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Disney's Hercules

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Disney's Hercules
Disney's Hercules cover
Developers
Eurocom
Publishers
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows October 24, 1997
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Disney's Hercules on Wikipedia
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Hercules
Subseries of Disney
Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules 1997
Disney's Hercules 1997
Hades Challenge 1998

Key points

Also known in Europe as Disney's Action Game Featuring Hercules.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Higher quality music (GOG.com/Steam version)

Replace the music tracks with higher quality ones ripped from the original CD. Not necessary on retail version.

Replace .ogg files[1]
  1. Download the replacement Track02.ogg.
  2. Copy Track02.ogg to <path-to-game>\MUSIC\, overwriting any existing files.

Skip intro videos

Delete/move/rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\VIDDATA.
  2. Delete, move or rename 1.ETV, 2.ETV and 3.ETV.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DISNEY.INI[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/987400/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Disney Interactive\Hercules\1.00\Config[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/987400/pfx/[Note 2]
An internal save feature exists, you need to use F3 at the main game screen to choose your previously unlocked level you want to play.
The game also uses a system of "passwords" for the user to access each level they reach.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Input settings

In-game keyboard settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Issues fixed

CDDA Sound Playback Issue

As an old game, the audio can be played with the CD into a modern Windows only if the letter of the drive is the first alphabetically of all CDs periphical (virtual included)
GOG and Steam version support OGG audio

Graphics issue on Windows 10

3D may not be rendered properly on recent Windows, use MS dgvoodoo dll

Install on modern computer

Use a 32-bit installer[citation needed]
  1. Copy all of the files from the game's CD to a new folder.
  2. Download InstallShield 3 32-bit Generic Installer and extract setup32.exe to the folder.
  3. Run setup32.exe.
  4. Delete the folder when you are finished.

System requirements

Windows[2]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 57 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 color compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit compatible

Notes

  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 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  3. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

References