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Revision as of 01:02, 27 April 2024
Developers | |
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Digital Extremes | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 1 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 21, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 60 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Pinball |
Art styles | Stylized |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view pinball game.
General information
- Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from November 30, 2001.
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
Demo/free trial
- A demo can be downloaded here.
Skip intro videos
Rename or delete <path-to-game>\System\pmovie.exe [3]
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Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | None |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\System\*.ini[Note 2] |
-
PB.ini
contains general settings. -
User.ini
contains camera FOV, mouse, keyboard/controller bindings and other settings.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | Menus become too cropped. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Menus become too cropped. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | 90º by default. See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
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 | Glide renderer is capped at 63 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Edit files[4] |
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Notes
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Field of view (FOV)
Edit User.ini[4] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Effects and Music. | |
Surround sound | Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | DirectSound3D.[5] | |
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
- Using DSOAL HRTF causes sounds to attenuate more rapidly than with software stereo audio.
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 4 | Hot seat |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play |
Issues fixed
Game hangs and crashes at startup
Use Creative ALchemy[6] |
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Brightness slider not working
Use dgVoodoo 2[7] |
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Use DDrawCompat[8] |
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Low frame rate
Use dgVoodoo 2[7] |
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Use DDrawCompat[8] |
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Game speed inconsistency
Set monitor's refresh rate on 60 Hz[7] |
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Music doesn't play from the CD
Use the ogg-winmm CD Audio Emulator[9] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | [10] |
DirectDraw | 2 | Software renderer mode.[11] |
Glide | 2 | [12] |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz AMD K6 250 MHz |
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz AMD K6-3 400 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible | 3dfx Voodoo2 Nvidia RIVA TNT 8 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 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).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-03-08
- ↑ Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island w/ 3D spatial sound 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio) - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-03-24
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-03-22
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 GitHub - last accessed on 26 May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-18
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-05
- According to System Informer, the game loads d3dim700.dll. According to DebugView's logs, dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 7 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice7").
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-05
- According to System Informer, the game loads ddraw.dll. According to DebugView's logs, dgVoodoo2's traces point to DirectDraw 2.
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-05
- According to DebugView's logs, dgVoodoo2 hooks into glide2x.dll.