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Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2

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Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 cover
Developers
Tate Interactive
Publishers
Australia Auran Games
Europe JoWood Productions
North America Atari
Poland Cenega
Russia Russobit-M
Digital THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows November 4, 2003
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General information

Official website
MobyGames entry
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
European copies use SecuROM 5 DRM.
Polish and Russian copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1].
US copies use SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Australian and later copies of Polish and European versions.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

Steam release is an updated version featuring widescreen resolutions, XInput controller support and compatibility fixes for modern machines, as well as achievements.

Game data

North American retail version stores files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kao - Round 2\, while all other releases store files in <path-to-game>\media\.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\media\*.ini[Note 2]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Kao - Round 2\*.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1048540/pfx/[Note 3]
key.ini stores keyboard/controller mapping and sound volume, lang.ini stores the currently selected language and user.ini stores graphical options.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\media\[Note 2]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Kao - Round 2\
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\1048540\remote\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1048540/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher display options.
Launcher display options.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Keybindings.
Keybindings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio options.
Audio options.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Australian, European and North American releases only. The European version uses a different dub to the North American and Australian versions.
Steam release includes only the european English dub.
French
European release only.
German
European release only.
Italian
European release only.
Polish
Local retail version only, earlier game build.
Russian
Local retail version only. Not available on Steam.
Spanish
European release only.
The Polish localization uses an earlier build of the game that contains bugs that have been fixed in the other releases. This problem is fixed in the Steam release.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (128 MB for 2000/XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 256
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/1048540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1048540) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References