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Rayman

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Rayman
Rayman cover
Developers
Ubi Pictures
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
DOS April 30, 1996
Windows May 31, 1999
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Rayman guide on StrategyWiki
Rayman on Wikipedia
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⤏ Go to series page
Rayman 1995
Rayman Designer 1997
Rayman By His Fans 1998
Rayman 60 Levels 1999
Rayman 2: The Great Escape 1999
Rayman M 2001
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc 2003
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Rayman Origins 2012
Rayman Jungle Run 2013
Rayman Legends 2013
Rayman Fiesta Run 2014
Rayman Mini 2019
Rayman Redemption (unofficial) 2020

Key points

Some antiviruses may detect files from Rayman Forever as being viruses when they are all otherwise false positives, the game itself being safe.[1][2]

General information

RayWiki - An active wiki dedicated to the Rayman Franchise
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] Rayman Forever, bundled with Rayman Designer.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
DRM-free after installation through Ubisoft Connect client (notes may include more details)
 Rayman Forever, bundled with Rayman Designer.
Windows

Essential improvements

Restore original soundtrack

To save disk space, the entire soundtrack wasn't included in Rayman Gold/Forever.
Install soundtrack[4]
  1. Download the archive containing the soundtrack here.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\Rayman\Music\ and extract the files from the archive in the folder.

Use PS1 version's soundtrack

Use Rayman Plus[citation needed]

Game data

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\Rayman\RAYMAN.CFG[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\Rayman\RAYMAN*.SAV[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
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External options menu (GOG.com version).

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game keyboard key map settings.
In-game keyboard key map settings.
In-game gamepad button map settings.
In-game gamepad button map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, VGA, SVGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Smooth sprites/less grainy when scaled up (DOSBox)

The following changes to the dosboxRayman.conf file should smooth out the sprites and make the screen less grainy when scaled up to 720p/1080p.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\
  2. Open dosboxRayman.conf with your text editor of choice.
  3. Edit the file to match below:
[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=true
fullresolution=desktop
output=ddraw
[dosbox]
svga_s3

Joystick configuration

This configuration will allow the gamepad to be read as a keyboard, meaning binding of Esc and Space ␣ is possible.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\
  2. Open dosboxRayman.conf with your text editor of choice.
  3. Edit the file to match below:
[joystick]
joysticktype=none

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 80486 processor
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA-compliant graphics card
SVGA-compliant graphics card
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95-8
Processor (CPU) 90 MHz Pentium
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 MB

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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