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Rainbow Islands (2002)

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Rainbow Islands (2002)
Developers
Taito
Publishers
Japan MediaKite
Europe Empire Interactive
Release dates
Windows 2002
Rainbow Islands (2002) guide on StrategyWiki
Rainbow Islands (2002) on Wikipedia
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Key points

Emulated version of the original arcade version of Rainbow Islands.
Standalone release is exclusive to Japan, however, the European version was released in a bundle with an similarly emulated version of Bubble Bobble.
Is slightly inaccurate due to improper emulation.
Has the original music.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
This game is not available digitally.
Japan and Europe only.

Essential improvements

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/rainbow.cfg[Note 1]
This game does not save any data besides configuration files.

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Japan release only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

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).

References