a folder on the computer. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island. The cdpath value should have been set to the cd drive letter by the installer. Set the cdpath value to the folder where the CD files were copied to. Notes The savepath value can also be changed for the preferred save game data location.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 120 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB
Video card (GPU)	SVGA DirectX 5.0 compatible
Other	4x CD-ROM drive