Obsidian

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Obsidian

Developers
	Rocket Science Games
Publishers
	SegaSoft
Engines
	mTropolis
Release dates
Windows	December 1996
Mac OS (Classic)	December 1996
Reception
Metacritic	85
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	First-person
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Sci-fi

Obsidian is a singleplayer first-person adventure game.

Key points

Installer is 16-bit so needs a workaround on 64-bit systems; see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.

Obsidian runs on Windows XP 32-bit machines with some compatibility settings selected; see Windows XP Setup.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

This game is not available digitally.

Demos

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games\
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		The only available resolution is 640x480 and 8-bit color.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

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

Subtitles and closed captions

Install the ScummVM subtitles add-on

Only available in English. Requires ScummVM 2.7.0 or later. Download the archive labeled Obsidian - Subtitles (English). Extract the contents of the archive to <path-to-game>\. Select Obsidian in the ScummVM launcher, then select Game Options.... On the Audio tab, check the Override global audio settings box and set Text and speech to Both. For closed captions, select the Enable subtitles for important sound effects option on the Game tab. Start the game normally via ScummVM.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Subtitles from ScummVM (Requires ScummVM 2.7+)
German
Japanese

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Obsidian is a 32-bit game but its installer is 16-bit; you will need to install the game on a 32-bit version of Windows (e.g. in a virtual machine) and then copy the files back to the 64-bit system. When the filed are copied over to a Windows 7 64-bit machine this method doesn't even work with several compatibility options selected. It simply starts a black window that does nothing.

Windows XP Setup

Install Obsidian and then set the windows color display to 16-bit. You can also set the executable for Obsidian to have resolution 640 x 480, but it will force you to the resolution when the game starts regardless.

Other information

API

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	16-bit color	2 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	Sound Blaster 16	Sound Blaster AWE32
Other	4x CD-ROM drive

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7.5.3	9.2.2
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC 80 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	20 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB
Video card (GPU)	640x480 resolution, thousands of colors
Other	4x CD-ROM drive